Page 26. MAINE COASTAL NEWS August 2018


the Mount Waldo Granite Works”. The quar- ries of the Mount Waldo Granite Company, at Frankfort, are doing a lively business; they have a large force of men employed at work and are continually hiring more. They are to build about one mile of railroad to connect with their other road to the wharf. One of the roads will start from the new blacksmith shop and come down to connect with the main track. The other will be a double track from the south end to connect with the one that goes by the cutters’ sheds. At their wharf they have loaded three schooners with paving stones and there are two now at the wharf and two more expected soon. The paving cutters can make $2.50 or $3.00 per day and some even more. They have six four ox teams at work at present and will buy several more the coming month. Their agent, James R. Kingsbury, is continually in search of large oxen and as it is very hard on cattle they are always busy.


RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES Steamer LEWISTON has commenced


her summer arrangement of two trips per week.


* * * * * Steamer MOUNT DESERT, of the


Rockland and Mount Desert Line, will make two trips per week after Tuesday next. * * * * *


The Grand Manan Island News learns


that an American steamer, the NARRA- GANSET, will make three excursions week- ly the coming season between Bar Harbor, Eastport, Campobello and Grand Manan.


21 April Page 250.


EASTERN INDUSTRIES The granite company have begun work


on the Harbor Quarry at Vinalhaven and last week put on twenty-six cutters. * * * * *


The Atlantic Granite Company, under


the management of Joseph Emery, have some thirty men employed at their quarry near Seal Harbor, South Thomaston. They are getting out monuments, building stone, and paving blocks.


* * * * * Mr. C. J. Hall has an order for fi fty


polished red granite columns for a church in New York. The granite will be quarried at Mount Desert and brought to Belfast where it will be dressed. A new polisher for circular work will be built and erected at the foundry. * * * * *


A busy place at Cherryfi eld is at the


steam mill of Mr. E. K. Wilson. Late last sea- son MR. Wilson made extensive additions to his mill, adding a new chimney, engine room, drying room, box-making room and wide sheds for protection of his stock, thus giving more room for his planer and other machinery used in box-making. Since the beginning of the year he has furnished a large number of boxes daily to Wolff & Ressing, to be fi lled with empty cans for storage at their sardine factory in Milbridge. The same fi rm buy boxes of Mr. Wilson to ship to their shop in Eastport. Some of the other packing companies also patronize this mill. About fi fteen men are employed. * * * * *


Frank H. Wiswell, East Machias, during


1881 shipped to Berry Brothers, Portland 585 cases or 30,437 dozen eggs. He paid cash for the eggs $4,942.99, average price per dozen, 16¼ cents. The largest shipment in one week was 30 cases or 1,533 dozen. Allowing that each hen laid 200 eggs, there must have been about 1826 hens employed to provide the amount of eggs shipped by Mr. Wiswell. Mr. S. S. Hall, also of East Machias, shipped 6,300 dozen eggs during


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industrial Journal - 1882 engineers, mates, etc.


last year. Allowing domestic consumption on the same territory to be fi fty percent of the amount shipped, the four or fi ve towns in- cluding Machias and Machiasport will show an egg product of about 100,000 dozen for 1881, worth at 16 cents per dozen, $16,000. [Machias Union]


Page 250-251. The Collins Granite Company, East


Blue Hill, employ 170 men and the force will shortly be increased to two hundred. Fifteen men are also employed in breaking paving. The company has contracts for cut granite, amounting to over $60,000, mostly fi ne work. A large building has recently been erected in the yard in which will be placed machinery for polishing granite. It consists of two machines for polishing fl at surfaces and two lathes for polishing columns. A forty horsepower engine will be used. The quarry is furnished with a forty horsepower boiler, a hoisting engine, pumping engine and a steam drill. One boiler supplies the power for the three engines. The company’s genial superintendent, Christopher Binder, is very much liked, and the foreman, J. H. Johnson, is the right man in the right place. Fulton and Saunders, of Ellsworth, have also a valuable quarry here, that is easy of access. They are working their refuse granite into paving.


Page 251. The lobster trade is one of no small


importance to the coast towns of Maine in the spring of the year. Lobsters are caught and kept in fl oating cars till time of shipment, when they are packed in barrels and sent by steamer to Boston while alive, and upon arrival there are immediately boiled and sold from the markets. Mr. David Vose, who purchases lobsters here from the catchers, informs us that during March he paid eight dollars per barrel for lobsters and is now paying $7.50 per barrel. The largest lobsters pack about fi fty to the barrel, and the small- est from seventy-fi ve to eighty. Those now brought here for shipment are caught up the bay between here and Castine and among the adjacent islands. A little later they will arrive in larger quantities from farther east. The State laws prohibit the traffi c in lobsters less than 10½ inches in length from August 1st


to April 1st . In Massachusetts the prohibi-


tion of taking lobsters less than 10½ inches extends through the whole year. [Rockland Free Press]


RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES It is reported that the new steamer


STATE OF MAINE will run during the summer between Boston and Bar Harbor for the accommodation of tourists. * * * * *


A petition is being signed by many


Maine ship owners and steamboat compa- nies asking for a survey of Sandy Bay, at Rockport, Massachusetts, for a breakwater at that port to protect such of the commerce as might from necessity desire to make a harbor there in stormy weather. * * * * *


It having been reported that the steamer


NAHANT, of the Boston and Nahant Line, was to run between Belfast and Mount Desert this season, the summer residents of the town are said to have guaranteed the company $6,000 worth of travel if they will consent to run the steamer to that town, one- half of the sum having already been pledged.


