Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-03
KENNEBEC LOGS.
"A Hundred Million feet in this
Seasons Drive.
Sl25,OOO or more Yearly Expense
in Driving.
Sorted and Stored.

river have probably averaged a jour
ney of $50 miles or more on the waters
of tributary stream or lake and of the
main river. When they get out of the
tributaries into the main river they
come into the control of the Kcnnebec
Log Driving Company, and are driven
under direction of it's officers to their
destination.
The lo~s are sorted at 10 different
bOOmS stretched across the river, the
first at Scion where the logs for the
local pulp mill of the International
Paper Company are taken out, and the
rest allowed to go on their way sea-
ward.
At Madison the greater part Of the
log supply for the Madison mills of the
Great Northern Paper Company are
taken out. which makes a considerable
reduction in the number of logs in the
Kennebec drive.
The SkoWhegan Pulp Company has
the third boom. and nearly all of the
supply of logs for that concern comes
down the river to that point.
The saw and pulp mills of the Law
renee, Newhall & Page Company at
taken out at the fourth boom.
The largest single user of logs on
the river is the HollingsWorth e Whit
rey Company at Waterville, whose
sorting boom is the sight of the drive
except on those now rare occasions
when It jam occurs at some place above
there.
At Five Mile island, five miles above
Augusta the Kennebec Log Driving
Company has a storage or reserve
boom where logs are held until the
sorters are ready for them at the
booms below. Many thousands of logs
sometimes accumulate in that boom,
making it the second place of interest
to sightseers of log driving on the
river AT present only a small portion
of this seasons drive has reached Five
Mile island. and only a very few have
been let down through the boom. 1t
was a part of that boom which broke
loose and foated down river in the
flood Of this spring.
The S. d. Warren Paper Company of
WcStbrook has a new boom, strung for
the first time this season, at Gilley's
point, three miles above the Augusta
ddlIl. lEe company loS9 are ldheil
out there ana pulled on Shoic where
they are dried, sawed into 4-fOot
lengths and loaded on the cars for
shipment to Wcstbrook. A new rail
| road siding has been put III at mat
| "lare for the accommodation OF the
| Warren Company. That fIrm mas SET
| up a small steam SaWmlil lhere ior .i'
| cutting llp OF Tn" logs. thafIeS oHilth
| Is their foreman at the pooil.
| nc Augusta hummer 'oh'idily
| SeflnE boom Is at RIgSS prook' 1t hiIe
| above the dam, where boom 1ofemah'
| W. \. Harvey, sorts the logs ana
passes them along down river. 1he
| company also stores a great many OF
| its logs on the banks of the river neal
that boom.
The Cushnoc Paper Company OF Au-
gH*ta is using more logs, this year
than previously, and has q sorting
| boom newly placed for the capture OF
| tn" logs which have been bought Tor Its
minis The location is at the mouth OF
Whitney brook a half mile above the
dam and Joseph Nicholas is in charge
of the driving and sorting.
All along the river sheer booms are
strung, and from Mooschead Lake tf
| llalloWell it is only a short distance AT
any time that one might travel along
tn" river and not be in sight of one OF