Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-09-03
IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Items of Interest Concerning Maine's
Industries.

The Bath Shirt factory has resumed
onerations after being shut down tor Two
weeks.
Simeon Cyr is having built :; potato
hlus" rOx40 feet, opposite the IL. a. a.
station. Van Euren.
awarded the contract for the ruw sui
phtc mill to be built at I.ivcrmorc Falls.
Work will be commenced at once.
A big go horse power boiler built by
thc Bath Iron Works IS being set up at
the plant of the Sagadahoc Light y
Power Co, to replace one Of The lop
horse power.
f. a. Flanders has 4 crew Of carpenter;
at North Dexter He is also putting on
Il 30 foot addition to his woodshed to
house mill waste.
Mir j. w. Maxim of Newcastle, lndi-
ana has just purchased the full interest
and stock of II. J.. Holmes IN the shovel
handle factory Of lewiston Mr.. Holmes
was Il third owner in the plant.
A woodshed is being built at the Dover
& Foxcroft Fuel Fompany's yard. Dover.
a sever and Il halt h. y. electric motor
for saving ard splitting wood is u b.:
Installed there by II" -. y +. Light *
Heat co.
The Fost,r-Estanrooks factory in B"l-
fast is now running under full orders
will All help possible to obtain. The fac
tory has recently secured an order for Il
certain lin" of government shirts and is
working its tull capacity 10 Ill t1le "fdtf.
~ s Butler Of Sanford, contractor ana
stone mason. has taken til" contract for
! putting in tho stone work Tor cellars anu
foundations for thirteen new houses fof
the AndroS@OgGin Pulp Company, on their
recently acquired land on high street dt
South Wirdham.
| Extensive repairs are being mad" to
| the building OF the Brdgton Morocco
! Company, used as the tanncry building.
! The che cmiralS used il. tanning tn" skins
| i,,j,I oct h,4
| tinllrrS ANA many of the Sills are found
| to be rottng away as w"ll as thc floor.
| Two floats are being built at the Kelley,
| Spear Coz. yard, Eath at tn" present
New jersey and ;hr oth"r for Tia" Ersi
| Terminal co. of New York. The tOrrnc'
is 30 feet long. and the latter 30 fec t.
Each Will accommodate Il freight cars.
| Fred w Bolster Of Milo has been
awarded the contract 10 build IN" new
| power station for tn" Milo Electric Light
| 4 Power Co. on the site formerly occu-
| ped by Iitrcc's sawmill Work on the
| foundation will be commenced at one"
| and Will 10 rushed until the completion Of
1 the building.
The. Gorham factory, of the Monmouth
Canning Co., opened Tuesday. with sup
| ci.intendcnt T. II. Greene i'll charge. y
| large number OF employees are now en-
| gagged in packing baked beans, (Which
| work VIII continue until green corn IS
| ripe enough to pack. After the green
| corn season is over the packing Of baked
| beans will b" resumed.
| The st John Lumber company has the
| lumber all out and framed for III" new
1 mill to b" erected alongside the present
mills ut Van Burcn. This will be 1G0-5o
| feet and will contain two band saws; The
| concrete posts are almost completed.
| there being JOB of them. a crew of men
| is grading 1.Co0 feet Of rev track and two
| donkey engines are pilrg IG,tV0tOD feet
| o. logs for use next winter.
The steam sawmil at Grcclcy's Mills
owned by J. G.. SAWYER is at present en-
po:ing l. men. The work of saving
l-t0 cords Of poplar l""s, the amount Of
| stock on hand last spring. IS now nearly
| completed. OF lat" there mas been some
| delay on account of low water which has
| bothorc.! much in getting the logs to the
| slip T. L. Cot will prob1blv haul thu
| lumber to the FOrcroft station Cor ship
| r.cnt to the paper mills next winter. MI
| c.aWver also has about lUH0Co feet Of logs
| which VIII he sawed into boards ana 9TH
| cr materials for building.
| The belfast Illuminating Company is
| making ,NteliS.V" pairs and improve
| 1rcnts and cnlarging the capacity of its
| u.:tnt both as to gas ana electricity. Tn"
| dam at Goose River IS being strengthen
| 80. 2 now water wheel of 10 horse power
| nut in an improved voltage governor in
stalled, and general repairs made to
| ~haft;ng etc. The capacity of the plant
| IS being doubled, both rs 70 are and in
| ctnd.scrnt systems. ana the power cir
| cult improved. Additional r"t0r:S ar" Il
| hc put in ut the gas works on Washing
| ton street ana the gas plant generally
| improved. The business of the comp;tn!
| is increasing steadily.