News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-15

II - the beginning OF what Will De 10
Vermont a marvellous growth and to
many living wonder. Hence my
claim that the geographical location
of this State for the purposes of rap
id and cheap transportation is all that
can be desired.
Now for my second proposition.
There is not another State that has
the number and variety of undevel-
oped resources that this State has.
The physical geography of Vermont
is in perfect accord with its geogra-
phical position. Vermont never was
by nature intended for gigantic farm
ing. Its mountains, valleys, wat
err powers, varied seasons. health Civ
ing conditions, valuable timber, gran
lite, marble, soap-stone, slate, kaolin,
asbestos, iron, gold, copper, lime
stone, all point to more profitable
investment of capital than the pres
ent condition of farming. All the
above enumerated valuables are with
US, all around us and have been for
thousands of years, and the next
thousand years will not see them ex-
hausted.
For the first time in my remem-
branCe the business men, the mon.
led men, the aggressive men of Yer
mont are looking around their homes.
Their gaze is withdrawn from afar
off. If they look west it is after
their investments, and if possible to
recover them, not with any desire to
place more, and the talk of the in
weston is not so much ST. Paul, Fort
Payne, Omaha, Tacoma, San Diego,
St. Augustine and the ends of the
Earth, but Barre, Rutland, Hard
wick, Montpelier, Brandon, Burling
ton, Morrisville, St. Adams, and
many other towns that are rapidly
improving in real estate valuations,
and in the place of western mort
cages we hear granite, marble, slate,
Soap-Stone, kaolin, asbestos, lime
stone, copper, iron and timber talked
about, and its location is here with
US and the profit of placing the same
in market is beyond question. The
demands of one hundred millions
people are calling upon the supply,
and should be recognized by the peO-
pie of this State at once. The day
is now with us, and somebody's
money and business capacity is go
ing to fill the orders, and reap the
rich reward for doing the business.
The enormous aggregation of capt. |
tai in our eastern cities, the hundreds /
of millions that foreigners are bring
ing to this country, are with lynx |
eyes watching every opportunity and |
hole in the ground for a reasonable |
opportunity to invest The cotton
mills of Massachusetts, are declaring |
dividends of from eight to eighteen
per cent. and are unable to fill their
orders. Do you suppose that the
grand opportunities for manufacture
ing in Vermont are much longer to
remain idle? Are the unlimited wat
er powers on the Missisquoi, La
noble, Winooski and Otter Creek
rivers with their tributaries to run
waste for the next fifty years Do
not reader indulge in any such alb
surdity. Fate and fortune are surely
pointing toward No. IA, and unless
Vermonters wish outsiders to lug off
the Doodle, they must wake, and call
back what they can of their western
foolishness, and invest where certainty
is written over the gate.
Now a word in relation to my third
proposition. | think | am safe so
far as any personal contact with a
failure to connect with my prophecy
is concerned. Fifty years from now
and | shall have been elected for
some other locality. But let US look
ahead a little Within that time this
State will be a hive of manufacturing |
and mining industry from one end to
the other, BurlingtOn's population |
will have reached more than fifty |
thousand outside of Winooski (Which
will be more than twenty-five thouS
and) the Queen City will rate way up
in everything that is good, great and
gyund, the pride of Vermonters every
where. Doctor Webb's Lake Shore
will have become the pride
of all New England and a wonder
park for the home man and stranger
to visit. st. Adams will be a city
that will consume the farmers pro-
duct of Franklin County. Montpelier
and Barre will be so run together
that it will be difficult to tell where
Barre begins and Montpelier leaves
off, The two towns will have a pop
ulation of more than sixty thousand
and untold wealth. Rutland will be
rich, large, and still at work for high
license. St. Johnsbury will be builded
upon all the adjoining hills, and the
present scale works used for back
sheds for the new shops that will be
to supply the demands of
the world. Hardwick will be the
largest city in the Lamoille Valley.
A railroad will connect the city with
Montpelier and Barre and these
towns will be further accommodated
by the Delaware and Hudson which
will give the whole the advantage of
water transportation near their pro-
duct. The unlimited water powers
on the Lamoille River will be utilized
by the granite works, and Wolcott,
Morrisville and Johnson will find
their quiet broken by the immense
manufacturing establishments built of
solid granite. Morrisville will be a
beautiful city, with population of
ten thousand, and the enterprise of
her citizens will make it a desirable
place to live in. Her pride will be in
her large factories, work shops,
schools and school houses, and so it
will move along down the river.
Fairfax Falls will no longer waste its
usefulness, but town will look down
upon immense factories. Milton will
be one of the finest manufacturing
towns in the State; and so on al in
fnitHm.
Vermonters do not read this article
as the imaginings of sort of "Rider
Haggard," the finger of destiny is
surely pointing in this direction, and
you .yOHng man, stop a moment be-
fore you leave for the unfortunate
west, and you man with money, carry
your treasure few days longer in
your inside pocket" before you send
it to the unfortunate west, and you
''the other fellow" instruct your brok-
er to get what he can of your invest