Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-14
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

Fish of suitable canning size are re-
ported by the Eastport fishermen, to
be more abundant just now than at
any time during the past year.
A steel machine in which sawdust
and other refuse material from a saw
mill can be burned, will be used in the
Berlin Mills companys mill at Ma
drid. No sawdust, edgings or other
waste can now legally be dumped in
any tributary of the Kennebec river,
consequently machines such as the
above have to be used to consume such
waste.
The old bicycle factory at South
Portland is to be reopened as screen
factory by new company now organ
izing in Portland. 1t is said that q
corporation is now organizing with
$4,000 already pledged in stock, while
two prominent Portland capitalists are
ready to increase the amount to the
require total, to institute screen
mandatory with a large crew of
skilled WOrkmen and on liberal scale.
During the year 1902 the total
amount of lime burned in Thomaston
was 242,247 casks. Of this number j.
"A. lIelSHlbH q ". DulItu Ifu,uuu,
Rockland- Rockport Lime Company
1920; A. j. Bird, $4,000; McLoon &
Case 9,027. The total is slight increase
over 1901. The A. J. Bird quota is
practically a new addition to the
Thomaston lime industry. The kiln,
in which the rock is burned, is located
just above the Maine Central Railroad
bridge and is known as the Snow priv
ilege. Until last season the kiln had
not been used for a number of years.
Chas. r. Wyman of Stratton has just
finished job of yarding 100000
spruce, fir cedar and poplar for E. Z.
Vilcs and VIM. Shaw. He worked on
the hubble" so called, at Bigclow; he
had two teams yarding, and hauled
from the yard with eight horses. lie
cut only trees which would limb out
| twcnty-four feet and be six inches in
diameter at the top. This timber will
| be run down the forks Of the Dead riv-
or into the Kenncbec; and among the
| timber are 100000 of poplar which will
| be run with the rest as an experiment
without being peeled. Mr.. Wymar
| said that his men received from $50 to
| S35 per month.
| It is rather infrequent that employ
ers of help advance the wages OF
| those i'll their employ without being
asked in the first place to do so. Or
! the first day of the present month, the
| Morrison Wooden Company of Dexter
notified its employees who are weavers
| thai an advance in wages had been de-
cidled upon. The advance is practically
a 1914 per cent. increase and one that
| will mean on an average of over 81 pei
week to this class of help. The com
I,any has As looms at its largest plant
and Is at the new, making 63 now run
ming. The business at both plants i:
of a most excellent character with es-
pccially inviting prospect ahead fol
months to come.
AT Addison Point in Washington
county, L. L. Sullivan, formerly o
South Bluehill, is building a handsome
factory building of one and two stories
the dimensions of which are S0x45, an,
additions OF 30x15 for the canning o
ollms end blueberries. The structur
will be completed ready for occupanc,
this month. The firm is now L. L. Sui
Ivan & Co, a Boston capitalist bein
interested. Mr. Sullivan will employ
much larger force at Addison Poin
than at Bluehill and expects to do