Page 26. MAINE COASTAL NEWS July 2018 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industrial Journal - 1882
by springs and yields a quality of ice that cannot be surpassed. The foot of the pond is within a half mile of good wharfage near the village of Sargentville, in Sedgwick. The bank of the pond at the foot could be lowered 10 feet easily, then the ice would have to be raised about fi fty feet when it could be sluiced to the wharf or to the ice houses on shore. With the present methods and ma- chinery for conducting a large ice business this noble pond, so near tide water, seems to off er rare inducements to capital for its utilization. The superfi cial area of this pond, as shown above, fi gures up 41,817,600 feet. If the snow should be kept off until the time of cutting, it would, in ordinary seasons, attain a thickness of 18 to 20 inches. The capacity of this pond is to yield ice to the amount of over a million tons yearly, with the right of way and shore privileges in the hands of a strong company would yield good dividends. About 1000 tons are now being cut and hauled to shore.
Page 156.
RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT AND HO- TELS NOTES
Towboat RALPH ROSS, of this city, is
at Portland receiving a new boiler and other extensive repairs. The HOWELL, which has also been repairing at Portland, returned to the Penobscot last week. * * * * *
Steamer BROOKLYN, of the Domin-
ion Line, sailed from Portland for Liver- pool on Saturday last. She took fi ve cabin passengers, and a cargo valued at $308,510, including 316 head of cattle, 1,174 quarters of fresh beef, 135 quarters of mutton and 10,118 boxes of cheese. * * * * *
Mr. H. P .C. Ketchum has had an in-
terview with the Dominion Government in relation to his project for a ship railway across the Isthmus of Chignecto, between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and feels suffi ciently encouraged to go on with his application for a charter. * * * * *
A Halifax exchange states that Mr. E.
F. Clements, of the Clements Line, has pur- chased steamer NEW BRUNSWICK, of the International Line, to run in connection with the Dominion between Yarmouth, Portland, and Boston. The NEW BRUNSWICK will take her place on the route the fi rst of June.
Page 157. The island of Campobello, which, like
the name, is of the rhythmic beauty, fi rst came into prominent notice last season. The island is in Passamaquoddy Bay, a few miles from Eastport and about seventy miles northeast from Mount Desert. Some fi fty years ago Admiral Owen, who then owned the island, built and occupied a fi ne house near its corner, known as the “House in the Woods.” This rugged, wooded and blooming isle, ten miles in length and from two or three miles wide, was purchased last year and a company formed with a capital of $1,000,000 to develop it as a summer resort. Among the incorporators are Quincy A. Shaw, Henry S. Higginson, F. B. Beaumont and Alex S. Porter, of Boston, the last named gentleman being the general manager. A new and beautiful hotel called the “Owen,” was built, and opened in August last. Another new hotel, to be called the “Tyn-y-coed” (Welsh for “House in the Woods”) is in the process of construction and will be com- pleted early in June. It will be considerably larger than, and about a mile distant from the “Owen”, with which it will be connected by telephone. Work on the Tyn-y-coed” is being rapidly pushed forward, the frame is all up and can be seen from Eastport, and the new
house will have a commanding location giv- ing fi ne views of the harbors. The two houses will be in charge of Mr. T. A. Barker, late manager of the Adams House, Boston, who will conduct them with a view to refi ned, home-like comfort at moderate prices.
NUGGETS Professor Baird sent 20,000 eggs of
Maine salmon to Germany by steamer from New York on Saturday last.
17 March Page 166. We heartily concur in the following
from the Portland Globe: “Senator Frye’s bill for the relief of domestic shipping is a step in the right direction, and maritime constituencies would do well to instruct their representatives to give the measure their hearty support. Should this bill become a law many of the hindrances and burdens which now prevent profi table operations would be removed; new life would be instilled into our coasting trade; our shipbuilding interests would be benefi ted, and our fi shing trade relieved of an incubus which now prevents successful competition with Canadian ri- vals. Although purely a measure relief for domestic shipping, its infl uence cannot be overestimated, and the good results which will follow its passage must prove an irre- sistible argument for the like relief of our foreign shipping”.
