The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-02-10

rect primary bill for consideration at
the next session of the legislature and
the development of public sentiment
In its favor. 1t is proposed to use the
initiative II the Legislature refuses to
pass the measure.
A. e. Chandler of Sabatis. says that
he has discovered some new enemies
of the brown-tail moth that are far
more effective than any human enc
mics. On his place are several gray
squirrels and blue Jays and these
have made general cleaning out of
the nests on his trees. The gray
squirrel will venture out on the small
est twigs to secure moth nest and
when 1t IL In his possession he tears
it into the smallest fragments. The
jays are equally destructive to the
nests and devour the eggs with great
activity. Mr.. Chandler says that ev-
cry squirrel and blue Jay Is worth
ten dollars for this work alone.
Northport, q Waldo county summer
resort, is enjoying boom. The two
new cottages and improvements at
Saturday cove will, 1t is said, cost
in the neigborhood of 100000; a
$4,000 bungalow has just been COM
pleted on the shore near Little River
for Mr.. Hartman, who talks of build
| ing others, and If MI. Cote bids the
magnificent summer home on Hillside
Farm for which plans have been
drawn 1t will represent an invest
ment of $4,000 or more. Then the
hotel at Temple Heights will no
doubt be completed and ready for &C.
cupancv the coming season, ald the
ownership Of the wharf at Morthport
Campgronnd 6y the Eastern Steam
ship Co., and its enlargement, must
be of benefit to that resort.
The annual meeting of the Maine
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution will be at the Falmouth
hotel, Portland, on Tuesday. Feb. %.
The business meeting will be at 10
o'clock a. M, when the annual reports
will be presented, officers for the
year elected, and such other business
will receive attention as may properly
come before the society. After the
business meeting, reception will be
held in the Maine room, giving all
an opportunity to meet the speakers
and the new officers of the society.
The annual dinner Of the society will
occur at / D. M, during which there
will be music. The after-dinner
speakers will be the president and
Hon. Jas. O. Lyford of Boston. The
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton and friends of members or 9TH
ers who are interested in patriotic
work. are invited to celebrate Wash
| ington's birthday with the society.
| Maine apples are bound to come to
the front and stay there. Last Oc-
toher, When the apple packers were
packing L. j. Strouts apples at Lex
ington, he wrote a letter and enclosed
few stamps, requesting the pur-
chaser to write him the date they
were opened, the name and residence
of the purchaser, the condition of the
apples, price paid per barrel, etc.
Mr.. Strout has received letter from
the purchaser dated February ~, say
ing he opened the barrel containing
the letter on the 25th of December
and found the apples in fine condi-
ton and very fine fruit. The pur-
chaser has fruit stand in the Stra-
broke market in Georgetown. Demer-
ara, British Guiana, South America
The price paid was nine dollars per
barrel for No. rs and eight dollars
for No. rs. The purchaser of the
fruit wished Mr.. Strout to send at
once quite a quantity of like fruit
as we'll az cabbage, turnips, carrots
etc. This lot OF apples, some two
hundred barrels or more, was ship
ped south by Portland firm.
The pelts of Maine fur-bearing ami
mails were never 30 valuable as at
the present time and trappers who
have a successful season with their
traps this season are bound to realize
handsomely ON their winters work
Skunk, muskrat and lynx are to be
especially priced next season. accord
ing to present indications, and 1t is
believed that there will be an advance
of fully so per cent In the price OF
raw pelts of these animals within the
next few weeks. Trappers in Maine
are now marketing their pelts and
are getting good returns. The pres
ent price list for furs, conservatively
given, IL about as follows: Mink,
$3.50 to IS; coon, 80 cents to $3.50;
musk-rat fall skins) Is cents to So
cents; red fox, 2 to IS; otter, $40 to
| $25; wild cat, so cents to 50; skunk
81, to 50; bear. $40 to $50; Fisher, IS
to SIS; lynx, IS to $40; beaver. "a
to 81; silver-fox, 500 up. The above
price list is not q hard and fast one.
Trappers who succeed In getting ex-
ira fine large and prime pelts will
probably be able to get bigger fig
ures for them than as above rated
Maine furs always bring the best
prices and naturally command the
market.
Although early for final estimates
of the logs cut on the KennebeC wa
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