Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-18
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

Lewiston BARRIERS are making plans
for the organization of a union.
The Weymouth Wool Co., Newport,
is about to begin work on a securing
lnill to be erected on the lot just east of
The engine room. This building is to
t one hundred ana five feet by thirty.
ne story and Basement.
The new shirt factory, at Bath. will
he in operation by the first of next
month. The machinery has arrived and
Ir. Cooper is experimenting its install
lation. These machines with the prop
r crew of girls will enable the factory
TO turn out 100 dozen of shirts a day.
All the old employees will be engaged
soon as the factory starts and new
bands will be added at once.
y number of men have been sent up
liver, from Machias, to reinforce the
bark peeling crews employed there. a
large amount of peeing is being done
this season. Considerable difficulty
has been experienced in hiring men 10,
the crews. a. X. Ames, the Machias
Lumber COmpany'S superintendent,
made Il trip one day recently and other
places in that part of the county for
he purpose of hiring men. but was un-
}ble to get together but very small
rev as the men have no difficulty in
occurring employment without going in
to the woods during the hot summer
months. AS the shipping and lumber
ing business is exceptionally good TINS
season, and there is a brisk demand
for men III almost every branch OF work.
more difficulty is being experienced at
Machias this season in hiring men than
It any time for many years past. III
ne shipyard at Machias. where +. l..
White has commenced the construction
If a three mastcd schooner this is PROV
'ng a great setback to the Work-it be-
NC quite impossible to secure Il suftl-
Gent number of carpenters to carry on
he work as fast as the builders desire.
\ new industry is practically assured
,or Machias, by lease recently made
between Curtis & Bailey and ID. W.
Smith, and a contract that mas JUST
been closed by the latter with the Ma
chiaS Lumber Co. What IS known as
The steam grist mill on Main street to-
gethcr with the wharf adjoining mas
been leased to Mr.. Smith, who proposes
q establish there shook manufacture
inr plant. BY the terms Of tn" con-
| tract made with the lumber company
Mr.. Smith will receive from their mus
Whatever waste pieces there may be
suitable for working up into box SHOCKS
land will also have a large amount o.
lumber sawed from the smaller pine
| logs. Much of what is now conSlueFeo
waste material and sold from the mn
for tircwood could be used to good ad-
vantage in Il shook mill, and TINS new
business will undoubtedly use E'rSt
lm1nutities of these slabs, thus ehaplll'i
thn owners to make this wood at
lhettcr advantage. which ut the Sd!h'
ltime will bring more business TO t"'
town. The plant which Mr.. Smith ma
lle1scd will he fitted with saws, plah'f
land such machinery as will be requlfe'
Ito make it we'll equipped for the buSi
moss for which it will be used. NJ
lSmith proposes however. to keep lnta'
1.-The machinery now in the mill, so ina
liz can still be used as grls' mn
lDurinr the winter months when IN
lshook business will necessarily be quiC
he proposes to run the grist mil ana :;
line same time do enough in the shoo
business to supply the furnace VIII
Ifucl from the waste. In this way Tn
= min can be kept At work during all IN
tyear.