Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-14
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

The s. D. Warren Paper Co., of West
brook, will develop about $500 horse pow
er in electricity at Steep Falls on the
Presumpscot.
The Messrs Richards new steam
mill, at Bucksport, is rapidly approaching
completion and about 800 cords of wood
for heading and slaves have been hauled
to the yard.
One hundred and twenty of the work
men employed in Leonard & Barrows'
shoe factory, Belfast. have Joined the
United Boot and Shoe Workers Union
The Van Buren, Single Co. has shut
down its mills, the supply of lumber being
all manufactured. The old mills will in
Inc future he under the management of
the Van Buren, Lumber Co
The piano factory of Hughes & Son
Mfg. Co, in Foxcroft, is employing about
II hards at the present time. This is usu-
ally the dullest season of the year, or q
few weeks following the holidays The
sales of their pianos average about 80
a north the year round.
The clam factory industry at South
Bluehill, which has furnished employment
Tor a force of Is or 80 people during the
canning season, is 10 be closed and the
machinery moved to Washington county
where the proprietor, Mr.. Sullivan. with a
Boston capitalist, VIII have a large build
ing erected for clam canning.
Sias w. Taber, carriage and sleigh
manufacturer of Houlton. was granted
patent right on a gearing for double
wagon. Feb. 5. This gearing is an i'm.
portant addition to heavy wagons, anJ
Mr.. Taber has already made arrange
ments with Canadian parties to man
ufactnre under a royalty and has also
received several orders from American
firms.
AT Monset the big fish firm of John L.
Stanley & Sons is cutting and housing ice
Tor use next season. They have 800 tons
IN one house and will fill another requir-
ing 600 more. One of their ponds located
about 1000 feet from one of the ice houses
has a sluice or runway built and wher
the Ice is started from the pond it runs
directly to the house.
People interested in the canneries o,
fiancock and Washington Counties art
keeping in touch with the transfers ot
property. hoping that the factories will
eventually be in the hands of the orig.
inal owners. In Washington county. thu
buildings in the trust known as No. IL
have reverted to the first owner. Georg,
A. Sawyer, and other transfers are LOOKED
for
The power house connected with the
new mill that is being built by the
Machias Lumber Co. has been completed
and the temporary wooden structure un
der which 1t was built has been removed
The power house is built of. brick, is q
feet long, 30 feet wide and the walls II.
p feet high. The smoke stack which i,
TOUR rect IN diameter and will be abolf1
100 feet high will soon be set up as all nee
essary arrangements for this work hay,
| been practically completed.
An Eastport correspondent writes
'Sardine shipments though small are o
frequent occurrence and the many person
who depend upon this industry for EN-
ployment are anticipating a good seaso,
| next year. Last seasons pack, as vel
as that of the year previous, were ava,
below the average, and if the little her
| ring have not deserted these waters Their
| is no apparent reason why the season o
| 1908 should not be the equal of the banue
years of the past when the employer
made money easily and rapidly
| In the printing office of the Continenta
| BAG mill. Rumford Falls has been in
| stalled. the first of several mamo,,tl
| presses cast for the company. This pres
prints from the roll, a sheet 36x4S inches
| 1t is so constructed that three colors ms
be laid on at one impression 1t stand