Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-12
afAlNE INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

The recently opened homeless herring
! PART at Passport viii give employment
TO over So girls and women.
VIII Polfe of schec, IS having about
5g,oi9 feet of logs hauled from his
pncn, R distance Of four and one-half
miles Charles Sands and c. II. Morri-
sou are doing tie hauling.
Tie brick Plant at Thomaston, viii
begin operations as soon rs the weather
conditions perait. Several new pa
tent !.;.I3s viii BE built thereby increas-
I ing the productive capacity of the
| plant =, meet the orders.
| Tic rc-opcning oc the National Shoe
conlnany's factory At Calais, by firm
composed of local business men is as
surcd. The new concern will have am
pie capital to carry on the business and
viii have 4 high rating in the CONNER
whom operations viii he started, but the
date is not far distant.
| m PASSPORT correspondent writes:
Much damage is reported as having
been done the fisH Neirs down along
tho shores by the drift-ice during the
high winds OF last week; the heavy
| floating masses working disaster al
most irrepar2Dle in some instances,
which will entail large expenditures for
repairs before they are ready for the
| usual spring schools. which will be
needed this year earlier than formerly
| News has reached Hancock county
that the canning factory owned by the
firm 0. Z. r. Russell & Co., of Boston,
: +.E at &c To hn 70.
moved from thatltown to Prospect Har-
| hor, y here the com pahy own and oper-
| ale another. The sardine cannery at
| West fremont is one of the newest of
the section having been built within
the last eight or ten years, to replace
one that was burned. 1t has been very
| successful in he LOWE of fremont cam
| ming annually upwards OF 10000 cases
each yer. Sardines have proven plen-
| tiflil in the vicinity and the site was i'll
every way desirable buL for some time
| there have been runners that with the
| expiration or the lard lease. the build
/ ingS would he moved and for the past
| three or four 1E0nrhs it las been the
| Topic oil conversation among sardine
! canne:E men OF the county. Now word
lcones from headquarters that the build
| ing will he torn down ana brought to
| Prospect Harbor, whore it will be set
| up Within easy access Of the other fac
tory buildings, making sort of CON-
| bin1tion Of the two. with the compile
ton of the new factory buildings. il is
likely that canning VIII all be confined
to the one, that the other building will
| be used for 4 store house, and some
new buildings fer outside work will
doubtless be constructed. It will also
mean the construction Of n large wharf
for shipping purposes. and q decided
! increase il business for the town of
| Prospect Iarhrr which is OF course
Sood news u is residents. Bat what
ne the town uf fremont, and West Ire
mont in particular from where the fa =
! tory is to be taken? Such an industry
would naturally he greatly missed. as il
| gave employment to upwards of 100
nconle although not many people lived
in West fremont direct, but came from
nearby towns. Owing to the unusual
! t.eSira bilt:y Of tho location, one or two
factory owners are already negotiating
for sites for sardne canneries. and eS-
poCial.y since the runor of the removal
of The IusseilG. have these firms been
I2ctivo. 50 that without doubt another
! bis, Industry Will be suoT established on
the Oh site ana one ii is said will be
Cf more benefit financially, as longer
seasons VII he made, opening earlier
land fiIruii,er Lotto