Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-16

cars and carried to market. Things
will hum along the Phillips & Rangeley
and Sandy River marrow gauge) rail-
roads this summer.
Francis Gilpatrick and Clarence Por-
teous of South Hiram have lust
finished their large contract of cutting
and hauling pine and hemlock timber.
| 1,C15 200 feet to the steam mill and to
the river at Hiram Falls. To cut and
haul this amount of timber s men cut
and sawed for the teams of II horses
and cattle with their drivers of men.
and strange to say not a man or beast
met with an accident. Besides this
Francis Gilpatrick has hauled a large
| amount OF pine timber from the Small
Bros land, which is near Eben
Gipatricks farm, to the bank of the
Ossipee river and large amount of
peeled poplar to Cornish r. r. station
The Aroostook Lumber Co, Presque
Isle is employing about 40 men at
present. VINO are directly engaged in
repairing the burnt district. Work is
progressing on the saw mill proper
which will be 70X140 feet, about one
third larger than the one burned The
company expects to be ready by the
first of May to resume business in all
branches OF the mill. The foundation
of the new electric light station is of
concrete and is completed. They have
90-horse power engine and a No. 3
boiler, the latter being thoroughly re-
paired, equipped with new tubing, etc,
which will furnish the same capacity
as before. The building when COM
pleted Will be about six feet wider than
the old one and will be much more
substantial The new dynamos have
arrived.
The Hastings Lumber Company. which
some years ago purchased the lands and
other property of the Wild River Lumber
Co, near Gilcad. and which has its head
| quarters in Portland. has not operated
| this winter. The larger part of the soft
| wood growth has been taken from these
lands which consist of several thousand
| acres, but n large growth of hard wood
| timber still remains. Some ten miles Of
| railroad track when extended from the
| mills and settlement at Hastings back in
| to the timber districts was taken up last
| fall and it is said that the rest of the
track from the settlement to Gilead sta
| ton will be taken up this season after the
machinery and other property of the
| company can be taken out. Besides the
large saw mill. the company has at
Hastings, a store, machine shop, black
smith shop, boarding house and some 20
| tenements for workmen. These will have
| to be left or taken down and moved. 1t is
| reported that there is a prospect that the
company may build mill at Gilead for
l = Of
| this tract and it is claimed that the pro-
| duct can be hauled to Gilead with teams
| and manufactured there cheaper than Il
| mill can be maintained in the woods
| There is hard wood enough on these lands
| to supply mill for years. What action
! the company will take is at present I'M
| certain, but it seems that no further
| operations are to ne carried on by it at
Hastings. The Hastings Of Bethel and ID.
r. Hastings of Auburn own some 10000
| acres of timherands near the Hastings
Lumber Company's lands. The Hastings
| land is in Batchelder's grant, in Maine.
and is being operated upon extensively
| by the owners. This season they have cut
some 5000 cords of pulp wood which will
| come down Wild River to the AndroscoS-
gin. The Hastings have quite a settle
mcnt on their land, including saw mill,
store, shops and several houses for work
men The post office is in the store and
| the mail which was formerly carried by
| the Hastings Lumber Company's rail
road from Gilead is now being carried
| 'pony-back" to the "IIastinSS post
office. At the Hastings mill large
amount of birch has been sawed into
strips this winter and hauled by team to
Glead for shipment. Men are now in
waiting for the water in Wild River and
Larry brook, on which a large part of the
pulp timber is landed, to rise so that
driving may he begun. On sharp pitch
| Of water these 5000 cords will be taken in
| to the Androscoggin with n rush.