Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-21

Gilman is used in his large saw mill in
Foxcroft where he gets out very con-
| siderable amount of lumber eacn year.
This year he will cut about the same
amount as usual for the mill and some
besides which he will dispose of. Ed
gerly Bros. are doing something in the
| numbering line at Roach river where
| they intend to put about 10000 900 feet
of spruce into the river in the spring.
They have their men all at one camp
| this year. 1t will all go to Waterville
for the Hollingsworth & Whitney Co.
The timber lands in the townships
| north OF Caribou will be the scene of
| active numbering operations during the
| coming winter. A large number of
crews have already been in the woods
| for the past six weeks, employed in
yarding hemlock bark. In the region
of upper Madawaska in western Per-
| ham, Collins and Calkins already have
| a large crew at work, but a short dis
| lance from their last winter quarters.
The Wright Brothers also have crew
at work in this district The lum-
bering regions around Carry brook
and the greater Madawaska lakes
wa bN ioiilOCl gu ny crews, eIlElOye Gu
| by the Stockholm Lumber Co. The
| hard wood mill of that place will also
employ several crews in that section,
| cutting hardwood logs. principally
birch and maple S. w. Collins & Son
will make their usual cut of long lum-
Der in the forests near Mud brook. The
crews which were at work nearly all
summer near Square lake peeling bark,
have been surplanted by the numbering
crews of Eagle lake parties. The new,
| large lumber mill at Van Buren, will
necessarily demand large cut of lum-
| Der this season, and several large
crews are already at work on the head
quarters of the st. John. Owing to the
mill of w. T. Barton of Perham being
destroyed by fire last spring, his last
winters cut of lumber is still unsawed.
Mr.. Barton will not make any addition
| al cut this winter. A large crew OF men
are at present employed in building
new mill on the site of the former one.
| The new mill will be somewhat larger
| than the previous one and will be fully
| equipped with up-to date machinery.
An PASSPORT correspondent writes
This section Of the State is widely
noted for it's smoked herring industry,
| as numerous smoke houses are located
| at neighboring coast towns and islands
| in the bay and down east" smoked
| fish are widely known throughout the
country, since the shipments are usual
| ly large during the season out of this
city and Lubec. The frozen herring in
| Gustry. which played such an impor-
! tant part in the FORMER business of the
.e,1, nit, TO I,o
| lected in recent years, but it is rum
ored that it will be given another trial
as soon as the real cold weather sets in.
| The larger herring, which are not suit
able even for cutting up into what is
known as mustard sardines are begin
| ming to put in an appearance in several
places about Passamaquoddy bay,
while they are usually more plentiful
in the Bay of Fundy near Grand Ma
| nan, and it is these that are used fol
smoking as we'll as freezing, although
! the weather in recent years has not
| been cold enough, at the time when
| needed, to warrant any Spectator from
| entering very extensively into the frOZ
en- herring business. Several residents
with an eye to business have secured a
| good catch of large herring, spread
| them out on their WharVeS over night
and waited cold returns, and occasion
| ally the fish were not frozen causing a
loss when a thaW came. AS predic-
tons have been made for a cold winter,
| by many of the veteran fishermen in
this section. but doubted by many, it is
! stated that if the weather should prove
suitable for putting the big herring
| through the freezing process, we may
have revival of the old time industry
which was of great financial benefit to
many in former years. number OF
| WharyeS were then covered with her
ring over night, while the mercury
dropped far below the zero mark and
made the frozen herring spectators
happy as they knew their fish We're
about ready for market. AS PASSPORT
does not boast of very many smoke
! houses it would seem as if some kind
of an industry was needed for the WIN
ter months since the sardine factories
close this month and a long time OF
idleness follows before the first can
ming plants opens again"