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ring he felt satisfied that there was a future for the herring as a sardine 
fish, and informed Messrs. Wolff & Reesing, with whom he was at that 
time associated, to that effect. The firm entered enthusiastically into the 
work, encouraging Mr. Sellmann in his experiments, which were at first 
carried on in the kitchen of his boarding-house. Soon fish of medium 
quality, though far inferior to those now packed, were prepared, and 
in 1875 about two or three hundred cases were put up. 
From that time the business increased with marked rapidity and others 
became interested in it. Prior to 1880, however, it was confined wholly 
to the village of Eastport. During this season a factory was built at 
liobbinston, a few miles to the northward of the Saint Croix River, and 
one or two others were started at Lubec, while others still were built at 
Jonesport, Millbridge, Lamoine, and Camden. During that year there 
were packed on the coast of Maine, in all, $800,000 worth of the various 
grades of sardines, including Russian sardines, anchovies, and sardines 
in oil, mustard, spices, and tomato sauce. 
II.— PRESENT STATUS OF THE BUSINESS. 
The following table contains a statement of the sardine canneries in 
operation in Maine in 1886, with their location and date of establish- 
ment. In 1880 there were but nineteen canneries running, which num- 
ber had increased to forty-five in 1886. Of the factories operated in 
1880, eleven were still used in 1886, although some were under different 
management. 
Name of firm and location of factory. 
A. H. Wentworth & Co., Bobbin ston 
Frontier Packing Co,, liobbinston 
Saint Croix Packing Co., North Perry 
Quoddy Packing Co., Harris Cove, East- 
port I --- 
Charles H. Brewster, Eastport 
Peter M. Kane, Buckman’s Head, East-. 
port 
William A. Balkam, Eastport 
American Sardine Co., Eastport 
Hiram Blanchard & Sons, Eastport 
Daniel McCullough, Eastport 
E. A. Holmes, Eastport 
M. C. Holmes & Co., Eastport 
Stimpson & Young, Eastport 
George O’Grady & Co., Eastport 
J. D. Young, Eastport 
Eagle Preserved Fish Co., three factories, 
Eastport 
Capen & McLain, Eastport 
John Henderson, Eastport 
Hallett Brothers, Eastport 
B> C. Green & Co., Eastport 
Pembroke Packing Co., East Branch Pem- 
broke Biver, Pembroke 
The West Branch Sardine Co., West 
Branch Pembroke Biver, Pembroke 
Date 
of es- 
tablish- 
ment. 
Name of firm and location of factory. 
Date 
of es- 
tablish- 
ment. 
1881 
; Hiram C. Comstock & Co., North Lubec. 
1881 
1880 
Beynolds & Avery, North Lubec 
1886 
1886 
E. P. Lawrence & Co.. North Lubec 
1885 
Lubec Packing Co., North Lubec 
1880 
1886 
Parker &Pike, Lubec 
1883 
1882 ’ 
New England Sardine Co., Lubec 
1881 
A. W. Lamson & Co., Lubec 
1884 
1876 
E. W. Brown & Co., Lubec 
1881 
1883 
Green & Kelley, Cutler 
1886 
1879 
Stimpson & Young, Jonesport 
1881 
1880 
Jonesport Packing Co. , Jonesport 
1882 
1881 
William Underwood & Co., Jonesport . .. 
1880 
1880 
H. F. Sawyer, Millbridge 
1885 
1881 
Millbridge Packing Co., Millbridge 
Lamoine Packing Co., East Lamoine, 
1881 
1880 
1881 
Hancock 
1880 
1881 
Bass Harbor Packing Co., Bass Harbor, 
|( 1875 
1881 
1 Tremont . j 
1882 
Brooklin Canning Co., Brooklin (or Cen- 
( 1882 
ter Harbor) 
1883 
1881 
S. B. Morey, West Deer Isle 
1886 
1886 
Deer Isle Packing Co.. Green’s Landing. 
1886 
1881 
Green’s Landing Packing Co., Green’s 
1880 
Landing . . .. 
1886 
1885 
1886 
1 
T. Warren & Co., Green’s Landing 
1886 
Several additional canneries have been started at other points and 
yuu with varying success for one or more seasons, Among these was 
