The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-02
tFrom the Boston Herald ]
A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE.
Tho Green Mountains-The Marble Quarrios-
OK Bows, Snow Shovels and Pitchforks---The
Products Of Representative Vermont Town.
WALLINeroRD, Vt, July 25, 1875.


WALLINGroRD, VT, July 25, 1875.
How many of your readers ever knew
about this quiet little town of 2, 100 inhabi.
tants, here under the shadow of the Greon
Mountains But let me say word of it.
We left the city early in the morning, by
the way of Fitchburg, Bellows Falls, aud
Rutland, and reached this place at three
o'clock p. III. Not that any place in the
world is better than Boston and its hun
dred suburban suburban retreats, even in
the heat of summer-only that change is
healthfu, and there are pleasant places
and delightful people In Wallingford But
the postmaster informs me there is not a
single Boston daily taken here, not even
the daily AdUertiser, though Rutland, ten
miles distant, sends two dailies, the GLOBE
and the Herdid which keep the people
posted on matters of general importance.
New York is nearer. and the communica-
ton is more direct than with Boston, hence
they bring their goods and their news from
that quarter.
This town is six miles square, watered by
the Otter Creek, on which are some of the
| best intervales and finest farms in New
| England. There are everywhere signs of
thrift Many years ago an cnterprising
| young man left his home here in the noun
tains and set out Tor your city there lac
accumulated Il foI ithe, and al his deccnse
devised $40 O0O .Hch to heirs in this town.
Most of these we're farmers, and we drove
by their fine estates yesterday. The wealth
that flows into cities thas sometimes finds
its way back ints the country.
| Marble quarres uuderlie vast regions ir
this section of Vermont. The Rutlanc
| quarries are known everywhere. But IL
Walllugrord the marble is abundant. The
railroad from Rutland 10 Bennington
called here ''the Harlem Extension run'
close to the quarries ard affords read,
transportation. An iron mine is ais
opened and worked with considerable ad
vantage in this town.
Here in the village we lind small cheese
factory, making daily some dozen cheeses
weighing from NIFTY to sixty pounds each
The work is done by two men. There is
larger factory in the next town. All tn,
milk is turned into cheese. and the dairy
men buy their own butter. Here are ais,
two ox.bow factories, consuming in som
years one hundred cords of walnut, ant
tuning out 10000 ox-bows, which ar
sent TO all parts of the country, from
Maine to California, to South America au'
Sandwich Islands. Some four bundre,
dozen snow-shovels are also made here an
nually. But the branch of industry sur
passing every other, perhaps, in this town
is that of Bachelor ~ Sons, manufacturer
of agricultural forks. They are contine,
exclusively to making forks, and theirs i
the largest factory of the kind in the coun
try. They send vast quantities to all part
of this country, especially to the West au
California, and besides large foreig
trade.
They began as common blacksmiths. an
commenced making forks in 1885 by han
alone. Then six forks day was a full
days work. Now nearly everything i
done by machinery, some of the most i'm
portant of which they have invented them
selves. They still supcrintend their ow
works, and are determined TO make good
second to no others in the markets Of th
world. am happy to learn rnat tney III
men of unquestioned integrity. and hav
the nntire confidence OF their fellow Gil
zens. They send out yearly from ten
fifteen thousand dozen forks OF the iine'
quality. Every part, from the handle
the last Dit OF nnishinS, Is meant TO be pc
feet. saw a man weighing over NV
hundred pounds PICK up from the heap
fork with slender tines and stand his who
weight upon the bend OF the FORK, wrll
Cling and twisting, without the least injur
to the implement. Ihey use Inc best stee
which they formerly imported, but no
procure 1t mostly from Jersey CITY an
Pittsburgh. Ihey use annually ABOUT on
hundred tons OF steel, three hundred tor
OF anthracite coal IN thelr 1orges, and en-
ploy ior'y men. =,
inns VIII give your readers some ldea
the THRIFT and enterprise OF quiet villas
5 nesting mere IN the mountains OF vernon
AT the 1901 Oh these mountains yesterdo
we visited 81. simon ice pea, winch