Page 252. NUGGETS Formerly chief engineers, pilots, etc.,


had to pay ten dollars for a certifi cate. A bill has now passed Congress reducing the fee to fi fty cents. This also applies to assistant


RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES It is rumored that a passenger steamer


will run between Damariscotta and Portland the coming season.


* * * * * The port of Bangor now presents a


lively aspect. In the brief time our harbor has been open to navigation considerably over one hundred vessels have arrived and business along the river front is now very active.


28 April Page 266.


EASTERN INDUSTRIES Two vessels of about 500 tons each will


be built at Harrington the present season. Work has already commenced upon both. * * * * *


Foreign exports from the port of


Portland during last week were valued at $120,310.70; included in which were 701,000 feet of lumber.


Page 266-267. English dealers in ice are buying ice in


Maine, and it sells in England for $9 a ton. About 300,00 tons will supply all England for the season, while New York alone uses between 2,000,000 and 3,225,000 tons.


Page 267. At Wiscasset, Hon. J. M. Haynes has a


schooner of 600 tons in frame, is laying the keel for another of 350 tons, and is getting out the frame for a tugboat, 65 feet long. He has just fi nished a two-storied shipyard mill, 35 x 70 feet.


* * * * * Messrs. Burnham & Morrill have de-


cided to erect a corn-canning factory at Har- rison, and have contracted with the farmers for 300 acres of corn. A location has been secured near the steam mill, and hands are now being employed making cans. * * * * *


Messrs. Thompson & Hall, of Portland,


are building a large canning factory at Jay Bridge, and will pack 15,000 cases of sweet corn this season, besides tomatoes. They will have associated with them Mr. D. W. Hoegg, so long with J. W. Jones & Company. * * * * *


Workmen are hewing out a keel at


Tewksbury’s shipyard, in this city, for a three-masted schooner to be commanded by Captain Pendleton, of the schooner LES- TER A. LEWIS. The new schooner will be about the size of the WILLIE L. NEWTON, built at the same yard last year. * * * * *


Messrs. Wolff & Ressing are making


large additions to their sardine factory at Milbridge. The main building will be over 260 feet long; another patent oven and hydraulic press will be added. Extensive preparations are being made for canning mackerel the coming season. * * * * *


John H. Crandon, of Columbia Falls,


is building, in his shipyard, a barkentine of about 500 tons, to be owned principally by Western parties. J. L. Buckman & Son will shortly commence work upon a schooner of about 200 tons, to be commanded by Captain William H. Perry, of Addison. * * * * *


The fi ve shipyards at Belfast, Maine,


are actively at work, and six vessels are in process of construction. Carter & Company have two under way, and McDonald & Brown, D. W. Dyer, J. Y. Cottrell and G. W. Cottrell have one each. Hardly a day passes but that parties are at Belfast to get fi gures for building a vessel.


Page 269. NEW INCORPORATIONS The Bristol Ice Company – Damariscot-


ta, April 19 – Capital $30,000 – Purposes, cutting, selling and dealing in ice and man- ufacturing and dealing in lumber, at Bristol, Lincoln county, Maine – President, Addison Austin; Treasurer, Edwin Flye.


5 May Page 283. EASTERN INDUSTIES Swan’s Island has a new steamboat


landing. 150 barrels of lobsters will be shipped weekly from the Island during the season.


* * * * *


The total value of foreign exports from the port of Portland for the week ending on Saturday last was $250,530.25 including 1,121,970 feet of lumber. * * * * *


Immense quantities of lobsters are be-


ing shipped to Boston from eastern Maine. Small schooners bring a large number of barrels each week to Rockland, and the LEWISTON and MORRISON are heavily loaded each trip.


* * * * * Standing upon Commercial wharf,


Boston, and looking through the forest of masts, one would be somewhat startled to see what might at fi rst be taken for a clump of green bushes. A closer scrutiny would show them to be poles with a tuft of green at one end, piled up upon a wharf. They


Page 268. The Eastport Sentinel says the state-


ment going the rounds of the press, to the eff ect that the new International steamer STATE OF MAINE will run between Boston and Bar Harbor the coming season, is incor- rect. The steamer was built to run between Boston, Portland, Eastport and St. John, and will, we are informed, take her place on the route as soon as completed, which will be some time in June.


HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS About 200 trees from New York have


been taken to Peak’s Island to be set out along either side of Island avenue. More trees for a similar purpose will soon arrive. * * * * *


Messrs. Bowditch and Otis, of Boston,


have purchased 2,000 acres of land on the Isle au Haut and are to lay it out into cottage lots. Mr. Bowditch is well-known as a land- scape gardener.


NUGGETS Since April 1, Deer Isle has had no


telegraphic communication with the rest of the world. The cable across Eggemoggin Reach was broken, and on examination was found so badly rusted and stranded that it is found necessary to lay a new one. The new cable has been ordered and is expected to arrive daily. It cost $1,600.


* * * * * Steamer FALMOUTH, of the Interna-


tional Line, went on her route last week, taking the place of the NEW BRUSWICK. Work on the new STATE OF MAINE of the same line, is being rapidly pushed to completion, and her trial trip is designated to take place June 2.


* * * * * The porgy steamers are fi tting up for


a lively summer campaign. Engineers for these steamers are in great demand. The Portland Sunday Times says that an order was recently sent to that city, from Green- point, for three engineers, but they could not be obtained.


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