Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-01-23
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

- w. IlcICe Has ~ nOrSeS hauling
logs to his mill at Milo.
Cooper Bros, of Newport, and E. W.
Towle OF Belgrade, are to start an ex-
celsior mill at Newport
The canning factory at Friendship
has been obliged to suspend operations,
owing to the harbor freezing over.
Hiram Kicker & Sons of South
Poland, have eight four horse teams
hauling their wccd. 1t takes over 1000
cords TO last them through the wear.
Parties from Boston, contemplate it
is reported. opening up the Harlow
coat shcp at Norrdgewock either for
the purpose Of making clothing or for
other business.
The birch mill owned by the sstratton
Manufacturing company, Stratton, has
begun its winters operation. This
company handles about 1000 cords OF
white birch per year and gives employ
mcnt to about GO men around the mill
besides the woods crew.
The Berlin Mills Co. employ $50 men
in their three camps in No. t Plantation.
and about 80 more in their MILL The
narrow gauge railroad is doing good
business hauling logs to the mill to be
| manufactured, and also in hauling the
sawed lumber to Farmington.
It is expected that the Perkins mill
at Bucksport Will be started about the
irst Of February by Arthur Lewis OF
Brewer and Louis Hopkins of Bucks
port. Considerable stock has already
'een bought. a quantity of cooperaSe
"ill be got out for 7. NJ. Nicholson. and
Il is expected that about $1,000, 900
shingles will be sawed.
I:umors have been current in Dover
FOR Il day Or two past that Il corpora
ton has been or is about to be formed
composed of several business men of
wealth Of Dover and FoXcroft for the
purpose of purchasing the controlling
interest now held by the American
Wooden company in what is known as
The Brown mills in Dover.
Fl. II. French. of Easibrook who is
numbering on No. 80. for Whitcomb.
HAYNES & Co., has quite camp. He
has built camp 30X40. a hovel i0X50.
and has twenty horses and twenty-five
or thirty men. Adelbert Merchant has
also built q camp and novel near by.
1870 and 20X2S. The old camps in that
ire last May.
Dnr!,irs e. DanfOrth are working day
ana night crews at their mill ut
katahdin Iron Works and the same at
their steam mill about five miles above
here in West Il township. They are
getting out spool bars to be shipped to
Scotland, and calculate that one
tramp steamer in Bangor harbor. next
summer will take the whole output OF
1000. 0Go to G,0C0,000 feet Of bars.
O. w. Written of West Old Town has
secured Il contract to furnish broom
and brush handles for I; big New Eng
land firm and is engaged at the present
time in building an addition to his mill,
4GX6O feet and equipping it with the
necessary machinery TO be able to
meet his rapidly Increasing run of
large orders. The broom handle order
will keep things pretty. busy at the
plant for some time to come. 1t is eX-
pected that several more men will be
needed if not already engaged.
The Paris Mfg. Co.. at West Paris
have the new building nearly com
pleteG. They have recently purchased
Il fotIs. sided plane weighing three and
one-half tons. An automatic ;Sueing
machine which Will do the work of four
or FIVE men has been sent for. The
past year has been a very prosperous
one. The company look forward to Il
still better one. They expect to add
forty or fifty men to three hundred
now employed. orders for sleds have
already begun to come i'll for next fall $
trade.
Tie Belfast branch of Gerry's Silver
Lake creamery is doing a big business.
During the past year over 40 patrons
have been added and there has been Il
large inct ease III the amount of cream
brought in. Last week the creamery
received over five tons of cream.
About tWo-thirds of this was hand
separated. the remainder being deep
setting cream. The largest shipment
of cream ever made in one day was
mace Monday when GO SiX-gallOn cans
were shipped. The farmers are well
satisfied with the amount paid them
for cream during the past year.