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June 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882


Page 60-61. Mr. A. L. Blackman, manager of the


Newfoundland Railway, has given notice on behalf of himself and others that application will be made to the Dominion Parliament at its next session for an Act to incorporate a company under the name of The Great American and European Short Line Railway Company with power: 1st


- to construct,


equip and operate lines of railway from a point at or near Cape North, in the island of Cape Breton to the Strait of Canso, and from the Strait of Canso through the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario to a point or points in the United States Territory; 2nd


– to construct, equip and


operate steamers and steam ferry communi- cations between any of the provinces of the Dominion and between the Dominion and Newfoundland, and between the Dominion and Europe and between Newfoundland and Europe and also said ferry connection on the Strait of Canso; 3rd


– The construction, pur-


chasing, leasing or hiring of steamboats, fer- ry boats, railways, conveyances and lines of telegraph in connection with the matter and powers before mentioned, and the working and operating of the same. The scheme is a feasible one, the idea of the corporators be- ing to establish a shorter route to Europe for passengers and mails. A number of Ameri- can capitalists are interested in the project and the Earl of Dunraven is one of the prime movers. A large proportion of the stock of the company will be taken up in England.


Page 61. Nuggets. Dr. Torrington of Peaks Island Portland


Harbor who is seventy years old and by no means athletic, was hurriedly summoned the other afternoon to the house of a neighbor, Mrs. S. Hadlock. When he reached Mrs. Hadlock’s he found that he was expected to kill with a gun instead of with his medicine chest. An eagle of sweeping wing and fi erce scream was circling about the Hadlock poul- try yard and the good woman was protecting her Thanksgiving turkeys by means of brick (????) with Amazonian courage. The doctor was amazed for he never before had heard of such boldness on the part of the bald headed things, however, big their beaks. He was about to take aim when the bird swooped down at him. At that moment a six-year-old child, a grandson of Mrs. Hadlock, toddled out of the house and the eagle pounced upon the little fellow. Mrs. Hadlock struck franti- cally at the eagle with a large towel roller and releasing the boy, fl ew to a neighboring oak. Dr. Torrington put a double charge in the Hadlock shotgun and fi red. The eagle fl ew upward and way over the sea and its fl ight showed it was wounded. Dr. Torrington’s shoulder was dislocated by the recoil of his gun. Before night some fishermen found the eagle’s body a half-mile off shore.


3 February Page 73.


EASTERN INDUSTRIES The Long Cove Granite Compa-


ny at Tenant’s Harbor have re- sume operations at their quarry. * * * * *


The Camden Herald says fi ve four-


horse teams with loads of railroad iron from the K. & L. R. R. Rockland ar- rived last Friday for the Anchor Works. * * * * *


There are 28 sardine factories on the


Maine coast, situated as follows: 18 at East- port; 4 at Lubec; 3 at Jonesport; 1 at Rob- binston; 1 at Milbridge and 1 at Lamoine. * * * * *


Merrill Brothers at Cumberland


are packing about 150 carcasses of mutton and beef daily, great care be- ing taken to ensure neatness. Some thirty hands are employed at present. * * * * *


Large quantities of brick are being hauled


from Mr. Moody’s kiln at North Monmouth for the new cotton factory to erect by the Win- throp Mills Company the coming summer. * * * * *


J. G. Torrey & Sons, Rockland, are


full of work at their brass foundry. They have just received large orders from New York for their bronze metal rowlocks, the trade being about to open for them.


Page 74. The Bath Times says that Goss, Saw-


yer & Packard are working on nine vessels of diff erent sizes at present, including the steam whaler, but not including the CITY OF RICHMOND, which is on their ma- rine railway. When all hands are at work there are over 600 men on the pay roll. * * * * *


The Courier-Gazette says that the


schooner MORRIS W. CHILD has just dis- charged at Camden 340,000 feet of hard pine, the largest cargo of the kind ever brought there. The lumber is for two vessels soon to be commenced in H. M. Bean’s shipyard. The pine was shipped at Darien, Georgia and the run was made to Camden in eight days. * * * * *


The ice harvest in Maine commenced in


earnest the fi rst of last week and is now at its height. On the Kennebec river between Richmond and Augusta, where a greater part of the ice cut in this State is housed, about 12,000 men and a large number of horses are employed. The average wages paid the workmen, who come from all parts of the State is $1.50 per day and $1.00 for a horse so that fully $20,000 are being paid out daily to laboring men in a distance of fi fteen miles along the river. It is estimated that it will take all of three weeks to secure the crop and in this time the ice companies will have paid out about $400,000 dollars, a greater part of which will go into the pockets of the work- ing people. The capacity of the ice-houses already erected between Richmond and Hallowell is fully 1,000,000 tons and these will all be fi lled in their utmost extent.


Page 75. Railroad, Steamboat and Hotel Notes. Messrs. Quinn & Company of Port-


land are building a new boiler for the steamer RALPH ROSS of this city. * * * * *


Ezra Bramhall of Camden proposes


to build a small steamer to be used for the Mount Desert business next summer. * * * * *


The towboat HOWELL of this


city is lying at Franklin Wharf, Port- land, where Quinn & Company will make extensive repairs on her boiler. * * * * *


The steamer PIONEER is to take


the place of the HENRY MORRI- SON during the present winter on the route between Rockland and Blue Hill. * * * * *


The Portland Sunday Times says the


International Line Steamship Company are about to establish a new branch of business in connection with their blacksmith and forge shops in that city. In the past they have been obliged to have all the brass and tin repairing work on their steamers done by contract, but now the company propose to do it them- selves. They have purchased new machinery and tools and have fi nished off rooms on their wharf at an expense of several thousand dollars. W. H. Durgin formerly with O. M.


