Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07
At M0OSEHEAD.
Lively Fishing Season Expect
ed When Ice Leaves.
lumbsrmen Perfectly Satisfied with
Winters Labor.
River Drivers Want More Pay Than
Last Season.

Bangor. Me-, May Ga special to the
Commercial from Greenville says:
The sportsmen are anxiously await
ing the announcement that the ice has
left Moosehead and that the spring
fishing is on. The ice is gradually grow
ing weak, the effect of the warm
weather Of this week being noticeable
but it will probably be several days
vet before the ice will leave the lake
entirely.
What the season is to bring forth ut
Eineo, Names queen of inland resorts,
is at the present time very hard TO
foretclI. AS far as the fishing goes there
evidently will be plenty of it and at all
the hotels many rooms have been en-
gagged long in advance. At some OF the
camps and private cottages near klneo
there are at the present time many par
ties who are waiting for the ice 10 go
and the fishing to begin. 1t Is expected
this year that the salmon Will De uh-
usually plentiful, owing to the 1act that
MANY of the fry which was put in about
two wears ago are due to be rising
this spring.
The prospects for the summer season
at kineo are unusually good as nearly
all the rooms in both the main house
and the annex have been engaged since
along I'm the winter. The books this
wear show many new people who are to
try Kineo for the first time, while OF
course the greater part of the old sum-
mer residents will return for another
season with us. The most of the new
corners will be parties from New York
city. the greater part of them having
spent summers at Bar Harbor. and who
now wish to try Names inland resort
and see how it compares with her sea
coast.
Work is now going on with the build
Ing of two new summer cottages near
Eineo. one of them being built by 4
New York party while the other is be-
ing erected for the occupancy Oh Il man
and his family from Baltimore, Md.
There are also some Is or 20 new cot
tages and camps being built this
spring, at different points about the
shores of the lake.
Things have been booming right
along at Greenville during the winter
and spring. During the past week the
hotel Droprictors have beer on the ailN-
ious seat, owing to the energetic WORK
of the lilucr deputies from Dover, VINO
have been nosng around, and in tW"
cases the prOprietOrs went to Dover and
were bound over to the September term
of the Supreme court 1t cannot be de-
nied but what there has been consider
able Iiouor sold III Grecnvillc during
the past winter and spring. and of >late
it has been getting rather obnoxious to
the peaceable and law abiding citizens
of the town.
All of the Grcenvillc lumbcrmen cx-
press themselves as perfectly SATISFIED
with the result of the winters labor i'll
the woods, and they are now giving
their attention to the preparations for
starting their drives down the branches
The drivers have commenced to com"
to town and consequently things are
sometimes pretty lively around the
hotels, but the proprietors are weary,
fearing another visit from prospective
Sheriff Charles F. Dearth of FoXcroft.
who. by the way is the most energetic
liquor deputy which the Gr"enVille
dealers have ever seen in the business.
Many of the drivers who are coming
at the present time are from different
points across the line.
During the past few years the opera
tors around this part of the state have
not employed many of these men,
claiming that they are not as good
drivers as are the yankees that they
get from down around Bangor and Old
Town.
This year. however, good men for the
drive are very scare and the "Canucks
have, to he hired or else go without.
The operators report that. this year.
the drivers are striking for more pay
than has been paid during the past two
years. The prices paid heretofore ar"
they ask for S2.25 and $3.50. Among
the crews that have come up during the
present week is one for Marsh & Aver,
and also another one for the Shirley
Lumber Co. In which several GreenFille
men are Interested.