Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-18
MAINE INDUSTRIES,

The GuilfOrd Lumber Co have been
making extensive Improvements on
their mill and are planning to do a
large business this season. They have
made contract to saw all the logs Of
the Guilford Manufacturing Co., from
1000, 900 to 100000 feet.
Postmaster S. G. Haley of Phillips
got this year about the following
amount of lumber: 1900 cords poplar
100 thousand spruce, 100 cords white
birch. so thousand hard wood. 100
cords firewood. He has delivered all
of his poplar excepting about 500 cords.
In June he will put another poplar
crew into the woods
An extension is being made on the
independent plant of the Blanchard
Manufacturing & Canning Co, at
Eastport. 1t is so feet long and 40 feet
wide and a new oven is also being set
up. 1t is stated that work will begin
on time if the fish come to this section,
though last season it was considerably
delayed.
The Oxford Paper company of Rum
ford Falls will at once begin the con-
struction Of q cutting-up mill at the
head of the Falls. The mill will be in
charge of S. w. Butterfield, ESQ, who
las taken the contract to fit wood for
tie Oxford mill for a period of five
years. The mill will be capable of fit
ting and loading on cars $4,000 cords of
wood each year. This. therefore, calls
for an extension of the railroad and
bids are to be invited at once for the
construction of the railroad extension.
The sardine cutting machine owned
by the inventor A. r. Rogers and the
VIM. Underwood Co. of JoneSpOrt has
been perfected and is claimed to do the
work in a satisfactory manner The
machine will be put in the Underwood
plant at JOnesport to do their cutting
this summer. If the machines are as
much of d success as claimed they will
no doubt be purchased by the packers
in other places and another branch of
the business that has been such d
source of revenue to the women and
boys would be dispensed with. If ma
cl:ines keep coming in the slrdinc in
dustry at this rate in a few years. when
pay-days come there will be on the pay
roll, dynamos and shafting only, writes
a Lupec correspondent.
The new sardine canning plant of L.
y. Clark & Sons, recently completed on
the site of the company'S old factory on
Sea street PASSPORT, which was de-
stroyed by fire in November last, is the
largest plant for the canning of Sar-
dimes in Eastern Maine, being two and
a half stories high, $50 feet in length and
80 feet wide. and is fully one-third
larger than their big factory burned
last fall. An extension of wharf 2S5
feet long and so feet wide has also
been added. The building in which the
engine room is located is % feet in
length and 20 feet wide. The packing
room is large and airy and will accom-
MEDIATE 200 girls, packers and takers.
The oven is one of the largest reel
ovens made. and calculated to take
care of 5000 cases of fish per day. The
new factory has been equipped with all
the latest improvements. conspicuous
among which are the new sealing ma
chimes tSeven in number). each of
which is said to have a capacity for
sealing 400 CAGES per day. These late
inventions, to .be used this season by
the Messrs. Clark for the first time,
will considerably lessen the number Of
| male employees: it being said that
where 600 hands were formerly en-
ployed 800 will be able to accomplish
the same amount of work under the
new ard improved methods. a con-
tract has been placed with the Ameri-
| can Can Company of Boston to fur
| nish the cans to be used during the
season. which will still more lessen the
number of employees. With its larger
and modern equipments the new fac
| tory's capacity will be 100000 cases per
packing season. The firm of l.. d.
| Clark <; Sons was established in 1892.
| at which time it did business in a small
story and "a half building situated at
| Broad Cove. in the western part of the
| island; today they are the largest indie
| pendent packers of the American sar-
| dine in New England.