Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-23
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

The shoe factory of Lowell Brothers
at Eastport, recently damaged by fire
is to be repaired and refitted and busi
ness resumed as soon as possible.
Gates & Harlow of Carthage. have
the rear of their drive over Webb River
falls. They had in the drive $4,000
cords of pulp wood and 100000 feet of
pine.
The Guilford Manufacturing Com
panv has made a great Improvement in
the method of drawing their logs from
the river to the mill, a distance of an
eighth of a mile. Last year they used
horses. This year the logs are drawn
by means of cable and windlass, run
by steam power. Much labor and ex-
pense are saved in this way.
Sullivan stone dealers are still ship
ping TO Boston and New York. and a
| feet of vessels are lying at the wharf
the greater part of the season, which
has been an unusually active one in
that section. The schooner Collins is
taking a cargo of granite for the firm
of Crabtree & Haven to Boston, while
the Wcsterloo and Pochasset are load
ling for the firm of Hooper, Havey & Co
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for New York.
| The foundation for the new annex to
the buildings of the Paris Manufacture
turing Company, South Paris, is being
| laid. The structure will be 125 feet by
100 feet and one story in height, with a
basement which makes it practically Il
two story building. Other improve
ments and buildings are also projected.
1t was only few months ago that an
addition two stories high and 100 feet
| long was built These things show
better than mere statements what the
company is doing and how it is increas-
| ing it's business
| Lobster catching is an industry that
is interesting many residents of Goulds-
boro, and several new sloop boats of
about ten tons are being built for use
on Frenchmens bay the coming season.
| The Gouldsboro people, with their lob
| ster pounds of which there are several
cars and traps send out more Holsters
for the size of the place than any other
| town in Hancock county. The lobster
boats from Portland come to the town
regularly buying of all the fishermen
possible, but the larger dealer who
owns pounds and large cars, hold until
| later in the season, when prices are ad-
Vanced.
The manufacture of shoes by the Ma
tional Shoe Company, Calais, which
was begun just year ago, has ceased
and until further notice the factory
near Ferry Point bridge is closed. The
company employed an average of 60
hands and the output of their factory
was 500 pairs a day. The business
proved to be non-paying, and the direc-
| tors decided to suspend operations.
| There is prospect, however, that the
plant will be enlarged and reopened
under new management in the near flu
ture, as several offers have been made
| for the same and are now under con-
sheraton.
This has been lucky week for the
| fishermen of Hancock county, es-
| pecially at Manset where the industry
is the most important one of the town.
| The fleet of a dozen or more small
| boats. including six naptha launches
| md several sloops used in supplying
| The firm of John l.. Stanley & Sons with
| fish lur their extensive wholesale and
retail trade. has averaged 5000 pounds
| Zach day, while the veteran dealers Jas.
| Parker. whose cured fish are in demand
| later in the season, especially at Glou-
cester. has bought another entire car
CO. brought in by the schooner Van
| guard, of 10000 pounds, making $780,
900 pounds he has handled this season,
which has only just begun in the fish
| ing line.
J. A. Thurston of Bethel has pur-
chased the white birch stumpage on a
large tract of land in Newry owned by
Lewis G. Games. Mr.. Thurston will
operate upon the land during the com
ing season and the product will be
manufactured at his mill at North
Bethel which is now in the process of
construction. Mr. Thurston is running
his mill at Newry Corner and also his
mill in RoXbury which he purchased Of
Mrs. Martha Bartlett widow of the late
Charles z. Bartlett He has a ten year
stumpage permit on a large tract of
| birch land which lies near the RoX-
bury mill and is each year doing d
good business at this mill. There is a
large amount of manufactured stock
| awaiting the completion of the new
mill which it is expected will be run
ming at ar early day.
! The Lubec Sardine Co. have put into
! their factories some labor saving de-
vices that should prove very beneficial.
Water troughs run the entire length of
he cutting tables, and the cutters
boxes are permanently fixed in their
proper places, arranged with a hinged
bottom. and when the box is full, in
stead of being carried by hand a long
| distance to the tanks, the bottom drops
| down and the fish are sluiccd by water
| 10 the end of the tables, where they are
| taken up by an elevator and dumped
| into the washink tank before being
| sailed. All of their factories are to be
| equipped in this manner, making quite
| 4 saving in the handling of fish. Other
| sluices catch the refuse as it fall from
| the cutters knives and carry it along
until it comes in contact with another
elevator that deposits it on the wharf,
ready to be sold to the farmers for
fertilizer. By these new methods the
| cutting rooms are kept clean and
wholesome.
MAINE FRATERNlTIES.