Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-06-02

HlIIS lHe Tolls u TIE SldSiItI,
which cuts the edgings to four foot
lengths and dumps them into the
carrier passing by the lath machine
where sorters pick out the lath stock.
The laths are sluiced to the platform
| ready for shipment.
| On the opposite side of the mill and
| behind the markers station is located
| double surface palmer for sizing
dimension and planning the cheaper
grade of boards The entire workings
| of the mill impress the lumberman as
| distinctively far in advance of the old
| time manufacturing. especially when
| one considers that the mill will turn
| out an average -cut of $1,000 feet of
! long lumber daily with q crew of about
| 35 men.
The filing department is equipped
with shears, sharpeners for both the
band and resaw, bench roll and
retoother compined, round saw
grinders. and hammering bench, an
| improved automatic scarfing machine
a forge and a 10 horse power vertical
| engine The filing room is 45X60 feet
| and thoroughly up-to-date in every
particular, ensuring an ever-ready
supply of saws for an extensive plant.
| The entire plant is run by steam
supplied from the brick boiler and
| engine house situated on the west side
of the saw mill The Portland com
| pany has here installed two large
boilers of 25O horse power each which
will be fed on the waste of the mill
brought to them by carriers leading
from the saw mill to the boiler room.
| The hoiInr roon1 h9 canppt or
cleaning room, where the ashes are
taken care of by improved methods.
In the engine room is the big Fitch
burg engine, capable of developing $50
horse power. The cylinder of this en-
| CINE IS 2Qx40 inches. The big driving
wheel is IA feet in diameter, has a 81
inch face and carries 31-inch belt.
The Underwriters pump with capac-
ity of 1000 gallons per minute is To-
| Gated in the engine room; also the feed
tank for the boilers and a generator
| which will supply the electric fluid for
lighting the entire mill plant. The big
| engine rests on a foundation of solid
| concrete imbedded in the ground sew
eral feet. The house was built by III.
Purinton d Co. of Waterville and thor
ough workmanship is shown in its con-
struction throughout. The big CHM
ney rising 80 feet into the air is built
| of brick. It's concrete foundations eX-
tend down IA feet into the ground and
| have 16-fOot base upon solid ledge.
The mill is equipped throughout with
an automatic sprinkler system in
stalled by w Y. Montgomery of Ban
gor. In case of fire q large gong in
the engine room, electrically arranged,
sounds an alarm which can be heard
considerable distance. The Kenne-
bee Water District will furnish hy-
drant service in addition to the river
supply, so that the plant has ample
protection from fire at all times.
The company has been all winter en-
gagged in building new piers and top
ping ont old ones on its boom proper
| tics recently acquired from the old
| time holders, and the facilities Tor
| handling and storing logs that come
| by the river will be second to none on
the Nenncbcc. Judkins, Boom, Rock
| ard Lilly islands are now owned by
the company along with some valua-
| bic shore rights and the Farrar boom,
so called, on the east side of the river,
long known as one of tht safest places
| for holding logs, especially during
| frcshct pitches of water. The river be-
tween the boom and the mill is divided
off into sections, for the down river
logs in the main channel and the COM
| panv logs on the west side. The west
side section will also separate the COM
| rany logs according to kinds when
they are let down to the mill. and the
mill basin has been made doubly Sc
! I. head
from the northeast corner of the mill
| into the river over what was previ-
ously a ledge point with very swift
| currents playing about it. a new boom
house is to be erected above the site
Of the old one and will have modern
fittings throughout 1t will have an
icchousc adjoining and refrigerator
plant and the % men or so who will do
the boom work are assured of excellent
accommodation as river life goes.
The Maine Central will have sidings
running from its main line nearby to
| the mill, passing up the west side OF
| the mill and bending in q circle to the
westward along the lower shore Of the
mill basin for the bringing in of car
| logs and on either side of the big plat
form at the south end of the mill for
| general shipping purposes.
The company has recently purchased
| the Taylor farm of about 115 acres.
| The larger part of which is situated on
| the west side of the main highway
| leading from Fairfield to ShaWlnut.
/ The piling grounds for the pine out
| put of the mill will be south of the
mill, for spruce and other lumber on
| he west side of the main highway,
where the lumber will be conveyed
principally by cars, it being the plan
Of this company to do away almost
| entirely with the team system of con-
veyance. The Taylor farmhouse just
opposite the mill will be converted into
II first-class boarding house for the
| accommodation of the employees of
! the mill. Frank Robichaud, we'll
known to the lumber jackics along the
Nenncbcc. will be the landlord.
The company Will consume about
| 100000 feet or logs a season. 1t will
| operate extensively on the Sapling and
| Little Squaw Mountain townships Of
| tie NcWhall & Gibson heirs in the