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HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1880 The Rockland Opinion states that on


was held so tight that the fi sh was killed. It weighed 300 pounds. * * * * *


Captain Dennison of the steamer


RICHMOND while at the wharf at Jone- sport, Saturday night, fell off the steamer a distance of 25 feet striking in four feet of water. It was quite dark and no one knew of the accident until the Captain called for help, and then was supposed to be a hand (????) or passenger until he was rescued and on the wharf. He sustained some bruises about the face and head, but it is hoped not serious. Although it is wondered how a man could survive such a fall.


Page 236. The U.S. Coast Survey steamer AE-


GRE is now in Sullivan harbor and the steam launch and boats connected with the Hy- drographic Survey are very busily engaged in the work of sounding and measuring the waters of Frenchman’s Bay. So says the Sullivan Bulletin.


* * * * * A fi nely modeled three-masted schoo-


ner of about 300 tons was launched from the Wyman’s shipyard on Monday last. She is built in the most thorough and substantial manner throughout and refl ects much credit upon the builders. The vessel is owned by Bangor gentlemen and will be commanded by Captain Trask. She is named the MELIS- SA TRASK, in honor of the captain’s wife and will engage in the general coasting trade. * * * * *


There are at present eight sardine facto-


ries in Eastport, running full blast, night and day, turning out weekly about 3,500 cases ready for market and giving employment to about six hundred hands, male and female. The pay roll of these factories foots up to some $6,000 per week. During the past two months there has been an abundant supply of fi sh and the prospects are excellent for a good fall’s work. In a few weeks there will be three more factories added to the number, which will give employment to about 150 more hands.


Page 248. The Cape Cod Canal New York men are to build the much


talked about Cape Cod Canal, and have formed a company for this purpose with $8,000,000 capital; of which $1,500,000 is paid in. The surveys were completed some weeks ago, and last week the work was com- menced on the canal by New Jersey parties. Twenty-fi ve hundred men are to be engaged in cutting the canal through the Cape. It will be seven and three-fourths miles long, 141 feet wide at the top, six feet wide at the bottom, and will have an average depth of 35 feet. The great advantage will be derived from the canal cannot be over estimated, as vessels will pass directly between Buzzard’s and Barnstable bays without rounding Cape Cod. There will be a savings of 90 miles in the distance and 8 hours in the time between New York and Boston, and the great danger of navigation in going round the Cape will be averted. It is estimated that upwards of 50 lives are lost annually by shipwrecks on Cape Cod.


Page 251. The St. John (New Brunswick) Tele-


graph of October 7 says, “A schooner arrived in port yesterday with 100 tons of silver ore from the mine at Deer Island, Maine, and which is to be sent to Liverpool by Messrs. Thomson & Company’s vessel, the JAMESTOWN.”


* * * * *


Page 332. Captain J. W. Bennett of New York


passed through Bangor early this week en route for Guilford. The captain says a party of Boston and New York capitalists will visit Guilford in a few days with a view of pur- chasing the old Guilford mine and carrying on extensive developments. * * * * * Within a day or two contracts will be


given out for seven more iron steamboats for the New York harbor excursion fl eet, similar to the fi ve already contracted for by John Roach and Messrs. Cramp. The vessels are to be capable of carrying 2,000 passen- gers each, and will cost from $200,000 to $300,000 apiece.


* * * * * Steamer HERCULES has been hauled


off the Blue Hill route and the HURRICANE will make the last trip to that place on Thursday, returning Friday. Steam commu- nication between Rockland and Blue Hill is thus severed until spring, when a sidewheel steamer will be put on the route, either by General Tilson or other parties. The route has paid well this season. [Rockland Couri- er]


Page 363. The ice men are staking off claims and


preparing for mining operations on the river. The jumpers too have put in an appearance.


Page 380. The Cobb Lime Company have pur-


chased the John W. Hunt wharf and kiln privilege at Rockland for $2,750. * * * * *


At the meeting of the directors of the


Sanford Steamship Company, held on Tues- day, it was voted to build a new steamboat of about 400 tons, to be placed upon the route between Boston and Bangor. James Littlefi eld, Superintendent, William H. Hill, Jr., treasurer, and William L. Sturtevant, a director, were appointed to a committee to obtain plans and specifi cations for building the same. S. G. Downes was appointed agent at Bangor.


* * * * * will on the 16th


The steamer CITY OF RICHMOND be withdrawn from the


route between Portland and Machias for the winter and the steamer LEWISTON will on the 17th


take her place, making weekly


trips during the winter months. The Portland and Machais Steamboat Line has during the past season done a very large business. The steamers CITY OF RICHMOND and


Saturday the bluff on the side of the limerock quarry of Mr. Silas McLoon fell in. Several men were at work directly under the hanging mass a moment before it fell. They were warned by a cracking noise and small pieces of sail detaching themselves, and got out of the way just in time to avoid a terrible fate. An immense bulk of earth and rock fell in, and the expense of removing it and getting that portion of the quarry into working order will amount to several hundred dollars.


Page 316. Work has commenced at Oakes’ ship-


yard on the two new steamers for the Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Company.


