Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-28
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

Erothers Of Sanford 100000 standing
timber on a lot owned by him in Ken
nebunkport.
| A crew of fifty men are employed on
| full time in the woodworking factory of
| the Mathews Bros, at Belfast with
orders sufficient to keep them busy for
some time. Improvements and new
machinery are the order of the day, and
soon a dynamo will be installed for
| lighting the plant by electricity.
Miles S. Jellison recently rented the
second floor in the coliseum building at
Belfast, and will engage in the manu-
facture Of pants for the wholesale
trade. C. C. Blaisdell of Boston will
be associated with him. and it is ex-
pected that employment will be furn-
ished for quite number of girls.
B. w. Candage & Son Of Seal Harbor
have contracted for the erection of Il
large, handsome cottage at Northeast
Harhor, for +. X. Hubbard. Esq. of
Middletown. Conn. and work on the
foundation has already begun. The
architect is c. A. Candage of Northeast
| Harbor and the plans call for Il modern
cottage, with numerous piazzas and
porticos. costing probably $4,000.
The Duplex Roller Bushing Company
of Belfast. recently shipped to the U. S
Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.. $500
pounds of sheaves. equipped with their
Wellman patent duplex roller bushing
and Oct. 18th forwarded TO the Depot
Quartermaster u. S. Army. San Fran
cisco. Calf, 52O7 pounds of complete
tackle blocks, also equipped with the
Wellman patent duplex roller bushing.
A new water tower is being erected in
the yard of the Farwell Mill at Lisbon.
Work was begun last Monday and it is
expected that it will be fully four
weeks before the work is completed
The tower will be seventy-two feet
high and will hold 100, 600 gallons of wa
ter. After the tank is up the company
will feel a great deal safer IN case of
fire. A crew of three men are doing
the work.
Fred a. Holmes, proprietor of the
large saw mills at the Head of Tides,
near Belfast has bought Sanborn and
Dutton Ponds with the right of flow
age. His present water supply is in
adequate to accommodate his large
business. Sanbnrn and Dutton Ponds
are two of the most beautiful sheets of
water in this vicinity and are consid-
cred by many people to be superior
even to some which have been extern
sively utilized as summer resorts and
their shores dotted with cottages.
Tie Bath Iron Works has long been
Cramped for an available place to store
its surplus amount of coal. as The pres
ent coal shed will not hold all the con-
Germ wishes to carry at one time. The
company has recently completed Il deal
with Edward w. Larrabee who rcby it
secures control of Il portion of the
Larrabee coal wharf and shed and re-
pairs have been made to the property
this week 50 that it will soon be ready
to receive Il cargo for the works The
coal will be hauled from the Larrabee
yard to the Iron Works by team.
w. {. Bowdoin is to clear the Mt
Heagan lot in Prospect. which is
thought to contain half Il million feet
o' oak, one million feet of soft wood, IL
thousand cords Of white birch spool
wood, and four thousand cords Of cord
wood. Mr.. Bowdoin will employ about
thirty men and seven teams the COM
ing winter. Three of the teams will be
OK teams. One of the old boarding
houses at Mount Reagan will be fitted
IN for the men. Pnd Il blacksmith shop
is being erected for the use of the crew
during the coming winter.
Five tons Of shot manufactured at
the plant Of the Calais shot Works Co,
v"r" shipped recently for East London
south Africa. The Calais Shot Works
were established at the time of the
opening up Of business at Calais. by the
New Brunswick Red Granite company
~ Maine, and is all that remains of
hat was once a most important i'll
dustry, surviving the granite company
AMI gaining IN Importance with age.
shipments Of shot are made to ali
Ioints I'm the United States. the south
African market being of recent de-
velopncnt. The shipments mentioned
consisted of 500 boxes and went by rail
from Calais to New York. being re
shipped tn destination from that port
The shot is used i'm the manufacture of
granite and other kinds of stone it's use
being confined to matters more peace
ful than the ordinary pellets made Of
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