Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-23

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sea, rock from Mt. Olivet, rock from
the Dead se,. olive leaves. shell from
Galilee. rock from Calvary. pearl from
| Bethlehem, money. etc. III Ier GU.
lection of china she has IA blue and
white ieacup that her grahdiilothel
gave her. which is over 200 years Old,
sugar bowl that belonged to her moth
ern and this is considerably over $50
wears old: :, ship dish that came from
Ireland los years ago
The Bar Harbor town clerks record
for the year 1901 shows decrease III
| marriages and births and an excess in
| the death rate. There We're Sc deaths
| in 1904 and 81 in 1903; 81 births in 1904
| So in 1902 But the greatest difference
| is in the marriage statistics. Not
withstanling that it was leap year
there We're but Sc marriages i'm 1904
while in 1895 there were 80. The de;tth
rate is low and shows conclusively that
| Far Harbor is ii healthy place III which
to live.
Boston TRANSCRIPT: If you wish to
Sc" what a pulp mill does to Il bowling
| wilderness YOU should go up to
MiIlinncket. There ar" other pulp mills
| in Maine but none SO roIulous. About
| all that happens III ona OF the sudden
| towns of our great West. where today
| is Il desert. and if You Come next week
| you find a busting city with county
| court house. IN opelT, house. depart
mcnt stores aud al! the outward
| insignia Of a genuine real estate boom.
came only little wniie ago to tn"
north woods eighty miles w river from
Bangor. When the thing happened
there were in ine confines of what is
the township of Milinockct one farm
house. four inhabitlnts and Il wild
wreck Of what had once been Il Wilder
ness. but had been dcN astated for mile,
by forest fires I'll little but charrcr
.tumlS and bramble tanSlc remained.
That is about all YOU would have
noticed there except he west branch of
the Penobscot-.as they call it. though
it is practically the main r.ver-rOllinS
ma jestically toward tn" sea. Some
men came there. however. who saw
| ether things. They Rnew the vast
stretch Of spruce lands which followed
the Pcnobscot northward for a hundred
miles or so. bordering lakes that held
mighty waters in store. and they
notce the drop from the river banks
to the Millinocket's stream mile
away. This drop l. can't that the
PanObScot waters might flow through
mighty peuStockS With head of
| hundred feet. if the penstOcks were
placed there. TheS" men knew where
| millions might he had for enterprise.
Unlimited watrr-DoH'cr. unlimited
spruce and an almost unlimited pulp
mill We're the cards on which they
staked their money. and they put tire"
millions into the game before they
drew out single ream of paper. After
tn" play WIS fairly opened. however.
| they steadily drew ou- about Is, to rs o
il every single Jay. and The game still
goes on day ana right and Sundays. for
no great paper mill stops for anything
short Of disa SER. To stop for twenty
four hours means to lose the profits Of
weeks. Eight hundred men went to
work in this mill on eight hour shifts.
Their families .'t,mc With them. Store
keepers followed. school teachers. ply
sicianS. lawyers. ministers, and dare
say politicians and labor leaders. and
behold, il boom town had sprung up i'm
the Maine woods. In 1900 the mill was
we'll under way, and the town had 1144
inhabitants. Today i; has about $500.
and is still growing. New houses go
up. new stores ale opened. Everything
Of course hangs on he pulp mill. but
there are today three hotels with
accommodations AMI tonvenicnccS
| equal to those of any Massachusetts
| city: tWcnty-thr.e stores four
churches. high and common schools
"nsconccd in a $4,000 schoolhOuSe
town water. Il scwe" system. gas and
electric lights 4 weekly paper and a
| brass band. BESIDES tit was a Bangor
| newspaper man told me this with d
| meaning smiirl. there are said to be
more United states revenue licenses to
| the total population than in any other
Maine town. This may be so. but
, certainly saw no evidences of il as
went about town. Perhaps one needs
| the Bangor eye TO get evidence Of such
| unseen things.
one feature Of the Western boom
town has not flourished III Millinocket.
| That is the re.,l estate agent. The pulp
! mill neOple nae Seen TO that. In tn"
very beginning they got control of the
| hundred miles Of forest that stretches
| along the w"St branch clear To thu
| head waters AT Chamberlain Lake the
privilege Of damming and restraining
| the waters for storage, and 1900 acre :
| right about the pulp mill. That is
| nearly three square miles and is ample
| space for the town to grow in for some
| decades. III IA mill operative wants to
| build. the company sells him a lot of
| this land at a reasonable price. loans
| him money enough for the house. and
| lets HIM pay COR botl from his earning
| in the mill. IF an oul slider wishes land
for a store or dwelling h" may have it
| at price varying with the location on
| the usual terms for such transactions
| There seems ~ be no attempt on the
| part Of the capitalists to build a model
| town" or in any way impress philan-
| throphy on or curb the independent
spirit of the 'oNnspcopIe. 1t manufac-
| lures paper. AMI so Car as one can see
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