Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1858-11-05

maple predominates, and Is watsred bya
branch Of the Mattawamkeag. called the
Skiuicook stream. A letter from p. y.
Burleish, Esq., the government surveyor,
which was permitted To see at the land
Office, describes IL as n most beautiful town
ship. There Is doubtless large depo.it Of
iron in n hill at its northern extremity.
where. in attempting to run out the lots
the needle was drawn round sixty degrees
FROM its due course and the compass render.
Ell useless. A road has been located through
this tract, running to Smyrna and connect
ing with the Aroostook road at Patten.
Levi Berry Of Smyrna Is tho government
agent for No. s In range ..
Letter T., in tho 6rst range, is another
good township Tor settlers. A mill has re-.
Gently been erected on the Limestone stream
which passes through the township. and
but little Of tho settling land has as yet been
taken up. Latter + is separated from Fort
Fairfield by Plymouth Grant, and road
from the mill. to the 81. Johns river is on.
ly seven or eight miles long.
But 1t is no use to dc'eribc particular To-
cali,ic-. Suffice |, to say that land can here
be found 10 suit the most asildious taste,
and in almost any part Of ,hi. vast terrific
~. Level intervals on the streams. or roll.
ing uplands, all having deep rich soil and
producing in abundance. materials for fence
and fuel everywhere abound. Patient ,oil,
industry and economy practiced upon any
Of these lands will NEE, with sure and abun.
dant returns. Let person labor as dill.
gently in clearing up tho AroOstook forests
and cul,ivating the soil, as many Of our Tar
mers who delvc among the rocks IN the
rough portions Of our county are forced TO
labor to keep soul and body together. and
in few years no will find himself with a
first rate farm, aud all the necessary sur
roundings aud comforts Of life.
lido no, wish ospcak disparigingly Of the
.oil aud climate Of Oxford county. know
that we have much fertile soil and healthy
braeiLg climate. We also possess impor.
,ant advantages in the way Of schools and
religious institutions. and our social rela-
,ions are certainly more pleasing to u, than
they can be in new country for n long
time. And I, most assuredly Is not advisa.
Die for any one who is we'll situated here,
with good home. u exchange 1t for one in
Aroostook or any where else. But 10 thosc
who are wearing out their lives, and gain
a scan,y subsistence in trying to cultivate our
rough uplands, which are only suitable io'
grazing, removal TO such farming region
as Aroostook would DO an agreeable and
profitable change. And to those young met
who hay, the alternative OF taking up with
the unsettled lands of Oxford county or o
emigating TO some other place, and cspe
cially TO those who have been thinking o.
going westward, | would say, 90 down Il
AroostOok. where. within the limits OF ouI
own State, and within the pale Of our owr
laws and institutions, 90 dear to Us all, you
can find soil which has gathered icrtili
iy from the reposo Of agcs." soil equal I
not superior 20 any western soil, soil still
tecming with :'primeval forests" a wilder
ness which needs only the labor which you
are willing 10 bcs,ow, Ito make !. blossom
as the ro-c." And TO those young men who
throng our larger towns and Villages, whC
have ignored farm labor on account Of tbs
many di.coungemen,s which oppose them
selves to a young man without means Il
purchase a farm. and who are here expose
to all the temptations inciden, To lie o.
idleness, would siy leave your low haunu
and dangerous practices, and 50 down Il
Aroo.,ook, and take the portion Of Ian.
which your State offers you almost with
out money and without price" and where
freed from the temptations to wee, you may
by honest and p,r.evcring industry, becom,
in few years independent lords u the soil
have thu. given my views in briel re
speetIng the inducements afforded .or emf
grafton 20 the Aroostook lands. In advising
person. 10 emigrate rather than take ~
with the unsettled land. oi Oxford, OF cours,
! make no reference 10 those townships stu
ated in northern Oxford. and which are r.
ported to be good farming townships, but
| mean those rough patches scattered al
over the country which, during the period
Of the dr,i formation were covered over with
boulders, and from their uneven and rough
nature can be cultivated only with extreme
difficulty.
| I trust that ,he efforts which have been
made and are still making to spread infor.
nation among the people respecting our
north eastern lands, with u view TO their
settlement, will DO crowned with success,
and tha, migration to the ives, OF our young
men who constitute the real capital Of our
State, will thereby be stayed.
lSDEx.
For the Oxford Democrat.
The Oxford Conference Of Congregational