Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-11-15
The Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.
BOsTON, Mass, Nov. 10, 1876.

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through several states and in Canada since
| left Missouri last April, | am now stop.
ping in this place, and will redeem my
promise to you after SO long Il time; hay
ING visited in the meantime the great Ex-
hlbltion. but of which l will say nothing
now. rs every one has seen it or heard
others speak of it.
| was much interested in Il communica-
ton in your paper of the lst instant, in
regard to the Wyoming Valley, Pa, by
+. C.. b. | was in Kingston at the same
time, on a rest from the Centennial, and
suspect we heard the same sermon from
thc Rev. Mr.. Wheeler, ut The NJ. f
Church, near the Seminary.
spent about three weeks in that town,
and agree with him that Il more quiet and
orderly community is hard to find in any
place., and his description of this beautiful
valley is not at all exaggerated in any
point.
The coal business is immense in all that
reglon-aS many rs seventy-tive to Il hum
drcd shafts and breakers can be counted
from their smoke at one view up and down
the valley. | visited one shaft or Dit,
which has three openings, two of which
are over threc-fourths of Il mile apart, and
all connected by railroad tracks three hum
bred feet derp-muleS being the power
used to dri" the ears to the bottom of the
shaft, and then hoi~tcd by large steam en-
glnc>, which also turn the fans or blowers
for supplying the mines with fresh air.
some of which are so large and are driven
with such fo' &c rs to make the earth trem-
Bile for some Iii. lance around. As many
rs eight hundred men and boys are en-
ploycd in this mine, above and below,
many OF whom remain poor. only living
tom hand to mouth. One man WAS gath
ring up the scattered coal along the rail
road track, an! us | passed him looked up
lni said: "Tllis is rather Il hard way of
serving the Lord, but better do this than
suffer next winter"
Trains of loaded coal cars are frennrnt-
~ S'tii liolil oilc-lltll 10 lilrcc-lOuftGS OF Il
mile long, and it is Il grand sight to look
east acros, the valley five or six miles dis
tanl and sec from five to eight e~noincS in
Il single train. drawing the immense load,
OF coal up the mountain, where a cilcult
of fifteen miles or more has TO be made.
AMI You are then but three or four miles
II, E, .lIrA.t ill.,, fr.,, H.,
Just left AT Wilkesbarre, more than one
thousand feet below.
About four miles north of Kingston is
HE monument erected to the memory and
over the remains Of nearly two hundred
American officers and >%oldiers who were
Brutality murdered by the Indians in July,
l17s. The monument is Of cut stone,
thirty feet >quarc and even v-tivc or
eighty feet high, with i marble tablet on
each of HE four sides, with the name and
rank If each of NE victims: All enclosed
>lrul berry. Near hy formerly stood the
old Forty Font, which WITS built and named
by forty BRAY" prisoners from the state OF
Connecticut and the old-ft>h,oncd. very
.ar-r church still >tlhI>, Surrounded hy a
!tr-c cemetery.
l"rrr or tor miles further north i The
handsome and thriving city of Pitt~tnn.
IN" elegant iron bridges spla The stream
from the Sl~quchnhnl at this town in
place OF the wooden structures that We're
swept away by the Tremendous ice gorge
tNo or three years ago. S.ill further north
some >iN on seven miles is the city of
Scranton where :! spent one I,y. Tho I'M
m"nSr Manufacture of iron and steel rail
roti rails mtNc> this place Very note l..
The material is taken from the ore AMI fin
l>lcd into tie best quality of steel rails
thirty feet long. The ponlclon> ma
clAnrry l. ve.y extensive and of tie best
sind for such large works. One of the
Norhmtn Who las lived in the place ever
>lhc" pointed out TO me thc spot where
tW'nty-cigh years AGO stood two loo cab
in>. tie only habitations in all that region.
and now the ely has over 4O.ODD inh dbl
ttntS with L number Of railroads intrr,ect-
ing 1t from, different points. which speaks
well for the manufacturing enterprise that
has been built up in comparatively 50
short L time. and this valley 50 poorly de
scrlbcd. is bat 4 drop in the bgckrt TO the
great Resources of this large and flourish
ing state. Yours, etc.
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