Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-05
MAINE INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

1t il reported that a new industry,
that of barrel manufacturing, will soon
BE- started in Larone.
Peleg Bradford Of Rugglesville, has
iC horses hauling lumber to his mill i'm
Damascus; also six horses hauling
cordwood and piling it OH skids near
the :taton.
The hoop pole industry is prospering
rOr-, and in certain sections tampS are
being utilized by the men for shaving
poles, rs fast as cut. About Ellsworth
Falls village there are several such
camps. where they buy poles of out
side dealers. and then ship by rail, to
Maine In Surry. there are some men
working ut the industry, and Seem to
find ii remunerative, too.
It is now an assured iact that Dix
field is to have two tooth-pick mills
built the coming summer; one on the
site of the old recently burned and the
other on Webb river near II. G. Thay-
cr's saw mill. A crew # men have
commenced operations on the first
mentioned site under th. barge of w.
l. White of Rumford i ), to whom
the contract for building has been
awarded 1t is said that work inside
the mill will be begun by the first of
June. 1t is understood that w. r.
Eustis is to be sub-agcnt, H.. being now
in charge OF the Dixfield office.
The homeless herring industry seems
to be on the increase in PASSPORT, as
the syndicate which began putting up
the smoked herring n few weeks ago
in their large warehouse on .iea street
have branchel mt further into the
venture. The former place proved
rather small for all the female help
they wanted to remove the skin and
bones from the big herring and this
week they opened the room in the up
per part of their building on the former
LcaVitt wharf where about thirty girls
will be engaged. At the latter plac.
the hsh are prepared for packing when
they are taken to the Sea street ware
house ana made ready for shipment
and as the girls can make five and six
dollars week with steady work 1t IS
an excellent money distributor at the
present time when no other work is
offered the younger residents, aside
from the shoe factory which requires
skilled help while the homeless herring
factory does not demand this expert
cnce as it can be learned quickly. AS
long as the large herring hold out, and
they seem to be plentiful at present,
there VIII be steady work for the
Island City girls who are employed at
their two buildings.
The large tin decorating works of
Capt George w. Capen on Union
Wharf. PASSPORT, We're opened for the
season this week and orders are now
heing filled for the sardine canning
factories Of the syndicate for their
many factories in this city and along
the eastern Maine coast. AS this is the
only decorating works of this kind in
the state nearly all the tin plate used
in the numerous sardine factories is de-
corated there. although there are many
thousands Of cases of the fish that are
put up in plain cans and later packed
In neat paper boxes or labeled, but the
work don" at the Capen plant from
now until lext November is surprising
and considerable night work is always
necs ssary during the season. While
no TIN plate is decorated from the clos
ing OF the sardine canning plants in
December to March. when work is be-
gun. their engraver. Augustus C. Spie-
gel. is kept at work getting ready the
many stones from which the tin re-
Gives its decoration for the factory
owners and most of the indapendent
Packers of the American sardine have
their tin plate decorated at the t,apen
factory. George II. Godfrey, who has
been the manager of the big plant for
number of years past, is again in
charge and good wages are paid the
helpers during the season.