Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-07-30
Maine Industries.


at Fort Fairfield.
The freight bill of n Lisbon Falls
mill, in one month recently, amounted
to $4,000
Emery Hart Of South Cushing, is
erecting a clam factory near the site Of
lis old ON" which he tore down a few
weeks ago. The new building is TO he
1lNJO and will be completed in time for
h" fall canning.
The mills of the Oriental Powder
Company. South Windham, started
this week with Il full quota of en-
rluNte. after a shut down of three
weeks, during which the regular force
employed i'll the mills have harvested
tn conpany's hay On their farm lands
at NeWhan. The yield this season is
IL tons, more by % tons than that OF
last year.
The Dluehcrry factory which the Ma
cllias Lumber 60. has recently built at
MachiaS is now completed and will be
opened for business at once. Ira john
son Of I;ouu, Bluffs is to have charge
Of tn" factory. Although the blue
h, Try crop i; said to be light, this in
lustry il expected to give employment
to Il large number of hands as long as
thr fruit remains to be picked.
Parties have been in Brooks the past
week looking over the ground with
View to locating n starch factory.
They Wor" very faVorably impressed
with the situation and it is thought the
factory viii be- built in the near future.
Prooks is i real potato centre and the
a I, a
vautagc Ia the farmer in dspOsing of
al nfcrnr stock not otherwise salabl'.
The launching of the larg" steam
sand digger. which has been under
constru' ION on the marine railway nf
G"orcc \. Gilchrest for some months
took place Tuesday morning and was
seen ty very few people as the big ves
SCI went into the water at high tide
and it was 4 very quiet affair. The big
drcdG"r is not 50 large or expensive rs
WIS the one which was built about Il
| year ago.
A I.uI-c correspondent writes: The
herring still refuse to come and b" con-
vertrd into sarclncs in this section, and
| consequently there are Il great many
| Idle uIlc in town. 1t seems as though
| that man who stated that the sunm"r
school Of fish always struck in the 20th
Of July must have been a little out in
| his calculations. 1t is thought by
many that the herring have been driv-
| en- of shore by the big schools of pol
lock and doglish which arc around"
A new lathe has recently been set in
position at the MacGregor spool fac
tory in FoXcroft. a new dOweling
machine has also been added to tn"
spool making department of the mill
that will enable them to turn out larger
spools. Several other important
changes have been made at this mill
during the present season. During
| the present summer some 450 Gun-
Ining) feet Of shed has been built and
still there is lack of room for storing
the large stock of spool bars now on
hand.
| Fl. T.. Foster of Norway. l.. f. and Il.
IG. McIntire of Waterford. have recent
Nv leased of the Berlin Mills Company
what standing birch there is on Town
shin No 6. which is located in Frank
lin county The nearest railroad sta
ton is Byron, on the Rumford Falls <
lRangeley road, five and one-half miles
distant There are many thousand
cords of nice quality white birch on the
tract. 1t is expected to take from to
10 years to clear it. Associated with
Messrs. McIntire Bros. & Foster are
ICalvin and George Kneeland of Nor
way. who are practiced mill men, and
who have had large experience in oper-
lating. They will commence building
the mill at once and expect TO get 1t to
trimming as soon as possible. They are
in hopes to handle from two to three
thousand cords of birch per year. They
intend saving strips. only.