Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-05
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

EOSltl , lOotIplCk factory ttl 'olIoilS
is once more doing business after being
| closed for about two months for the
summer vacation.
Work ut Robinsons wooden mills,
| South Windham has been stopped for
a few days on account of lack Of
stock. 1t will be resumed in a short
| time.
NJ. f. Dorsey of Ft. Fairfield makes
quite Il business of employing men for
| the lumber woods. The larger num-
Der of his men come from the provinces
and the wages agreed upon are from
$25 to $50 per month.
The American Express Co. has Just
placed u contract with Wade & Dunton
| of Lewiston for 70 pungs. This is be-
lieyed to be the largest order of the
kind ever given to Il Maine carriage
m2nufactory.
The branch Of Walter j. Creamer's
Penobscot knitting factory, which has
been established in the Lee building
at Bucksport, promises to be Il sue
| cess. Twelve machines are already in
operation with prospects of Il number
more.
The Greene Lake Lumber Co mill,
which sawed spruce during the first
| half of the season, is now running on
hard woods manufacturing chair
stock, cantdog stock and spool Wool
from beech, birch and maple. The mill
is located on the Maine Central rail
road, - miles east of Bangor, in good
spruce and hardwood country. For the
past ten months a, crew of 35 men has
been kept in the woods getting out logs,
and Is men are employed at the mill.
Edwin f. Bartlett, superintendent of
the Stamford Mica mine on Black
mountain near Frye states that the
prospects at the mines are very natter-
| ing. He has shipped 20 cars of rough
| mica to the Stamford Mica Works at
Stamford, Conn, Since he took pos
session of the mines last April, and
they now have as much more all ready
to ship. They are now employing
thrty-five men and find the prospects
better and better as they advance into
the mine They commenced with q
five-foot vein and after carrying it
forward in their development it is now
| thirty feet wide. He asserts that be-
tween two and three thousand feet
toward another hill there is another
out-cropping which presents a good
showing.
The framing timber for the con-
struction Of the new saw mill. which is
to be built at once at saltwater by G.
T.. Sutton & Co, is beginning to arrive
| and the work will be commenced at
| once with the expectation of finishing
the building this fall and of having it
| in operation as soon as possible This
| mill will be erected upon the site of the
one in which the disastrous fire of 1901
| started. This conhagration destroyed
three large sawmills and q dwelling
houses, together with much other loose
property, and the total loss was in the
| neighborhood of 100000. The mill,
| which will be a steam one, will employ
| a large working force and it will do
| much toward placing Saltwater back
on its former footing.
The lumber manufacturers of the st.
CroiX, who have enjoyed an unusually
prosperous summer are looking for
ward to a busy ending of the year 1903,
| for the lumber outlook is unusually
bright for the balance of the season
SoOb
| llet. The strike of the building trades
employees in New York earlier in the
season rather handicapped the lumber
dealers and vessel owners at the time.
but the time lost on. this account is
| rapidly being made up and the condi-
tons at present are said to be entirely
satisfactory. The drives which came
along very slowly for a; time are now
all in, and when the fall rains arrive
the various mills on the river will be
| rushed to their capacity in order to
supply the demand for lumber in the
cities of New England and further
West. Owing to the small head of
water in the river the various mills are
not operated at their full capacity, but
this drawback is being overcome in
part by some of the mills running
night shifts. Vessels We're scarce dlr-
in the early summer months, but char
tiers are now easily made at a good fair
rate and the lumber shipments from
this port will considerably exceed those
of recent years unless something un-
foreseen occurs before the mills shut