Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-05
Maine l1eWS in Brief
Paragraphs interest Peoe-Noes Industries and
People Church and Pastor In the Schoohoom
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

Brooks is discussing the question OF
having a shoe factory locate there.
F..A. Follett of Belfast has received
an order for $4,000 mackerel jigs and
has sent to England for hooks. He ex-
poets to begin casting the jigs about
Jan. LIST.
The Richmond Manufacturing Co. is
building a saw mill at Byron where
from 208O to 5000 cords of birch will be
sawed into bars, which will be shipped
to Livermore Falls, to be used in the
company's new mill next season. The
contract for building the saw mill has
been awarded to the w. I. White
Building Company at Rumford Falls.
The firm of Campbell g. Macomber of
Mt. Desert is shipping a quantity of cut
stone this month. This week a cargo
valued at $4,000 was shipped by schoon-
err William Mason of Rockland to New
York, where they are furnishing stone
for a contracted piece of work. This
is the second large cargo this month,
as one valued at $4,000 was shipped to
the same destination two weeks ago.
The Machas Granite Company last
week shipped out from their shops at
Machias car load of monuments. The
most important piece of work in the
lot was a monument that was
shipped to Cleveland, O., that weighed
about seven tons. During the present
season the company has manufactured
and shipped work to the following
states outside of Maine: New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
New York, Pennsylvania. West Vir-
ginia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mime
sofa and California.
The johnson Brothers of South Or
rington, are making arrangements for
doing quite an extensive business at
their mill in the near future. A foun-
dation is already made for an engine,
which is expected very soon from the
west, and when in operation the man
ufacture of shingles, clapboards, slaves,
heading, and in fact all kinds of short
lumber will be carried on with heading
as a speciality. Messrs. johnson re-
Gently purchased a small tract of land
in North Bucksport covered with good
pine. They have just completed a road
to the lot and as soon as sufficient
snow comes will have numerous teams
hauling to their mill.
The knitting factory at Bucksport
has closed and all of the pictures of a
new industrial era opening up in towr.
have been shattered. Walter T. Cream
err of Penobscot, instructed Manager
Sellers to dismantle the store on Main
street, which has been used as a work
room. This has now been done and
the building is vacant. Various causes
are given for the abandonment Here
are three or four: The impossibility
of securing sufficient help. Unrelia-
bility of some of the girls employed
They would work one day and loaf
three. 1t was impossible to earn de-
cent pay unless long hours were crowd
ed with slavish labor. The constant
changing of work so that it was i'm
possible for the help to become accus-
toned to one kind Of mitten long
enough to become adept in the doing
of them. Anyhow, the long respected
much sought-after industry like ship
building, is a thing Of the past. Several
of the machines have been taken home
by the best of help. Manager Sellers
will come weekly to collect the manu-
featured articles, leave fresh supply
of yarn, and attend to the repairing of
the machines.