& D. W. Nash will have charge of the shop. Page 76.


Nuggets. The exports of white pine lumber from


the port of New York during 1881 amounted to 259,279,000 feet. This is a considerable advance on the exports of the previous year. The lumber was shipped to 56 diff erent points including Havana, Spain, Italy, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the East Indies. * * * * *


The steamship COMTE D’EU, the fi rst


of the Brazilian Line to sail from the port of Halifax, recently sailed with a cargo for Bra- zil consisting of 3,650 drums of dry fi sh, 259 cases of preserved lobsters, oats, fl our, pota- toes, deals, etc, valued at $16,900(?). Also a large quantity of pickled and dry fi sh valued at $5,178 for St. Thomas. The total cargo was about 900 tons weight and valued at $30,168.


Page 77. New Corporations. The Portland, Bangor, Mount Desert


and Machias Steamboat Company, Port- land, January 18, capital stock $125,000, paid in $300; purposes carrying freight and passengers from port to port in steam or sailing vessels; President W. F. Milliken; Treasurer George L. Day.


10 February Page 89. Some Prominent Industries in Bangor. What is now called “Manufacturing


Valley” commences near the foot of Fourth Street in Bangor and leads down easterly to Main Street. At the head are located the extensive brickyards and large soap factory of Messrs. Stoddard & Hellier. They make about 3,000,000 bricks per year, consuming about 1,500 cords of wood annually. Their soap factory is on an extensive scale and requires 30,000 bushels of ashes per year which they obtain in Maine and the Domin- ion. A portion of the leached ashes is sold to the farmers in Bangor and surrounding towns but the larger quantity fi nds a better market out of the state. They manufacture many kinds of domestic and toilet soaps and sell about 50 tons of potash per year, which is consumed in various uses. On their premises they have a large well arranged building in which they keep from 100 to 300 hogs and pigs of the Berkshire and Lincolnshire breed. To those interested in fi ne animals of this kind this is an interesting side aff air of their business. In the summer season they have about 75 men on their pay roll and pay out for wages and material about $50,000 per year. Down the valley, on the other side of


the street, is the wool-pulling establishment owned by Jeff erson Crocker. Last season he purchased about 35,000 sheep and lamb skins and will do a large business next sea- son. The skins after being pulled receive a certain treatment called “processing” after which they are bound in bundles for the market. The lamb skins after being com- pletely prepared are used for glove making and Messrs. Ordway & Cross of Hallowell are using 300 dog skins per week which they are receiving from him for that purpose. The Bangor Stone Ware Company’s


buildings in the valley were completed in September 1880, and are owned and managed by A. Person and O. Soderberg who have had a lifelong experience in the business. They manufacture everything in their line from large covered churns down to small articles of fancy pressed ware comprising a vast amount of articles combining utility and beauty. They receive their clay material from South Amboy, New Jersey and their sand from Long Island,


New York. The business requires skilled workmen of artistic talent and of such they have eight in their employ. There are good locations for various other industries in the valley which we hope soon to see occupied.


Page 91. EASTERN INDUSTRIES D. F. Littlefield of Saco has re-


cently shipped several hundred bar- rels of apples to Glasgow, Scotland. * * * * *


Messrs. E. Merritt & Sons, Houl-


ton, are shipping potatoes by sailing vessels from St. Andrews to Baltimore. * * * * *


The Castine Brick Company are erecting


on their premises a new building 24 x 30 feet, two stories, to be used for their brick makers. * * * * *


The Cherryfield Ice Company


intend to harvest a very large crys- tal crop at their fi ne privilege at Pros- pect Harbor in the town of Gouldsboro. * * * * *


Messrs. Burgess, O’Brien & Compa-


ny, Thomaston, have fi red their large kilns for the purpose of burning 2,000 casks of lime for R. G. Morse & Company, Boston. * * * * *


Axel Hayford of Belfast has begun


the manufacture of fish barrel heads. He has purchased 50 cords of pine tim- ber, which will be hauled to the factory. * * * * *


Knowlton Brothers of Camden have


contracted to build two polishing lathes and two upright polishers for the Col- lins Granite Company at East Blue Hill. * * * * *


The Eagle Sugar Refi nery, Portland,


consumed the past year 7,052 hogsheads of molasses and turned out 2,664 tons of sugar. This places Portland ahead of Boston, where the production amounted to 2,174 tons and also ahead of Baltimore, where the production was 2,380 tons. [Transcript] * * * * *


Halifax is a great shipping port. Last


year 680 vessels arrived there from for- eign ports of which 331 were steamers. This is about equal to between a sixth and a seventh of the foreign shipping at New York. In the coasting trade the arrivals were 3,290 or equal to nearly one-half the total coasting arrivals at New York. * * * * *


The Eastport Sentinel says the prod-


ucts of the sardine industry in this section of the State will amount to not far from one million dollars. The number of cases packed during the past year is probably about double that of the year before, while the price per case is about one-half of that realized the previous year. The factories are owned by New York and Eastport parties.


Page 91-92. A London joint stock company with a


capital of one hundred thousand pounds has purchased the Milleroche property opposite Rimouski consisting of 80,000 acres with a frontage of 10 miles on the River St. Law- rence. The company intend to carry on lum- ber and pulp business and will build wharves and provide facilities for the loading of ves- sels. Operations will be commenced at once.


Page 92. The Chignecto Post says: A strong


company, composed of the Messrs. Bi- gelow of Cornwallis, Whitney of New York, Captain George Spicer, Johnson Spicer, Williams and others of Spencer’s Island, has been formed for the purpose of carrying on shipbuilding at Spencer’s Island, New Brunswick. It is intended to


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