Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-15
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

Work has been rushing at the JAY
Wood Turning Company's mill 50 that
it has been necessary to run the mill
nights.
Work on the stamp mill at Crocker
Hill, Paris, is nearing a finish, and it
is expected that it will be in running
order in short time.
business is booming at the South
Paris toy shops. About 100 hands are
now employed and several carloads Of
goods have been already shipped
John j. Finn has secured the con-
tract for roofing the $4,000 Elks' build
ing in Houlton, and also the new
schoolhouSe on Center street, Bangor
Pembroke Marsh of Pennington and
Floyd Stubbs are repairing the Stubs
sawmill at Canton Point preparatory
to saving the lumber this coming
winter.
A 80 acre timber lot has been sold
by Nicholas Hearne of North Saco to
New Hampshire lumbermen A port
able sawmil will be operated on it
this winter. The sum of $4,000 was
paid.
A. l.. Stewart &; Sons are building
over the old Thaddeus Wiley mill at
Cherryfeld Corner, which they pur-
chased some time ago. They will put
in rotary saving plant. and will 9TH
erwise improve the property.
Chase & Whidden have four men cut
ting wood at Sebec station which will
be shipped to the Bangor market.
They h1 hyIilt a IF and q 70
to do quite extensive numbering on
what IS known as the Palmer lot in At
kinson.
Charles +. Dearth Of Dover has start
ed up his cider mill for the annual fall
grind of cider apples. The mill, which
is one Of the largest in Maine, will be
operated from now until the close of
the season. The usual amount of ap-
pies handled here is from 5000 to 5000
bushels.
Charles A. St. Onge Of Dover has
equipped the new looms Of the NJ. l..
Hus3ey mill in Guilford with the st.
Onee picker check. The check is con-
trivance invented by Mr.. St. Onge to
prevent the filling from knocking off
the bobbins and is in use in several
mills in that vicinity.
A crew of twelve men and five yoke
Of oxen are fast depicting the timber
of the Eastern Dynamite Company at
Newhal. where it is being sawed at
their mill into dimensions stuff for
building purposes. One day recently
a big pine was felled which was sawed
into 1874 feet Of boards.
John NJ. Hadley and crew laid the
foundation stones for the building of
the Machias Granite Company on
Court street. Machias. the latter part
Of last week and the first of this fol
lowed Immediately by Leighton & NAL
position. The building will be 73x25
feet with a wing of 25x20 feet.
The three maSted schooner Herbert
May, built for the Rufus Deering
Lumber Co. of Portland. was launched
from the yards Of F. S. BoWker & Co.
Phippsburg. recently. The principal
dimensions are: Length 40 feet; beam
33.4 feet: and depth 1914 feet; and the
gross tonnage is 3S4. She will be COM
manded by Capt. Black. formerly Of
the schooner c. j. Willard.
The entire force Of the Bath Iron
Works is being used to rush the work
on the u. S. Scout Cruiser Chester and
the big steamboat Camden. Both YES
sells will probably be launched during
the next six months. The Camden is
due to be delivered by the first of June.
1907. which means that large crew of
men will have lots Of work to do this
winter.
The Centrifugal Leather Company
has crew of 30 men at work getting
ready for a leatherboard factory in
Newcastle Their building is to be so
by 120 feet over basement and will
employ from 40 to so hands. The fac
tory is to be run both day and night.
It's officers are: George NJ. Seiders.
president. Portland; Francis Dane.
treasurer, Hamilton, Mass; F. D. Mar
shall. assistant treasurer. 102 E,x-
change street. Portland; George 7.
Pratt, nanag ger, Bar Mills.
Marslall's sawmill and shovel han
die factory at Westbrook is the scene
just now of important changes. The
plant occupies large space on the
soutnerly side of the Maine Central
tracks between Seavey and Rochester
streets. One end of the building,
formerly used as a sawm'll has been
moved to a new position to provide
room for an extension of the main
building and q room for new and i'm
proved boilers which are to be in
stalled az S'nri is the building Is M
shed large crew of carpenters ana
masnns are now engaged unon the
work