Page 26. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2018 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industrial Journal - 1880 Continued from Page 25.


14 October Page 230. Captain John W. Bennett was in the


city a few evenings since and called on the “Mining Journal”. The captain has for sever- al weeks been engaged in mining operations at Sullivan. During a portion of the present week he has visited a mining property in Guilford in which he is interested.


Page 236. The steamer CITY OF BANGOR has been sold to Boston parties for $15,000.


21 October Page 246-7. Captain J. H. Moyle, superintendent


of Blue Hill, and Captain William Ludlow, superintendent of Young Heels, were in Bangor on Friday last and made an agreeable call on the “Mining Journal”.


28 October Page 262. Captain Thomas Tapley of the Tapley


mine, Brooksville, was in the city on Satur- day last.


* * * * * Mr. Edwin T. Johnson, engineer of the


steamer MOUNT DESERT, who recently had his skull fractured by the walking beam of his engine, has recovered suffi ciently to walk out and will doubtless recover. His escape from death has been miraculous.


Page 269. The new steamer PENOBSCOT was


launched in East Boston on Tuesday last. She will be put on the route between Boston and the Penobscot in January next. * * * * *


The Cobb Lime Company of Rockland


are carrying on an extensive business. The Courier says they have loaded sixteen ves- sels for various ports during last week, with a total of 14,000 casks. During the present week they have sent away 9,000 casks by vessel and 1,500 by rail. The shipments by


rail have largely increased, the total being 325 cars for last year, while up to the present time this year, 460 cars have been shipped. There is good demand, the New York market continuing steady at $1.10 and $1.25.


4 November Page 284. A new steamer is being built opposite


Bangor for the Bangor and Bar Harbor Line. * * * * *


The Cobb Lime Company of Rockland


have shipped 13,000 barrels of lime by wa- ter during the past week. They also shipped 1,200 barrels by rail, and have orders for 1,100 more, which has to remain over on account of the scarcity of cars.


Page 285. Captain Otis Smith of Brooksville


brought to our offi ce a few days since some surface specimens from a ledge recently dis- covered by him, on the Otis Farnham place, in that town. As this property is within the limits of a rich mineral belt, the showing is suffi ciently encouraging to warrant further explorations.


11 November Page 301. The shipments made by the Cobb


Lime Company, during the past week have been very light on account of bad weather, aggregating only 7,200 barrels. The total would have run up to 20,000 barrels had the weather been fair.


* * * * * The bones of a walrus, recently dug out


of the banks of Pleasant River, in the town of Addison, and presented to the Portland Natural History Society by Major C. H. Boyd, was the subject for a post mortem examination and discussion by the members of that body, at their meeting on Monday evening last.


* * * * * At the Mount Waldo Granite Works, in


Frankfort, granite is now being taken out for the Utica Custom House. During the present season about two hundred workmen


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have been employed and a larger business has been carried on at these Works than for many years past. The number is now being reduced and during the winter months about seventy-fi ve men will be employed. * * * * *


The brick making in the town of Pe-


nobscot has been lively the past season. The following number have been manufactured since May 1st


: Bowdoin & Grindle, 954,000;


Wardwell, Leach & Sellers, 576,000; M. T. Leach, 396,000; D. Grindle & Sons, 378,000; W. S. Hutchins & Son, 360,000; total, 2,664,000. To burn these, 1,000 cords of wood have been used and 40 men have been employed.


* * * * * As will be seen by advertisement in


another column, Mr. C. B. Wyman, well- known in the business of building and re- pairing vessels for the past fi fteen years, has opened a hardware store at the old Schwartz stand, 141 Exchange Street. The store has been remodeled and refi tted throughout, and is furnished with a very complete line of hardware goods, all new and fresh from market.


* * * * * The sea serpent has been seen again, this


time in inland waters. It was in the Machias Chain Lakes and Mr. Eb. Hall of Calais, was the individual who met with the encounter. In relating the story he waxeth earnest, is impatient at any expression of doubt, and his excitement, evidently unfeigned, con- vinceth his listeners. It was broad daylight, 11 o’clock AM, the hour, when he beheld the spectacle and of course he cannot be mistaken. He and another logger were on the shore of the lake when a serpent came around a point at great speed and with his head six feet in air, bore down upon them. When very close to Mr. Hall and his horror stricken companion the monster, on ac- count of shallow water or from some other cause, suddenly turned and went down the lake and through the thoroughfare, “like a steamboat” leaving a great wake behind. The serpent according to Mr. Hall and his fellow witness was as “big round as a port barrel,” not less than fi fty feet long and measured at least two feet across the head. Immense scales covered his back, which at one time appeared above the water. Mr. Hall never wants “to see such a sight again” and will scorn hereafter all men who in his presence express the opinion that the sea serpent is a myth.


Page 316. A vessel arrived in this port recently


from Nova Scotia with a cargo of plaster rock for Morse & Company. * * * * *


A small steamer is to be built in Lam-


oine this winter to ply over the waters of Frenchman’s Bay next season. * * * * *


Two vessels were loaded with ore last


week at the Cape Rosier Mine, one for Portland Smelting Works and the other for Bergen Point, New Jersey. * * * * *


The large schooner WEIR G. SAR-


GENT is at Blue Hill loading with paving stones from the granite quarry of Wescott and Hinckley for New Orleans. * * * * *


The large and handsome steamer now


being built at Bath for the International Line between St. John, Portland and Boston, is to be named the STATE OF MAINE. * * * * *


The fi ne little steamer RIVER BELLE


will be moved to Pushaw Lake in the spring and will be run during the summer for the accommodation of excursionists and plea- sure seekers.


* * * * * The amount of lime shipped by the


Cobb Lime Company during the past week was 16,300 barrels, of which 1,300 were shipped by rail. Seven hundred barrels were held back on account of the scarcity of cars. [Rockland Courier]


Page 317. The steamer MAY FIELD has com-


menced running between Bucksport and Rockland. She will leave Rockland every Monday and Thursday at 9:30 AM, touching at Camden and Belfast, connecting at Buck- sport with the afternoon train for Bangor. Returning, leaves Bucksport every Tuesday and Friday.


18 November Page 311. Captain J. H. Moyle, superintendent of


Blue Hill, made a brief trip to Bangor on Monday.


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