Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-07
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

pap"rbox factory will soon be
added to WestbrOok'S Industries
II is reported that i large ladder
factory will be erected at Milo Junction
this summer.
Hartwcll 4 Blanchard Of Milo have
been awarded the contract To erect 20
or more houses at Milo Junction, this
year.
The Knox Cooperage Company of
West Rnckport has sold To parties in
i}ockland 5000 lime casks to be de-
livered the coming season. This
company has material for making over
10000 casks.
F. +. Nerrill of Merrill'S Mills
/ Turner has contracted To- get out 1872
900 boxes for packing corn This season
The filling Of this order will neccssitatc
! the employment of II or ~ men. and
Mr.. Vcrrill WIN use his own lumber for
the whole
Weston has a new industry in the
making of last blocks. The business is
operated by Mr.. Fawcett of Woodstock
n. Il. The location of the business
plant is On the shore of Grand Lake, at
I
employs from Il to 20 men,
Factory No. 4 of the Seacoast Cam
ming company at Sea street is now one
of the busiest places i'll East port and
much night work is necessary. 1t is
| probable that Other sardine factories
will be open during the month now that
/ the herring are more plentiful.
| G. l.. Pettengll & Son of Island Falls
have handled about fifty thousand rail-
| road ties this season. This would fill
a train Of over 120 cars. Quite Il num-
/ Der Of carloads of ties have also been
shipped from that town by other
parties. A carload of ties is worth
about $120 at Pressure Isle.
Work at the clam factory Of the
| Farnsworth Packing co. at South
| Bluehill continues good. Foreman T..
| Is. Kane says that about Twenty-Five
are employed. and the output is about
| forty cases 4 day. The factory is 1T
| present filling an order Of 600 cases to
be shipped 10 Seattle. The clam can
ming season closes June /.
At an expense of about ST., 900 .he
Rockland. Thomaston < Camden Street
| Railway IS now engaged in making a
| Dig Improvement to its gas plant on
| 'rockctfs Point. This improvement
comes in the form of a new steel gas
holder which will have capacity of
$1,000 feet of gas. The old gasholder
has q capacity of about 10000 feet. ana
as 1t is still available for use, the com
| pany viii be enabled to store some. GO =
600 feet
The new mill of the North Arson
LUMBER 60, is about completed ana is
a new departure III mill construction
The mill is 100 feet in length nv r. in
| width, with boiler house attached
| 'oNfo' me entir" structure is built of
concrete walls, Is inches in thickness
Inc mill floor is coated with three
inches of cOncret" and there is an iron
ROOF over all. The seasons cut is about
''ooo''oo and the mill employ from "a
to 100 men the year round.
AT Cape Jellison all is activity
thousands Of cubic feet Of the hin
nave been removed, and an immense
ydid Tor cars is now being prepared
LOT tracks "A lumber yard is to be
soon huilt on the bluff, about 40 feet
hlsher than the wharf Freight will
De sent down run-ways to the loading
posltiohS, Of the numerous vessels
Inc ST. John Lumber 60. Of Van
Suren is erecting an office building or
III NIL preparatory to shipping tbs
output of their great mill, from Cane
Jellison.
Whitcomb, Haynes & co. Of ELS