Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-21

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coupled directly to the heating furn-
aces. The output will be bar iron.
rolled steel, and when the plant is run
TO its full capacity it will be able 10
turn out 100 tons daily, and give en-
ployment to over 200 men. There will
he SIX bushling furnaces, five reheatinr
and two pudding furnaces. w. G.
Cutler of Pennsylvania is superintan-
dent of construction and will act as
general manager.
The log drives on Union river ara
| making rapid progress. Howard q.
Moore has successfully landed 800 GOO
feet of hard wood for the Ellsworth
Hard Wood co. The drive was easily
landed at Grants meadow, a small per-
centaSe of the logs sinking, in spite of
| the fact that lumbermen have repeated
| ~ stated that it is impossible success
| fully to drive hard wood Mr.. Moore's
| first drive. which is to be sawed at the
temporary mill built where the Grant
| mill burned last summer, has arrived
His last drive is IN the hands of Whit
| comb. Haynes & Co., who EXPECT to
| land it for him in few weeks. Mr.
| Moore expects to saw about 1000 900
feet this season, and Whitcomb,
Haynes Il co. will probably saw about
5000. 600 The lumber business docs rot
promise to be as good as in former
years, but it still is 4 great benefit 20
Ellsworth.
l.. :. Meserve and son Onward are
soon to commence the construction of
Il Weir i'll the river abreast the Neserye
larm, Machias. In former wears n
river Weir there did Il good business.
but it was allowed TO go Gown, and for
several years the privilege was not
used. Eut when the herring were run
ming in the river in such large schools
last year Weir was hastily built upon
the site that had been used in former
years. During the short time that il
was in use it did'a good business, and
the owners were Well repaid for their
work and investment. AS is frequently
The case with the river weirs it was
carried away during the winter by the
heavy ice. so that it will be necessary
to build it entirely new this spring. AS
there is but little show for keeping one
Of these Weirs during the winter, it has
come to be the custom with the build
ers to build them as cheapiy as posi-
ble, and 10 make nc effort to have them
last more than q single season. For
this reason the material that is used is
much lighter than that used in the
WcifS down the bay, and where in
the latter hard wood is used
almost altogether. IL the river
weirs spruce, fir and other soft woods
are used for the stakes. The material
for the new MeServe weir is already
upon the bank of the river. and the
work of putting It up will commence in
the near future, as the owners are dc.
SrouS of having it ready for the early
schools of fish that visit the river. The
distance across the pound will be about
- feet and the total distance around
the pound is expected to lie about 22J
feet. 1t will also have n wing of con-
siderable length connecting it with the
shore.
The hopes of n large number of men
and boys, who have been counting on
getting Il job can making or sealing at
Factory a, Lubec, this summer, re-
ccivei a BLACK eye" by the announce
mont that scaling machines would be
put in 1t has been thought all along
hat this big shop would continue to be
I hand" shop as heretofore, and if SO.
it would mean q job for about 30 can
makers, So Scalers and % or 80 seamers, |
but under the machine arrangement, |
~ men will De enough to do the work.
The sealing machines We're moved in
the first of the week, about - of them, |
AND probably fish will be taken in n
day or So and by next week Factory a
will be running full blast. provided the
fish can be secured. 1T is to be re-
GREETED that hand work could not have
been kept up. as in past years. for 1t
means that a large number of people
will have to leave the town to find
work elsewhere, and those who stay
will have to work for much less wages
than they have before. For instance.
n sealer could make from SO to s. a day
working by hand. While on the ma
chimes, he is paid l. cents an hour. or
81. 80 for a 10 hour day. These wages
look very small to one who has been
accustomed to earning so much more
but still as the old saying goes. "a half
loaf is better than none at all.