Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-25
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horneblende, emeralds, garnets, the jas
per. agate. cornelian, chalcedony, beryl,
and whole mountain of mica. Many OF
them are vet little know, but in time to
come they will enrich their owners.
The whole area of this State is ABOUT
thirty thousand miles, of which the great
primeval northern forest contains over
! twenty thousand square miles, being ma
nv times larger than the great Black forest
8 Of Germany or the wilderness of Northern
New York. 1t is largely composed OF tall
pines. Then followed a graphic descrip-
ton of the lumbermen. the logging camps
and the rirer-driyers. In the southern
mart the scenery in the fall is magnificent.
There is the white maple, from tender
and watery green, shading into delicate
orange; the beech and rock maple. from
the snnniest molten gold to a rich and
mellow brown, each shining in the forest
ike burning bush, proclaiming the pres
ence of its maker. The great pine iores'
wears dress of green the year round,
and winter throws over it robe OF soltest
ermine.
ri Thelaud in the eastern part of this State
Is the richest this side of the Western
prairies, and gives larger and surer crops.
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took county, and as many more are ex-
pected every year. A litelike description
Of their dress, appearance and homes was
given.
There is no portion of the globe in
which there are SO many rivers and lakes.
There are about eighteen hundred lakes
in this State, covering nearly three ttous-
and square miles. Nearly all these lakes
lie at the head Of rivers which run to the
sea. and their great multitude gives to their
descending waters an immense power.
Rangely Lake is 1900 feet and Lake Um-
sbAgOg and Moosehead are each over one
thousand feet above the level OF the sea,
and the whole surface OF the State Is, on
1 an average, six hundred feet IN elevation.
80 that the water of the lakes and rivers
must fall that distance. The Commission
er estimates the total water power of the
State to be equal to the combined work
ing energy of thirty four million men la
boring night and day all the year round !;
or, counting that which is available, ex-
ceeding the actual working power of all
the men in the United States, and of Eng
land, France and Germany. Statistics
show that the expense of running mill
BY water is only One-eighth that Of steam,
and In this State lies to-day, wasted and
unimproved, this great giant water power
sufficient to carry al the mills of the ma
ton.
The mountains, which are mostly in a
broad belt, running across the State. pos
sess q wonderful fascination. The Green
Mountain on Mt. Desert Island, which
D rises abruptly from the sea about one-third
OF . mile, Is one of the finest on the coast.
From its top you look out and view the
great wide sea beneath you on one side,
stretching out into space, and on the
other side, a horizon undulating like
waves, with distant hills and mountains.
If you would visit another and higher
mountain. 60 to Kat:.hdin, which is near
" as high as Mount Washington. Take
an Indian guide and 60 up the Penobseot
and through the forest. The mountain is
very steep and there is no road or path.
You climb slowly through the bushes I'M
til half way up, where vegetation, except
a few BURBERRY bushes and mountain
cranberries. almost entirely ceases, and
you see great desert OF huge rocks of
every shape heaped upon each other all
around and away up to the top. You
climb over them for two hours to the sum-
nit II the wind blows, its force seems
tremendous, and you cling desperately to
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