Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-12-22

Yertised and was tully ATTENDED, An th'
Directors except Mr.. Fairbanks being
present. The great object of the meeting
was to devise the hoac to raise the requir-
ed subscriptions and we feel ourselves at
liberty to say that the great reliance o.
the board seemed to be in the ability and
disposition 0! the people along and ada
cent to the line, to subscribe for the re-
eluired amount.
To these people, they decided to make
a united, immediate and earnest appeal.
= A general, forward movement, along the
whole line, is to be made Immediately.
For four weeks or SO, we shall expect to
see fire and smoke; but when the smoke
clears up We hope to look upon record
on the subscription books Of the most
cheering character.
Sturdy farmers Of Lanoibe You who
have felled the wild, primal forests, and
for generation comeatted with the rude
elements to make your children home,
docsit not make your hearts sad, az you
see one after another of your noble boys,
as they approach q mans estate, bidding
farewell to the raternal mansion, to find
homes really less attractive in the West
, because there is no field here for their ex-
panding energies Do you know that,
at this very time, many Of cur young men
have their future hanging upon the result
of this enterprise that they are saying /;
IF the Rail Road comes, our home shall
beshercby and homes and graves Of our IA
thers---among our. friends and the endear-
ing associations of our boyhocd but if it
fails, IN tie Spring, we're Westward
bound ?" In the departure Of these spir-
tied young men, the community is being
drained of its very life blood and many
a father gees the object Of his life strug-
gle fade from his hopes. We need moth
inc but the means Of cheap and rapid
transit for our products, and the means OF
developing our abundant, but now una
valuable resources, to put an end to this
in great measure. Said grey-headed,
independent and kind-hearted father to us
at johnson last Wednesday; 81 have
three grown up sons, that ! hoped would
some Of them at least-remain with me
wan, p"O et.il-V I.eeP Or riIonr
here. They think it's too dulI--they'vc
all left me and gone West"
There was very perceptible tremor in
The old mans voice as the reflection that
all The props and comforts Of his declining
years were gone, and that in a few years
lis administrator would sell the broad
acres which had cost him a lifetime of
toll, and the money be sent away West
among his heira in divers aud scattered
regions.
But, friends, until we do something to
develope our low unavailable resources,
our iron ore beds, our slate, our marble,
our copper, our trco stone, our paint, our
ash. maple, butternut and birch wood, ca
pablo Of being wrought into thousand
form Of beauty and value by skilled work
men, our prodigal supply of water power
now idle and unproductiye; until we do
something to give to our young men an
opportunity of engaging in remuneratiye
employment here, such as they find clec-
where, we shall continue to be shorn Of
our strength and beauty, and other com
munities more sagacious than ours'will be
made thrifty and prosperous upon cur
losses.
Thrift, capital, enterprise and a general
revival Of prosperity viii follow the con-
struction Of this road through cur valley,
as surely as the sun and showers of anoth-
er May will clothe our round earth in
beautiful green. This is all the thing
needed to stop this fearful drain upon our
vitality which for years has given us such
languisting appearance. Few of even
our own county people understand, or ap-
preciate, the wealth Of our now latent and
unproductive resources. Now latent and
unproductiye because of the want ofmesns
Of rapid and cheap transit.
In Elmore is one of the richest iron.ore
beds in North America. In Woodbury.
there is a slate quarry said to rival any
other known in the North Country. In
this town there is an ochre and terre de
sene bed, the analysis of which proves that
cheap transportation is only needed to rcn.
der its development mine of wealth to
its owners, and source Of great benefit to
our community,by giving profitable employ
ment to large number Of laborers, skilled
and unskiIled. In Wateryille and John.
son fold Sterling) there are quarries of the
best qualities of freestonc, now becoming
very valuable for stoves, but Of course dead
and useless because Of the expense Of trans
portation. Hardwick and Walden abound
in splendid gasite. In Wolcott arc mines