The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-26
we'll to keep all the utensils clean, and to be
neat and expeditions In the work"

neat and expeditions In the work"
Ar sheriff's sale in Montreal, last week.
two thousand five hundred and twenty-five OF
Bradley Bsrlow's shares in the Longueuil Navi-
CATION Company, at $40 each, were sold for
five cents on the dollar. A sale of some ten
thousand and five hundred Of his shares In the
Southeastern Railway Company. and seven
thou sand nine hundred and thirty-four shares
of the Montreal Portland & Boston Railway
Company was to be held, but this was stopped
on account of an opposition of Mr. Barlow
himself and of David Davidson. Mr.. Barlow's
opposition is based upon the ground that the
shares do not belong to him, and Mr.. David
son contends that considering their value. they
should be advertised In London and New York.
THE stockholders of the St. Johnsbury &
Lake Champlain Railroad Company held a
meeting in st. Johnsbury, last week Thursday
and unanimously voted to issue 81, 1O0,O 600 OF
consolidated mortgage bonds to lay the road
with steel rails and purchase rolling stock. This
action is taken in anticipation of increased
traffic through the completion OF the road
between Rouse's Point and Swanton, the end OF
the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain road, for
which Vanderbilt and others have furnished
the money, and which will be completed about
January /. OF these bonds, $1,000 will bear
six per cent interest and the balance five per
cent. Four hundred thousand dollars will be
issued Immediately, the remainder being re-
strcted so as to depend on the increased earn
ings The Boston Safe Deposit e. Trust Com
pany are trustees of the mortgage.
THE Messenger complains bitterly. about the
telephone exchange at St. Albans, and says
"It is well-nigh impossible to hold distinc,
communication between the different stations
owing to trouble with the wires, with the bat
| teries, or with some other of the machinery
necessary to such a system. Between the cen
tral office and the various stations conversation
can be carried on clearly; but when one under
takes to talk with another station, through
connection at the central office, he makes 8
failure of it. We need an efficient exchange and
every possible facility for this mode of com
munication. The present system does not fill th
bill, and it goes without telling that If an i'm
provement is not brought about soon, subscrib
ers will fall off to such an extent as to MAKE
the enterprise Improbable. St. Albans would
do we'll to pattern after Montpelier in the tele
phone business. The thing is done up Brown
here.
POLES are soon to be set for a telephone wir
from Marshfeld to Plainfed, and communica
ton will soon be established between thos
points, This will add two towns to the Mon
pelier exchange, as Cabot is already connecte
with Marshield. Poles are also waiting 9
Roxbury for wire from that place to Warrer
There is now no county in the state wherein s
many towns are in telephone communicate
with each other and where so much interest
manifested in extending the circuit Whe
the above lines are "run," Duxbury, Faysto
and Worcester will be the only towns outsd
the exchange. A line will be run" "
Worcester this spring Thirty towns will the
be connected with the Montpelier exchange
We understand that the line from st. Albal
to Burlington will be completed this sprinI
and this will connect the former place, u
Burin gton, with the Office Of the Montpeli
exchange.
VERMONT FARMER 1--WE have met a gel
tleman from Danvile, quite largely engage
in sugar-making who gave US, in substanc
the following statement relative to the prof
of sugar-making: What we wish to find o,
is, what is the value of a maple grove conss
ing entirely of maple, in order to see what il
!, ducements are offered for planting to map
waste land which is suitable for growing 70
ests, and almost worthless for other purpose
This gentleman told US he had a sugar orcha
of about four acres containing three hundr'
trees. These trees are second-growth, al
have become of suitable size to tap since
has lived on the place. which has been near
fifty years. The average yearly product
this orchard is three pounds per tree, or nil
hundred pounds per year. The cost Of mski
o this sugar, including interest on sugar utensi
i, is not over four and one-half cents per poun
= AS nice maple sugar will average nine cents
pound, 1t gives yearly rental of $40 per &C
on value of more than $3.50 per acre. TT
: sugar orchard of which we have been speak,
y could not be bought at these figures"