February 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1881


Moyle is selling his Lake Superior stocks and buying Blue Hill.


* * * * * The ice is now being harvested by our


ice dealers in the Penobscot opposite the city is about thirty inches in thickness. * * * * *


The schooner FANNIE & EDITH


recently arrived at Blue Hill with mining supplies has been frozen in the ice of Blue Hill Bay.


* * * * * The protracted cold weather of the


last few weeks has already closed the port of Bucksport to navigation. The harbor of Belfast is also understood to be frozen over and unless a very radical change in the temperature is experienced very soon the Penobscot Bay will be one sheet of ice and navigation will be entirely suspended.


11 February Page 91. The steamer MURIEL, which arrived


at New York Friday, reported January 30, Lat. 32 55, Long. 69 36, passed a square decked lighter apparently not long adrift. It is thought that the above is the hull of the MILLECENT, the steamer belonging to the Atrato Mining Company, which was on deck of the MACHECA when she sailed. She was loaded cross wise of the vessel and the ends of the MILLECENT were not more than eight feet above the water. It is probable that in a storm it was necessary to cut away the lighter to save the vessel. Much anxiety is manifested in regard to the safety of the MACHECA.


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An ice house is being built at Blue Hill in the vicinity of the Pendleton House.


Page 92. A company is being organized in this


city for the purchase of a steamer to run on the route between Rockland and Ellsworth via Blue Hill. The line will be permanently opened in the spring. A fi ne side wheel steamer is to be bought. [Rockland Courier]


18 February Page 124. The Rockland Courier says Brown’s


Lime kiln at the north end of Rockland is being thoroughly repaired and has been leased by Farrand & Spear.


4 March Page 140. The Rockland Courier says the new


Rockland and Blue Hill Steamboat Com- pany, Monday concluded bargaining for a steamer for their route, resulting in the purchase of a side-wheel steamer of about 200 tons, and said to be very fast. She will be put in thorough repair, and will go on the route about April 1st


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11 March Page 150. Mr. Horace Jordan of Boston, one of the


principle owners of the steamer MOUNT DESERT has been in Maine the past week, perfecting arrangements for running the boat the coming summer. It is expected she will commence her trips between Rockland, Bar Harbor and Sullivan immediately.


Page 157. By way of Liverpool, England, we


have received a tasty circular from Mr. W. E. Brown, the well-known steamship agent of this city. Mr. Brown represents all the leading steamship lines and off ers superior facilities to those contemplating a trip to for- eign shores. He has perfected arrangements for booking passengers by the best lines for


nearly all parts of the world, and, by the aid of reliable correspondence, is enabled to place funds in any desired quarter, by mail or telegraph.


18 March Page 172. The steamer MOUNT DESERT will not


commence her trips from Rockland to Bar Harbor and Sullivan at present as she goes to Boston to receive new boilers. Meanwhile a steamer recently chartered will go on the route and makes her fi rst trip tomorrow.


25 March Page 183. S. Z. Dickerson, superintendent of the


Deer Isle mine, passed through Bangor on Tuesday last on his way to St. John, where he goes to purchase material for the wharf to be built at the mine immediately. He re- ports everything looking well at the mine, Stoping has now commenced and the drifts are capable of supplying a large amount of ore.


* * * * * It is with pleasure we welcome to the


mining regions of Maine another mining superintendent of great practical experience and of very high standing among mining men. We refer to Captain Daniel Dunn, who has been elected superintendent of the Stewart Mine of Blue Hill and has at once taken charge of this very valuable mining property. Captain Dunn for many years was engaged in copper mining at Lake Superior and more recently had charge of the White Mountain mine in New Hampshire and is known among copper men as a superinten- dent of exceptional ability. We are confi dent he will prove a very valuable acquisition to our mining interests.


Captain Thomas Pollard, Superinten-


dent of the Cape Rosier mine, has fi gured conspicuously in New England mining during the past quarter of a century. In 1854 he assumed the superintendency of the now celebrated Vershire copper mine in the State of Vermont and under his management the mine developed into a great and remuner- ative mining property dividing regularly among its stockholders handsome divi- dends. In 1863, her terminated his engage- ment with the Vershire mine and devoted his energies to reporting on mining properties but in 1865 at the very earnest solicitation of the management he returned to the Vershire mine and remained in charge till 1869. It is fortunate for the mining interests of the State that such a competent mining man has come among us.


Page 187.


The ice is gone out of Blue Hill Bay. * * * * *


The ice left the Penobscot on Sunday


last and the port of Bangor is now open to navigation.


* * * * * The steamer MAY FIELD on Wednes-


day made a trip from this city to Blue Hill with a large amount of freight. * * * * *


A schooner sails from this city to Blue


Hill in a few days with a cargo of bricks for the Twin Lead Copper Mining Company. * * * * *


Little Duck Island has been sold re-


cently by the State of New York parties who propose to engage in mining. The island is situated some miles to the south of Mount Desert.


