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furnished with a complete modern plant capable of turning out any class of iron ves- sel. From what we can learn the enterprise is backed by ample capital and by leading men, prominent among them being Hon. Guy C. Goss of the wooden shipbuilding fi rm of Goss, Sawyer & Packard of Bath, Maine. It will be remembered that some time ago the leading citizens of Bath held a series of meetings at which was discussed the advisability of starting iron shipyards on the Kennebec River and quite an amount of capital was promised. The discussions at that time awaked considerable interest and probably this Alexandria enterprise is one of the outcrops of the agitation. We understand that the Alexandria company have under their control patents for the production of semi-steel boat plates, which it is claimed will enable them to turn out a very superior vessel at a much less cost than vessels built of the ordinary class of iron. [Nautical Ga- zette]
Page 140. EASTERN INDUSTRIES A carload of monuments and other gran-
ite work were shipped to Greenville, Ohio on Monday last by the Rockland Granite Company.
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Mr. Giles Loring, at his shipyard in Yar- mouth, is building a bark of about 500 tons for Boston parties and has also contracted to build a three masted schooner of 600 tons for Portland parties.
* * * * * Messrs. G. E. Deering & Company have
taken a fi ve-year lease of the large three-sto- ry building on the corner of Commercial wharf and Commercial Street, Portland and are fi tting it up for the fi sh canning business. * * * * *
C. E. Lane of the fi rm of Lane, Jones &
Roberts of Brooks has bought three hundred cords of pine wood to be manufactured into kits, pails and tubs. They have their mill very nearly completed and most of the machinery is in place.
* * * * * The ice men have been very busily
engaged during the past week and a large amount of the crystal crop has been har- vested. A large number of new concerns have commenced operations and should we have favorable weather again the amount cut will be considerably greater then recently estimated by the “Mining Journal”. The storm of the present week has necessitated the temporary suspension of work, the ice being covered with several inches of water.
RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT AND HO- TELS NOTES
Steamer MOUNT DESERT is undergo-
ing repairs and being thoroughly renovated at Rockland.
* * * * * Steamer STAR OF THE EAST, which
plies between Boston and the Kennebec, is receiving thorough repairs at East Boston. * * * * *
Steamer CITY OF PORTLAND of the
International Line has received thorough repairs and new machinery at Portland and will go on her route March 13. * * * * *
Steamer HENRY MORRISON having
received thorough repairs to her machinery by Quinn & Company at Portland has re- turned to Rockland where she will have new paddle boxes put on her and be otherwise improved.
* * * * * The Portland Company have two eight-
wheel locomotives of thirty-six tons each ready for delivery to the Aroostook River
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PILING UP THE COOLNESS
Completion of the ice harvest on the Penob- scot -- The cut larger than anticipated Since the publication in the ‘Mining
Journal’ a few weeks since, of an article treating of the past history and present im- portance of the ice business on the Penob- scot; the work of the season of 1881-82 has been practically fi nished. The operations were much larger than
anticipated, the operations having been greatly encouraged in the past fortnight at the prospect of good prices. The work of harvesting, it is true, was curtailed to a con- siderable extent by the great rain of the 2nd inst., which stopped operations completely for a day and a half, and hindered work more or less for some days, by fl ooding the fi elds, and creating a tremendous current in the Penobscot, which, on Saturday afternoon last, began to break up the fi elds, and the river was quickly deserted by the hundreds of men then engaged. Horses and tools were taken off precipitately, and all work stopped at 4:30 p.m. On Sunday, there was no move- ment on the ice visible, and several crews, among them Gould & Hastings, worked all day. On Monday, the impression that the ice would leave very soon was prevalent, and not much was done. That night, however, the weather had a cool turn, and confi dence was again established. Since Tuesday several operations have been carried on by parties who went into the business at the eleventh hour, and who are making great eff orts to fi ll their houses. In the latter part of the ice cutting season, many new concerns were at work, in addition to those mentioned in this paper some weeks since. The Brewer Ice Company fi lled the old
stacks at the railway yard, and have now succeeded in fi lling a stack at the Free Soil wharf. Both stacks contain about 10,000 tons in the aggregate. Walter Ross secured about 600 tons on the Bar Harbor wharf and A. H. Babcock about 3,500 tons. Rollins has a stack of 10,000 tons besides 6,000 tons of old ice in his house. F. C. Brackett cut in all, for city, private and shipping purposes, about 4,000 tons. Gould & Hastings secured up last Wednesday about 3,000 tons; they are still at work. The Katahdin Ice Company has 13,000 tons in stack and 7,000 tons in house. Charles Dolan has a total of 11,000 tons.
HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882 for $1,943.
Railroad. The last of the lot of hay cars building for the Portland and Rochester road were delivered yesterday. Among other work twenty dump cars for coal are building for the Portland and Ogdensburg road, also fi ve twenty-fi ve ton dump cars of a new and peculiar construction for the same purpose for the Maine Central road. Next week the company commences to deliver locomo- tives on a large contract with the Northern Pacifi c road. They will furnish the road in all thirty-four of their regular eight wheel 36-ton engines. [Sunday Times]
Page 141. NUGGETS William Beazley & Company of
Bucksport have contracted to build a large three-masted schooner for Bangor parties. * * * * *
Messrs. Moore & Wright, the present
contractors, have secured another contract for dredging the balance of about 120,000 yards at Lubec Narrows. Another dredge boat, similar to the one now used, will be employed in the work next season. The channel is to be completed by December 2, 1882. Work is at present suspended but will be resumed again early in the spring. [Eastport Sentinel]
Cassidy, McCann and Conners are still at work and hope to get 8,000 tons. Pitman has a total of 25,000 tons, and the Arctic Compa- ny, about 30,000 tons. The Dirigo Company has 14,000 tons, and the Penobscot River Company about 17,000 tons. Smith & At- wood, Hampden, have 2,000 tons and the Union Company about 3,000 tons. Water- man, Engel & Company have 3,000 tons of old ice, and are engaged in an attempt to get 3,000 of new. N. G. Higgins has 7,000 tons of fi ne ice. The total crop of new ice on the Penobscot will probably be about 160,000 tons, which, with the overstock of 65,000 tons will give 225,000 tons for shipment, or about 675 cargoes, average size. Not much can be said in regard to the market, which has not gone higher than $1.50 as yet, for the time for sales is yet early. The price will probably open at a good fi gure for good ice, (and there is no other here) about April 1st. Numerous charters of large vessels to carry ice from Maine to the ports of the Middle and Southern States, are reported, at prices ranging from $1.00 to $1.50 a ton. We shall soon present a recapitulation of the harvest here, giving as nearly as possible the amount cut in diff erent years.
