Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-27
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

A. ], McGown, at his cooper shop at
North Newport. since last fall. mas
made and sold $500 barrels e
The Monmouth Canning Company
has closed contracts for the erectiRn
Of a new canning factory at Gorhan.
The buiINajNn hi sxers. arra2Esd
and equfpped~ With the most mgeern
machinery. The contractor is |. II.
Lane Of Buxton and the work Will be
under, me syURervision Of the COM
pany's rhahager, F. b. Greene.
Messrs. Marble & Dingley are busy
canning apples at their factory IN
Wilton. They employ in this work
six men and ten women and will put
up 1900 or 1900 dozen cans of apples.
They are now using about 40 barrels
per day. They are also planning to
do an extensive business in canning
sweet corn next fall. They have al
ready booked $50 acres for planting
and expect to increase it very soon to
200. They intend to erect the coming
summer extensive canning shops II
the season is favorable and equip
them with modern machinery for cam
ming corn, apples, and other products
that the market may especially call
for.
1t is stated that the homeless her.
ring industry at PASSPORT will come to
a close in about two weeks after
furnishing employment for several
months past to a large force Of the
young residents who would have been
idle for the winter months but for this
industry. The two. plants running
have had plenty of work for those on
the payroll and the newly smoked
Aerring have been prepared for can
ming in quick time by removing the
heads, tails, skin and bones. after
which they are packed in attractive
cans and sent out to the markets. 1t
has certainly been Of great financial
value to many and while the wages
made by many were small others of
more experience have managed to
make from IS to 50 a week and not
work very hard or long hours.
The busiest place in Wilton at pres
ent is the lumber mill of Messrs. Lee
groo & Cooling. They have twenty
teams hauling logs and an average of
forty loads are daily landed at the mill.
They will have 1000, 900 feet or more of
logs, including 100000 or 100000 feet of
pine. Besides this, they have about
900 feet of custom saving. They
buy hard pine by the carload and re-
Gently received $500 feet of this lum-
Der. They keep a large stock on hand
OF floor boards and finish in their
storehouse. During the fall and VIM
ter they have purchased large
<,f l,,~ md
FarminEton Falls which has been
shipped from the Pennington and Will
ton stations. The firm has also cut,
hauled, and sold in Wilton over 500
cords of cortiWOod. The business thus
far, this winter. greatly exceeds that
Of any previous season. The mill
yard Is piled high with logs and the
coming season will be IA busy one at
the mill.
The most important all the year
round industry Of which PASSPORT
boasts is the shoe manufacturing es-
Establishment Of F. A. Holmes. which is
located near the Washington County
Railway depot. The business was first
started In 1899 by the EastpOrt Shoe
Co, composed of local capitalists and
for upwards OF two years was carried
on by this company. Little gents
and children's shoes alone were made
by the company, but the business
proved to be Improbable and was
finally abandoned, the plant falling
into the hands of the mortgage. In
1902. +. A. Holmes. a successful bust
ness man of Passport, assumed the
management of the factory and en-
barked upon the manufacture Of men 8
shoes of medium grade. The business
has prospered and from Il capacity of
II dozen daily gotten out by an aver
age OF ~ employees the output has
been increased to 40 dozen daily. re-
Quiring the labor of IS hands, with an
average pay roll of $500 weekly. The
demand for the product of the factory
Is steady, one firm alone, Montgomery.
Ward 4 Co., the big Chicago mail or
der house, having with the Holmes
factory a standing order for con-
siderable portion of its entire output
The remainder Of the goods are
shipped West and South.