Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-23
IN BUSY MAINE.
Notes Of Interest Concerning TIE
States Industries.

| G. A. Jacobson of New Sweden. shipped
six carloads, containing 2iG0 ties one Week
| recently.
| George r. Merrill of Patten lost 5000 ties
Iby recent forest fires. James Coady. who
| made the ties will also sustain Il heavy
loss.
| The Lisbon corn shop is a busy place.
The management hopes to put up 10000
cans before the season closes, and already
| 900 cans have been filled.
| Sumner Damon of Carmel has manu-
| featured and sold over $500 worth OF axes
| thus far this season. and has orders Tor
as many more in advance
Excavation for the foundation of the
| extension of Mayo & Sons wooden mill ut
Foxcroft is being made. The building is
| to be- 40Xi6 feet i'll size and two stories.
| ]. +. kimball of NIllinockct, has leased
saw shingles. He has between 100000
and 100000 feet OF lumber there to BE-
| sawed.
Business is rushing as usual at the ma
chine shop of Fay 4 Scott. Dexter.
| Among the orders recently shipped were
two large lathcs, one 20 China and the
| other to Cuba.
Hon. r. II. PhIr of Pressure Isle will
not operate all of his starch factories this
| fall as the indications are that there are
of them running. There is no rot what
| ever.
RichmondS shoe factory continues to
prosper. The G.. A. Hawkes. Co. IS stead
lily increasing its output in all depart
mcnts. New machinery mas been added,
including d beating out machine and
CrmpinG machine. The company is doing
more business the present time than ever
before.
The largest stack of calenders in the
| world have been set UP at the S. u.
Warren Company's mills. Westbrook. Thr
rolls arc 81 inches wide and the lower on"
| which is the heaviest weighs 1000
pounds. This stack will be confined Al
most entirely to wide paper for the
American Lithograph Company.
! Arthur Chase of Wilton. whose entire
| set of buildings. including carriage shop,
were burned: last spring. has commenced
are up and boarded and the foundations
| for his house, ell and stable are nearly
| laid. He intends to have the buildings
| ready for occupancy by the frst or NO
vember.
A Lubec correspondent writes: Work
| is being pushed on the new can plant.
| on which 1T Is said the specifications call
for an expenditure of 100000 The man
| ner in which the wharf piers are built is
new to this section. The large upright
posts are set firmly in cement mixed with
| the coarse beach gravel making solid
| foundation on which to build the super
Istructure. New men are being put on
| daily and by Dec. LIST the greater part OF
the wharf will be ready for the buildings.
in which many thousand dol Will b"
earned another season by Lubec people.
At the spool factory in Foxcroft the
past year business has been the best for
several years and the prospect for a con-
tinuance is at the present time very nat
tering. The superintendent. Mr.. Bryant.
says that they now have on hand some
three and quarter million feet of timber
in the form of spool bars. which fills the
Is large sheds, besides two temporary
sheds which hold 100000 feet. The mum
| Sc 10 in
creased to Is at certain seasons of the
year.
Messrs Cooling. Legroo and George
IGoOdspeed. of wilton, recently purchased
of Almond Ellis In Weld, a valuable tim
her lot of 20 acres. This timber is mostly
lpinc with some hemlOck, cedar and hard
wood The pines are large. long bodied
and free from limbs nearly to their tops
This lot of timber is considered on" OF
the best in Franklin county and IS eS'
timated by judges at 100000 feet Tht
purchasers will lire someone owning /:
portable mill to saw this lumber and vii
commence upon it this fall. They have
lalready let the cutting and hauling tn,
timber to the mill, to Messrs: Eugent
TUFTS and Walter Violet of Wilton. who
will soon commence work upon it.
William Hardy and Kenneth Eaton Of
Wilton. recently purchased ., timber LOT
in Avon and will cut the lumber upon il
during the fall and winter. They are now
building a camp for their me- IN, ana nd. :
1
| meme the cutting and yardinG the logs
the first of October. When the snow:
come these logs Will be hauled to Stront
where they will be sawed into lumber ant
shipped to market from that station
Mcssrs. Hardy and Eaton are PLEASED
with their purchase and consider tn
prospects favorable for a good winter
work.
| Operations have commenced on Var
mouths new water extension. a crew
workmen in charge of VIM. G.. SweetSe
of the board of selectmen are excavatlns
at the Hayes spring. the source OF tn tn
spring basin will he removed and waite
tight dam erected to be about % feet il
length. AS the spring lies in a depression
a reservoir will thus be constructed 0
over a million gallons capacity with
head of 56 feet over the present supply
The new supply will be about ~ gallon
per minute. or practically $4,000 gallon
per day. This together with the preseE
ISupply at the Hammond spring should b
ample for the needs of the town for yer.
many years to come.
South Windham is soon to be blessed
with a new industry, according to Madam
Rumor. which will take the place of tn
plant formerly operated here by the ORR
Icntai Powder Co. which suspended opera
tons some months ago. owing to tn
great distance from the western powcle
markets where the demand for this com
modify is excessive. The new induStr
will be located on the site of the old pow
lder mills dl 4NtWtldll " IllCn IS owned pfln
cipalIy by the E l. Dupont Co. Of VIII
mincton, Del, and will be the only one 0
Its kind in Maine. 1t will consist of mil!
| for the grinding of pulp wood into WOO
flour, so-called. which will be used as a
absorbent for the packing of dynamt.
A new set of buildings will be constructe
9 as the buildings on the property are III
r suited to the new industry. Among ther
t will probably be an up-to-date box sho
r for manufacturing boxes in which to pac
: the dynamite 1t is thought that me-
: darn will also be necessary addition.
T Marty of surveyors and engineers hay
}, been looking over the property for sever;
weeks and it is reported that work on IL
J. buildings will be commenced soon and al
lother year will see the plant in full oper;
Ition.