Page 154. EASTERN INDUSTRIES
The total value of exports from the port of Portland during the week ending on Saturday last was $428,319.25. * * * * *
The Peaks Island Improvement Society
are to set out 300 shade trees this spring and they also talk of building a horse railroad around the island.
* * * * * The Hebron Pond Slate Company of
Monson have stored twenty-fi ve carloads of slate on the old packet wharf in this city in readiness for spring shipment. * * * * *
W. G. Sargent & Son of Sargentville
will build this season a vessel of 500 tons to be commanded by Captain W. D. Gove. Later in the season they will build one of 75 tons.
* * * * * Messrs. Burnham & Morrill will erect a
corn-canning factory at Norridgewock this spring. They have engaged 350 acres of corn the coming season and the manufacture of cans was commenced last week. * * * * *
Mr. C. J. Hall has recently built and put
in operation a granite polisher at his stone yard in Belfast. He is continually receiving large orders for cemetery work and has just shipped eight tons of his famous red granite in the rough to Michigan. * * * * *
EGG PRODUCTION – Moses Friend
of Sedgwick says that his own experience of many years has shown him that 150 hens may be kept in one fl ock at a net profi t of $150 per year or a clear profi t of one dollar on each hen. He feeds with corn, fi sh and clams.
Page 155. Mathew Brothers of Belfast have re-
ceived an order for a lot of doors to be sent to Turkey. The order comes through Boston parties who write to have them securely packed as they are to be sent into the interior of the country on the backs of camels and mules.
* * * * * The best catch ever reported in the had-
dock fi shery was recently made by schooner MARTHA C. of Gloucester, which arrived at Boston from Georges after 10 days absence with 93,000 pounds of haddock, the result of two and one half days fi shing. The fi sh sold
Page 155-156. A VALUABLE ICE PRIVILEGE
– Walker’s Pond, in the southeast part of Brooksville, is three miles in length and will average a half-mile in width. It is fed
* * * * * Mr. George Ellingwood, an experi-
enced oyster planter, proposes to plant several beds at Oak Bay near Calais. He thinks the water and ground at the point well adapted to the growth and propagation of oysters. The oysters, which he proposes he plant are the Shediac, as he fears that the Virginia oysters may not thrive so far north. * * * * *
At a meeting of the Portland Board of
Trade held on Saturday last, it was voted to reduce the admission fee for new members to $3, so as to increase its membership more rapidly and thereby, if possible, secure a full- er attendance at the meetings. The matter of steamboat freights by steamers running east from Portland was discussed at some length. * * * * *
PROLIFIC CLAM BEDS – The bar which at low water connects Deer Isle with Little Deer Isle is said to aff ord more money value yearly than any similar area of upland in the State. The yield of clams amounts to several thousand dollars worth annually and there is no apparent diminution of the quan- tity. W. G. Sargent & Son, of Sangerville, put up over 1000 barrels of shucked clams last season, mostly dug from this bar. * * * * *
The shipyards of Yarmouth are present-
ing a lively appearance this winter. Three schooners and two barks are to be built the coming season. Messrs. Hutchins & Stubbs have the frames up and ceiled for a three masted schooner of about 550 tons for the Davis Brothers, of Knightville; Captain Horace Davis will command her. They will also build a three masted schooner for Port- land and Deering parties, of 250 tons, to cost about $1600, to be commanded by Captain Crockett of schooner T. BENEDICT. Oper- ations have already commenced on a bark of about 450 tons to be off next summer. [Portland Globe]
* * * * * Green’s Landing, Deer Isle, is a busy
little place. Nine granite quarries are in operation, employing during the summer season about 120 men. There are two can- ning factories which, in the season, can lobsters, mackerel, cod, haddock, eels and clams, employing about 200 men, women and children, paying out for wages, fi sh, etc., upwards of $50,000 per year. An immense quality of fresh lobsters are also barreled and shipped to Boston. It is also one of the fi nest places on the coast for a summer resort, having splendid views, good drives, boating and fi shing. A good hotel is needed, but there is talk of building one during the coming season.
* * * * * Moses Friend, of Sedgwick, informs us
that during the last ten years he has shipped 1200 bbls. of fl ounders, most of which have been sent to the Fulton fi sh market, New York. They are taken with spears and are considered among the nicest fi sh for the fry pan that we have in our waters. Several others living on shores of Edgemoggin (Eggemoggin) Reach do quite a business in the same line during the winter season. Scallops, a species of shellfi sh found lying on the bottom of the bays below low water mark, are becoming quite plenty near the shores in Eastern Maine. Their conditions of life are very similar to the oyster. For soups, and in other modes of preparation for the table, they are highly esteemed.
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