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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30

A bbie E., now Mrs. w. j. Walker of Chi
cago. In 1867 Mr. Pope moved to North
field, where he has ever since resided.
Although he was of a quiet and retiring
nature, his sterling worth caused him to be
much honored by his townsmen. While
living in Roxbury he held many town
offices and was sent to the Legislature three
times. He was selectman in Mortified in
1902 and represented this town in the
legislature in 1872. His unquestioned in
tegrity and good business judgment caused
his services to be much sought in the set
Element of estates and similar business. He
was connected with the Universaist
church, and was republican in politics.
1t falls to the lot of but few men to be held
in so high esteem and to be so universally
respected as was Edmund Pope.
Miss Minnie Smith went to Swanton, Sat.
urday, for visit of few days. - Miss
Martha Hazen came home from Conway,
Mass, Wednesday, and will remain through
the holidays. - III. b. Thayer and w.
NJ. Rumbaugh of New York are at j. G. B.
Thayer's. - c. l.. Pervier was at home
over Sunday. Eugene Plastridge and
wife of Swanton came down last week. He
returned Monday. and his wife will remain
while. - There is good deal of sick
ness in town. j. L. Abbott is quite ill with
pneumonia and Eva Buzzell with a heart
trouble, while a very large number have
the grip severely. One case of diphtheria is
reported.
East Orange,
There was Christmas tree at the vestry
on Friday evening, the first festival of the
kind in this place for several years, and it
was well attended and appreciated. Those
who participated in the exercises, espe-
cially the children, did themselves credit,
and Miss Ada Sherburn, the school-teacher,
deserves much credit and many thanks for
her unwearied efforts and zeal to make it a
success. There were many useful and valu-
able presents, anS- Rev. &. II. avis was re-
membered with av'', dollars in money. 1t
is hoped this is only beginning, and that
in the future the parents and citizens will
try to do more for the children and young
people in the community.
On Monday Charles Eastman returned to
school in Waterbury. - Among those
i'll with the grip are Mr.. and Mrs, Warren
Curtis, Mrs, E. c. and Frank Colby. The
family of Herbert Clark are just recovering
from it. - Mrs. Joseph Everett of Brad
ford spent Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Simpson. - Ethel Hamilton,
Waldo Prescott have the measles. -
Nellie Hutchinson has returned to school in
Bradford.
PIainfield.
The farmers league will meet at Kinney s
hall for the election of officers on Saturday
evening, January,
1t is estimated that nearly one-half our
village people are on the sick list, and all
our doctors are kept very busy.
The evening exercises at the Methodist
church on Christmas passed off pleasantly
and the two large trees bore ample truitage
for all.
The singing-schools held in the school.
house hall every Wednesday evening, with
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30
Boarding ArOund--.N. 2.

Pleasant and profitable MEETINGS were
held week before last at Greensboro
and Danville,- six sessions at each
place, with the whole bord present.
In spite of the snow and leet of the
first winters storm, the god people of
Greensboro turned outin lage numbers.
Brother Sanford opened upin "Fertiity
Of the Farm" urging mre intensive
system-less acreage and bitter cultiva
tion, better barns with cenbnted cellars
to save the liquid part ofthe manure.
He believes in special fat ming, and in
dairying has had great SUCCESS. Brother
Smith, in his Feeding larm Stock"
tells how to raise corn che ply by thor.
ough cultivation without be use of hoe
or basket. He puts it Al into the silo
whole, which saves husling and mill
ing. He cuts his oats in he bloom and
feeds them as hay, AMI don't want
any threshing-machine on his farm.
Brother Vail talked molly on EARN
Barns" explaining by pans the merits
of various styles now in use in the
country. His is very Instructive dis
course. Professor Cooke gives the
scientific views of "Mlk Products,"
dwelling largely on gefing the fat out
of milk. He favors thu creamery sys-
TEN and the separatoHfor getting the
cream. He says theyilave been able
to skim and churn soperfectly at the
Experiment Station thu not trace of
fat remained. / don't doubt it at all
Those Burlington fellows always had a
wonderful faculty for getting fat out Of
things. Brother Spears " Attractions
of Vermont meets With appreciation
everywhere. 1t is patriotic theme,
we'll presented, and will hereafter bring
forth good fruit.
We find the farmers, as a rule, feel
ing much more cheerful than usual.
Some large yields OF crops and butter
are given at Greensboro. They told of
hay that cut four tons to the acre, so
thick and heavy that it could not be
dried on the land where 1t grew, of oats
10Y bushels to the acre; of 300 pounds
of butter per year frOm each COW, in
several herds. AT panVille they claim
to raise from thirty II forty i've bushels
of wheat to the acre, and they stoutly
claim theirs to be the best farming
town in the state. Mr.. N. Williams
sold from December /, 1890, to Deem
Der l, 1891, 343 pounds of butter from
COW. That, with the by-products OF
pork and veal, brought the income of
each cow to just about $780, Good
enough Danvlliel certainly has one OF
the pleasV ntest locations in the state,
and boih that town and Greensboro
will, in the near future, be noted sum-
mer resorts. Greebsboro has its beau
tlful lake with nothing in the way OF
hsh in it but trI1b, and much fine
scenery alhkaout It's elevated location.
DanVille " MQknt Washington in
view and ge bl brit oS>God's creation
besides. T n, tbH e galway along here
Is curiosit It1 shape it resembles
the signatur bf w late General Spin
iner, and, ~ grtde, chain-lightning
knocked al he o. of the perpendicu
lar. WRH EsIENT BoARDER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30

