Page 24. MAINE COASTAL NEWS August 2018 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882 1882
17 March Page 173.
Carefully prepared statistics show the
number of men engaged in the Gloucester fi shing fl eets the past year, was 4,142. Divid- ed as follows: Georges fl eet, 1,460; Western Bank, 284; Grand Bank, 360; Fresh halibut, 330; Mackereling, 1,120; Shore fi shing, 430; Dory fi shing, 125; Trap fi shing, 24. This does not include the crews of vessels from other ports.
* * * * * The Harbor Master’s report for the sea-
son of 1881, recently submitted to the City Council, contains the following statistics: The port of Bangor opened to navigation on March 20th
and closed January 2nd , thus
remaining open 288 days, during which time 2,057 vessels of all classes arrived. Of this number 21 were steamers, 2 ships, 6 barks and barkentines, 22 brigs and the remainder schooners. The total tonnage of vessels arriving was 389,764 tons. The number of foreign arrivals was 18 and the number of foreign clearances 34. Imports during the season were as follows: Salt 31,124 bushels; molasses 626 hogsheads; fl our 584 bbls; corn 460,185 bushels; coal 29,948 tons; lime 6,375 casks, nails 6,305 kegs; potter’s clay 225 tons; lime rock, 679 tons; granite, 400 tons; pig iron, 990 tons; cement, 3,249 casks; kerosene oil, 3,526 bbls; granite pavement blocks, 32,749.
24 March Page 184. Captain N. H. Higgins, the genial land-
lord of the Copper and Gold Exchange, Blue Hill, is responsible for the following good advice:
“In navigating through this life, In poverty or riches,
If fortune sends a “head beat” sea Just ease her when she pitches.”
Page 185. (Written as Page 182.) PERSONALS
Captain Thomas Pollard, Superin-
tendent of the Cape Rosier Mine, was shipwrecked down the Bay on Thursday of last week, as we learned from one of our exchanges. It seems that Captain Pollard was a passenger on board a small sloop which left the mine for a trip to Castine. When off Ram Island, owing, it is said, to the carelessness of the lookout, the vessel ran onto a dangerous ledge, and, as the tide was falling, remained fast. Prompt assistance was rendered from the Cape, and passengers and crew were suc- cessfully rescued. As the weather remained fi ne the sloop came off the next high tide without much damage.
Page 186. EASTERN INDUSTRIES
Lime shipments from Rockland during last week amounted to 13,655 casks. * * * * *
The total value of foreign exports from the port of Portland for the week ending on Saturday last was $257,885. Included in this were 13,542 feet of lumber. * * * * *
Two thousand seven hundred and thir-
ty-four bags of sugar from Brazil for the Moncton (New Brunswick) Refi nery were recently received at Halifax by the second steamer of the new Brazilian Line. * * * * *
The Portland Company have completed two more locomotives for the Northern Pa- cifi c and they will be forwarded at once. The Company are also delivering fl at cars for the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway. * * * * *
A fi ne schooner was launched at Kenne-
bunkport on Wednesday for A. M. Smith, of Portland; also launched the same day from Clark’s shipyard, Kennebunk, a schooner of 162 tons, built by Captain Bradford Oakes, and now off ered for sale. * * * * *
The Sentinel says there have been
shipped the past season from Eastport and vicinity 29,650,600 frozen herring, and that the amount of money paid, in cash, to the fi shermen, has not been far from $120,000. To get these fi sh to the western markets required 145 cargoes by sailing vessel and 9,830 barrels by steamer.