Page 169. EASTERN INDUSTRIES Mr. John Mabry, of Norway, expects to
get out 1,000 hackmatack knees this spring. * * * * *
Lime shipments by water and rail from
Rockland during the week ending on Tues- day last aggregated 20,480 casks. * * * * *
Isaac A. Murch, of Ellsworth, has
opened a shop for the manufacturer of ship’s blocks in the Foundry building at Belfast. * * * * *
The Porgie Oil Works of Albert Gray
& Company, at Muscongus Harbor, Lincoln County, will be sold at auction on Tuesday next.
* * * * * The Brewer Steam Brick Company
made 4,000,000 bricks last year, and will make about the same amount the coming season.
* * * * * The lime kiln at Camden is in full blast,
and they are drawing about 120 casks daily; 950 casks were shipped to Boston last week. * * * * *
The total value of foreign exports from
the port of Portland for the week ending on Saturday last was $294,390, including 50,470 feet of lumber.
* * * * * The Grand Manan fi shermen report
business better this season than for fi ve years previous. Herring and codfi sh are in abun- dance and are being pickled and shipped in vast quantities.
* * * * * The Machias Republican says that
Messrs. Lawrence & Dodge have been run- ning their sardine factory at North Lubec to its full capacity for the past few weeks. Herring have been abundant at a low price.
Page 170. The Portland Packing Company are
erecting a large corn-canning factory at Wells, which will give employment to about 200 men, women and children the coming season. The building will be 135 feet long by 60 feet wide, and will be completed by the fi rst of May. The company intended to
put up 700,000 cans at this factory during the season. Eight men are at present engaged in making cans, of which 75,000 have already been turned out.
* * * * * The distribution of salmon eggs in
Maine waters is completed for the present season. The State Fish Commissioners this year had at their disposal 1,080,000 salmon eggs, and, in addition to this, received from the United States Commissioner two lots, one of 50,000 and the other of 67,000. The amount then which could be distributed was nearly 1,200,000, and these have been placed at the respective hatching spots on the rivers of the State. The eggs for the Penobscot were deposited at Enfi eld, for the Kennebec at Moosehead Lake, for the Androscoggin at Rangeley Lakes, for the Presumpscot at Norway, and for the St. Croix at Grand Lake Stream.
Page 170-171. SHIPBUILDING NOTES Business at the shipyards in Bath is
driving. Goss, Sawyer & Packard have four vessels on the stocks, one a ship of 1,400 tons, for W. H. Starbuck and other parties in New York; the keel is laid and the frame partly up for a steam whaler of 400 tons, for William E. Lewis, of New Bedford; the keel is laid for a schooner of 700 tons, for Captain Burt and others of Taunton, Massachusetts; the keel is also laid for a schooner of 700 tons for Captain Theodore D. Anderson and others of New York; work is also progressing on the CITY OF RICHMOND repairing on the marine railway. The fi rm of Arthur Sewall & Company are building one ship of 1,600 tons; they have also just laid the keel for a schooner of 520 tons. Goss & Sawyer have a ship of 2,000 tons contracted for W. H. Besse, Captain Jacob Merriman, the builder and others; a schooner of 625 tons building for Captain Potter, of Orient, Long Island, and others; a schooner 1,100 tons for Captain Jacob Phillips and others of Taunton; also a schooner of 350 tons, owned by the builders, Captain Arey, of Rockland, and others. William Rogers is building a ship of 1,575 tons; also has a schooner of 550 tons. Deering & Donnell have a schoo- ner of 500 tons on the stocks; they have a schooner of 120 tons for Benjamin Maddox, of Gloucester; they also have laid the keel of a fi shing schooner of about 135 tons for parties in Rockport, and have the frame for another of 500 tons in the yard. Benjamin Flint is building a ship of about 1,900 tons. B. W. & H. F. Morse have a schooner 143 feet long, 54 wide and 12 deep, which will be ready for use in about three weeks. Augus- tus Palmer also has a schooner of 200 tons. Messrs. Goss, Sawyer & Packard and Goss & Sawyer have fi ve frames now being cut in Canada, one of which is for a ship of 2,200 tons, and W. C. Manning brought 18 cars of fi ne lumber, from near Quebec, to Goss, Sawyer & Packard and Sewall & Company, the past week. At East Boothbay, Hodgdon Brothers