Tom DAy EsoN, farm hand at Lib
ertyville, III Almy, killed his
employers daugl er, Ida Rulson, be-
cause she W puld BIT marry him. But,
unlike Almy be mmitted suicide inn
mediately a ters
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30

minders of the very high esteem in which
they are held by all who know them.
G. I. Wooster is here from the West,
being called here by the death of his
mother, Mrs Stephen Wooster. =-
Misses Carrie Sibley, Emma Foster, Julia
HOLSTER and Bertha Nye, and Messrs.
Van Bennett and Rodney Willard Of
Goddard Seminary, were at home over
Christmas. 49, Mr.. and Mrs l.. c. Ham.
nett, John willard, and several others, are
sick with the grip.
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Two new weavers have been added TO the
mill help-Misses Susie Patrick and Jessie
McCauley.
We are having fine school in our dis
trict this winter term, with Mrs. e. G..
Wells as teacher.
Family Christmas gatherings were held
at M. V. b. HOLSTERS, G. p. Spaulding's
and Mrs. q. Daniels
Twelve or fifteen couples are to attend
the annual old and young folks ball at
North Calais, tomorrow evening, from this
village.
The ladies connected with the "Social
Circle" will hold their annual festival and
oyster supper at Union vestry hall, Thurs
day evening, January 7. The evenings
entertainment will consist of readings,
declamations and the farce, "The Black
Diamond" Admission to the whole,
twenty-five cents each.
A happy gathering was that at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Chaplin, Thursday
evening of last week, where seventy-five or
eighty of their neighbors and friends sur
prised them on the event of their twentieth
marriage anniversary. A very pleasant
evening was passed by all present, though
the inclement weather kept many OF their
friends at home. Several useful and valu-
able presents were left with them as re-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30

The school at East Cabot was closed last
Thursday for a week or more, owing to
sickness of the scholars.
Lafayette Myers has sold to Wells &c
Rogers two-thirds interest in the manu-
facture and sale Of his electric SPAWN cure.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.
An Empire With Resources Enough to
Pay Off the Nations Debt-New
Mexico by Counties.
County Subdivisions and Their
Natural Advantages.

The New Mexico bureau of immigration
torial fair and elsewhere neat circular re-
viewing the natural resources of New Mex
leo, and from which the following relating
to the various counties of this territory is
reproduced;
Colfax county, with Springer as county
seat has an area of 4,611, 073 acres and
population of 1865; its principal natural
resources are timber, some mining and an
excellent soil, giving rise to cattle and
sheep raising, cutting Of timber and the
raising of cereals, fruit and vegetables as
principal industries.
Taos county, with Taos as county seat,
has an area of l, 751,972 acres, and popula-
ton of 10, SAL its natural resources are the
products of the soil and mining; wheat rails
ing in the celebrated Taos valley, the pro-
duction of gold and copper, and also the
production of mica are, besides sheep and
cattle raising, the principal industries.
Rio Arriba county, with TERRA Amarillo
has a population of 1870 with its fine for
ests its ample water and good soil, the
production of cereals on the valley lands,
cattle and sheep raising on the mesas and
lum ling in the mountains are the princi-
pal pursuits. There is also considerable coal
mining done in the northwestern part of the
! county.
San Juan county, with Junction City as
county seat, and area of 1854 200 acres and a
a population of $500, is making the natural
resources of its rich, large valleys productive
by the raising of fruits, vegetables and for
age, the latter for surrounding markets as
well as for the numerous herds of cattle,
horses and sheep also raised in the county.
Bernalillo county, Albuquerque county
seat, with an area of 1924, 1873 acres and a
population of q, 469, is principally land of
cattle and more so of sheep raising, besides
there is valuable production of cereals and
fruit, especially of grapes in the valley of
the Rio Grande. Some fine timber is also
obtained in the mountain portions, while
coal, lead and silver, but more especially
copper mining is pursued in some portions
of the county. The coal mining at Gallup
is followed to such extent that sometimes
as many as 100 cars are shipped from there
daily.
Mora county, with Mora as county seat,
an acreage 26S9,2O1 acres and population
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metropolitan in Appearance.

