The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-07-19
Sr. ALBANs, July Sth, 1867.

10 the Edaor ofhe Termom Transcript:
1t has become very fashionable for
Franklin County people to emigrate
Eastward, rather than Westward, and
having some curiosity to see for myself
what the inducements are to do SO. |
have recently taken trip through the
Counties of Caledonia and Orleans, re-
turning by way of the Lamolle Val
ley.
| went overland from Montpelier to
st. Johnsbury, stopping only at Dan
vile. In that town / found several
farms for sale, and though tho prospect
of having a railroad through the town,
has raised the asking price of farms,
l could not but believe that there are
several very good opportunities for
purchase, at prices iutrinsically less
than any thing l know of in this Coun-
ty. The only Franklin County farm |
visited in that town, was that of Mr.
f. w. circuit, formerly of Georgia, but
more lately of Orleans County. He
has beautiful farm of over 400 acres,
with large sugar and fruit orchards,
and commodious, though somewhat
old buildings The soil is light, easily
titled, and quite productive; it is well
fenced, the stone all picked off the til
led portion, and there is plenty of ce-
dar timber to keep up the fences.
Such n farm any where in Franklin
County, would sell readily for SO, 900,
but he bought it for $4,000 1t is
eight miles from the Railroad at ST..
Johnsbury.
In Walden, Wheelock, Hardwick
Craftsbury, Greensboro, Irasburgh,
Coventry, Newport, Barton, Glover,
and Derby, saw farms occupied by
former residents of this county, bought
at figures that persons acquainted on
ly with Franklin County prices, seem
astonishingly low. In several other
towns there are more of the same kind,
but | did not extend my travels into
them, though | obtained in the aggre-
gate, the names of over one hundred
former residents of Franklin County
now in this section.
OF the recent purchase of Mr. w. D.
Post, Gather of II. c. Post, of st. AL
bans, ! desire to say word; He has
go acres in the North part of Iras-
burgh, three miles from two stations
one the Passumpsic Railroad, the same
distance from Irasburgh and Coventry
, villages, with good building, wei
, fenced, under a good cultivation, every
way very desirable farm, perhap.
3 one of the most desirable in the coun
:, ty; bought for $1,000
I, The conclusions | arrived at, ar,
that with a soil hardly SO fertile rs il
this county,.with little more winter
! with hardly SO good water, they hay,
climate a little less severe for thos
G persons having pulmonary affections
All the social advantages they left be
hind them, all the advantages of mar
ket, &c, &c, and in short, that forty
nine of every fifty who have gone ther,
have bettered their conditions by S,
doing.
= While | still believe, and most O
:. the persons l am writing of concede
% that Franklin County is the best dair,
County in New England, | neverthe
II less believe that, with careful, iudici
o Gus cultivation in the light of this ag
- of scientific farming, the farmers O
- Orleans and Caledonia Counties. caI
=, keep their farms up in condition, an,
70 pay greater per cent ON their invest
ment, than can now be done in Frank
- lin County.
~ OF what | saw along the road in tn
way of peculiar productions, manufac
= tnres, &c, l propose to write hereaf
i ter, if it should seem desirable; AIS
of the towns from Barton down III
Lamoille. PLouGupoy.