Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-11
Letter from New Hampshire.
Editor Vermont Farmer:

Editor Vermont Farmer
1t is not all quiet on the Potomac. II is
q common belief here that the people oil this
country have rights that governors and presi'
dents are bound to respect. Whilst the
magnates, de facto, and defunct oh, are fun
ing and pushing over the laws in the Con-
cord halls, the plebians are tuning ~(tobacco)
and pushing logs over the Dalton falls. 1t
is the opinion Of this correspondent that the
last named are first in practical use, as the
others are in legal (fj abuse. The log driv-
ers, with their spiked soled boots. are pre-.
pared to hold their footing in slippery places.
With their pixies they keep their business
moving ahead. Could these tools be bor-
rowed by the law riders Of the land there
would result a more rapid execution Of the
work for which they are employed.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness
of Coos is not q ~demagogue of politics or
prophet Of religion, but a civil engineer I;
Mr.. Stephenson, preparing the way for the
locomotive, which, when it comes up, is ex-
pected to draw all people to Mt. Washing
ton, over the p. a. D. X. X. This road is
nearly completed to the Fabyan House, and
il is expected work will be resumed on it
Immediately each side of the Connecticut.
The staple productions Of New Hampshire
are the White Mountains, and as the noun
tain would not 90 to Mahomet, but Mahomet
must go to the mountain, n home market is
secure as the everlasting hills. With the
exception of lumber, summer boarding is the
leading industry of Northern New Hamp-
shire. Whilst it is believed that rich min
eral deposits are beneath, the hope Of her
chief wealth is from above the surface, and
the ~notaries of beauty and health will come
from far and lay their treasures at her feet.
Just as her children we're about to leave her
as an exhausted dame, the children of stran-
gers discovered her charms, and came to
protfer their esteem.
Farming pays in New Hampshire not
withstanding the rough and hard surface,
because the consumer is brought, or rather
Induced to bring himself 10 the producer.
Where no towering submits call pleasure
seekers away from business, falling waters
furnish the motor for business towns, and
manufacturers mutualize the interests of the
capitalist, mechanic, and agriculturist. Old
Vermonters were wont to ridicule Hamp-
shireites as makers of wooden ware, and
passed the peddlers' license law to draw a
revenue from their trade. 1t is bad enough
that the whole country should be cursed with
a tariff, without restrictions being placed
upon the trade between states. Now YER
montcrs begin to see the value of manufac-
lures in connection with agriculture. AS
long as it is cheaper to carry iron to coal, as
at Pittsburg, than coal to iron, the abundant
water power Of Vermont would prove her
most valuable source Of wealth. Water
may thus be coined into money without pass.
ing through the milk can, aud the milk may
be sold pure, for cash, without laboriously
grinding IL into butter add cheese. Yer
mont, too, like New Hampshire, is not with
out her attractions for recreation aud study.
Her hills may not be so high, but are more
lovely, especially when autumn tinRes the
forest, and visitors can find no more delight
full scenery than her valleys.
New Hampshire is wide awake to the de.
velopment Of her resources, and the encour-
agement Of her youth TO stay at home.
TO this end she has held, the past win
ter, q successful course Of aQricultur-
al meetings through her rural towns, and
for the information Of business men, q " Sta.
tistical Gazetteer" Of New Hampshire, edi.
ted by A. j. Fogg, and published by d. l..
Guernsey, Concord, is a valuable work,
showing the kind and amount of business in
each town. Something of a similar charac-
ter representing Vermont industries must be
Of great convenience 10 her citizens and a
standing advertisement to outsiders. Which
one Of the Vermont publishers will show
their enterprise, and illustrate their faith in
Vermont by their work, by issuing a YER
mont business gazetteer
But this must be closed somewhere, and
the best stopping place for this letter is the
one your correspondent has found for him
self at the pleasant aud oommodinus summer
resort kept by the accommodating host, aud
accomplished hostess, j. b. Sumner, Jr,
and lady, the Sumner House. PARVo.
Dalton, NJ H., June Z, 1875.