Albuquerque is an American town, with
all the life, vigor and conveniences Of
American civilization Hacks dash along
the streets, tall store buildings lift their
heads to the sky, American thrift, energy,
enterprise and customs are seen on every
hand. The street car plies its way through
the busy streets; gas and electricity con-
vert the night into day, the city water
works afford an ample supply of water,
and all manner of vehicles and all classes
of people throng the streets and thor
oughfares.
The business part of the town is regu-
larly and compactly built, with broad
streets cutting one another at right angles.
Lying upon beautiful flat surface and
built upon streets which have been laid
out with mathematical exactness, the
opening vista in any direction from the
focus of the business center, will remind
the beholder of cities in the states.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-05

an area of 2,043,942 acres and population
of of 1882, is principally mining county,
although stock raising and some agriculture
are followed. The rich mines of the noted
Black Range are situated there, the princi-
pal products being gold-bearing copper, sill
yer and lead ores.
Grant county, Silver City, county seat,
with an area of 5,736, 500 acres and popula-
ton Of 10,959 is also in most Of its parts a
mining county, but sheep and stock raising
form a, by no means, inferior industry.
Many acres Of fine valley lands are also
under cultivation, while pine timber is
plentiful for mining and numbering purposes
in the mountain regions.
Dona Ana county, Las Cruces, county
seat, with an acreage of 6,261 900 and pop
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Colorado Comment.

Albuquerque is putting forth great ef-
forts to render the coming New Mexico
territorial fair big success. The exhibit
ton opens on Monday, September IA. A
varied list of attractions has been pre-
pared, and the event will be one Of pleas
ure as we'll as OF interest. In order to
secure large attendance the Santa Fe
has made rate OF cent mile from all
New Mexico and Colorado points--a con-
cession which will contribute very largely
to the success Of the exposition. A more
favorable opportunity or lower rate will
never be presented the Colorado public
for visiting New Mexico, and itneed hard
ly be said that Albuquerque should be
crowded with visitors from this city and
state during the third week in September.
Denver News.
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AGRICULTURAL l. ANS.

