Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-17

Vile and Winslow would do well to
| visit these shops.
The Wyandotts Worsted Company
BY frequent increases of it's plant
and the amount OF its product, this
mill has come to be one Of the most
important industries of the commun-
ity 1t has 100 looms that are kept
running night and day by operatives
on eight hour shifts. 1t employees
40 people and has a payroll OF $12,-
600 weekly. It manufactures velours,
overcoatings and suitings of a very
high grade. This great business has
been built up in a comparatively
short time. The machinery. equip
ment and product are all Of the high
est grade.
The Noyss Stove Company
This company the successor of
Goodall & Company established in
1872 manufactures high grade cook
ing ranges. These are now sold by
agents in the different towns and by
the mail order method. Thirteen
persons are now employed. The
payroll is now $500 per week
The Reyes Fibre Company
No danger of copying here for
| there isn't another mill just like this
in the world. The business has all
| been built upon the patents of A. W..
Keyes for the manufacture Of SER
| viceable pie plates and other utensils
| from wood pulp. 1t would not seem
that any other mill Of the kind would
be needed for when the new addition
is completely equipped, the company
can manufacture 100000 daily.
Forty will be in operation. The main
buildings are 700 feet by 200 feet in
extent and in the drying room are
IS miles of pipe. The company
grinds its own wood pulp in its mill
at Shawmut; 225 people are en-
ployed working day and night on
eight hours shift. The payroll is
over $1,000 per week. Instead of coal.
fuel oil is used with very satisfactory
results. Some 5000 to 1000 gallons
a day arc consumed. The products
Of the company are sold in every
state in the union and the history
| through less than 20 years financial
strength. policy and established mar
ket position promise further eHpan-
sion. The factory occupies a part
of two towns and two counties now,
and possibly will annex another.
The Horace Purinton Company
The firm are General Contractors,
To their credit are many of the pub
! lie buildings of this cit, large share
OF Augustus best and many notable
constructions throughout the State.
The average payroll of the company
| is about S4509,00 weekly. This review,
however. considers only the local
brick yard. Here 100000 brick arc
! burned per season. These brick be-
cause perhaps of the chemical COM
position of the clay are exceedingly
strong and are in demand for mills
and heavy construction. Enough
clay and sand are in the vicinity of
the yard to support it's demands for
&; hundred years. Thirty-five men
are employed in season the payroll
then amounting to 100000 weekly.
The Lombard Traction Engine Co.
! This another of the unique indus
! tries of the city. In 1900 in the Web
Der & Philbrick machine shop, Mr.. A.
! o. Lombard manufactured a tractor
with the then entirely known equip
lnent called the caterpillar tread. The
! tractor was a success from the start.
! Has been largely copied and furnish
ed the basic idea for the locomotion
/ for the Armored Tank that were so Ell
fective in the German war. The fac
tory for tie building of the Log
Haulers' as they were called because
of their adaptation to hauling logs
in immense loads from the woods to
the rivers. Soon after logging sleds
! were made a part OF the company.
| The enlarged plant can build from
! $50 tractors per year according to the
demand. Wrighte outside of New
England have been sold to western
! capitalists The factory employees
about 80 people. has payroll of
$4,000 per week.
! The Central Maine Power Company
! This is both building of industries
and an industry in itself. Fourteen
! of the sixteen industries in Water
vile -Winslow mentioned in this re-
view, depend upon the Central Maine
! Power company for their illumina-
! ton. The company employees 100 per-
sons in Waterville and has payroll
of nearly a quarter of Il million dol
lars annually. Some years ago an
! engineer was called in who reported
! that the company had developed all
the power it could protitably sell and
! that the future growth of the con-
j sumption of electricity was very linn
! tied. At that time the company was
! lighting about 1000 residences and
| supplying about 2000 II. 2. for bus
! mess purposes. Today the Central
| Maine Power Company is serving
about 1000 residences and supplying
| 1000 H. p. in Waterville and Winslow
alone. You will remember that the
! birthplace of Central Maine Power
was at the Oakland Cascade 1t has
grown until it now serves nearly
| third of the State in 135 cities and
! towns. The Capitalization of trunk
lines at Waterville gives a great pow
er advantage. The company has built
since the erection of the Oakland
, plant, stations at Fairfield. Water
vile. Oakland and Winslow the ag-
Gregate n. p. of which is $500. The
company can on twenty four hours
notice supply an additional hundred,
! thousand or ten thousand of RI. 2.
j The advantage of cheap electrical
power available in any amount gives
the city a pre- eminence for manufac-