Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-03
MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

The Knox Cooperage company Yves
Rockport has crew of seventeen mer
engaged in chopping wood
| Twenty -four loads of Christmas
trees, averaging about 1000 trees to g
car. We're shipped from Belfast station
this season.
The clam factory at Sedgwick has
closed after a busy season. About
$4,000 cans We're put up, requiring
about 500 bushels of CLAIMS.
Ernest Wood and Ben Lander have
bought the rake factory of the estate OF
the late H. p. Lander at Kingfield
They will operate it this winter in the
same business.
/ The Aroostook Valley Starch Co. Fit.
Fairfield, has now shipped all but four
cars of the starch made the past sea-
son. The entire amount manufactured
this year was about 1856 tons
The large numbering concern of
Sharp & Blanchard of Portage Lake
Will cut about 100000 feet of long
lumber this season for manufacture in
their mill at Portage Lake. w. H.
Knox of Blaine, is in charge.
| iC iiC" ohliiiltu SlflOkeu herring
| industry recently established at East
port, and which is giving employment
| to large number of men, women and
girls, is now in full operation, and
promises to be of considerable benefit
to many people. That the company
means business is evident from the fact
that they have recently purchased one
i hundred tons of smoked herring, and
| contracted for as many more.
| Cooper Brothers, Newport, are run
ming some of the machinery at their mill
| this winter and have had considerable
| business thus far. The firm received
! an order for three carloads of Eastwood
panels to be shipped to Michigan re-
| Gently. The veneer manufactured at
| the plant the past summer is now being
| trimmed up and shipped to meet the
orders which have been coming in as
| fast las they could be taken care Of
| The firm does magnificent business
each year and it is an industry of much
value to the community
Never was the factory of the Paris
Manufacturing Co. so thoroughly
cleaned out of manufacturing goods of
all kinds as now. And never has there
been such Il rush to fill orders at least
partially as during the past three
months. Every nerve has been strain
| ed to increase the output, and a large
! number of orders have had to be de-
| clined from inability to get the goods
made, while other customers have had
to be put off with part of the goods or
ordered. For some time they have
been shipping three and four car loads
a day, to get everything possible into
| the hands of the dealers for the holiday
| trade.
The granite quarries at Frankfort
have been shut down for the winter
and with the exception of getting out
| paving stones no work will be done I'M
til spring. They are working on
7! Mosquito mountain, getting out stone
for the new post Office at Newport
News. The schooner Isaiah X. Stet-
son is loading a cargo of this stone and
after that the work in this part of the
quarries will stop. The Indianapolis
work is finished or has gone as far as
it can before next spring, as the work
west has been shut down. But there
| is more of it to be done and it will be
continued as soon as the winter is over.
| All WOFk IOf chicago mas been nnlSneQ.
Some of the men will be retained to get
out paving blocks, but the majority of
them have been discharged.
The numbering operations on the
| Narraguagus river for the present win
ter is affording employment to 146 men
and II horses. The force is as follows:
For G. r. Campbell G Co., Township
"a, III. c. Schappe has 16 men and /
horses; Township So, Daniel Mediation.
~ men and horses; Township 90,
Torrey & Libby, men and 3 horses
on same township, S. r. Schoppe, -
men and six horses: Township %, John
Small. men and horses; on same
township, l.. E. Grant 10 men and S
horses; B. f. Cakes, 4 men and
horses; ]. w. Cakes, 6 men and 3
horses; Township 10. C. c. & d. c.
Schoppe. Il men and 6 horses; Town
ship Is, Leighton & Farnsworth, mer
and 3 horses. For VIM NJ. Nash &
Sons. Township "a, r. D. Wilson has Ia
men and horses; J. c. & c. r. Wiley
IA men and horses. On Township 10
, Nash K Sons are also supplying one
r camp i'm charge of A. c. Sproul, en-
, ploying 10 men and G horses. On this
r township c. P. Nickels has one camp il
f charge of NJ S. e ]. NJ Wiley, employ