Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-12
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

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finished burning kiln of $50. 900
| bricks.
A starch factory and two uotato
houses are being built at Burleieh Sid
ing, Blaine.
George Stacy of Shirley, will cut two
million feet of timber for Hussev.
Goldthwaite & Hudson of Guilford
Crafts and Flint will cut one million
feet for the same concern.
A. w. Shaw & Co. of Freeport shoe
manufacturers, have a crew at work
on an extensive addition to their fac
tory. A wing will be built on either
end of the present quarters, giving q
floor space of about 400 feet in length.
A new engine and boiler will also be in
stalled.
The Morrison Wooden Company, Dex-
ter, recently introduced two new lacks
to its spinning department in the new
mill of the capacity OF $50 threads
each. 1t seems probable that other ma
chinery will be introduced before long
| to further the increase of the produce
ton of the company's two plants
The Waverley Wooden Company has
commenced extensive improvements
upon their plant at Pittsfield Eight
new looms will be placed in the weave
room and the designers Office will be
| removed to the ground floor of the mill.
| It is expected that before long another
addition in the shape of q new wool
| house will also be completed.
H. w. Coffin of Addison. Names rec
ord boat builder has completed 16
BOATS thus far this season and has or
lers for more to be completed soon
rs possible. Having been in the bust
| less % years, he is well known the
Whole length of the coast line from
Nova Scotia to the Gulf Of Mexico.
here is hardly shipping port on the
cast but his boats can be found. Dur
ne the % wears Mr.. Coffin has built up
cards of 300 boats or in other words
400 feet of boats.
The w. $. Loggie Co, Ltd, are
lustlng things at their burberry can
ling factory on Union street, Calais.
md expect to put up 10000 gallons Of
berries before the season ends The
| BURBERRY crop in Washington and
| .harlotte counties was q total failure
| his season, but in the eastern part of
New Brunswick the crop was I'M
! Usually abundant. Nearly all of the
berries now being put up by this con-
Germ come from Tabusintac and vicin.
| ity. on the eastern coast of New
| Brunswick, near the entrance to
| Miramichi river. The berries are all
put up in gallon cans, and are intended
| especially for hotel and restaurant use.
| The Emerson Brothers. Island Falls,
| have succeeded in bringing in a part Of
| their drive, and that Mattawamkeag
lumber Comparys mill started up on
| Tuesday, after having been shut down
| all summer. The Emersons started
| about a million and half logs and cot
them as far as Long Island. 1t was
| lhen thought best to cut the drive and
| not to try to bring in all of them with
| the water as low as it is at present. The
| drive was cut at Long Island and
about GOO We're brought to the mill.
| The rest Of them can easily be brought
in with three or four inches more OF
| water. - I'M, NJ \. ttY
Bingham is to be congratulated upon
| having q new industry, the Kearsarge
| Peg Co., manufacturers Of shoe pegs,
| which are to remove their r peli. to
! Bingham from BARTLETT, MI. Repre-
| sentatives of the company 4 We're IL:
! town the past week and purchased of
| Henry Washburne five acres OF lane
off mis- farm near the depot upon which
! they will shortly commence the erecl
I ton of factory which viii give EN-
ployment to 60 men ana Is woilien OH
| inc Ia Tho N in. n
Bingham is that they may be near a
| large supply of white and silver birch
from which their product is made and
| which grows In such abundance in this
vicinity. They will use about 1900
] cords annually. 1t is hoped to have the
building ready for manufacturing by
Nov. II. Henry Washburn has been
secured by this firm to have charge of
the outside work and buying of the
! lumber.
| Commencing Sept. 18th operations
will be resumed at the Clark Island
granite quarries on a very large scale
Two contracts have been secured
which will keen a crew at work for
two or three years, and meantime the
company has hopes of getting other
JUS WHY II w III lIldtllIilttly the
| period of activity. The principal con-
| tract is to furnish stone for the Nor
! folk dry dock, and is sublet from John
G.. Rogers 4 Co. of New York, who
have the contract for building the
dock, at figures approximating $780,
0oC. The stone which represents about
one-half of the above figure. will be cut
at the Clarks Island Granite Works
and by NJ. G. Ryan & Co., who operate
at StOnington. The other contract is
to furnish stone for an extension to the
poStoitice in Hartford, Conn, and
amounts to 100000. Between 80 and IS
cutters will be employed at Clark
Island during the fall and winter. and
by another spring $50 or 900 men will be
on the payroll there. G. II. Blethen
who has been representing the COM
pany in New York will be superinten-
dent of the quarry and this work will
demand his presence at the island a
portion of the time. Mr.. Blethen says
that the past year has been good one