Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-12-21
receiving about 100 loads of wheat per


miles square, containing 144 farms of l60
acres each, and some of these are again
divided into so acre lots. About IS of
these farms are improved and occupied,
mostly by good industrious settlers,
who have air prospect of becom-
ing indcpeude ent, wealthy farmers in
a few years.
The Southern MINI. r. r. Lands are
selling at $40 per acre in this vicinity
extra locations near the villages as high
as $40, and the more distant ones at less
prices,
A RAILROAD CENTRE.
Three years ago the nearest railroad
station tc Alden was so miles now a road
ruhs from St Paul through southern Mimi
esota and to Prairie Du Chen, another
from LA Crosse through Alden, as before
stated The Minnesota and Northwestern
road, from Mdnkato to the Cedar Valley
road is pass through this section, either
Wells or Alden, or both and three other
roads have made this county a point in
their lines, which will give it greater r.
r. facilities than any Vermont county can
boast.
There are several splendid water pow
ers in this county, equal to any in the
State.
TO one who has never been in this coun-
try it is almost impossible to convey any
adequate idea Of the resources and pro-
gress Of this State. Villages and cities
spring up as if by magic, and with ade-
quate railroad facilities, they will continue
this rapid growth until there is full de-
velopment Of all the resources of this rich
and fertile country. Money is worth at
IA reasonable rate two per cent. month.
This looks high to us but they can afford
it. An enterprising Yankee, in legiti-
mate business, can make it worth double
that
According to the statement of the
School Land Commissioners. real estate
for the past five years has advanced at the
rate of three per cent a month. An in
dustrious, enterprising man can make so
per cent. in raising stock or in the dairy
business.
| have before referred to the cost of
keeping stock-now as to prices: calves
sell for seven dollars, yearlings for S14,
tyo-year ods for $25, three-year olds for
S30-and this in the fall, proportionately
higher in the spring. Cheese is worth
from Is to 20 cents, and butter from 25
10 10 cents so with these figures everyone
can estimate profits for himself.
TO GO OR NOT TO GO? THAT'S TIE QUESTION.
Now, some one may say, "if these
things are so, we had all better 90 there, T."
but this would not be advisable. A man
who has farm and stock, paid for or
nearly so, here, is well enough Oft here ;
hut young man, who is just starting, or
a man who is largely involved in debt for
Land here, had better CO. and at once,
and start anew where less capital and
larger gains are sure to any one who will
work for it. In any line of business the
chances for an energetic young man are
ten there to one here. Another class of
men can do well there; that is, men who
have some capital which they wish to put
at work to the best advantage. They can
invest it there just as asfely and surely
as here, with three times the income from
it. There are countless resources for bus.
mess which do and can well afford to pay
largely for the capital invested. Every
where is business activity and life, and
this must continue until all these vast re-
sources are dove oped.
BURTON, BRAINERD & co. MAKE AN OFFER.
I understand that Messrs. Burton,
Brainerd and others, before referred to-,
have lands in the vicinity Of Alden with
in from two to five miles Of depot aud
village, which they offer for sale from
$40 70 $3.50 per acre, unpaid portions
remaining on time at ten per cent. inter-
est. Now, with only a reasonable devel-
opment of this county, these lands will in
five years be worth from $25 to $50 per
acre. II one has but small capital let
MIN take these lands on credit and invest
his capital in young stock, and at the
same time have it under Improvement
and well stocked. Let me give one or
two instances, related by the parties
themselves, out of thousands of a similar
character:
WONDERFUL now THEY DO IT BUT THEY DO '
Mr. Flake Of the "Flake House" in
Austin, went to Minnesota some I5 years
ago, with no capital except good team.
He had chance to take farm on shares
or buy it on time he bought it, paying
about Eve thousand dollars. One half Of