are building three schooners; W. Adams & Son have one schooner of 130 tons on the stocks and another soon to build; McDou- gall & Son have concluded a contract with Gloucester parties to build 110 ton schooner; J. G. Fuller has engaged to build a 600 or 700 ton schooner for Massachusetts parties; six or seven vessels are also undergoing or awaiting extensive repairs. Haynes, of Wiscasset, has been cutting the frames of three schooners. Haggett & Company, Damariscotta,
will build a large ship this summer. At Thomaston, the carpenter work on
schooner SEVENTY-SIX (76) is about completed, and the painters and riggers are
fi nishing her up; Dunn & Elliott will begin at once on their new vessel. At Camden, H. M. Bean has a large
schooner partly timbered out and will com- mence on another soon; Mr. Bean advertises for fi fty ship carpenters. At Milbridge, E. Dyer will build two
tugboats, to be used in the sardine business; Mr. Dyer is also building a schooner of about 140 tons, for Captain D. J. Strout; also one of about 75 tons for Captain L. G. Means; Joel Hinckley has sold his vessel on the stocks to Captain Albert Brown, of East Machias. In addition to the above probably fi ve more coasters will be built here this spring. The Machias Republican says coasting
vessels are in active demand in that vicinity, and several schooners belonging at East Machias have been sold this spring at good prices.
Page 171-172. AN IMPORTANT MAINE INDUSTRY The Canning of Vegetable, Fruit, Meats and Fish--The Sardine Industry [Correspondence to the Boston Journal] The packing or canning business in
Maine is getting to be one of great impor- tance, furnishing business for many men and women, and bringing a large sum of money into the State annually. It will readily be seen that a large amount of labor necessarily en- ters into the production of canned goods. In the canning of corn there is, fi rst, the raising by the farmers, the drawing to the factory, followed by the husking and the other oper- ations in canning. Then there is the making of cans, boxes for packing, etc., besides the erection of the buildings occupied. In the canning of fi sh, lobsters and clams, there is the catching to be added to the packing, and the transportation connected with the business is very large, making business for the steamboat lines and railroads in shipping supplies to the scenes of operation and the products to market. In preparing this article, the original
intention was to get facts and fi gures from all parties in the State in this line of business. In some cases the inquiries were promptly and defi nitely answered, but in a majority of cases were without success, so that the account must necessarily be incomplete. THE LEADING INTERESTS. The Portland Packing Company, a cor-
poration of live businessmen of Portland, is doing the largest business of any concern now in the State. In addition to its Maine business, the company has ten factories in Nova Scotia and one in Newfoundland. The capital invested is $350,000. In this State the company has one factory in Portland, where 100 men are employed fi ve months of the year packing meats; it has corn can- ning establishments at Cumberland Mills, Stroudwater, Gorham, Sebago Lake, Naples and Fryeburg, and are erecting others at Wells and Winthrop, each of which gives employment to from 300 to 375 persons, in- cluding farmers, during the packing season -- six weeks in each year -- and 55 men seven months in each year making cans for these factories and for the lobster and other fi sh canning establishments at Prospect Harbor, where 135 men are employed three months of the year; Hammond's Cove, where 75 men work three months, and at Burnt Cove, where 75 men work fi ve months of the year. Thus it will be seen that this company gives employment to 235 men fi ve months, 210 men three months, 55 men seven months, and 2,650 men six weeks in each year in the State; also 1,625 men three months and 36 men four months in each year at various places in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The value of the company's product for 1881 was $500,000.
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