Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-07-12
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

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season. build a factory at Limeston
for canning blueberries.
1t is rumored that the Bowdoin Pa
| per company has purchased the Pur
lng water privilege in Topsham ant
viii erect pulp mill.
+. H. Lunt of Island Falls. has ;
| crew of about 800 men peeljng parl
in the vicinity of Square lake, ant
about 80 pairs of horses will be KEEP
busy during the coming winter haul
ing bark to this station.
G. L. Merrill of Dover South Mills
| has shipped eight carloads of lunnbel
to Alfred Kimball at Boston. He ha,
also furnished lumber to. several par
ties who are building at Dover and i!
now hauling to the Dexter w. w, Co
| of Foxcroft.
The White Mountain Paper Company
has recently purchased the water
power and land adjoining at Bonny
Eagle of Merrill & Whitney for $4,000
and pulp mills are. soon to. be erected
1t has also bought the electric roaC
from Bonny Eagle to Saco.
The veneer business at Ranger &
Aver Mfg Co.'S mill, Foxcroft, is
lively at the present time. Fifteer
hands are now employed there. One
great drawback to the firm is its in
ability to secure sufficient lumber in
that section. much of it being pur-
chased on the line of the railroads 20(
or 800 miles away.
The International Paper Company
at Rumford Falls is contemplating
the building of q three story addition
TO the finishing room also a one story
addition to the bag mill. 1t is not i'm
probable that another addition may be
built to the bag mill in the near future
If the plans that are now under con
sideration are carried out work viii
commence at once.
Cooper Bros. Of Newport, are al
present shipping a large quantity oi
finished lumber from their plant in the
form of veneering, cloth boards, etc.
to various parts of the United States
and also to foreign countries They
| advertise every year in foreign papers
which brings them quite volume OF
business.
The shoe factory conducted with sue.
| cess at Eastport for several month.
| past by z. A. & F. A. Holmes, will bt
| closed for one week during July tC
| take account of stock. When opened Z
| double crew viii be engaged for thC
| season to attend to the many orders OF
hand and plenty of work is assured By
| the management.
The clothing factory of NJ. NJ. Rich.
| ards of Waldoboro, will be closed dur.
| ing the month of July, giving the EN-.
I ployees a much needed rest. Mr.
Richards states that he has had one
of the best seasons he has had since
| going into business, being obliged tC
| employ another cutter as well as sew
| eral extra girls. He says the outloof
| for fail business is very bright, and ex.
| poets esen a larger run than he has
| had this spring.
| Greene Lake timberland seems to b
much in demand, and is being bought
| extensively by outside parties engaged
in numbering. Every season one hears
| of tracts being sold, and it is an estab-
| lished fact that regularly crews are
put in the vicinity in winter cutting
and hauling for shipment by train
! either to Bangor or Ellsworth, also fol
| booming into Union river, until it has
| come to be looked upon as a sort Of
| centre. The purchase Of a huge tract
| of 1900 acres by Messrs. Parker anC
| Shute. the former of Bangor, while the
| latter halls from New Hampshire ant
| the intention of establishing a stear
| mill there viii add a new industry anC
one would think a profitable one t.
| Hancock county. Messls. Parker
| Shute have crews of men at work pre-.
| pairing a foundation for their mill
| rocks are being blasted, trees Gu
away. and new road is being laid ou
by them from the proposed site of th'
mill to the main thoroughfare sons
| distance away. That work is to b.
| rapidly pushed is proven by the ma
chinery for fitting the mill arriving
| four carloads having come this week
| 1t is the opinion that the mill building
| Will be a large one, well fitted Will
| modern machinery, and that it will b.
ready for use within a month or sil
weeks. The property will be know
as the Greene Lake Lumber company
| mill. the firm intending to do busines
| under the name.