Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-24

! have difficulty in finding the right par
ties to serve on such d committee, but
| IN all events it seems eminently proper
| II a Board in It's individual invcstiga
ton discovers that an Industrial promo
| ter is d fraud and unreliable that
knowledge should be impaired to the
| other Boards affiliated with the State
Board. Among the questions especial
| " pertinent is, in what directions the
| State Board can be most helpful to the
| local Boards affiliated with it.
Maine is today enjoying a period OF
| industrial prosperity. There is gen.
eral freedom from strikes and the only
| serious labor troubles within our Dor
ders have just been satisfactorily ad
| juSted at the cotton mills of the York
| Mfg. Co, Saco. Many new industrial
enterprises are 3pringing up in differ
cnt parts of the State and now that tht
tariff Legislation has at last been con
| summatcd III" uncertainty previously
CXiStinG IS over. Important manufac'
turing plants are being erected in va
riuus sections, numerous electric pow
| er enterprises are being inaugurated
and in the fangoley region the Andres
| coggin Resei vOir Company have pro
| jected tie Magalloway storage basin
With the advent of fall the seaside re
sorts are closing their doors although
| the inland hotels and camps Will con
! tinuc fer awhile longer to be centres o
attraction. There has been q large
! volUE.e of summer travel and the out
! look is promising for a busy season a
the sporting camps this autumn when
| lovers of the rifle pursue antlered tro'
!. ohies. Large has been the volume o
Z uilding operations, and while there i
| aturally more new construction L
| some sections than in others the build
| ng industry seems to be greatly actiV'
/ throughout the State. Portland ha
| ommcnccd work on her new city Hal
| md at Augusta plans have been mad
| or the proposed extension of the State
| louise. for which the last Legislature
| appropriated $3.50 900. Portland is hav
ng q new federal court house. and al
| unusual number of pOSt-oftceS arr
now building or locations being acuulr
ed foI the same, those at Auburn. ia
IarLor, and Calais being we'll under
| way while the Augusta pOst-o.licc l
| undergoing very material enlargement
| practically doubling it's capacity. II
| Sanger important additions are benz
| made to the Eastern Maine Genera
Hospital and to the Eastern Maine III
| ,ane Hospital. Names financial instl
| ,utions are in many instances errcctins
| ,cw and substantial homes. BAN
| Buildings have recently been complet
| ID in Bar Harbor LubeC, Phillips ant
ut. Fairfield, while among those now II
process of erection are edifices for tn
first National Bank of SkoWhcgan
1.-THE Shoe & Leather National Bank
| Auburn; Bath National Bank. Bath:
City National Bank. Belfast; and Hal
lowell Savings Institution, Halloween
The state Loan Company is building il
Portland. Names first Sky scraper III
| The line of business blocks. next to the
Ares Building of Boston the tallest IL
New England. and the first story o,
this ten story structure will be the
home of the Fidelity Trust Company.
I'm the line of new railroad construc-
ton work has been confined cnleny u
| AroOstook County. But the lmportati'
railroad developments now rapidly APP
proacnirg completion in Names north'
ern county the Bangor & Aroostook
Railroad, which has been such an I'M
portant factor in opening up the re
sources of the expansive territory o.
the Northeast. will have added to II:
mileage in 1909 eighty-seven miles. The
: rails are al. laid on the extension OF
fifteen miles from Van Buren, to Crane
Isle and the road will be ready fol-
: operation about Oct. LIST. Rails are
laid fer eigi,, miles on the exterSion 81
seventeen miles from FIT. Kent to st
Francis and the new line will probably
i be ready for business by the middle o.
: October Rails are also being laid ant
lwork being prosecuted most Vigorousl!
| on the line of seven miles from Presqu'
Isle to Mapleton and on the cutoff o
las miles from Squa Fan to Stockholm
! and these new roads will be completed
= in November. The B. & AS expansion
during 1909 has given employment t
several thousand men and involves al
expenditure in excess of S2,30O,000. Th
Maine Central Railroad, in pursuance
of its policy of improving its roadbed
e has throughout the season kept larg
crews busy and during the past tisca
year has expended on maintenance o
= way Sl.231, 500. The Lewiston. Angus
ia & Watervil!e Electric Railway l
building from Winslow to Waterville
new and substantial concrete brldg
over the kennebec. Among the rev
electric street railways projected. an
expected to be constructed during 1911
. is the Portland, Gray and Lewlsto
line and one from Camden to Beifas'
''The weather has at times been er
ratio this season and in some section
the farmers have had obstacles to con
4 tend with The spring was backward
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