Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-02-16
Notes from up North.
ORLEANS County, Jan. 81,

OKLEANS COUNTY, Jan. 81, 1901.
Editor FRsEMAN IF the notes Of q
traveller (by that | do not mean promissory
notes. will be acceptable to you, the follow
ing which [ draw at random from my Car
pet bag, are at your disposal
The amount of error which prevails in
the minds of many persons, remote from this
section, touching the condition and general
character Of the Northern part of Vermont,
is quite remarkable. They think it is for the
most part wilderness, deeply buried in
snow six or seven months in a year, and
blighted with frosts in the other five or six
months. Some doubtless have an idea that
hereabouts is where the famous navigator,
Captain Cook, is reputel 10 have surprised
an Arctic bear in the act of climbing the
North Pole. If such persons would come
into this land, they would soon be ridden of
their errors They would find it, as the spies
sent by Moses found Canaan to be, fat
land" " flowing with milk and honey" bear
ing grapes, and having "wood therein
They would also find that " the people be
strong that dwell in the land )" that they are
many also, and "men Of a great STATURE"
and some of them are "giants, the sons of
Anak, which come of the giants"
The country is more oven and the soil
more productive, than in the Southern and
interior parts of the State. There is but
little of rocky and waste land, the hills to
their SUBMITS afording excele 1t pasture and
tillage lands
The country is well settled with sober,
Industrious, and thrifty population, and many
of its farmers have accumulated ample estates.
On the route from Montpelier north, through
the towns of Craftsbury Albany, Irasburg h
and Coventry, distance of about twenty
miles in the valley of Black river, is drive
than which none pleasanter can be found in
the State the farm-houses are neat, taste
full, and even elegant, and present evidences
of prosperity and contentment. The towns
I have named are excellent farming towns
and one of them, Irasburgh, is said to be
among the best, il not the best, farming
township in Vermont. Derby is rich and
beautiful township, and looks as if it were
in an old-settlcd country.
The price Of land in Orleans County is
much less than in older portions of the State,
but it has recently been, and still is, advanc-
ing In value. Orleans, and the adjoining
County Of Stanstead, in Canada, present far
better inducements for young men to buy
farms and make settlements for life, than the
Western States OF snow the aggregate
fall this winter is said to have been about
one foot, though now, and for many weeks
pnst, many of the fields have been quito BARE
and the roads are hard gand icy, ahordng
good sleighing The country in these par
Iicuars has much the appearance of winter
on the New England sea coast.
During the last spring, when in many of
the New England and Western States, frosts
were nipping their crops, it is said that in
this County, with but few exceptions the
crops were unframed. The burden which
the land bears is enormous The number of
cattle and horses annually exported from this
aDd Stanstead Counties is immense, and they
are of the nobest specimens. This County
is beautifully supplied with excellent water
power; has railroad through its centre, an
OLn6r on us CdSLCru UOTu6T, Que III COHCelH pla-
tion from Montpelier along the valley Of the
Black river, AMI with these advantages, lis
rich and low-priced soil, its many and excel
lent manufacturing capacities, and its enter
prising people, it must, before many years.
become one of the weathiest Counties in the
State.
Westmore, which holds Lake Willoughby
in its limits, is alreads a place to which ma
ny denizens Of cities wend their way for sum-
mer pleasures, and Newport at the head Of
Lake Memphremagog, now is, and will soon
be, to very much larger extent, place of
fashionable summer resort.
might add that the girls, generally, are
so handsome here, that only Unlocking ones
are stared at, and excite any special wonder
Yours, A. B.
REMARKs.-The above signature, if given
in full, would read, "a Bachelor" and we
don't believe he thinks the last remark truc. :.