Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-30

MAINE INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

At Head Tide station on W W. & F.
K. r. there are piled 100000 feet Of
lumber awaiting shipment. This was cut
by the Carpenter mill which has been i'm
That vicinity tor nearly year.
The carriage manufacturing Industry at
harrington is in a very fiourishing con-
ditiOn. Nearly 5000 carriages will be made
in that vicinity this year. \ Wholesale
and retail trade is kept up and many
are sent to Aroostook county ana many
are shipped to Lewiston and Auburn.
ID. w. Smiths box bill at Machias was
started for the seasons business this
week. The only mills in Machas that are
not running now are the Phenix gang,
the mill which is used by the American
Realty Co. in cutting up their pulp wood.
The gang is now nearly ready to be
started and soon as it commences the
other mill Will be enabled to start
The melting Of the winter SHOWS reveals
the enormous proportions Of Dunbar
Bros piles Of logs which cover every
available lot of ground about their mill
ct GouldsbOro At present the staVe wood
is being sawed at the rate Of something
will have ready for shipment about one
million slaves. The long lumber will then
be manufactured which will take the
greater part of the summer The bust
ness increases every season.
For several years past there has been
n steady increase in the number Of
wcirs in the Machias bay ana river hut
from present indications il seems thai \
greater number will be built this season
than in any previous year. CAPTAINS f.
H. Sanborn. S. l.. Bulson, George and
Lewis sawyer are building weir off San
born's point where the river wdcns into
the bay. 1t viii have q seventy-foot
pound, and for a river weir will be very
substantially constructed. Just above
their location. off Peterson's point an
otkcr weir is being built by Leonard Lib
- iC hai
built near the marine railway hy Captain
G. Frank Flynn, j. T. Traftun and Henry
Munspn. ON the opposite side of the river
one is being built above Pot Head by
William Pettegrew and another below Pot
Head by Henry Munson and sons. A
third one on that side of the river is be-
ing built nearly opposite the marine rail-
way by Albert Libby and Benjamin Hunt
ley. off Birch point a new weir Is being
built by s. n. Tobey and Edward Rams
dali The one bullt on the Middle Ground
last year by |. NJ. Bangs and y. #. Small
was practically destroyed during the win
ter by the heavy ice and storms, but it is
now being rebuilt and will be ready for
BUSINESS as soon as the fish put in their
appearance. Capt. S. l.. Bulson and Capt.
+. S. Wright are building off Round Is
ward. At Holiness bay, one of the
branches of the Machias bay a large
number Of new weirs are being built.
| Miller and Foster of Buck Harbor have
Starbird's creek and are building a large
weir there. With several other weir OWL
ers in that vicinity they have arranged
to have the telephone line. which now
stops at Bucks Harbor. extended to the
| Creek. where they will do their business.
| Il. T.. Small, who is one of the owners of
| the weir at the Middle Ground. is also in
| tereSted In another new weir which is be
ing built at Starbrds Creek near the one
which Miller and Foster are building. In
addition to the large number of new weirs
| that are being built. an unusual amount
| Of work is being done upon the oh
weirs, as tn" past winter was exceedingly
hard upon all Weir property, owing to tho
! great amount OF ice that made and the
! severe storms.