Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-02-20
From the Green Mountain State.
SOUTH R0YALT0N,VT

An important railway station,
thrifty and enterprising village pleas
antly located upon terrace in the fer
tile valley of the White river, is South
Royalton, and it offers TO capitalists
and manufacturers excellent opportuni-
ties for safe investments. Ii has re-
sources that need developing that prom
ise quick and sure returns for the labor
and money that will be needed for their
development.
Patriotism has been said to be a no.
BILE passion that is indispensably neees-
sary to any good degree Of security or
prosperity in nation. Patriots have
common interest in the defence and
prosperity of the community in which
they dwell. If these are good defni-
tions New England capitalists should
get new stock Of patriotism, recall
the money they have invested in the
hap-hazard enterprises of the West and
invest it here in New England where
they can get sure profit and at the
same time advance the interests of the
community in which they have their
home and where they gained the capi-
tai they possess. Too much New Eng
land money has been invested away
from home and too many of her bright
and industrious sons have been drawn
away from her. She needs the money
and brain and sinew that are left.
New England's sons have often prov
ed their patriotism the path of duty
has only to be shown them and they at
once take it. Those of her sons who
have capital are as patriotic as are their
less favored brothers, but in times of
peace, at least, capitalists are inclined
TO be more cautious with their invest
ments of surplus money than are their
brothers with their investments ofbrains
and strength. They are inclined TO be
more cautious about their home invest
ments than about those they make in
distant States. One reason for this is,
perhaps, the fact that the newspapers
in those distant States have continually
and persistently set forth the natural
and other advantages of those States,
knowing the value of printers INK they
have used it freely and have not heslta-
ted when describing what they had to
sell TO use high colored ink. The OPP
portunities for investments here in SO.
Royalton are equal TO those Of any part
of the country. Now when competi-
ton is so sharp that manufacturers OF
iron say they must move nearer their
base Of supplies in order to do profit
able business. and when the cotton
manufacturers are building mills near
the cotton fields of the South 1t can on
" be question Of time when the man
ufacturers of articles into which the
lumber from Vermont forests enter VIII
find it necessary to come here where
the lumber grows and build their mills
unon Vermont streams. Here at So.
Rovalton are excellent water privileges
and here is one of the more important
lumber markets of Eastern Vermont.
The first fork of the White river ex-
tending as it does from this village To
the northern part of Orange county, is
= ranid stream beside which are now
many sawmills, and yet but few OF MS
many water privileges are now utilized
This stream has in the ages now past
formed a beautiful valley whose outlet
is at the village that is the subject OF
this sketch. On the hillsides that line
this valley are found large forests OF
maples. beeches. ash, elms, birch and
other hard woods, of spruce, hemlock
and basswood. The second fork OF the
White river that extends through the
northeastern part of Royalton, through
the eastern parts of Bethel and Ran
Iolph, through Brookfeld into Williams
town, forms another valley the outlet
Of which is near this village and the
market Of its inhabitants is here A
half dozen other towns in this vicinity ,
do more or less of their marketing here.
When the White River r. r. is eN-
tended beyond Williamstown its juno
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