Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-03
MAINE INDUSTRIES,

Babcock K Co. of Dover are shipping
about 40 carloads of pulp each day i'll
order to keep abreast OF their orders.
A wrapper factory has been started
| a Eastporf At present but a small
number of hands have been given en-
ploynent. but after the business has
got well underway, it is probable that
quite number of girls will be EN-
ploycd
Business at the yard of the Thorn
aston Face and Ornamental Brick
Company, Thomaston, is going on
briskly. Superintendent Smith has
thirty men employed and brick are De-
ing turned out at the rate of $4,000 a
day. The plant is in fine condition.
Many PiscataquiS county farmers,
who have cedar Sw:imps, are doing
quite good thing by the sale of tele-
phone poles. which are being landed in
large numbers near the railroad at Do
ver. Some Of the largest of these poles
have brought as high as SO apiece.
Welts Brothers, who have been cut
ting lumber on w. II. Kings lot. at
North Parkman. have completed their
joe. having landed about $4,000 feet of
boXboard timber on the banks of the
Carleton stream. Besides this they
have cut quite large amount of BIRCH
Lord Il Kitchen of Dover cont emplatc
putting i'll Il lath machine at their
| woodworking mill. OF late there has
been Il great demand for laths and the
price has advanced to $3.50 thousand.
Formerly they were sold at $3.50 or
$1.i5. which is quite a difference, to the
person desiring to build, more especi-
ally.
Contractor w. n. Buchanan is at
work on the erection of the new build
ing of 60x3n feet at Washington street
near the railroad station at PASSPORT,
which will be used for the manufacture
of mustard sauce. The plant will be
operated by j. Wesley Faye who has
had several years experience in max
ing mustard. This is the kind of
mustard sauce which is used in the
many sardne factories about the
Maine coast, the Seacoast Canning
Company having a big plant at Sea
street for its many factories.
Tie lobster pond to be built by
George w. Colewell of Prospect Har-
Dor. in connection with the packing
house. ice house and wharf, now under
construction at South Hancock. will
contain $1,000 Holsters. This property
will al be completed before August, us
on that date the owner will be in
readiness to furnish both live and
boiled HOLSTERS. Captain COlewen is
expanding several thousand dollars on
the property. In addition to the pond
at South Hancock. Captain Colcwell
has two other ponds for Holsters ut
Overs Island in Washington county,
which have Il total capacity Of 100000.
Mr.. Coewcll is known among the deal
ers of large cities. as the first man i'm
eastern Maine to build a pond for
Holsters, which he did about ten years
| ago.
StoningtOn correspondent writes:
1.-The granite business is still good.
and the prospects are that this place
will employ more men during the
next five years than any other place
cast of Barre. Vt. Ryan & Parker
are building large shed for cutters,
but will have to work quite Il number
outside in order to fill their con-
tracts. The Benvenuc Granite Co. are
getting ready to do Il large business.
They have the lumber here to build
shed 500 feet long by Sc feet wide.
Their track for the overhead crane
will begin 200 feet from the end of
the shed, running through the shed
AMI about 200 feet further. The track
will be about twenty feet above the
ground. They have large cargo of
1Ifc K to build a chimney 135 feet
High by 20 feet square at tho bottom.
The furnaces are TO be for six boilers.
AS fastEas they can make room for
machinery. they have it come. They
will soon begin on a wharf to be 400
feet long