Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-07

tiic toWn, the Tiny, OIhCiouS teTfieIs'
poking their noses into everybOdy's
affairs; the settlers. whose care over the
business of their friends precludes any
great interest i'm municipal affairs; the
bull dogs. whose police uuty weighs
heavily upon their conscience; the
beagles whose interest in sport takes
them out of town great deal; the
spaniels. always stauncl supporters Of
the conservative party: the COnceited
poodles. whose airs mark them as ill
bred by the real aristOcracy; and then
there Is the pOpulace-Ju plain dogs.
They appear on the streets in groups;
they form professions and parade
about; they have occasional fights AMI
rarer concerts; they chase stray cats
up tree and cast covetins eyes at the
squirrels: they bury bone in the exact
spot In your garden where your choic-
est seeds are planted; but they make
| themselves so thoroughly at home
| about your house AMI grounds. and re-
ceive you with such cordiality when
YOU go out with the G.m intention of
putting the first available stone to Il
good use, that you relent and think
| dogs are pretty good things after all.
| In few days a friend offers you a
particularly soft and allurirg puppy.
| whose pleading eyes you cannot refuse;
you weaken accept. and are lost. You
| think with regret Of thi"gs you have
said in the past and hope your friends
| have short memories. You think of
your newly planted garden and smooth
lawn, and you wish you hadn't. but a
yelp from your new possession. a glance
from his beady and adoriOg eyes. lap
from his tiny red tongue. and you de-
eide that after all 1t is worth WHILE"
Some idea of the true value of tim
terlands and natures power of repro
ductiOn. in filling the gaps made by the
woodman's axe, can he had by a rough
estimate of the timber cut and manu-
featured on Machias river since the
settlement Of that town by the party
| from ScarborO in the year 1864. The
| following year, or in 1865. d double saw
mill was built and lumber sufficient for
local demands was manufa' tured that
fall. In 1866 one million six hundred
| thousand was manufactured. and by
the year 1868 the third double sawmill
and a single sawmill was completed.
These mills were capable of cutting at
least 5000. 900 feet annually. To be con-
servative and suppose this to have been
the limit for the next sixty years or I'M
til the year 1928 the total cut would
have then reached 100000 900 feet.
Soon after that date additional mills
were built at Machias and the annual
cut increased to about 3o.Q0000O feet.
A block was also built at Whitneyville.
| three miles farther Up the river. in
| which about II 600. 900 feet we're annu-
ally cut. making a total cut at Machias
and Whitneyville during the next fifty
years. to 1878. Of 1900. 900. Coo feet or a
total to that date, on til" river, of
$500, 900, 600 feet. There was then a fall
| off in the lumber business which has
been gradual from 1873 to the present
time. only about 16.O00,O9D feet being
now manufactured on the river. To
| still be conservative and suppose this
to have been the annual cut for those
| twenty-seven years. from 1878 to 1905.
we have produced in that time 432. 900, :
900 feet or a total cut of S.032 900. 900.
The timber has decreased by fire and
axe yet the lands are held today at a
greater value than they we've when the
pioneer struck the first how to down
| the first tree. d40 years ago. and any
time curing those years. to the pres
ent. The total cut at $40 per thousand
feet will reach the snug sum of $50. $780,
| OnO