Page 187. Business at Red Beach (near Calais)
has been brisk this winter. The Maine Red Granite Company are fi lling orders as rap- idly as possible, and are putting in new and expensive machinery; the Bone Phosphate Works are running full blast; the Plaster Manufactory has been driven all winter to its fullest capacity, and vessels are being chartered and loaded with dispatch. * * * * *
Messrs. Potter & Wrightinton’s canning
factory at Green’s Landing, Deer Isle, has commenced work, putting up clams and clam chowders. Mr. George Tolman has either bought or leased the lobster canning establishment at Burnt Cove, and will commence operations April 15. The other factories were to start up the present week. Messrs. Charles A. Dyer & Company, of Portland, have leased the premises formerly occupied by the Portland Packing Compa- ny, at Oceanville, and are arranging to do a large business the coming season in canning lobsters, mackerel and clams. * * * * *
Business is good at the East Deering
shipyards. Russell has a 300-ton schooner nearly fi nished, to be rigged on the stocks; she will be commanded by Captain Leslie B. Clark, of Pembroke. As soon as this one is launched work will be commenced upon a barkentine of about 600 tons, the timber for which is already in the yard; this vessel will be completed about the fi rst of November, and will be commanded by Captain George W. M. Fadden, of Lubec. Sargent has the keel of a large schooner laid, which is now well seasoned, and the work of construction will be pushed at once.
* * * * * Messrs. Joseph Oakes & Son, the well-
known shipbuilders, are about to make a new departure by way of docking accommoda- tions. A dry dock, of one berth, will be built the coming season, at the westerly end of the caulking and repairing beach in front of the upper yard in Brewer. The plan has been made, and trenching will be commenced as soon as the ice leaves and the frost is out of the ground. The construction will be similar to that of other docks, bulkheads and a gate, with a powerful pump to free the dock from water as soon as the vessel has entered, although in this case, the elevation of the dock above low water mark will admit of a good part of the water running out through scuppers. The fi rm of Oakes & Son, have control of a double marine railway, a ship- yard and a good repairing dock now, and the building of the new dock will give them fi rst-rate facilities for all kinds of ship work. [Commercial]
Page 188.
RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT NOTES
Steamer MOUNT DESERT will make
her fi rst trip of the season to Mount Desert and Sullivan tomorrow (Saturday). * * * * *
Steamer HENRY MORRISON will
commence her trips to Blue Hill and Ells- worth tomorrow (Saturday), making there- after two trips per week until further notice. * * * * *
Steamship SCANDINAVIAN, of the
Allan Line, recently arrived at Portland from Glasgow, brought with her other freight 5,000 bags (12,500 bushels) of Scotch po- tatoes.
* * * * *
Line, sailed from Liverpool for Portland on the 10th
Steamship ONTARIO, of the Dominion inst. Among her cargo are 110
prize Hereford cattle, consigned to Messrs. Burleigh and Bodwell, of Hallowell. * * * * *
A schooner of 500 tons, owned by the
builders and others, was launched at Bath on Saturday last by B. W. & H. F. Morse; also a fi shing schooner of 102 tons, owned by Captain J. A. Jewett and other Portland parties.
* * * * * The Grand Trunk Railway Company
are talking of making arrangements for a line of steamships to ply between Portland and St. John and Portland and Halifax, for the carriage of freight and passenger traffi c to and from the Maritime Provinces. * * * * *
The steamer QUEEN CITY, of the
Bangor & Bar Harbor Line, is now being put in order at Bucksport preparatory to beginning her Bar Harbor trips. In case the departure of the ice from this port is long delayed, the steamer will make a few trips from Bucksport to the great watering place, but the prospect is that this port will be free from the ice embargo early enough for her fi rst trip.
* * * * * The Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat
Company are building, at Oakes’ yard, an elegant steam yacht, designed for the use of private parties who wish to avoid a miscel- laneous company in their summer jaunts for rest and recreation. The machinery is now being built in Boston, and the hull is nearly framed out and planked. The new boat will be swift, graceful, of superior construction and elegant appointments, and about the size of the well-known steamer MAY FIELD; she will be off in April.
