Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-26
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

The box mill at Whiting is running
only part of the time on account of
the low water, making it very dull in
town.
At the Read Nichols Cos. yard, Il
bake containing 100000 bricks was
opened this week. The fires were
lighted under the bricks last week. and
during the nine days baking about
800 cords of wood have been burned.
Work on the new mill about to be
built at Cooper, by the Cooper Lath,
Single and Lumber Co. Incorporated
was commenced this week and it is eX-
pected that the plant will be ready to
commence saving in about three
months.
Henry n. Pierce, chief machinist at
1.-the spool factory of John McGregor,
South Lincoln. has patented Il machine
for the making of large spools, all the
way from 500 to 2,400 yard spools. as
they are called. named probably from
the number of yards of thread which
they Will contain. 1t runs automatic
ally and altogether is u very pretty
piece of workmanship.
Auburn people are pleased to learn
that there are strong prospects of the
Pray Small shoe factory being leased
to Gross and Fields, wealthy Brockton
EShoe manufacturers, the Ara Cushman
Railroad Street factory leased to d
prominent Lynn man. who will manu-
facture boys and youths shoes and the
Monroe, Packard Lipscott shoe factory
started up within thirty or sixty days
by the National Shoemakers.
Things look more promising now for
the building of the rolling mills at Lii
gonia, South Portland, than at any time
since they We're burned. The founda
tons have been put in and the machin-
cry is arriving and being placed in po
Sition. The new engine has arrived
and as soon as the bed is ready, will be
set in position. The plan of the mills
is quite different from the old mills, and
the new ones will be considerable larg
er About forty men are already en-
ployed at the plant. The frames of the
mills are expected to arrive soon, and
it is hoped to have the mill up and in
running order by the first of December.
The large saw mill now being built at
Houlton by F. w. Titcomb to replace
the one burned over year ago, is fast
being completed. The new mill is much
larger than the former one, being $50
feet long by nearly 40 feet wide, and
when completed will be one of the fin
est mills in this section of the country.
For the present season, Mr.. Titcomb
will have for machinery in his mill, one
rotary, one gang edger, one lath ma
chine and one planer. Next year he
will add shingle machines, clapboard
machines and clapboard planer. Be
tween thirty-five and forty men will be
employed when the mill is in opera
ton, which will be about the middle of
October.
An idea of the way the forests of
Maine are being used may be had from
the way lumber is being used in Ma
chias at present. At the mills control
ed by the Machias Lumber Co.. the
gang cuts about 900 logs each week,
and the band saw and shingle machine
require about 2,400 more. The mill
operated by Cornelius Sullivan requires
nearly 1000 per week. while the ON
niverouS pulp wood mill cuts up the
astonishing number of about 5000 logs
each week. Thus in the neighborhood
of about 10000 logs are taken from the
water during the long weeks of the
present summer 1t is not to be Won
dered at that people are asking how
long the forests of this State will sup
port such a slaughter of logs. 1t is
probable that the cut for the coming
last winter.