Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-12
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

The canning factory at Thomaston is
doing rushing business. and is giving
| employment to over 80 hands.
The weeks record for wool pulling
| at the Weymouth Wool Co.'S plant at
Newport. was broken recently when
the number of sheep skins pulled were
$4,000.
Wood & Heal now have crew of six
men employed at their granite shop on
Bridge street, Belfast. with orders
enough on their books to keep them
busy until February.
H. +. Jones has completed the sea-
sons operations at his South Caribou
starch factory, having had very sue
cessful run. He has manufactured 1870
tons of starch at this factory this fall.
several tons mere than he made last
season.
I. NJ. Cottrell of Belfast, is rushing
work on his contract for eleven boats
for the government Two, for the dredge
Key West. We're shipped to Portland
some weeks ago, three are ready to be
shipped and the remaining six are all
in frame and some of the planked.
1t is said that fewer Christmas trees
than usual will be shipped from Maine
this wear, but the local shipments
promise to hold up. and several cars
have already been loaded. The trees
are cut in this vicinity and about a
dozen mel are employed.-Belfast
Journal.
The sawmill of Charles H. Curtis &
co. at Ellsworth, is nearing completion.
~ which hn fnr
featuring large spars. has already
been installed and the other machin
cry is nearly ready for operation.
Power Will be supplied by the 1S-hors,a
power steam engine which is in the old
MILL
Because of the scarcity of work in
the Saco and Pettee machine shops.
Riddcford ut the present time, it has
become necessary for the company to
lay off quite a large number of men
and curtail the running time of the
shops from six to five days a week
, and also to shorten the time from ten
hours per day to eight hours per day.
The puddle mill of the Portland Iron
and Steel company at South Portland.
was started UP this week. For the
! past month the guide mill has been
running and the starting UP of the
; puddle mill gives employment to many
! mere hands There are nearly 100
| men at the mills now and as the work
| increases, more men will be added. and
| by the time that all of the different
branches of the plant are running, en-
ployment will be given to something
| over 200 men.
The American Molybdenum Co.,
whose mine is at Cooper, Me, after
three and one-half years of hard work,
has just completed it's No. plant and
will have it running full time Thurs
day next. The trial runs are a com
plete success. The whole of the rock
| from quarry can be put into the
| crusher ana without any further hand
| ling be separated INTO pure Molybden-
| tie and a fine grit, which can be
| manufactured into fire blocks that will
| pay all working expenses. When it is
/ known that one-nalf per cent. per ton
| is a better proposition than that of the
great Treadwell Mine of Alaska, it will
4! be understood what the company's
, future will be lke.-Eastport Sentinel.
The Maine Lake Ice Co at Sargent
| vile is making preparations for the
| ice season of 1903 and if the conditions
are favorable there will be a large cut.
The company has improved and added
to its plant at different times until it
has quite settlement of its own.
There are the large and small ice
storing houses. brick building for the
boiler. engine and dynamo house, the