Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-29
MOOSEHEAD LAKE,
reports from GreenviIle That Ice Is
Considerably Broken.

I Greenville, Me-, April 2S-1Sneci,r-
Many different reports have been cir
culated throughout the State concern
ing the condition of the ice in Moose
head Lake at the present time The
greater part of these reports have evil
IDENTITY come from very unreliable
sources for in one or two cases they
nave had the ice almost entirely ont
and the fishing season on. This how
ever is far from true as during tha
past three weeks there have been very
little change in the outward appear-
ance OF the ice, although undoubted-
~ II mas been greatly Worn away on
!, the inside.
| Inc report comes down from Deer
Isle that the ice near that place is
badly broken up and only needs some
stfohg wind to take it out while at
iAlneo very little ice is gone from the
! shore, even
AS FAR as can be learned, however.
the ice is in a much weaker condition
near this place than at any other point
about the lake with the exception of at
the outlets where of course it has been
badly rotted away by the strong cur
rent. 1t is thought by the old settlers
that if we should chance to have three
or four days of extra good warm
| weather together with a good strong
breeze from the East that it would ONLY
| be "a short time before the ice would
leave the lake for it generally
acknowledged that it is very very weak
in many places
What the season is to bring forth at
kineo, Names queen if inland resorts
is at the present time very hard TO
tell. AS far as the fishing goes there
evidently will be plenty of it and at all
of the hotels many rooms have been
I, engaged long in advance. At some of
| the camps and private cottages near
| Kineo there are at the present time
| many parties who are waiting for the
ice TO go and the fishing begin. 1t is
| expected this year that the salmon will
, be unusually plentiful owing to the fact
| that many of the fry which was put in
| about two years ago is due to be ''ris-
| ing" this spring.
The prospects for the summer season
| at kineo is unusually good as nearly
! all of the rooms in both the main
house and the annex have been en-
| gagged since along in the Winter The
| books this year show many new people
| who are to try kineo for the first time
| while Of course the greater part of
| the old summer residents will return
| for another season with us. The most
o. 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 building
| of two new summer cottages near kineo
| one of them being built by n New York
| party while the other is being erected
| for the occupancy Of a man and his fam
| lily from Baltimore, Nd. There are also
probably some Is or % new cottages ana
camps being built. this spring. at differ
| ent points about the shores Of the lake.
| Things have been booming right along at
| this village during the winter and spring.
! During the past week tho hotel prOprie-
| tors have been on the anxious seat owing
| to the energetic work OF the liquor dep
| uticS from Dover. who have been nOSine
! around and in two cases the proprietors
went to Dover and We're bound over to
| the September term of the Srprem" court.
| 1t cannot lie denied but what there has
| been considerable liquor sold in Grcan-
willie during the past winter and spring
and of late it has been getting rather Oh
noXious to the pcacCablc and law abid-
! ing citizens Of the town.
All of the local lumberment express
I themselves perfectly satisfied with the re
suit Of the winters labor in the woods
. and they are now giving their attention
to the preparations for starting the drives
| down the branches. The drivers have
| commenced to come to town and cuIIS-'-
quently things are frequently pretty lively
around the hotels. hut the pr0prietorS are
wary, fearing another visit from pros
pective Sheriff Charles F. Dearth of Fox
croft. who. by the wav. is the most cnnr-
gctic liquor deputy which the Grecnville
dealers have ever seen in the business.
Many of the drivers who are coming at
the present time are from different points
lacrOSS the line. During the past few years
~" operators around this part Of the
State have not employed many of these
men. calming that they are not as good
drivers AZ are tho "IankecS'' that they
get from down around Bangor and Old
Town. This year. however. good men for
he drive ar very scarce and the Ca
nuCkS'' have TO he hired else ga with
out The operators report that this year,
the drivers are striking for more pay thu
has been paid during the past two years.
Tho prices paid heretofore are right
around s. and s. TO- but this year they ask
for 49, and SO Among the crews that
have come up during the present week
is one for Marsh g. Aver. ana also an
other one for the Shirley Lumber Co.. in
which several Grecnvii" men ar" inter-
cStcd.
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