Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-27
STATE BOARD OF TRADE.
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The potato shipments from Aroostook
have greatly fallen off. but the farmers
Of Names biggest county are in no
way Disconnected over the failure of
the crop of 1907 and they are planning
to put in more seed than ever before.
In the building realm curtailment is
noticed in some sections and yet
advices from the chief cities and large
towns of the state generally indicate a
season of fair volume in the building
industry. In the line of trolley eX-
tensions the Lewiston, Augusta and
Watervile Railway will soon push to
completion the contemplated improve
ments and in the early summer the
four Kennebec cities, Waterville, Au-
gusta. Hallowell and Gardiner, will be
united by electric street cars, and like
wise with Lewiston and Brunswick,
via Sabattus.
Names future lies in the develop
ment Of her natural resources and how
best to conserve these is a problem
calling for the most enlightened con-
sidcratiCn. In no other direction has
the progress Of the past twelve months
been 50 noticeable as in the develop
mcnt Of water power and its transmits
sion electrically Millions of dollars
have been expended the past year in
Maine in the generation Of electric
power hy the Great Northern Paper
Company at East Millinocket and Dol
by'S Rips on the Penobscot West
Branch the Bar Harbor and Union
-
the Union River. the Bodwell Water
Power Company at Oldtown and Mill
ford on the Fenobscot River the Maine
and New Brunswick Electrical Power
Company on the ArOOStOok River, the
Penobscot Bay Electrical Company at
the outlet of To-day Pond in East Or
land. and the Fort Halifax Power
Company on the Sebasticook River at
Winslow, while other important cleo
trical Developments now under way or
t. be undertaken this season include
those on the Little Androscoggin III
Auburn, on the SacO River at Frye
burg and West Buxton, and at The
Lodges in Limerick. Plans for the
utilization of the vast amount of llnde-
veloped water power on the Kennebec
River have been begun with the pre-
liminary reports Of q corps of q dozen
mill engineers who have been investi-
eating that part Of the river between
the outlet of MOosehead Lake and the
confluence Of the East Branch and
Dead river at The Forks. The engi-
uters declare that there is sufficient
power available in the thirty-six miles
between these places to drive all the
entire State, with much to spare. ut
the points which offer the best OPP
portunities for development of the
water power, nature has laid out the
land along the shores in such man
ner as to allow of the most direct bene-
fit. The fall between the outlet to
Moosehead Lake and The Forks ag-
gregateS more than five hundred feet,
the major portion of which is said to
lie within the first half of the thirty
six miles of distance between these
points. And when in addition to these
projected developments on the <enne-
bee the upper waters of the majestic
Penobscot. the Allhgash and other
great rivers Of Northern Maine are
utilized and harnessed to electric pow
err the Dirigo commonwealth true to
the proud motto on the States escutcil-
con should lead the world in manu-
features.
Maine has in her summer attractions
ineXhaustible wealth, and as the years
go by this favored section with it's In
MIGRATING air. its myriad lakes and
rugged mountains, it's inviting beaches
and bold headlands. it's countless
tinue to draw summer tourists and
seekers after health and pleasure in
ever increasing numbers. Our resorts,
both seaside and inland, are preparing
to accord the visitors a hospitable re-
ception, and inquiries already received
by transportation and hotel managers