Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-27
MAINE INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

| imported from England.
The Linn Wooden Co, Hartland, has
some big orders to execute. 1t has re-
! ceived orders for $500 shawls ana olo'
steamer rugs, besides a large order LOT
pieces OF broadcloth.
business is booming at the new saw
mill of Matthew Wilson on Smyrna
street. Houlton. The yards are raplols
filling with logs for custom saWliis'
while Mr.. Wilson has q large crew III
the woods getting logs for next season
operation.
The Ranger & Aver veneer MILL
Foxcroft, is now receiving SIX TO Ten
carloads of Eastwood logs daily. ABOUT
half comes from Aroostook. ana tiie
larger share OF the rest from the Eu-
ropean & North American division u
the Maine Central. They plan to nave
ahont 800 600 feet Of logs on hand when
bare ground comes.
The closing of the box factor! ~
Sebago Lake for a short time VIII
throw about thirty men out Oh elhpioS
ment. Mr.. Milliken. the manager says
they intend starting again as soon as
they can procure dry lumber. Inc liii'i
have bought five million of pine ana
spruce lumber, also hemlock 10 manu-
facture at their mills in 1904.
The Ranseley Steam Mill Company
of Rangeley recently purchased SIX
lots on the shore of Rangeley Lake near
Ouuossoc station with some IDEA OF US
ing it for q site for Il saw mil IN the
near future They have about eight
hundred feet on the shore running back
to the railroad. The lots are those
numbered l, =. 8. 4. ) and .. all on the
easterly side of the railroad. The lot
is most advantageous as it will be con-
veniently located for those proposing
to build on either lake.
The increase in Auburn'S shoe ship
ments is notable. There are now ten
factories putting out goods of this kind,
and the number of cases sent off this
month is far ahead of anything for the
last two years. 1t even eXcels the
records for 1901. which was Il fairly
! prosperous year. For the last two
years the number of cases has averaged
about 5000. Now the number is aver
aging 5000. and for two weeks this
| very month there were over 1000 cases
| shipped. The increase in the leather
| receipts has kept pace. gaining from an
, average weekly of $4,000 to 100000.
| Lately the receipts We're over 100000
| per week several times.
| The amount Of numbering carried on
! in New Gloucester this winter is the
largest for a number of years. There
are three saw mills III operation, but
they have been troubled of late by the
I ,xf l. -.
are being loaded with lumber a day at
the Maine Central depot. The Capt.
cutter wood lot is being operated by
r. w. Berry and Eugene Haskell. This
wood has been purchased by DIR. Stur
gis and T. p. Haskell. who ship it to
the Portland Star Match Company. The
chandler Brothers have a large crew
of men at work and are sending dressed
lumber TO Massachusetts, where it is
used rs chair material.
Carnage Bros. of South Bristol. are
getting out the mode of a boat of ne
culiar make for Maine shipyards. The
boat is cOcOanut lighter. SO TT. long
IL #. beam and . #. 10 inches deep.
The craft will be without deck and is
built for carrying capacity rather than
speed or comfort. The lighter is to be
used in carrying cOcoanuts to the fruit
vessels in the Central American trade.
The parties for whom the boat is being
built are J. &. Bradley & Son of Corn
Island. off the coast of Nicaragua.
When finished. the boat will be towed
to Bath or Portland and shipped thence
put OF board of one of the fruit vessels
,,ly haf DIil,Inlyhi,
aragua.
One Of the busiest places to be found
in the twin towns of Dover and Fox
croft at the present time is at the spool
mill of John MacGregor. This season
has been very favorable for those who
have birch on their places to cut and
haul ii to this mill. Besides the stock
which has been supplied by the resi-
dents of this vicinity. much has been
shipped in from the upriver saw mills
and from various other sources. 1t is
expected AT the mill that there will he
about 800. 900 feet OF stock on hand
when the snow leaves in the spring. At
the present time there are nine spool
machines in operation ut the mill Five
ear loads of spoos We're shipped from
the mill during the month of January.
Greene Lake is the busiest numbering
section in Hancock county. and another
saw mill is to be built within Il few
weeks, at Greene Lake proper. not far
from the railroad station. This will
make three saw mills in the town for
the manufacture of long and short lun
Der. all of which is supplied by the
neShboring forests. The new mill will
be a portable one set up by Mr.. F'itz Of
the Standard Oil company. or rather
who is operating and sells his products
| by contract to the firm. for the manu-
| facture of slaves. MI. FitZ has huge
| contract for slaves from the Standard
Oil company and has one mill at Rocky
Pond busy working on their manufac-
ture. Pulp wood is also being cut and
shipped: cord wood. and various other
| kinds of lumber until there is such a
demand for cars to ship the wood that
they cannot be gotten as fast as needed.
| There are over 100 men now employd
| in cutting other lumber and 40 teams.
and there is still demand for more
men. Ii is estimated that there will be
1000 cords of wood alone cut and
shipped from Greene Lake this winter.
Among those now operating are Glib
son 4 Co. Bangor; Quinn of Bangor:
Burke Of Brewer: Emery of R,npor