Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-03-25
MAINE GRANITE.
Big Contracts for Hancock County
and Penobscot Bay.
The Enormous Contracts in Zig Cities
Mean Much to State Quarries.

Stone dealers, owners Of quarries
and employees are looking for Il prosper
Gus season i'll the business in Hancock
county, ana contracts and hours ami
prices are being actively discussed. IL
has been the custom among some
larger firms OF tne section employing Z
large number of men to settle with
them but once in four weeks. also Il
ALLOW wage scale to cutters running
Under n wage scale to cutters running
under SO per day. but some diss..tisfac-
tion has been manifested for the pas
three months. ana the matter is ECilg
adjusted. tilat the men may receive
their wages on$: in two weeks.
Down at the old Hall quarries at Mt.
Desert. now operated by the McM allen
Company OF New York, il is said that
:; force of 2HG will soon lie put on Tx.
nUEIbcr being necessary to fill the -" =
,iels in hand. Campbell & Macon Der
of QuarryVie, Mt. Desert, have Il for,a
of men III work filling Il contract for
stone for Il large hotel in New York,
besides other orders. and indications
point to / busy season. At Sullivan
and F"lnl:iin, preparations are in prog
reSS for opening GGa"rics. closed du..-
ing the winter, also to increasing tn"
for" on others. There have beer some
labor troubles i'll these towns which
have affected the industry badly in tnt
nIst two years. ana caused IL loss to
The quarry owners and employees alike
but it is expected ail this viii 5e s.,ti.;-
-rri!y settled ana business will pros-
per as ii used before labor difference;
existed.
H. western ilInCork county The orlj-
l,ri il equally as good ana one or tu d
now uuarrics are to Dc opened Whie
The others heard from will be in opcr-
alton.
tn" Rockland star Of Tuesday says:
\ new granite industry, attracted by
til" other larger ones, is to start in this
vicinity. Four men are here from New
York city. and yesterday visited the
scene Of the operations. where so, 900
WiH be at once expended to open exte!l-
sive operations i'll that line.
N. j. Fcnton, who was here in the
ScyrntieS, when Dix Island was il its
prime. is here with John +. Quinn con
tractor from Erookiyn y. Y. Messrs;
Quinn and Fenton yesterday. in COM
laly With others, We're driven to Pleas
ant Beach where they took Il boat for
Pleasant Island. off Pleasant Bcach
y here there is a DEPOSIT of dark gray
granite.
Later the PARTY visited the Bassett
uroucrty il South Thomaston, where
there is \ hiG field of light gray gram
it". The latter property has been oper-
Ht'h, but of lat" years has net been
producing anything.
Mr.. Fcnron Said last night: II was
hcr" thirty years ago ana have been in
the @ianitc and general contracting
business since. The trend of the large
concerns * toward this coast section of
Maine. for this is the granite age. Th1
"H0rmous contracts that are being Civ
en- in the big cities have aroused the
producers to activity in seeking avail
able fields.
"M"ipc is the only one. 7 operated
ac%r Nockland 20 odd years ago, and
have 10 iurn back here again. WIZ.
when Dix Island was in full operation
l;ockland Was til" third postal Office il
tn" New England district. There v;ern
l,i"0 men On Dix Island ana on Ninal-
hHy"n and Hurricane as many more.
Nj trade! here. / find that the granite
in both Pleasant Island ana on Pleas
MT Point suits our requirements.
1t viii cost about %50.d3o or $1,000
10 deV"l"i thos" places. but work will
re commenced IL once"