Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-15

AROOSTOOK----NO 40.
ReTieVoi The Letters Continued.
Iistalen State PolicI Of ihe Past Re-
saFdins Public Lands.
New Town RAIDS and New Railroads
Needed.
What viii Save ibs CousIY7
THAT Will SaTs ihs County?
sr 10y. EDWARD wIGeIs

fefIh& OF the ssil or OF tue aNcUBf OF
osher crops grosn in the county. After
tsea,y ears Of potato c1i'ure as specie
crop the average yield per sore
even in sessau Rot psrieul ariy
favorshls, hzs been Larger than ever before
kn3Sa in the eoaa.y- ! ar.Hg this time the
production o; hag ana gram has also largely
acrea.ed and the dairy produces Of tn
county are larger tais var than ever
bfore. Thus while the farmers Of Aroos-
look are today raising greater quantity of
every agricultural product formerly cult
vsted Ia the county, except il may be the
articles of clover seed AID grass seed, thau
ever before they are receiving IN ADDITION
b. immense sum Of fifteen hundred thous-
and dollars in one year from an industry
- " made poaslbl. by the building of shots
spurs Of railroads into fex border towns
If TO this be added the large sums received
early for the shipments Of shirgles, long
lumber slsepers, telegraph poles, peavF
stocks, last blocks, leather. bark extract,
hay Sand ether minor articles of export
some tea may De had Of the benefit already
received by Aroosiook from is present
railroad facilities. We have not included
IN The list of shipments mentioned the large
numbers of cattle and sheep exported BY
rail each year, as this business is not a
result of railroad communication, csttle
and sheep having been formerly driven
On foot from the county in large numbers
The business of shipping slaughtered meats
nov successfully carried on at Houlton is
however a new industry and this, together
with the tanneries, extract works, pesyy
sock factory etc. is The direct result of
railroad communication with outside mar
&ets. While this vast Increase has been
made in the
Agricultural and Industrial Products
of Aroostook it must by no means be taken
a. the mcaeure of the capabilities Of the
cauniy, but rather as an indication of what
might be done here in the way of prcduc-
ton were the opportunity offered for the
development of the RESOURCES of The county
TO any thing like their fullest extent. The
towns in the valley of the Aroostook above
Mspleion ard Castle Hill are practically
beyond the reach Of the present railroad as
far as the expoftttion of agricultural pro-
ducts il concerned and in those towns the
farmers are 10 a great extent debsrred from
the privileges = jiyed by their more fortu-
nate brothers IN the lower valley. In that
r giou is a large amount of fertile land
capable of add ng immensely TO the sggre
gate of The explorations from the county
ere the means Of transportation afforded
them. Farther south we find the towns of
Mars Hill, Blaine and Bridgewster,
all grand agricultural towns but
so situated az TO render it
nnpr q 'ablr for their farmers 10 engage I,
any INT in the great industry witch is
; early brig Z so much money TO the
C .nuty In the western part Of the county
incluiing Shetman, Island Falls and all
the iae farming 'e or in that vicinity the
situation : practically the same. while in
may Of the tewi below Hou'ton a like
C ,ndition exists It eill thus Dc seen bow
easily the present sgr cultural exports of
the e)unty mig1 be doubled even in the
ara nov settled could
Proper R-Iiroad Facilities
he ext nisd 20 h g. towns In addition to
h- NV dustriN enterprises wDuli be
-tahIi in all these sections aud thus
add iomet sely 10 the business of the
county We have said before ard here
ri at that The present pr speri'y of Aroos
tatk county s due. after the fact If the
grand ier'ilty of the sell. to the enterprise
and pub srirt Of her own citizens in
sptt OF ~ adverse snd cruel state polics
and with very little aid from Outside capt
tai SIS No sooner was an impetus given
10 emigration to Aroos COX by the opening
Of cheap land. titles to which could be
ottarued by ac,us settlers by the bull ing
az roqds TO III ir own farms, than the
ate made base 10 dispose of the
entire aneult.vated area of the
ciuHty 10 wealthy landowners whose
IN crest it is to discourage the settlement of
those lands and VITO are receiving large
becomes from the stumpage of The timber
u,,,...n.,, stint, Policy
Whit ..,. ,,.,.,t4 go. ,a ,,,d,,.+ooI n.
o,.t; 80 t,a,na rgo, ,bssa ssr,Is,nen
- - oai,i.a1 - - =.
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So, g., ~, $50 go 80,
"a obta ,es ..;,';n.,I,, aJr,if Tho, ,bey
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49, ~ 49, - 81 al hs,;fs, $50,
farms upon which are the homes of a
peace full, prosperous aud law abiding peo-
pie, 10 the other case the township was
sold for ntmiGsl price per acre aud the