Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-01
MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

The paving business which was at
one time an important industry at
Stonlngton, is again taking boom.
Paving motions" have been opened
all through the fields and pastures
where granite boulder or ledge ap-
pears, and the white awning of the
workmen erected here and there indi-
cate business activity. iP
The sardine factory at Bucks Har-
Dor is having an excellent run of busi-
ness. Fish have been secured for some
time past in sufficient quantities to
keep the plant at that place running
and quite a supply of fish have been
sent from Machias> bay to the factories
farther east. The new factory at Ma
chiasport is nearly completed and will
be ready for business in few days.
Work upon the new addition being
built to the machine shop at Dexter.
by Fay & Scott is progressing rapidly.
This addition is so feet in length and
will be used to double the capacity of
the present foundry. A part of the
room will be used for a large new PLAN
er weighing $4,000 pounds. 1t will also
be supplied with travelling crane and
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hands.
Frank Smiths crew of bark peelers
that have been employed for several
weeks in the vicinity of Third Lake of
the Machias river, have returned to
Machias. All of the bark peelers are
now out of the woods. More than the
usual amount of this work has been
done this season. the crews in some
cases having been in the woods for six
weeks. where formerly three or four
weeks was considered an average
cruise.
A West Paris correspondent writes:
Business is just hustling here; new
buildings are going up and strangers
are fiocking to our place. Our new
sled factory is employing some 20 men
and still increasing their force. Our
linen industry, the only thing of the
kind in the world, is more than meet
ing the expectations of it's proprietors.
Adding II per cent of this linen fibre
with pulp produces a beautiful paper.
1t is already being spun in the Barker
mill in Lewiston with fine results, and
the proprietors are highly elated.'
The factories at Lubec are more than
busy now and are getting about all the
fish they can handle. The fish are
rather large for canning now, but
enough of the right size are got to keep
the factories running, while the larger
ones are used in the smoked herring
establishments. Quite a good record
was made at No. 3 factory last week by
George Libby who works on the BATH
tl,n
week, and claims that this can not be
beat by anyone in a factory of this size
At the plant of the Booth Bros. &
Hurricane Isle Granite Company in
Waldoboro there is now employed a
full complement of operatives as fol-
lows: 100 quarrymen, 125 cutters, 10
paving cutters ten carpenters, ID
blacksmiths, three engineers, one fire
man besides other workmen in various
capacities. Two new sheds have been
erected near the railroad where all the
cutting is now done. Here also has
been installed the 140 horsepower air
compressor by which are run the steam
drills. pneumatic plug drills, stone sur
facing machines and pneumatic hand
tools. The principal work is on the
contract for the naval academy build
ings, two cargoeS a month belng
shipped from Rockland to Annapolis.
Paving is being shipped from Rock
land for the city of Philadelphia. Grout
and curbing has been sent to Bath for
street work and curbing to Rockland.
Stone has also been shipped to South
Newcastle for the railroad bridge. The
force of operatives. especially quarry
men is reduced at this time on account
of haNinp