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

| down for the winter month. THO hio
schooners which are nov, l., ~, uilI
carry lumber to New yorl and elsa
where and a fleet of .smo,iou an,f+ r.
Guiding vessels which have never he
fore saiiea iioih this port have been
| charlereu W .iie various lumber firms,
and are now pound here, some with
cargoes ana otners light. There is
considerable activity along the wharves
| just now WHICH promises to continue
during the remainder of the season.
\ sale that is looked upon as being
| of great Importance was cons,mnated
at Machias recently, when William q
IIolway sold his stock in the Machias
Lumber co. to Charles &. Oak of BAN
gor. For many years Mr.. Holway was
engaged in the manufacturiner of lum |
Der ut Machias, but at the time of the
Organization of the company that con-
SOlidated various interests on the river |
his business was put into the syndicate |
Mr. Oak is the eastern superintendent
| of the International Paper Go. and is
| extensively engaged in the pulp wood !
business on the Machias river With
! a number OF associates Mr.. Oak owns
| Township NO. 70, and it is known that
for some time past they have been de-
srous of securing more land in that
| vicinity and the purchase of Mr.. Hol-
| ways stock in the Lumber 90 NAV be
| II move toward securing a large foot-
ing there. AS Mr.. Holwav was one of
she large stockholders of the lumber
company, holding probably eighteen or
/ twenty per cent of the stock. if will
give the purchaser considerable in
tuence in the management Of the COM
pany. What the result would be should
| the pulp interest secure a majority Of
the stock is Il serious question to The
town. and one in which the citizens feel
the keenest interest. At the present
time the material that is being cut On
Township No. 25 is floated to Machias
and passes through a mill only to he
cut INTO TOUR foot length and carried
on tramWay to the wharf where it
| VIII be loaded upon cars and shipped to
a pup ana paper mill in some other
part of the State. Should this be con-
tinued on larger scale it would
necessarily prove great loss to the
town Nothing of the kind, however, is
anticipated for it is believed that the
/ vast amount of growth on the MachiaS
river would justify the establishment
OF a paper mill at Machias, should any
| large portion of it come into the hands
of company engaged in that business.
At the present time the majority of tho
stock of the Machias Lumber Co is
controlled by those who desire to con-
tinue in the lumber manufacturing
business, so that any radical change
in the near future is not anticipated
unless it should be in converting the
waste material from the saw mill into
pulp.
! What undoubtedly has been the most
successful Weir on the coast thus far
this season, writes Il Machias CORE
Spondent, is that owned by Charles
and William Davis and Mark Huntley
commonly known as Davis Brothers
Weir. 1t has thus far this season
stocked eight thousand dollars, and as
it is still early in the Weir fishing bust
ness it promises to break all previous
records if it continues to fish until the
end of the season as it has fished dur
ing the past month or two. The catch
of two days last week was sold for
$1l00 and other hauls that have melted
the owners nearly us much have been
made frequently since the opening Of
the season. At the present time fish
are selling for 81 per hogshead and rs
the demand is greater than the SUP
ply that is being taken it is believed
that the prices will continue high
throughout the season. Dog fish the
great enemy of herring are noticed in
great numbers about the Machias bay
this season and it is believed that their
presence has greatly reduced the catch
of many of the Weirs. The Davis
Brothers, however, report that in spite
of the large hauls that they have made
the dog fish are very plentiful in that
part of the bay. At one tide after the
herring We're taken from the Weir, two
dory loads of dog fish Were gathered
up and taken to the shore where they
are used by the farmers for Il fer
! t!lizer. No better illustration of per
Severance being rewarded could be
found than that Of the Davis Brothers
in the Weir business. The Weir is
built ut Davis's beach, north of Cross
! Island. and is so situated that the sea
running in between Cross and Libby
Islands strikes directly upon the weir
which is entirely without protection
from that direction. As Il result Of
| this the Weir cannot be made to stand
and is broken down by the sea each
season. During the first two years
that Weir was built upon the spot it
did not prove a success and hardly
enough was realized to pay for re
building in the following spring, leav-
ing the owners nothing for their sea-
sons work. Last year the weir was
carried away early in October by Il
| heavy storm, and already the owners
/ have commenced to take extra precau-
ton against losing their boats and
other gear although they can do moth
| ing to prevent the loss of the Weir
| when the severe storms set in. In spite
of this hard luck in the past the own
crs did not hesitate to rebuild this sea
son and their receipts have already
we'll repaid them for their three sea-
sons work.
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS.