The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-07-06

Judges estimate The crons at 1000, 900
bushels, The cherry ~ the pear and
the crab apple promise abnndautly. The
western part Of Michigan, along the lake
shore, is peculiarly favorable to the peach,
being to Chicago what New Jersey has
long been to New York, for the supply of
this delicious fruit. IL is termed the
great fruit belt OF Michigan. The aver.
age temperature in this belt, for series Of
yeats, has been II degrees above zero
peach trees never kill by frost A warm
current flowing northward in the lake,
near the shore, (of the nature of the gulf
stream) tempers the atmosphere, and rem
ders it milder than in the latitude IF
Wheeling, Va, Cincinnati, o., or St.
Louis, Mo.
Ii is notable fact, that the winters
throughout the State of Michigan, are
much milder than in New York and Penn
sylvahia. The ground is clear from frost
eight months in the year, and zero is the
extreme temperature, exceIt in few
points on the high northern border.
OF the growing crops, it is but proper
to add that "John Barley Corn" is very
poorly, looks as if he had chronic fever
and ague, or rather the latter half of the
disease-mnus the fever Unless DR..
Sol shall very soon order warm baths, by
day and night, it is feared the sickness will
terminate fatally.
Perhaps one can nowhere get better
impression Of the growth and prosperity
OF American enterprise, than at East Sag.
NAV. The lumber interest is predominant
herei everywhere you hear the puff of the
steam saw mill, and the shrill steam whistle,
that indicates the hour when every man
must be at his post Everywhere you see
mountains of boards awaiting transport,
1t is estimated that 400, 900 feet of
lumber are sent from here to market, year
lY. All the streams are blockaded with
logs, which measure from two to three
feet in diamater Some Of the tributaries
are packed with logs for twenty miles. 1t
is computed that tn, ten tributaries of the
Saginaw river traverse region measuring
l50 miles in each direction Nearly
one hundred townships of fine timber lie
upon their borders, containing supply of
5000, 100000 feet, which, at present
rates, it would require more than twenty
years to exhaust. When the land is
cleared, it proves excellent for tillage, and
the country will be rich in agricultural
products.
Besides, the supply of salt seems mex
haustible. The brine thrown up by arte
sian wells, contains about 80 per cent. OF
saline matter, and it is estimated that the
present yield, if worked up to its highest
capacity, would produce more than l,0OO,-
900 barrels of salt, per annum,
Ofthe growth of the city and its added
churches, &C., during the year, We must
defer to another paper.
As we promised, brevity shall be the
crown jewell of our pencilings, 1t shall
be trust to measure well the subject and
the occasion, and waste no words. A
good journalist i. never prolix, or, as poor
Artemus Ward used to say, never 'slops
over"
All! Col. To have our Pegasus al-
ways saddled and bridled and whinnying
in the court, to have the steam always up
in the tug-boat of busy brain, to have
the wine Of our fancy never on the lees,
and then, what il more, to turn the stop
Geek and put on the brakes at once, is
disideratum in all jddicious, spicy corres-
pondence.