Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-07-01
Scedess and Denmark.

time is accompanied with one incon-
venence-that oil badly washed roads.
In travelling forty miles. we have scarcely
found mile OF smooth track. But other
things compensate for all this. The forests
have suddenly changed from their sombre
garb of grey to lively green, the
orchards are white with blossoms and the
air is delightful The farmers are i'm.
proving every moment to pat in the seed
with the inspiring hope Of good harvest.
| Ever and anon we stop on the summit oil
some hill and survey the prospect OF never
ceasing beauty.
Sweden is small town with broken
surface. but the soil, though rocky, is
productive. The Inhabitants are indus
trious. temperate and intelligent. Its
young people are ambitious and 60 out
into the world. and il has raised some OF
the smartest women the world ever saw.
A beautiful pond near Ivy tempted us to
try our luck at catching pickcrel We
soon caught five, and hooked out of the
water as many more which escaped us
from bad luck Proud of our string OF
fish. we carried them to our stopping
place, when our host. the Squire, check
mated our pride by saying that they were
only the smaller fish which they always
threw back into the pond, and carried
home larger ones which they had caught.
Whether il was q joke or not, we could
not tell We have one sweet revenge on
him, and that is, they have no guide
boards in Sweden.
A ride OF twelve miles by the crookedsst
road we ever saw. carried us to Denmark
Corner. We did not lose our way but
once. The road passes through n corner
of Bridgton. Ascending hill here. we
caught one of the most delightful views
TO the east, over Brilgton and the other
towns. that we ever witnessed. The long
ranges OF forests, the parallel ridges of
land covered with green fields and dotted
with white farm houses, made of the scene
fairy land, We stopped some time TO
contemplate = view that travellers would
be rewarded in going some miles TO see
il - we saw il.
Denmark is a good agricultural town,
though exceedingly rocky. We never
saw So much stone wall in one town.
The walls are frequently wide enough to
drive an OK team along its whole length
on its summit, and yet. on blowing,
another seemingly rs large crop OF rocks
covers the ground. 1t had hardy set of
pioneers to gropple with such incum
ORANGES, and their descendants growl at
the di>pcnSations OF Providence in pre-
cipitaling such mass of rocks in their
path. In spite of all this there is IN air
OF thrift throughout the town which will
not suffer by comparison with any part
OF the State
We stopped at the house of Mr.. VIM.
b. Bean and his son. Mr. George r. Bean,
about three miles from the corner Of the
town ON the road to Hiram. They have
probably the best farm in Oxford county,
consisting of about eleven hundred acres
of land. Their buildings are very en-
,ensiyc. The barn is one hundred feet
long, resting on a basement of split
granite seven feet above the ground. The
ward is entirely surrounded 10y sheds
having the same kind Of basement, so
there is a stone wall of split granite seven
feet high, of more than six hundred feet
in length. Another wall OF split stone
fronts the house. OF two or three hundred
feet more. Such an exhibition Of stone
wall we have never before seen on n
farm.
The fields arc divided into portions Of
ten or fifteen acres each and are surround
ed with walls They keep from fifty 10
sevculy-fye head OF cattle besides horses
and swine.
In company with Mr. Bean, we took q
walk 10 ledge half a mile distant, where
we saw m interesting exhibition of trap
dykes. We counted no less than twenty
five traps in distance of six rods. and in
one place seventeen veins in distance
of forty.two feet
From this point. Mt. Washington is in
full view with its sides still covered with
immense snow banks. Some of these
appeared in long streaks up and down
the sides Of the mountains. Mr.. Bean in
formed us that it was The track of the
great slide in 1926, when the Wiley
family were destroyed KearSage, Pleas
ant Mountain, and the Chicorua Mountains
in New Hampshire, all are in full view.
There is small village ut the corner
and superior water power with 4
reservoir of fifteen miles up Moose Poad,
which skirts along the base of Pleasant
mountain. The town has voted to exempt
any corporation from taxation that will
build factories on its falls.
The Portland & Ogdcnsburg Railroad
runs within short distance from the
town, and will add much 10 its facilities
for transportation.
We arc informed. but cannot vouch
for the truth of the statemcntlhat piclules