Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-17
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

saving at his mill at Redding in
Sumner. Mr.. Skillings will ship the
sawed product of this mill to his new
spool mill at Bethel where he saws
none of his lumber used in the making
of spools. He is not running his
Greenwood mill this season. Mr..
Eugene Prescott who has had charge
of the Summer mill has returned to
Bethel.
S. H. Nader. Saginaw, Mich, has
been installing machinery in Chases
box mill at Barring. Among the i'm
provements is a new glue tank and an
electric signal from the, engine room in
the box mill to the boiler house in the
dry house, which will be q great help
in case of fire. A Babcock self adjust
ing disappearing table has been at
tached to the big planer 1t is auto
matte with a eccentric duplex extern
sion and is a great labor saver.
1t is understood that the factory for
extracting oil from leather scraps now
running in Portland under the manage
ment of John Horn, formerly of
Auburn, will within a short time be
moved to Auburn. Building, machin-
cry, everything connected with the
business will be taken to Auburn,
nearness to the shoes shops and other
advantages offered by Auburn being
the reason for the change. The site in
Auburn will be on the River road
between Grove street and the Logan,
on the high land on the side opposite
the river. 1t is said that the contract
for setting up the sixty horsepower
boiler has been let already. The Port
land building will be torn down and
shipped to Auburn to be rebuilt. The
business of the factory is to extract oil
from leather scraps and other leather
that would otherwise be useless, maxi
ing it fit to be used as shoe Innings and
other parts of shoes. 1t will employ
several men. Alfred Childs of Lewis
ton, treasurer of the Standard Box
Company of Auburn is the man behind
the proposition. At least two such
plants have been started in Lewiston
and Auburn before, going out of bust
ness for various reasons.
At tho completion of factory A. az
now planned, the Lubec Sardine Co.
composed of B. NJ. Pike, c. l.. Pike and
r. ]. Peacock will have the honor of
plant in the world. L. ID. Clark & Son
at PASSPORT coming second. A large
number of men are now employed
under contractor ]. c. Trecartin, re-
modelling the plant. The main build
ing will be go feet in length, 35 feet
wide and 10 foot post Several modern
improvements will be made in the
cutting shed, sealing room, engine
room and other departments. In the
cutting shed which has been made
larger the Sluiccs will be arranged so
as to carry the fish direct from the
tables to the picking tanks, saving
considerable time and labor over the
old methods. The engine room will
be widened IL feet and a large new
boiler installed and adjacent to the
boiler room several hundred feet or
new wharf will be built giving ample
room for all teaming purposes. The
packing room has been heightened 33
feet, making room for 20 additional
packers. The scaling room has been
made AZ feet longer and several new
machines will be installed. A hard
wood floor runs the entire length of the
main building on which the packing
racks can be run more easily. The
oven has been changed and new steam
boxes will be placed near it so that
the fish racks can be taken from the
steamer and run through the oven en-
route to the packing department. The
shipping room has been increased in
capacity as has also the bath room.
Sanitary improvements have been at
tended TO and the quality of the goods
will be looked after as well as the
quantity of the output. The factory
VIII be ready for operation August first
and VIII have a capacity of about 125
hogsheaos rer day, in the vicinity of
5000 cases