Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-06-25
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

| The shoe factory of A. A. Smith &
Co., Hampden, have recently more than
doubled their crew, and the business is
steadily increasing.
| Leonard Patterson of South Orring-
ton has the contract for plastering the
fifteen houses now in process of con-
struction at Robinson's hill, Brewer.
The Rockland- -Rockport Lime Com
pany have shut down every lime kiln in
Rockport. and it is expected that it will
be some time ere they are put into
operation again. Many of the work
men about the kilns have gone else
where for work.
Five students of Webb Academy,
New York, have arrived in Bath, IL
work in the Iron Works. They are all
taking the mechanical course and anX-
ious to see the practical side of ship
building. They have been set to work
as helpers on the battleship.
| Business is rushing these days at the
MacGregor spool works in Foxcroft
The yard is filled with spool bars and
the force of men in the yard has been
recently increased to 40 hands. Work
will soon be started on the erection OF
two new sheds, each of which will be
80 feet in width by IT'S feet in length
1t is reported that the St. Croix cot
ton mill, Calais, will suspend operations
/ for the space of two months after the
| first day of July. The mill has been
running for several weeks on three
quarter time only and it is said that
scarcity of orders was the reason.
Gently shipped a 32-inch., IA foot en-
gine lathe to Holland. The lathe
weighs nine thousand pounds and is as
usual one of the best of this class of
lathes to be produced in any machine
shop in this country. The firm is doing
an excellent business and have recently
shipped orders for lathes to the Philip
pines and other foreign countries.
c. Sullivan has sent three crews of
bark peelers to the woods this week.
One will operate near Fifth lake, an
other near Fourth lake and the third
in the vicinity of Third lake of the
Machias river. John r. Sullivan ac-
companied the men up river and will
have a general oversight of all three
crews. Odbar d. Smith who will peel
for the Machias Lumber Co., started
his crew up river Tuesday and will
operate on the western side of the
Third lake of Old stream.
Within the past year or two the
number of wers at Rogue Bluffs has
been greatly increased and with the
plants for curing fish which are now
being built at Nep's Point and other
parts of the town much larger per-
centage of the fish taken there will be
cur ed before being shipped than in the
past. Many of the Weirs there were
badly damaged by ice last winter. but
practically completed and the majority
of them are now ready for business.
Should there be a good supply of fish
this season, the amount of business
done in this line will undoubtedly be
the largest ever done within the bor-
ders of that town in any one season.
| f. F. Fish of Jonesboro, who for sew
eral years has been engaged in the fish
business at Nep's Point in the town of
Rogue Bluffs and near the mouth of
Chambers river, has recently built a
new smoke house there with a capac-
| ity of about ten thousand boxes. He
also has the plans for another smoke
house, slightly larger than the one
Just built, and as soon as the frame can
be secured the work of putting it up
will be commenced. The building which
Mr. Fish has used since starting his
business there has 2. capacity of only
five thousand boxes at one time, but
with the completion of his new build
ingS he will be able to cure twenty fly Q
thousand boxes of fish at one time.
Another house of about ten thousand
boxes capacity is being built near the
same place by Melvin r. Bancroft. who
recently came here from Grand Manan.
The latter is also building him dwell
ing house near the place where the 9TH
er buildings are being put up.
Not in many years has there been
such activity in the granite industry
i'll this vicinity as the present season.