Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-23
MAINE INDUSTRIES
Matters Of Interest Concerning the
Busy. Busting Manufactures OF Our
State.

The new sawmill of Perry Bros, Sc
hasco.. is now in operation. and the
company expects to do large business
this summer.
THE Machias Manufacturing company
has been laying the foundation for the
box mill which it is gong 10 buiid at
the old ship yard.
xyilnot Macklin of Arson with Il
oraw of u men left last Monday for
Nj Tom Mass, where he has con-
tract to pile 100000 Of logs.
George Harlow Norridgewock has
ror;x,ed his steam saw mill, from this
,,,llapa to Mercer. to the lumber lot he
purchased of Ed Walton.
The Messrs McIlroy are doing large
business at their blanket factory in
North Monmouth. 1t is said that this
firm make the best blankets in this
country.
w. f. Johnson, North Bowdoin. has
inst closed successful season peeling
hemlock bark. He employed five men.
and II is estimated that 100000 feet OF
hemlock were cut and peeled.
Work on the new BURBERRY factory
of J. A. Coffin. Columbia Fall, which is
being constructed under the supervis-
inn of H. NJ. Haycock, is being hur-
r;ed as fast as possible. in order to be
ready for the packing season.
William Rowell of Topsham has
transferred the portable sawmiil, which
he lately erected In North Bowdoin. to
the Starrett Lumber Co. This company
also operates a mill in Harpswell and
another in New Hampshire.
The Portland Packing Co.. Dexter IS
preparing to open the corn shop here
for the seasons work. The company
has lately purchased a new boiler but
intends to store 1t for time, using the
old one through this season.
John McGregor is making extensive
improvements in the line of IRE pro-
lection at his South Lincoln Mills. A
10 OC0 gallon steel tank Is being erected.
nec, pump installed and the whole yard
thoroughly covered by a nct"ork of
mains.
a new veneer mill is now il process
of construction in Wfnterville. on the
Ashland & Fort Kent branch of the
Bangor & Aroostook r. r., which will
consist of mill, tank-housc. store
house, general store and boarding
house all we'll fitted up and we'll built.
The Maine Water Co. at Calais is
preparing tn construct & concrete COW
erins over its reservoir at Midtown.
When the new system ia completed this
Reservoir will be continued in use, form
ing a reserve supply Of two million gal
Ions for use in case Of any accident.
II. r.. Passmore & Co., Bath, received
a carload of Oregon pine cutters ana
mouidiugs Which We're shipped from
Cheats, Wash, on May l. thus requir-
ing more than two months to cross the
continent. The freight charges were
$294.16.
. The big coo feet-long potato ware
house near. the head Of the nav pier
at Cape Jellison, Stockton Springs, Il
being rapidly pushed to completion
The frame is all up ana the bo.rdlra
begun. Work on all the new buildings
is being hurried as fast as big and busy
crews can work.
One hundred painters are at work or
he tatt eship Georgia ut Path and the!
OF the twelve six-inch guns which ar
rived while the ship was away on hei
trial trip. ,igl!t have been Unstable,
The tWelve-inch guns and eiSht-inct
guns are all in position.
The two large Independent sardin'
canning factories of the Blanchard
Mfg. Co, and Capt f. A. Holmes East
port which were opened the secon,
week in July for the seasons canning
hay" been unable to secure any large
supply Of herring as the fish have beer
unusually scarce since the month open
ed.
improvements have been made ~
the Clinton tannery. A paroid roofin'
has been put on. new machinery ma
ben put in, new drying loft is bein:
built 4Ox120 feet and three stories higl
and the new fan system will be uset
in the new drying loft. The output o
the tannery will be doubled.
George H. Mckee Fort Fairfield viii
soon build an addition to his black
smith shop II feet by "A in size. He will
also put in a new Buffalo blower TO
his forge. Some six to ten feet Of EN-
IuHN,VtNt DiCh VI lIt Sliop W Ill " tdrN
en- OFT. Here is a great chance 10
someone who wants earth for grading
Mr.. Mckee himself will pay any ma
that wants the earth half the cost o
removing IT,
business in the plush department o
the mills at Sanford is in a fourishir
condition a foundation for an exten
sion OF thirty feet TO that department
Is being laid. Last spring fifty feet wa
added to the mill but was not enoug
to meet the increa sing demand for thei
product. so it became necessary T.
again increase the capacity Of the mil
This company has for several year
supplied the Pullman Car Co. with tn
goods with which they upholster thel
railway palaces.
The bakery of Joseph DIM. Jameson
Brewer. which has Just been sold 10 I
H. Pickett Of the same city, has bee
one Of the most prominent bakeries \
that part of the state for a lo-g time
During the past few years 1t has take
contracts for furnishing bread, CAKE