* * * * * The first Penobscot salmon of the


season was received in Boston by Messrs. Shattuck & Jones, Faneuil Hall Market on


Page 219. The steamer SASANOA is now making


semi-weekly trips between Sullivan and Rockland connecting at the latter city with Portland and Boston steamers. * * * * *


The steamer CITY OF RICHMOND


has recently been thoroughly overhauled and put in excellent condition and will run during the summer between Portland and Mount Desert.


Page 220. The steamer HENRY MORRISON


commenced this week running regular trips between Rockland and Blue Hill. The HEN- RY MORRISON is a very commodious


Page 252. The steamer MAY FIELD made a trip


from this city to Blue Hill and Ellsworth on Wednesday with a large amount of freight. * * * * *


The steamer NELLIE KANE recently


built in Brewer under the charge of Captain S. H. Barbour has departed this week to


Continued on Page 26.


22 April Page 247.


Penobscot River steamboat captains


when they fi nd themselves in danger of be- ing talked to death by inquisitive passengers seek relief by shouting, “man overboard”.


Tuesday morning last. It weighed about 15 pounds and was sold entire to Young’s Hotel for $1.50 per pound.


Page 188. Mr. E. M. Hersey and Mr. T. N. Egery,


of this city, and Superintendent Duff of the Twin Lead, are to build a wharf at once on Peters Point in Blue Hill Harbor. This location is an exceptionally favorable one for a wharf privilege and it is proposed to have several of the mining companies take an interest in the enterprise. * * * * *


Mr. E. M. Hersey is getting up a party


in this city to visit Blue Hill on Wednesday next by the steamer MAY FIELD. A large number of prominent citizens of Bangor have signifi ed their intention to join in the excursion. The steamer will leave Bangor Wednesday forenoon and return Thursday afternoon. Persons desiring to go should leave word at Mr. Hersey’s brokerage offi ce. Price $2 for the round trip. * * * * *


The Bangor and Bar Harbor Steamboat


Line is a progressive organization as is evidenced by the building and equipping during the past winter of two new and handsome steamers. These have been named the QUEEN CITY and LITTLE BUTTER- CUP, and with the CITY OF BANGOR and MAY FIELD already owned by the line, the company is supplied with a good number of very superior steamers. It is the intention of the company to fully attend to the wants of the travelling public and every possible convenience will be provided. The spring arrangement is to have the MAY FIELD make weekly trips to Bar Harbor, leaving Bangor on Saturday mornings and make weekly trips to Sedgwick, leaving Bangor on Wednesday mornings. Frequent trips will be made to Blue Hill and before long the steamers will touch there regularly.


1 April Page 204. The steamboat companies are preparing


to accommodate a great amount of summer travel to Eastern Maine during the coming summer. * * * * * It is now a certainty that a steam ferry


boat will soon replace the craft that has for many years plied back and forth over the tempestuous waters at West Sullivan ferry. A neat and commodious steam ferry boat is now being built at Franklin and will proba- bly be running on this route by early summer. This will be a very great convenience to the travelling public.


8 April Page 215. Captain Dunn has returned to Blue Hill


from Boston and is now devoting himself actively to the interests of the Stewart Com- pany.


steamboat and is destined to accommodate a very large amount of travel during the coming summer.


* * * * * Monday morning the lime burners of


the Point, numbering about 70 men, struck for an increase of wages from $1.25 to $1.50 a day, and discontinued work when refused. The kilns remained deserted all day and the men were determined to stick until wages were increased. Tuesday the Cobb Lime Company after having investigated the matter and found that the demand was just, gave notice to the men that their demands were acceded to, and the lime burners went to work with a cheer. This will increase the wages of kiln laborers all over the city. [Rockland Courier]


15 April Page 235. The price of lime has dropped to 90


cents per cask in New York and freights from Rockland to that port are dull at 20 cents per cask. [Bangor Commercial] * * * * * The logs for the new wharf at Peters’


Point in Blue Hill have been towed over from Ellsworth by the steamer HENRY MORRI- SON. James Davis, formerly of Bangor, has contracted to build the wharf. * * * * *


There were shipped last Wednesday, by


the steamer MAY FIELD, twenty-six matte and slag pots from the Hinckley and Egery Iron Foundry in this city to the Douglass Smelting Works at Blue Hill. * * * * *


Work on the breakwater in Rockland


harbor began this week. Operations have commenced on Jameson’s Point and will extend southerly into the harbor until the present appropriation is expended.


Page 236. The Rockland Courier says the new


steamer for the Sanford line will be built at once. She is to be about the size of the CAMBRIDGE and the machinery will be built at the Atlantic Works, Boston. Messrs. Smith and Townsend of East Boston are the contractors.


* * * * * Our Rockland correspondent writes


“Last year the steamer HERCULES plied between Rockland and Blue Hill, but she was sold last winter and as the route seemed a good one a new company has been formed with George Gregory as President. This company have purchased the steamer HENRY MORRISON of Kennebec fame and after being put in thorough repair she has commenced regular trips. She will leave Rockland every Thursday and Saturday morning after the arrival of the Boston and Portland steamboats, touch as Northwest Harbor, Green’s Landing and Deer Isle and leave Blue Hill on return every Monday and Friday at 9 AM.


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