Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-15
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

1t is understood. that w. ]. Creamer
of Penobscot will establish a branch of
his knitting factory in Bucksport, if a
suitable building can be secured.
G. c. Russell of Yarmouth. has pur-
chased the sawmill plant owned by
William Stubs at Canton, and will
soon commence extensive operations
! there.
The canning factory of the Twitchell-
Champlain co, Of Waldoboro is run
ming at present speas being canned. A
small crew Is employed thus far, as the
crop of PEAS is very light, this year.
1t is believed, however, that the corn
CROP Jkifaverage fair.
Mbessardine season will in a few
! sli14 months be over, but from present
cations the history of the shoe
sMfsiness for Eastport is just beginning.
: The firm of E. A. & F. A. Holmes is
making this season about three times
us many shoes week as was ever done
in the PASSPORT factory before. They
have more than enough business in
sight to keep their factory going at it's
fullest capacity for at least six months
call for delivery before January.
The new cutting-up mill of the Inter-
national Company at Bemis has been
started. The regular crew of about
thirty men is employed, and it is hoped
to get the usual amount of lumber cut
up this season. The fire which Destroy
ed the mill has put back work two
months, the last month of which
was taken up in building. The mill
is equipped with modern machinery,
and will make good after start
ing. In the lake are about eleven
million feet of logs to be cut up.
The Lisbon Falls Fibre Company is
soon to build an additional store
house. The building will be 20 by 80
feet and will be built of brick. 1t
will be one story high. The building
will be used for new acid and d.
gester room. This building will be con-
structed at the southern end of the
plant and will take the place of the
wooden buildings now serving for the
purpose. The plans have all peen
drawn and work will probably begli!
within a few weeks. At present $50
men are employed at the Fibre Com
pany's mill.
The new sardine factory at Machias-
mort has been completed and VIII COM
mence packing fish this week. rms
now pIant is by far the best of the klnd
over located on the MachiaS bay ana Is
one of the best on the coast. 1t is Il
| two story structure $50 feet long by 80
| feet wide, and has a two story wing
extending toward the edge OF the
wharf. that is 40X50 feet in size. All Oh
the modern improvements have peeii
| installed and the arrangement Is per
feet in every detail. Some of the mos'
noticeable of the new devices is the
natent carrier, which carries out all OF
the waste material, the patent drlei
and the patent cutting device. Inc
capacitv of the factory when runl1lns
with an ample supply of fish and a lui
| crew will be about $500 or 5000 cases pei
week. This will give employment t'
nbout $50 hands and will make the
weekly pay roll about $500 or $Zooo
wis magnificent plant is owned by thu
Nacbiasnort Packing Co., which III al
dition owns and operates the sarui'i'
> factory at Bucks Harbor ana Is opei
atinc the sardine factory at Auoisoi
The building at Indian Cove, 1or,iier
| w used as a sardine factory, mas pee'
purchased by the company and Will o.
used by them as picking and smok
ipr establishment for curing lars
herring. BY running a plant OF I'M
; kind in connection with their thre
sardine factories the company Will D
ablcsto use all of the herring whlcI
they take, whether large or sii's,i
These four plants will enapie III
! owners to handle from 90 to 100 hoss
! heads of fish daily, and as they "i
5 the owners of considerable weir prop
. ertv their chances of getting fish ar
better than the majority OF packer
They have an interest in eight OF NH
i weirs and control several of Them i
carry the fish from the weirs TO u
factories they have their own Meet