Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-14
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

| Work has been steadily going on
with the erection of the addition to the
canning factory of r. ii. Hayes at DeX-
| ter, and will be finished early next
week. The factory will be started up
with the canning of baked beans. AS
soon as dandelions are large enough to
harvest work will be started in canning
this much priced crop.
The Eastern Pulp company. Calais,
, has started its mill Mt Barring, and in
tends to manufacture twelve carloads
of pulp each day. The company has a
large stock of lumber on hand and will
run the mill to its fullest capacity. The
| company has orders for all it can put
out and at good price. This will give
! employment to n large number of men
during the coming season.
Machias is to have Il BURBERRY fac
tory. A. r. Gibson has contracted to
erect the building for a. X. Ames and
| others. 1t is to be placed on the George
ID. Perry wharf and Will be ready for
business the coming season. This will
accommodate, not only people of the
| immediate vicinity, but those from
nearby towns, as Mortified and Wesley,
cessfully. but the market has been too
| far away to make the harvesting OF
them us profitable as will be the case
with 4 factory in Machias.
Business at the FoXcroft spool factory
is still quite brisk and promises to con-
tinue 50 for some time. They have
| been employing 60 mon and 10 or IL
| horses during tah past season and quite
! Il large amount Of money has been left
III the hands Of contractors and men in
| F'Oycroft and Piscataquis counties since
the first day of January. Some 3,000,-
600 feet of spool bars. are now in and
about their yards. Preparations are
being made FOR the erection of several
more long sheds for storing this sur
plus which will require some $4,000
feet of lumber to build. The sheds will
be about 500 running feet in length
averaging about 81 feet in width.
The drive on the Joncsboro river has
reached the boOms save about 5000
feet that WAS left on the falls by the
sudden fall Of the water. Since the
| snow is nearly all gone from the woods
it is not expected that this can be
started until the fall rains. Notwith-
standing this the mills will have suf1i-
Client stock to last until fall, for the cut
on this stream last winter was double
he usual amount, being 100000 feet.
Lawrence Bros. cut the usual amount,
and +. !. White of Machas also carried
on extensive operations, afterward sell
ing Cat to Lawrence Bros and the cut
on tracts burned over one year ago
added to the usual amount cut. This
lumber on burned land had to be cut to
prevent entire loss.
| At South BrOOksville the granite bus
mess is fourishing and two quarries
are being operated by NJ. ID. ChattO,
employing 20 men. That of the Wilson
Granite company, whose stockholders
are largely Bangor men, has 80 en-
ployes getting out paving and cross
walks, while at Mr.. Chattos own quar-
ry he has 40 men. He is working on
contracts for New York street and
the harbor loading. The Allen NJ.
Baxter for the Wilson Granite Co. ard
two others are loading, while three are
loading from his own quarry; also, the
Mabele. is getting Il cargo at East
Bluehill. There are sufficient orders
and contracts to keep the men busy
until the first Of August, and other con-
tracts are being negotiated for. There
, are no strikes in western Hancock
. county. and the prospects are brighter
than in several years.