Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-13
Canadian Company to Build
$2,500,000 Plant at NADIA
waska = To Pump Pulp
Across Line to Avoid Heavy
Duty on Magazine Paper to
Be Manufactured - e k
Right to Run Pipe Line on
international Bridge

Representatives of the Fraser
Companies, Ltd, of Canada, were
here Thursday seeking the ear of
Governor Brewster and the members
of the legislature for permission to
carry two pipe lines on the interna-
tional bridge at Madawaska. with
the purpose of erecting a $2,500,000
paper mill at Madawaska, on the
American side Of the st. John river.
This proposition is one Of the
largest ofsnew business in sight in
this state in almost a decade. 1t is
hailed here as the first answer to
the prayers and hopes of Maine for
new business and there is a general
feeling in favor Of the plan.
The proposition is one Of great
magnitude. The Fraser Companies
are owners of vast timberlands and
pulp mill properties in Canada. They
are surpassed in magnitude of BUSH
ness by perhaps the Price companies
only. They have recently bought
extensive lands in Canada and have
one sulphite mill at Edmundston,
about mile from the international
bridge at Madawaska.
The plan OF the Fraser Companies
is to pump the pulp made in Canada,
which is duty-free. across the river,
which is the Canadian boundary
line, into Madawaska on the Ameri-
can side, by means of two 16-inch
iron pipes and convert the pulp in
to magazine paper, on which there
is a duty of 20 percent. Thus the
tariff makes business for American
Workmen.
The sole request of the Fraser
Companies is for permission to carry
this pulp on the bridge. The weight
of the flowing pulp is not so great
as that of water, the pulp itself be-
ing of less specific gravity than wat
err. Thus the stress on the bridge
would be no more than that OF the
two water mains.
The Fraser Companies have seeur-
ed land and options of over 20 acres
in Madawaska. The housing propo-
sition includes development running
into more than 100000 besides the
mills themselves, which would have
a 200-ton capacity per day.
The Bangor T. Aroostook r. r. Co.,
runs directly through the property
which the Fraser Companies have in
mind, if permission can be secured
from the state of Maine and Canada,
The Bangor Il Aroostook has ar
ranged to carry it's lines to new To-
cation nearer the river and convey
the line Of its trackage to the Fraser
Companies. The town of Madawas-
ka has also made arrangements to
abandon the old highway and convey
it to the Fraser Companies If this
project goes through.
This project depends solely on the
securing of the permission to carry
the pipe lines on the bridge-sOme-
thing that is done constantly in
bridges.
The procedure will be to introduce
a legislative measure giving the
state highway commission rights
and powers to grant such permission.
This will be done provided the gov
ernor and council are agreeable to
the proposition. 1t will mean a
great slice of new business for the
railroads of Maine and OF New
England, great additions to their in
comes and a growth of that section
of the state, similar to that of Mil
linocket. 1t will also literally mean
a new town on the American side of
the st. John River.