Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-06
STATE HOUSE.
,EEtI e!
New Brunswick Legislature
Steps on a Maine Plan.
An Aroostook Patriot Offers to Sell
Geological knowledge.
A Days Chat of the Various Capitol
Departments

Inc list Legislature passed a Dill in
cooperating the ST. John Dam Com
pany, in which a number of Maine
lumbermen. including Hon. Charles A.
Milliken of Augusta, are interested.
This company has for it's purpose the
damming of the ST. John river at the
Winding lodges, so called, just above
Fort Kent. AS the st. John river is an
international affair permission had to
be obtained on both sides, and so
similar bill was introduced in the New
Brunswick Legislature. This bill was
voted down 81 to z, last week. The
matter must be passed upon by the
general Dominion government at Otta-
wa, and 1t remains to be seen to what
an extent the action of the New Bruins
wick Legislature will influence it. The
people Of northern New Brunswick
favored the bill. but the members from
the southern section voted it down.
AS the st. John Telegraph puts it, the
question is very simple. "Why should
the Fredericton and st. John mill own
ers and mill workmen," the Telegraph
asks, consent to a plan which means
that all the logs above the Winding
Lodges shall hereafter be manufac-
tured in Maine?" That is the way the
matter looks from the st. John point of
view, and it is quite natural. But
from the Madawaska and Aroostook
point of view the aspect is different.
The question on the upper river is.
why logs which are largely the product
of Maine forests should be driven a
long distance and manufactured in a
foreign country when they could be
manufactured to better advantage on
the upper river. 1t is hopeless, how
ever. TO make the down river people
see it In that light.
A letter was received at the executive
department, a few days ago, which
shows that modesty is not a lost virtue
in Aroostook county, as some have
been led to suppose. The writer sup
posed that the $4,000 resolve for the
investigation of Names mining re-
| sources had safely passed the Legisla-
ture and offered to sell the State for a
consideration of $4,000 his own extensive
| knowledge of 1.-The form and general
| trend of the underlying strata" of
northern Maine. He was quite sure
| that with his own knowledge Of local
| geology he could give the State greater
returns for $4,000 than it could other
wise obtain for $4,000. 1t was a great
| chance for the State to save money,
but most unfortunately not even the
necessary $1,000 was available for the
acquisition of the knowledge so
| periodically offered.
Homer A. Dill of Gardiner, is now
mounting for the museum of the fish
! and game department a fine specimen
of the fisher. or black cat" as the old
woodsmen call it, which Commissioner
Stanley secured at Weld pond in
| Franklin county. 1t is the largest
| fisher which Mr.. Stanley ever saw.
This animal is getting very rare in the
Maine woods.
| Adjutant-General Farnham has not
yet received any notification of the ap-
| pointment of a regular army officer to
l inspect the Maine National Guard,
though such an appointment will very
soon be made. The officer will be
designated by General Chaffee, COM
mander of the Department of the East,
| and will proceed at once to a thorough
inspection of the whole militia estab-
lishment Of the State. This is pre-
| liminary to a reorganization of the Ma
| tional Guard in accordance with the
new national law which aims to bring
this branch and the regular army into
closer harmony. Upon the conditions
of this reorganization will depend
largely the plans for the 1903 encamp-
ment of the Guard. 1t is possible that
work will be done in conjunction with
the regular forces.