Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-17
THE PURiNToN WoopsHEp.
Work Well Along on the New Structure
Of the Firm.

Work on the new woodshed OF
Purinton Bros. below the Rines Hill
crossing is now well along the timbers
being all up and more or less work hav-
ing been accomplished on the boarding
| of the structure. The shed on the Eas,
side of the river will be abolished en-
| tircly, when the new structure is COM
pleted, as the latter shed is much more
convenient and handy to the office and
| to the railroad, by which much of the
wood arrives, as we'll as being nearer
the center of the city.
The new shed is 100 feet long by "a
in width. In the south end of the shed
will be a section for the wood after il
has been prepared for the stove, and
at the north Of this there will be a sec
ton devoted to the storage of wood
before it has been prepared for the
stove. Between these two sections will
be the saving and splitting apparatus,
after which process the wood is carried
to the stove wood section by an ele-
vator. This apparatus will convey the
wood to all parts of the south section
of the shed. In the extreme north end
of the shed will be facilities for the
storage of the lime and cement which
the firm handles.
The shed is a wooden structure, but
will have an iron roof in order to pre-
vent ignition by the sparks from pass
ing trains, as well as the added object
of durability. The firm has only a small
crew at work on the shed at present
f.nI.
been more or less delayed in securing
the iron roofing. 1t is thought that the
shed will be completed about the first
of October.
The shed will have capacity similar
to the old East side shed, except that
there will be considerable more room
for the storage of stove wood. The
main object of the change, however. is
convenience of location to the railroad
and to the city.
One great Improvement will be a
sluice by which the wood will be load
ed into the carts from the rear part
of the shed. The teams will drive up
on the side of the shed next to the
river and the arrangement will be such
that the loading will be accomplished
with a great saving of time and labor.
A road will be constructed from the
present coal sheds of the company at
the south of the steamboat wharf to
the rear of the wood sheds. the wood
teams passing down by to the steam
boat wharf landing when they are after
a load of stove wood. When the cord
wood arrives on cars 1t will be side
tracked by the Maine Central directly
in front of the cord wood apartment of
the shed, and may be easily transferred
to the shed and to the saving and
splitting machines and then sent
through the elevator into the stove
wood section of the shed. Wood that
does not arrive on cars, but is hauled
to the sheds in teams, will also be
brought to the front side of the shed
and transferred to the cord wood sec
ton.
All in all. the arrangements and the
location are admirable and could hardly
be improved on, bringing as it does the
coal sheds, wood sheds and office of
the firm close together, and making it
possible to handle the business of the
firm with greater convenience. 1t is
an evidence of enterprise and thrift
on the part of this wide-aWake BUSH
ness firm.