Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-06
MAINE INDUSTRIES
Chat About the Busy Manufactures Of
Our State.

In the Madison Wooden Mill they
nave recently set up new looms, and
business is booming
The new mill of the North Arson
Lumber Company is shipping about
l'",o60 of sawed lumber weekly.
About LOCO pounds of milk is being
made into cheese at the St. Adams
cheese factory.
Charles Wolf of Litchfield is at work
with crew opening up the Webster
quarry in West Bath.
The advance in the wages to take eff
1ect in the Cabot mill at Brunswick
VIII establish highest schedule for the
past twenty years.
The Mechanic Falls Electric Light
and Power Company has decided to
sell the water privilege at the Pages
Mills.
This season 135 900 900 feet of logs
have been driven down the Kennebec
river. The logs laid closely side by
side would cover 1875 acres.
VIM. McKeague of Whitneyville has
also secured the contract Of building
the foundation of the new box mill to
be erected at Machas at an early date.
Five carloads of cans arrived recently
, for the Portland Packing Company and
a crew of 20 men, under the direction
| of Manager Pride. We're engaged in I'M
loading the cans and packing them at
| the factory.
Work on the foundation of the new
York mill in Saco is being rushed along
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completed and a large amount of the
concrete and stone work has been fin
| ished.
The Rockland -Rockport Lime com
pany have started four kilns at the
| North end. which have been down dur
| ing the past month. This makes %
kilns of the company in operation in
| ROckland alone.
| The line factory. owned by c. II.
| Carpenter having been closed for
| number of weeks. opened Monday
| morning of this week. 1t is hoped now
| that the factory will run all win
| ter.
During the past week five of the big
| sardine factories have been running
and indications of several others soon
| To start up lol fdHlllIlS tic inns
and in a short time PASSPORT will be one
of the busiest places east of Bangor.
| Work on the new rotary room build
| ing now being constructed by HartWell
| & Blanchard. contractors, for the
! PenoDscot Chemical Fiber Company at
| Great Works. is being rapidly pushed
| forward toward completion. The first
story has been practically completed
and the crew is now at work on the
second story.
Wcstbrook has a new industry, the F.
| s. Mcdonald box shop. which will give
| enployment to upwards Of 40. Opera
| atoms began the middel of the week
| in the SpierS Block. The company
will manufacture small paper boxes
and novelties and already has enough
orders on hand to assure steady work
| for quite a number of people.
The American Shoe Finding Co.
| have purchased the peg mill property
| of Lander and Aver at Bingham, ana
will move their machinery there from
| North Arson as soon as two necessary
wings can be built to the mill. The
| Somerset r. r. have survey for spur
track to be built from the station to
the mill and it will be built without de-
lay.
r p.ssa tanner Of sheen skins,
ha, n,aa. additions to his factory at
r,iftnn hv nutting on an addition to the
| ,a;, hri,ains with ten nev, watts. He
~, MA huiIt q now dry house, 40 feet
wide. 100 feet long and three stories
high. He will add a 81 horse power
motor to assist the steam power in
running the tanncry, also blowers l"
dry the skins in the new building
| When the schooner Jennie G. pills
hu,v called from Rockland last week
nh., took ia Now York the first cargo
ae "a white G. case lime that has
hao, GOO, in that city for 10 wears.
This company short time ago. open
o., ;ts ou,rrie>; on the Thonlas ton road
and started the fires in its kilns' when
have not been operated Sinc.' ihf ita.''
held by other parties expire" Soii'e ~
years ago.
A process which was watched with
much Interest by a number "i sperta-
tors last week was the raising or the
iron smokcstacks of the Mason Manu-
featuring Co. at South Paris There