April 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882
YORK to run on their line while the steamer LEWISTON is undergoing her usual winter repairs.
* * * * * The shipments of Portland cement last
month aggregated 464 barrels. The manu- facture of this article has been successful the past season. The works shut down this week, the last kiln being now burned. Some extensive improvements are in prospective. [Rockland Courier]
* * * * * The Portland Packing Company have
recently purchased the Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) lobster factory. They are the propri- etors of nine lobster factories in Nova Scotia, two in Cape Breton, one in Newfoundland, three of four in the State of Maine, and fi ve large sweet corn canning establishments. * * * * *
A monster octopus, or devil fi sh, was
recently washed ashore after a severe storm at Portugal Cove, near St. John’s, Newfoundland and was captured by some fi shermen. It is 33 feet in length from its tail to the termination of the long tentacles. This is alleged to be the fi rst fresh complete and unmutilated specimen of this monster that has ever been secured and landed. It has been secured and preserved by Rev. M. Harvey, who has furnished the New York Herald a three column description of the devil fi sh in general and the last capture in particular. * * * * * The Rockland Courier says: The lime
business has not been large the past week, and nearly all of the kilns have shut down for the winter. The prices for lime have ranged about as last week and freights have run from 25 to 30 cents, one charter having been reported at 27. Large number of casks have come in and the price has dropped to 18 cents. Wood has ranged from $4 to $4.50. Following are the shipments of the week. Cobb Lime Company, water Rail
7,000 500
A. F. Crockett & Company Rail
A. C. Gay & Company Farrand & Spear White & Case
[Courier]
16 December Page 357. Mr. A. E. Barclay sailed from New York
for England on Tuesday last on the steam- ship WISCONSIN of the Guion Line.
Page 378. The Sea Serpent
Thrilling adventures of Messrs. Hall and Libby – The Only Authoritative Account
St. Croix Courier, Dec. 9th As certain mis-statements concerning
the serpent seen by Messrs. Hall and Lib- by in November last have been going the rounds of the press, Mr. Hall has requested us to publish an authoritative and bona fi de version of the adventure. He claims that he has been foully misrepresented in the matter, and is not by any means backward in ex- pressing his disgust for those papers whose pages are fi lled with news obtained at second hand, and published promiscuously on no better authority than that of current report. We have known Mr. Hall for many years and have every confi dence in his statements. His story is as follows: Early in November last, he and Mr.
William Libby went up river on a lumbering expedition. Having reached the Upper Chain Lake, on Machias waters, on the 4th
of No-
vember, they sat down on the shore of the lake to partake of lunch. After fi nishing their
1,285 100
2,100 2,650 1,269
Total 14,904
repast, Mr. Libby heard a noise to which he directed Mr. Hall’s attention, and on looking in the direction from which it proceeded, they both observed, about a mile distant, what they at fi rst thought was a skiff with men in it. When it came nearer, however, they saw that it was a serpent of very large size. As nearly as they could judge, its head was carried six feet above the surface of the water, its body was as large around as a barrel and its length about fi fty feet. It approached them at the rate of about twelve miles per hour turning its head from one side to the other, as if looking for something. Mr. Hall’s theory is that it had scented the two men and was after them, but preserving their presence of mind, they lay very close and escaped unobserved. If they had been discovered, there is no doubt that both would have been quickly devoured. Mr. Hall is of the opinion that the serpent subsists on deer, which are numerous in that vicinity. There can be no doubt of the truth of
Mr. Hall’s story. That the serpent has existed there for some years is known by the Indi- ans at Peter Dennis Point and John Newell, a leading man among them, says that this serpent has been seen many times in Big Lake, above Princeton. Mr. John Williams, twenty-nine years ago, while lumbering near the Upper Lakes, also saw the same or a sim- ilar serpent. Mr. Hall proposes to organize a hunting party in the spring and exterminate the creature or die in the attempt.
23 December Page 371. Captain J. H. Moyle, superintendent of
Blue Hill, returned home yesterday from Boston. * * * * *
Captain Isaac N. Merrill, Town Trea-
surer of Blue Hill, died on Sunday last. The deceased was a much respected citizen and was considerably interested in the mines of that active camp.
Page 396. Messrs. Smith and Abbott are wintering
about 3,000 sheep at their ranch on Petit Manan Point.
* * * * * A vessel is loading at the Rosier mine
with four hundred tons of zinc ore for Bergen Point, New Jersey.
* * * * * The Penobscot is free of ice and our port
is open to navigation. The season is proving a very remarkable one.
* * * * * The family of Captain Dunn at Blue Hill
had a very narrow escape from asphyxiation by coal gas during Saturday night last. * * * * *
Fish Commissioner Stillwell has ar-
ranged for the hatching of between three and four hundred thousand salmon eggs at Enfi eld during the present winter. * * * * *
The Times says: “The Bath Iron Works
is one of our growing industries, and under the management of Hon. T. W. Hyde will increase in prominence. A specialty is made of ship machinery, for which work this es- tablishment received the highest praise from shipmasters.”
* * * * * Schooner ANN from Boston for Frank-
lin, Maine, loaded with goods for E. J. Swan, ran ashore at Spruce Head during a gale of wind and fi lled. Mr. Swan has recently bought out the lumbering fi rm of Scammon & Williams and the lost goods were supplies for his winter’s operations. They have been duplicated.