Page 189. NUGGETS Salmon seem to strike the coasts of the
Maritime Provinces in the spring earliest between Halifax and Shelburne, the Lahave river carrying off fi rst honors as a rule. Two salmon were caught in that river a fortnight ago, one of which weighed 18 pounds. * * * * * The Report of the Department of Ma-
rine and Fisheries show that there are in Nova Scotia 122 light stations having 124 lighthouses and exhibiting 136 lights; 10 light vessels; 11 steam fog alarms; 1 fog bell; 3 signal gun stations; 372 buoys of all kinds, and 13 stationary beacons and lifeboat stations. Tenders have been awarded for lighthouses at Crow Harbor, Guysborough, and Westhaven Island, Lunenburg. In addi- tion to this the estimates for the ensuing year provide for the building of new lighthouses at Jerome Point, Richmond, and Ingonish Harbor, Victoria county.
31 March Page 197. The Kennebec reporter estimates the
ice cut on the Kennebec this season as about 900,000 tons.
Page 198. PERSONALS Frank W. Campbell, night engineer at
the Hercules Mine, was drowned last week. He left Castine for the mine in a small boat and shortly after the boat was found bottom up. Search has been made but the body had not been found at last reports. Deceased was 27 years of age and formerly resided in Augusta.
Page 203. EASTERN INDUSTRIES David Clark, of Kennebunkport, has
built and rebuilt seventy-six vessels since 1857.
* * * * * Mr. Hall, at the Belfast foundry, is now
turning out some very fi ne ship work, among which are pumps and windlasses, containing many improvements of his own invention. Our shipbuilders and vessel owners have no occasion to go out of town for work of this kind. [Journal]
* * * * * The lumber shipments from the town of
Franklin for the present season are estimated as follows, the value on the wharves being given and the names of the shippers: W. H. Card, $10,000; C. H. Macomber, $6,000; J. P. Gordon $8,000; Blaisdell Brothers, $8,000; J. U. McCarthy, $5,000; H. B. Mason, $6,000; E. J. Swan, $10,000; other parties $7,000. This includes hoop poles and everything of wood growth. * * * * *
Mr. W. P. Colchester’s fertilizing facto-
ry at Grand Manan is fast nearing comple- tion, and is expected to start up about May 1st
. This factory will be benefi cial in more
ways than one, as it will not only enable the fi shermen to dispose of every particle of the fi sh they catch, but will utilize the off al which has hitherto found a resting place along the beaches, to the intense discomfort and annoyance of summer visitors.
Page 204. Next week the Portland Company will
fi nish a new hard coal-burning engine, now in process of completion at their works. It will be forwarded at once to the New York City and Northern Railroad Company, for whom it was built. The next two locomo- tives to be turned out from the works will be consigned to the Northern Pacifi c Railroad. When completed they will be sent from here to Bath, and shipped thence to their destina- tion, on a new vessel specially chartered for that purpose. [Portland Sunday Times] * * * * *
It is understood that Mr. Noah Mayo,
one of Boston’s largest packers of fi sh, who has extensive wharf facilities in East Boston, had taken a lease Widgery’s wharf in Port- land, Maine, as an auxiliary to his fi shing and packing business. He has a number of eastern vessels engaged for the coming season, and proposes to go into mackerel more extensively than ever. He expects to do a large trade in Portland when the fl eet works down in that direction. It is said that this move of Mr. Mayo’s has stirred up a little excitement among fi sh packers in Portland, who imagine that it will interfere somewhat with their operations.
* * * * * Deer Isle is the second town in popu-
lation in Hancock county. It is twelve miles long, and from fi ve to seven wide. It is a port of entry under Castine. There are about one hundred and fi fty vessels large and small owned here, and engaged in coasting and fi shing. The male population are mostly sailors and fi sherman; there are four canning factories, two at Green’s Landing, one each at Burnt Cove and Oceanville. There is a silver mine at Dunham’s Point, which is being worked with fair prospects at present. At Green’s Landing there are two ice com-
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