Page 331. An eff ort has been made to secure a


steamer to take the place of the MOUNT DESERT this winter on the Sullivan route, but without avail. Steamers CITY OF BANGOR and MAY FIELD, were talked of, but neither proved available. [Rockland Courier]


LEWISTON are off ered by accomplished and obliging gentlemen and the line is very popular with the traveling public. In Hon. Edward Cushing the company have a very able and effi cient manager.


Page 406. Captain Moyle, Superintendent of


the Blue Hill Copper Mining and Smelt Company arrived in the city from Blue Hill Wednesday evening. The captain is very enthusiastic in regard to the possibilities of Blue Hill and predict a great future for the camp.


Page 423. Captain Charles Field, formerly of


Searsport, is now a member of the Leadville police force.


Page 28. The lime kilns of Thomaston burned


1881


112,000 barrels of lime in 1880. Page 38.


Captain J. H. Moyle, Superintendent of


Blue Hill, is in Boston on business connect- ed with the mine.


* * * * * Captain M. K. Chase of Blue Hill is


doing business in his new and elegant store. It is the fi nest establishment in town. * * * * *


Superintendent Duff of the Twin Lead


has leased a site at Peter’s Point, Blue Hill, where he intends to build a large wharf, with a good roadway leading to it and accessible to large vessels at all times of tide and at any season of the year.


* * * * * Colonel W. A. Le Row, of the Conser-


vative, sailed yesterday from New York in the steamer CITY OF WASHINGTON, for Vera Cruz, to examine some valuable mines in the state of Michoacan, Old Mexico, in the interest of a syndicate of New York gentle- men. Colonel Le Row will be absent some two months necessitating a postponement of his visit to Blue Hill. Mr. John F. Norris, associate editor of the Conservative, will assume the management of the paper during his absence.


Page 41.


Lime Quarries of Rockland. The people of the city of Rockland have


been engaged in the burning of lime for the past 80 years and during all that period have maintained the reputation of manufacturing a superior article. The quarries are situated about a mile back from the coast, the veins running in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction. The main vein has been opened for near-


ly three miles of its length, the mineral being removed the full width of the vein, which averages about 100 feet. The dip of the veins is nearly vertical and so far as can be judged from the surface, they extend to an indefi nite depth, and apparently are inexhaustible. Years ago lime was often sent to New


Orleans, Mobile and other ports in the Gulf; but since its manufacture began in the west none as been sent so far. This year cargoes have been delivered as far south as Charles- ton and as far east as Halifax. Less than one-half of all the lime


shipped goes to the ports of Boston and New York, the balance being delivered at various points along the coast between the two places named above. As most of the lime is used for plastering purposes the business depends upon the amount of building and repairing being done along the coast. The business for 1879 was extremely light, the


price of lime reaching the low price of 55 cents per cask, and but a slight demand for it at that price. During the year 1880, however, there was a slight revival in the business, a greater demand for lime and an advance in price, selling at the close of the season for 75 cents per cask. Although the past year was fairly busy


compared with the few years preceding it, yet not one half of the working capacity of the kilns already built was used. The advance in the price of lime during the year does not indicate an equal amount of profi t; for with the advance of lime came a demand for more wages and a higher price for materials. Twenty-fi ve cents per day was added to


all laborers’ wages and the price of wood and casks increased one-third, so that the prof- its to the manufacturer are but little above those of last year. The shipment of lime from Rockland for the past year amounted to 725,000 casks. Of this amount, 50,000 casks went by rail, the balance by water, representing about 750 cargoes. The steady call for lime and the indications at the close of the year augur well for the business during the coming season.


Page 44. A Rockland correspondent writes that


General Tilson has sold his steam tug HER- CULES to Boston parties to be used for towing purposes.


Page 45. The steamer, which we understand has


been purchased by the company intending to run a line of propellers between this port and New York, is the CITY OF DALLAS, of Mallory’s Texan line, owned by C. H. Mallo- ry & Company, of New York. This steamer is a wooden vessel of 942 tons register, 185 feet long, 35 feet beam and 18 feet depth of hold. She was built in the fall of 1872 at Gildersleeve’s Landing, Connecticut. Her materials are white oak and yellow pine, among others, and she is iron and copper fastened. She is double decked, has a draft of 14 feet and rates A1 for 12 years in the Re- cord, having been built under supervision. In short the CITY OF DALLAS is a fi ne vessel in every respect, and she is doubly welcome to Penobscot waters. [Commercial]


Page 55. The table showing the number and


tonnage of licensed vessels in the United States, which is part of the report of the Register of the Treasury, shows that Maine still holds her place as the leading shipping state in New England, and the second in the Union, New York alone outranking her. The total number of vessels of all descriptions, documented in the New England states, is 6,166, and their tonnage foots up 1,075,256. The smallest merchant marine in New En- gland is that of Vermont, which consists of 27 vessels, having a tonnage of 2,677. This is the most insignifi cant of any state in the Union, but larger than that of Alaska or that of the Territory of Arizona.


28 January Page 60. The Atrato Mining Expedition sailed


from Newport, Rhode Island on Wednesday night.


4 February Page 70.


Captain Moyle of the Blue Hill and


Colonel Granger of the Granger have been in Boston the past fortnight and were in Bangor yesterday on their way back to Blue Hill.


Page 76. The Boston Advertiser says Captain


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