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42. — The locations of the oil factories. 

 Factories in Maine. 



229. The oil and guano factories are located chiefly on tlie coasts of 

 Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Long Island, at the localities 

 already designated as being most frequented by large schools of men- 

 haden. 



In 1877 there were on the coast of Maine fourteen establishments of 

 sufficient importance to be represented in the Maine Oil and Guano As- 

 sociation, all but two of them in good financial standing. I am indebted 

 to Messrs. Church, Pryer and Maddocks for the detailed list given below, 

 including those not now in operation. There are, besides, several small 

 factories of no great statistical importance. 



On Muscongus Sound, near Round Pond, are six factories owned by 

 The Bristol Oil Works, with two presses; Albert Gray & Co., 

 with two presses ; Joseph Church & Co., with four presses ; the 

 Round Pond Oil Company, not now in operation ; Leonard Bright- 

 man & Co., now bankrupt ; the Brown's Cove Company (not operated 

 in 1877), and the Loud's Island Oil Company. 



On John's Bay, Liniken's Bay, and in that vicinity are ten, owned 

 by the Pemaquid Oil Company, with three presses ; Wells & Co., 

 with two presses ; Tuthill, French & Co., with two presses ; Fowler, 

 Foots & Co. ; the Suffolk Oil Company, with two presses ; Gallup 

 & Holmes, with two presses; Gallup, Morgan & Co., with two 

 presses ; Kenniston, Cobb & Co., with two presses (not now in opera- 

 tion) ; Luther Maddocks ; the White Wine Brook Company. 



There is also a factory at Brooklin owned by Robert A. Friend, 

 and the South Saint George Oil Works, at South Saint George. 



The George W. Miles Company, of Milford, Conn., have for several 

 years operated their ship, the Alabama, with two presses, in John's Bay. 



There have also been within a few years factories at Blue Hill, owned 

 by CoNARY & Co. ; in Brooklin, owned by G. Allen & Co. ; in Brook- 

 ville, owned by E. C. Chatto & Co. ; in Belfast, owned by J. C. Con- 

 don and by J. C. Mayo. The first is known to be abandoned, and no 

 returns have been received from the others since 1873. 



A considerable amount of oil is also tried out by individuals who 

 carry on a small business of this description in connection with other 

 occupations. The amount thus produced in 1874 was estimated by Mr. 

 Eben B. Phillips at from 50,000 to 75,000 gallons. 



Factories in Massachusetts. 



230. In Massachusetts there are no important factories; the Cape 

 Cod Oil Works, at Provincetown, and the North American Oil 

 Works, at Wellfleet, try out a small quantity of menhaden oil annually, 

 but this is merely incidental, their chief source of supply being bodies 

 of stranded blackflsh and porpoises. 