Page 413. Among the interesting statistics pre-
pared under the direction of the Superin- tendent of the Census is a report compiled by T. C. Purdy on steam navigation. The number of craft running in Maine waters is 112, valued at $1,135,700. During the sea- son of 1880 between Boston and the ports of Maine, the movement amount to 113,500 passengers and along the coast of Maine from Portland, Rockland and Mount Desert, eastward as far as Calais, it amounted to 51,557 passengers.
6 January Page 12. Every two weeks there is shipped from
1882
Rockland, Maine to the Katahdin Iron Works, via Belfast about 100 tons of lime rock to be used in the process of smelting iron ore.
* * * * * The Merrill Brothers are fi tting up their
corning canning establishment at Cumber- land centre for the packing of meats through the winter months. They will can mutton principally.
* * * * * The fi rm of S. Nickerson & Sons, fi sh
dealers, of Boothbay are intending to man- ufacture 5,000 fi sh barrels at Bristol Mills, the coming season, at the mill formerly
Page 397. A decision of importance to importers
of plumbago was rendered by the United States Supreme Court at Washington on Tuesday last in a suit brought against ex-col- lector Arthur, of New York. This was an ac- tion to recover duties paid on 800 barrels of plumbago, imported into the United States. The decision holds that plumbago may be imported free of duty.
* * * * * The season of 1882 will witness numer-
ous additions to the fl eet of steamboats on the Maine Coast. Among these will be the large steamer PENOBSCOT of the Sanford Line, the STATE OF MAINE of the International Line the practically new CITY OF RICH- MOND of the Portland, Bangor & Machias Line, the new boat building here for the Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Company, and possibly a fast steamer between this port and Rockland.
* * * * * The Rockland Opinion estimates that a
million casks of lime will have been made in that city during the year ending with December. Of this amount the Cobb Lime Company will probably manufacture one- half. A. F. Crockett & Company will exceed 100,000; White & Case probably 50,000, Perry Brothers 50,000, Joseph Abbott, A G. Gay & Company, Farrand & Spear twen- ty-fi ve to thirty thousand each; G. S. Wiggin, R. W. Messer and others smaller accounts. The cement works have also done a large business.
30 December Page 412. Mr. William E. Brown, the popular
steamship agent in this city, sells tickets to Europe by all the favorite lines, issues bills of exchange, and attends to the forwarding of packages to foreign countries by express
Page 412-3. The ice men are happy along the Pe-
nobscot and Kennebec. The open winter promises a short crop outside of Maine and it is consequently expected that high prices will prevail for this necessary article during the coming summer.
occupied by A. Huston & Company. * * * * *
Mr. S. C. Ramsdell, the champion Lin-
coln county fi sherman has taken thus far this season about half a ton of pickerel through Mattanawcook pond. He ships them to the Boston market.
* * * * * Five vessels are now being built at Bel-
fast and eight are under contract to be built and launched before the fall of 1882. D. W. Dyer & Company and Carter & Company have improved their facilities and will build many vessels during the coming year. * * * * *
A new granite quarry has been opened
at Hathorn’s Point in the town of Cushing, Knox County, by Messrs. Luther A. Mar- shall and James Flye. The rock is of excellent quality, closely resembling the Round Pond granite, and the quarry will probably be a valuable one.
* * * * * The sardine factories at Eastport have
nearly all closed. No fi sh last week was what caused the sudden shut down. Some will remain closed during the winter, while others intend to run when they can get fi sh. Work will be resumed in the can shops after New Years.
* * * * * Bradstreet Brothers, the extensive
lumber manufacturers of South Gardiner, propose to build two steamers to ply between the Kennebec and New York, carrying lum- ber one way and bringing back coal. They will be auxiliary propellers and rigged with masts, thus insuring a good rate of speed. Their capacity will be 350,000 feet of lum- ber and about 500 tons of coal. * * * * *
Mr. Hiram T. Jones, now a book-keeper
at the Hinkley & Egery Iron Works in this city, is a native of Turk’s Island and removed to this city six years ago. He is sole owner of quite extensive salt works at Turk’s Island, and last season imported about 80,000 bush- els of salt. Next year he intends to purchase a vessel and employ her regularly in carrying outward cargoes of lumber, bricks, etc. and bringing salt to Boston and this city. * * * * *
The Mount Waldo Granite Company,
associated with Judge M. J. Power, propri- etor of the National Fine Art Foundry of New York, have been awarded a $50,000 contract for a soldiers’ and sailors’ monu- ment at Buff alo, New York. This includes a contract with the National Art Foundry for four bronze statues. The foundation, shaft and summit fi gure will be of Waldo granite, which has always been considered among the fi nest in New England. Judge Power was designer of the bronze work of the Augusta Soldiers’ Monument.
Page 12-13. The total tonnage of ships built in
Maine during 1881 was 55,892, against 35,847 in 1880. In the Passamaquoddy district (Eastport) only 182 tons were built; in the Ellsworth district only 31 tons; in the Machias district, 393 tons; in the Castine district 1,300 tons; in the Bangor district, 1,042 tons, in the Belfast district 5,677 tons, in Waldoboro district, 8,551 tons; the Kennebunk district, 1,956 tons; in the Wis- casset and Boothbay districts, 1,346 tons; in the Portland district, 2,087 tons; in the district of Bath, 36,334 tons, mainly Goss, Sawyer and Packard, who are the heaviest shipbuilders in the United States. The past year 65 crafts of all kinds have been built in Bath, in including nine ships, aggregating 17,223 tons, 31 schooners, aggregating 13,155 tons. Five steamers have been built at Bath the past season.
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