Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-05-13

much value a. demonstrating what varieties
are harry in this latitude.
J. L. Merrick 6 Go. Of Waterville also
have . nursery on the Wsshburn farm on
North road, where they are raising large
number Of trees. making the Wealthy and
Duchess the leading varieties While We
cannot in this article make special mention
Of each business house. il will not be invid
lou. to speak of the ine brick block on
Main St. This block Was built Immediately
sf er the FIRE which visited the town in 1874
ard extends along Main St. from Water to
Mechanic st. Ii contains eight spacious
renements on the grouad no1f one Of which
is being fitted up ~ the home of the Farm
er.' National Bank, whose huge safe weigh
ing eight tons recently arrived. The other
tsnemenls are devoted 70 several different
departments of trade including hardware.
dry goods, drug store SC. SC. {.
These stores are all beautifully and con-
venienrly finished and furnished and for
elegance and completeness of dttings sur
pass any thing in eastern Maine. There 10
not a stove in the entire block In either
story, every room in the immense building
being heated by steam from the basement
Of one OF the tenements. Besides the new
bank just starting, there il also the First
National Bank. which has long done large
and prosperous business, and the Houlton
Savings Bank, the oldest in the county
shich is we'll pstronized and has the con-
h'ence Of the whole community. The
general business of the town 10 large and
prosperous and 10 on solid basis and con
stAntly increasing.
Houlton has q fine agricultural region to
draw from and it is the shipping point for
all the towns in this vicinity, the output Of
many mills and factories As well Is the pro-
duce from large number of fine farming
| towns being brought here for shipment
More manufacturing industries are needed
here to still further build up the business
of the town and to these Houlton offers
superior inducements. The business OF
manufacturing pulp could here be success
fully introduced as lime in large quantities
is easy of access. When the Northern
Maine is completed to Boulton no doubt
many new and profitable industries will be
introduced.
As an agricultural town Houlton ranks
as one of the best in the county and there
ire many splendid farms whose owners are
searly coming wealth from the fertile soil
,ome of the repre- sentative farms of the
town we shall take occasion to speak of in
\ future sr.icl.. Hollton comprises bu,
one TO snship of six miles square AMI was
incor pors'ed March Sth, 1881.
In 1850 the town had a population Of 1853
which in 1880 had increased to 1928. The
number of polls in 1880 was 535, and in
1889 the polls wer. 974. As the population
of this town at each census has been sbou,
six times the number OF polls, the present
pulttion cannot be far from 5000 The
va uatlon Of the town for 1889 as returned
to the Valuation Commission WAS 1888 63s
Which does not include the large amount
invested in school property. This would
swell the figures to considerably over a
million. Houlron has a promising future
and its hospitable and public spirited citi-
zens deserve success.