Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-09

shortage of water. Some of the mills
may close for short time but it VIII
be only to give an opportunity to
make needed repairs. The mill OPP
eratives are evidently quite well salts
fled with their condition. They are
receiving n fair compensation for their
labor and the best of it is that no one
who wishes to work need be idle.
Automobiles who enter or leave
Maine via the toll bridge at Ports
mouth may be interested to know that
the supreme court of New York mas
decided that the proprietors of toll
bridge near Saratoga are not within
their charter rights in charging toll on
automobiles, for those vehicles are not
mentioned in their charter as tollaDie.
1t is quite likely that the same rule
would be found to apply everywhere,
at toll bridges are a survival OF the
dark ages and most or all of them
were chartered before the idea of the
automobile took practical. shape.
A number of people on Congress
street, Portland. the other day were
amused by observing a family OF
foreigners, four in number. who
evidently We're upon their travels.
Like the beast Of burden that the
woman of that class too often appears
to be the mother was weighted down
with all the impedimenta that she
could manage; a small boy had rather
more than his share, while pretty
little tot of girl was trying with poor
success to keep heavy package clear
of the ground this task being rendered
still more difficult by her other hand
being fully occupied with another
bundle. Just then the head OF the
family appeared and gave voluble
directions to the others, while not
offering to divide the loads of any OF
them. 1t was a clear case of EVERY
body Works but Father"
1t is something quite new to have
trustworthy figures from the office of
| the United States census of so late
date as the close of the year 1906.
This is what has been Done WIN
statistic; on the lumber products of
Maine for the past year. Heretofore
statistics concerning the production OF
lumber and timber products have been
| collected in connection with the
| decennial and Guinquennial censuses
| of manufactures. To satisfy the
| urgent demand for more frequent in
| formation relating to these important
products, the forest service of the
| Department of Agriculture, collected
statistics pertaining to the production
of 1906, and in order to avoid dupllca-
ton of work AMI insure uniformity of
| results, the preparation of the annual
statistics has been committed to the
bureau of the census which has work.
ed in corporation with the forest
service. From these figures it appears
that in 1906 there was 1913 lumber
mills in this State which cut total of
| 1.0SS,741 feet of lumber. board
measure: 329,549 of laths and 34O,94S
| of shingles The kinds of wood used
| in the rank of quantity We're: spruce.
white pine. hemlock, birch, balsam fir,
CEDAR red oak, beech. maple. white
oak, brass, yellow pine. OF spruce our
mills cut 557 ,975 feet, board measure.
and 251 All of cedar shingles. OF
white pine lumber we cut 291,663 feet.
and of hemlock shingles. 31,292. OF
spruce lumber about 100000 more feet
We're cut in 1906 than in 1905. To
make the above figures plain it should
be stated that in those relating to long
lumber the word thousands of feet.
board measure" should be added; and
in those relating to laths and shingles,
the wrod thousands or the figures.
900, should be added after each item.