Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1839-09-19
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The following article from the Boston
I Mercantile Journal gives partial view of
one OF the numerous resources OF Maine.
We cannot but believe that if public at
tentlon were turned more particularly 10
an examination of the various sources of
wealth in this State, the result would be
astounding to those who are in the habit of
sneering at every thing" down east" The
time is not far distant when we shall supply
all the u S. with slate of a quality equal
to the Welsh article at least. Our cotton
manufactures are now attracting particular
! attention, and the productions of the mill in
York, Brunswick and Westbrook, rival
already the best fabrics in the country
| The lime Of Thomason and the lumber
of all our rivers go every where in the u. S
Our granite surpusses all olheis; our pota-
toes who does not eat when he can get
them Our fish 90 sailed far up the Miss
| issippi and all the western rivers. We an
ticipate ere long to add to our catalogue of
resources, iron and coal, the two grand
materials on which wealth and manufac-
turing industry are. founded. All these
materials when elaborated by the patient,
unAagging labour of northern bone and
muscles will erect a super structure of po-
litical stability and greatness not exceeded
in this union. Port. Cour.
Water Power agorih haying The ac-
counts we have had heretofore Of the re-
sources of Bangor, whether IN the way Of
land or water, do not appear to have been
exag aerated, after all, though certain
operations have been carried to excess in
that region, which may ioi Short period
diminish and delay its progress
editor of the Kennebec Journal who has
just been over the or ound tells us that the
water power for IL miles above Bangor is
perhaps not surpassed in any part of the
world The bed Of the river all the way
is rocky, and the stream is divided by
Islands, around which the water runs over
rocky hedges in rapid currents in many
places, SO that wig dams, part way across
the river, create water power for mills.
These are now occupied only for saw mills,
or for little else; bat the time must come,
and not distant, when this water power
will be used for other purposes also. Aud
these saw mills, meanwhile, are no tri1e.
We have lately had accounts of the vast
quantities of lumber got out at Bangor.
They seemed almost incredible for such a
place, but the secret appears in these
statements, and in the fact that iDith,n ten
miles there are orcr tUo hundred samS
nearly all in operation.-We might the
writer add" llthere is any other place on
the whole earth where there are so many
saw mills on one stream within the same
compass, we have yet to learn where it Is. "
We quite agree with him in the additional
remark, that, independently of its water
resources, Bangor has sources of prosperity
which cannot fail.---W hen the BE-, country
above becomes more settled it must grow
tohe a large city, rnnch the largest in
Maine. The waters Of the Penobscot flow
from. large part of the State, and though
the soil is. rather blrren as far as the Mat
ianawcook, it is good above there, and very
fine on the Piscalaquis, and in nearly the
whole space between the Penobscot and
Kennebec, The trade of all the county,
or nearly So which is watered by the Fen
obsco,, mus, pass through Bangor
Bos Mer. Jour.