The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-26
single instance this matter has ever been

a single instance this matter has ever been
thought Of.
The farms along the line are small the fences
are Indifferent, many of them being made oil tue
sumps roots OF trees, set up on their esges In
row some are made of brush, some OF a mixture
of stumps and long poles, some OF ooaros, TWO or
three boards high and all of them SO trifiing that
unless the cattle were very well behaved, such
fencing would be good for nothing.
Ar this village Of Liitleton there are several wool
len factories, turned by the water power OF the
Amonoosuck, and large factory OF scythes, the
iron used being procured In part from the Franco
MA mnes and the steel from Boston. The village,
which lies twenty miles northeast OF the Connect-
cut by the stage road, has a population OF about
fifteen hundred, mostly employed IN the factories,
and it is rapidly improving, with every prospect OF
population Of three thousand before the expira-
tlon of the year for, besides the factories men
toned, there are here two large saw-nlls, which
turn out an immense quantity OF lumber In the
course of season. Twenty miles hauling will
bring il 70 the Connecticut railroad, direct for Bss-
ton, and the hills around the village are well tim
bered with pines. A large amount OF the lumber
now cut is used in the erection OF buildings IN
the village-the best evidence OF lts prosperity.
Many places In the heart OF Maine, New Hamp-
shire, and Vermont, heretofore the mere halfway
stations of the stage coaches, as the railroads Pc
netrate them from the seaboard, are growing with
something of the rapdiy OF the towns and
villages of Nlinnesota-the timber lands being
brought into market, and the water power Of
the mountain streams into requlsltiOn tor cutting
up the trees into lumber for the markets of the
D0afus, and Tor the dwellings, OF an increasing
local population, and for mills, factories, raroa!
sub,struclures, nr,oges, depots, &c. Thus, the
outlet OF Lake Wnnipssiogee is fortified by saw
mills-the outlets OF the lakes emptying into the
Saco are appropriated to the same purposes, and
the saving of timber into boards and scantllng, on
the upper waters of The Kennebeck and Penob-
scot, IN Maine, will soon from the invasion Of rail-
roads from Portland, become an important branch
OF business. Heretofore, the timber has been
RATED down in platforms of logs to the seaboard,
10 be sawed up, and at this time In the lower
waters of the kennebeck and Penobscot RATS of
logs, to the amount OF millions of dollars, are
lying in the water waiting for the saw mills The
completion of the interior railroads will relieve
the mills OF the seaboard of this pressure, intro
duce mills and factories into the interior, and
populate the country, which is now still in the
woods.
The growth of this village of Litteton is but
one example of hundred in support Of these con-
illusions. The piney regions of the White Noun
tains are coming into market by means OF rail-
roads-their water power is coming into service,
and steam will supply the deficiency. We know of
no section of the country which promises more
rapid increase of population, and DEVELOPMENT of
resources, from the Introduction of railroads, than
the northern part of New Hampshire, and the In
terror of Maine. w.