July 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 27. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882 Burnham & Morrill, of Portland have


$250,000 invested in the packing business. They have factories at Portland, Scarbor- ough, Minot, East Baldwin, South Paris, Denmark and Jonesport in Maine, and at Caribou, Brule, Crow Harbor, Port Clyde and Harrigan Cove in Nova Scotia. The articles canned are corn, succotash, beans, lobsters, clams, mackerel, and all kinds of meats, poultry and vegetables. The company contemplates the erection of corn factories in Maine and lobster factories in Nova Scotia next year. The Milbridge Packing Company, has


factories at Milbridge and Eastport. The cap- itol invested at the former place is $45,000, the number of hands employed 250, and the value of the product for the year 1881, $84,000. The products of this factory are American sardines in oil, mariner sardines, mustard sardines, mackerel and brook trout. This company intends to build another fac- tory at Milbridge this season, of about the same capacity. J. & E. A. Wyman, of Milbridge, have


a factory at which they give employment to 40 hands. They have $20,000 invested and their product for 1881, including packing; was $45,000. Lobsters, mackerel and clams are the articles put up. Underwood & Company, of Jonesport,


employ 100 hands; have $10,000 invested, and their product for the year 1881 was valued at $50,000. The articles packed are lobsters, berries, clams, mackerel and sar- dines.


R. W. Soule, of Readfi eld, started a


small business at that place as an experiment last year. He employed 30 hands, invested $3,000, and the value of the fi rst year's prod- uct was $3500. The result was so satisfactory that Mr. Soule will extend his business the coming season. The past year he canned corn only. The coming season he proposes to can corn, apples, pumpkins, squash, etc., and erect an apple evaporating establishment. SARDINE FACTORIES


There are eighteen sardine factories at


Eastport, four at Lubec, one at Robbinston, three at Jonesport, one at Milbridge and one at Lamoine. This business had its origin but fi ve years ago in a small shop in Eastport; now the business gives employment in the factories alone to 1200 men, women and children in that one town, and in other towns in the same ratio. The principal companies and parties engaged in the business are: The American Sardine Company of New York,


R. C. Green & Company, T. L. Holmes, War- ren Brown, McLean & Abrams, Young & Simpson, Wolff & Ressing, J. S, Buck, C. H. Dyer, P. M. Kane, Hiram Blanchard, and E. F. Holmes, of Eastport; New England Pack- ing Company, Dodge & Lawrence, Brown & Brawn, and H. Comstock & Company of Lu- bec; Hart & Balcom, of Robbinston; Wolff & Ressing, of Milbridge. The capital invested, hands employed and value of the product of this branch of the packing business cannot be stated even approximately. For some reason the proprietors are generally disinclined to give information in regard to the business transacted at Eastport, but it is quite ex- tensive and supposed to be profi table. The larger concerns ship and market their own product, but the smaller have for the past two years sold their factories to Messrs. Wolf & Ressing, who ship their goods to New York and Boston. The Eastport Sentinel estimates the val-


ue of the product of factories in that vicinity the past season at $1,000,000 the quantity being double, but the price was not much above one-half that of the previous years. OTHER COMPANIES


The Castine Packing Company is doing


a large business, principally canning lob- sters in their season, but also using meats and vegetables. These are but a part of the canning es-


tablishments along the coast. Others could be mentioned, but failing to get defi nite information in regard to capacity, etc., they are omitted. The packing of fi sh is roughly estimated at 1,500,000 cans of lobster, 750,000 cans of mackerel and 250,000 cans of clams annually. J. Winston Jones has been a conspic-


uous part in the corn canning business in the State and the failure of his company in January gave the business a “black eye” for a time. The company had fi fteen corn and fi ve lobster factories in the State and fourteen lobster and salmon factories in the Dominion. The assets of this company two years ago, when the corporation was orga- nized, was $599,000. Eight new factories were built during the year 1881 at a cost of $55,000. The causes of the failure were given as a lack of capital, the erection of the new factories and the manufacturing of cans worth $20,000 more than were required for the short crop of corn last year. The indebt- edness of the company was largely in New York, Boston and Portland, but the worst feature of the failure is the indebtedness to


farmers all over the State where factories are located. The amounts of each individual farmer is not large, but the tendency will be to discredit the business and cause farmers to turn their attention to other crops. There are fi fty-fi ve corn-canning es-


tablishments in the State; the product of which for 1881 is estimated to be about 11,500,000 cans, valued at not far from $1,000,000.


THE FUTURE OF THE BUSINESS The question naturally arises as to the


probabilities of this industry in the future. The Jones factories will very likely be oper- ated by somebody, even if the old company does not get on its feet again. The Portland Packing Company is building at Winthrop, Burnham & Morrill anticipate erecting other factories, and as the sales the past year have been favorable, there may be other parties now engaged in the business who will feel like extending their operations. If the season should be favorable, it is reasonably safe to say that the product will exceed that of last year, unless the Jones suspension shall prove to have a demoralizing eff ect upon those farmers who have been engaged in raising corn. It has been somewhat diffi cult to get suffi cient corn raised for the factories in operation. Last year, Jones & Company could have handled considerably more than they did get, or were able to get, and this was one cause of their embarrassment. The crop pays farmers but about $30 to the acre, when the yield is good. There are advantages arising from the value of the fodder that help out, and if properly packed in silos it is very valuable for stock. Many farmers are exper- imenting in this mater. The ultimate success of this important industry depends entirely upon the problem whether packers can aff ord to pay enough for the corn to enable farmers to engage in raising it extensively. If the crop can be made to pay as well or a little better, all things considered, than other crops, the number of factories could easily be doubled so far as their being sustained by farmers is concerned, but if the value of the crop per acre is even a trifl e below that of other crops, farmers will not long continue to raise corn for canning. The failure of the sugar beet industry in Maine demonstrates this.


There is, however, little reason to doubt


but the canning business is being established on a fi rm basis in the State, and will be, for many years to come, a growing industry.


Page 172. RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT NOTES Steamer HENRY MORRISON will go on the Rockland & Blue Hill route April 1st * * * * *


. Steamer MOUNT DESERT will com-


mence running between Rockland, Mount Desert and Sullivan March 25, making one trip a week until further notice. * * * * *


Steamer CITY OF PORTLAND, of


the International Line, having received thorough repairs, went on her route the fi rst of the present week. The FALMOUTH is hauled off at Portland for repairs. * * * * *


The Portland Company will deliver two


locomotives to the Northern Pacifi c Rail- road the present week. They will be sent by rail to New York, thence shipped by vessel around Cape Horn to the Pacifi c Coast.


HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS Old York, now a village of about 2,000


inhabitants, was originally called Agamen- ticus. It was a city for ten years, having re- ceived a charter from Sir Ferdinando Gorges in 1641, under the name of Georgeauna. Thomas Gorges was its fi rst mayor.


NUGGETS The submarine cable between Grand


Manan and the mainland is again in working order.


Page 173. Patents issued to Maine inventors un- , 1882, reported for


der date of March 7th


the “Mining Journal” by William Frank- lin Seavey, Solicitor of Patents, Bangor; Edward Robinson, Deering, Music Leaf Turner; Benjamin J. Willard, Portland, Life Preserver; Samuel N. Silver, Auburn, Motor. No Maine patents issued for Feb. 21st


or 28th .


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