The best illustration that could be given
OF the diversified character of the lands
above referred to, was to be found in the
display made last season at the territorial
fair, of the vegetable products Of the soil
at various localities along the line OF the
railway, and all taken from points within
the limits OF the grant. Here were NAM
moth PUMPKINS, squashes, melons, cucum-
bers, cabbages, potatoes, and, in short,
products of every variety, grown, some
with the others without irrigation, which
cou Id not be surpassed in size or quality
by like products from any quarter of the
world while the grain s, corn, wheat, oats,
rye and barley, would suffer nothing by
comparison with the best products of the
most noted grain gr 0 wing districts. A
I fact like this does more to convince one
of the character and capabilities Of the
land than volumes Of description and
assertion, and it was remarked by all
those who witnessed the exhibition that a
soil which coud show such results might
safely challenge comparison, in the
matter of productiveness, with that of any
section of the country. This exhibit was
gathered by the land department of the
company, for the purpose OF demonstrating
beyond question the productive character
of the soil along the line of theroad, and
was awarded the first premium over all
other displays OF like character on ex-
hibition. A still greater effort will be
made this year to carry off the first
prizes for this magnificent region. 1t is
how ever as q
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forty miles on either side of the tracts
that is, every alternate section in body
of land eighty miles wide and SIS miles
long, with the privilege of extending ten
miles further on either side for the pur-
pose of selecting lands in lieu of those
within the eighty mile limit, which may
have been, in the language of the law,
"granted, sold, reserved, occupied by
homestead settlers or pre-empted or 9TH
erwise disposed Of" prior to the time the
grant was made to the railway company.
The extent OF the grant, and the quantity
Of land offered for sale by the railway
company, will be better comprehended by
comparison: That portion of the grant
lying between the Rio Grande and the
Colorado embraces IA ,720,0 900 acres; the
states of Rhode Island, Delaware, New
Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachu-
sets, with their combined areas, en-
brace IA, 1853 ,S00--that is, the land grant
of the Atlantic & Pacific railway lying
between the Rio Grande and the Colo
RADIO, which is the portion now offered
for sale, would cover all five of the states
above named, and have more than hall
a million of acres left. There are, Of
course, within this extensive district
great varieties of climate and SOIL there
are numerous localities wherein the lands
are valuable tor agricultural purposes,
and, where irrigation is possible these
agricultural interests are assuming i'm
portant proportions.
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of II 1852, has cattle and sheep aising as it
main industry, the growing of wheat, corn,
oats, alfalfa and barley are the main agri-
cultural products. LAUNDERING is done in
the higher mountain locations.
San Miguel county, Las Vegas county seat,
has an area of s,399,S44 acres and a popula-
ton of "a, 154; has many natural advantages
on account of the diversified character of its
surface consisting of prairie lands valley
lands and mountain range, which give rise
to stock raising agricultural pursuits, the
raising Of fruit, numbering and the produc
ton of minerals, especially copper.
Santa Fe county has an area of ,498, 600
acres and population of 5000. The city
of Santa Fe is county seat as well as the
capital of the territory. The soil of this
county, where cultivated, is especially adapt
ed to the raising of fruits which excel in
flavor, taste and size. Besides this, mining
forms the principal industry, the large de-
posts of coal, lead, silver, iron ore, copper
and gold, in veins as well as in the form of
placer gold, at Cerrillos, New Placers IDOL
ores), Golden and San Pedro being justly
noted for their richness.
Valencia county, Los Iunas county seat,
with an area of 1851, $50 acres and popula-
ton OF 15,417, produces wheat, corn, oats,
rye and barley and the grape culture of the
Rio Grande valley is noted; other fruits are
raised-especially peaches-by the tens of
thousands of pounds; numbering is followed
in the pine forests covering the Zun noun
tains. Cattle growing and sheep raising are
the principal industries,
Socorro county, Socorro, county seat, has
an area of S,939,52O acres and population
of 10, S75 there are considerable mining in
terests, the mines of the Magdalena noun
tains bearing rich deposits of gold, silver,
lead and copper. Several reduction works
are at or near Socorro; also in the western
most part of the county there are rich, well
developed mining properties; the interven-
ing plains and valleys are covered with
herds of cattle and sheep. numbering is
done in almost all the mountainous portions
Of the county where fine pine forests cover
The higher locations. The valleys of the
San Francisco and the Rio Grande, are well
cultivated, and fruit raising in the latter
mostly grapes and peaches-gives excellent
results.
Sierra county, Hillsboro, county seat, with
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ulation of 10, 427, is noted besides its sheer
and stock interests for the fine fruit and
magnificent crops of cereals raised in the
Mesilla valley, while silver ores are most
successfully mined in the Organ and other
mountains.
Lincoln county; Lincoln, county seat, area
S ,4S3, 500 acres and population of 4,210 has
large interests in stock raising; the fine pine
forests of the different mountain ranges
have given rise to extensive numbering in
terests, while mining of coal, and the prec-
ious metals is most extensively followed in
many places.
Chaves county, with Roswell as county
seat and acreage Of $685., 800 acres and apop'
ulation Of 1910, which is steadily and rap
idly increasing on account of the many adj
vantages offered, and bases its prosperity not
only upon grazing and mineral resources, but
its great future, no doubt, lies in the agricul-
tural and horticultural direction, which by
the building of reservoirs, canals and bitches
offer to the incoming population more than
half million acres of the finest land for oc-
cupancy.
Eddy county, with the new town of Eddy
as county seat has an acreage of 4, 1852 900 acres
and a population Of 1885, and promises
to be the empire agricultural and fruit grow.
ing county of the territory. With an excel
lent, moderate climate fine soil and the
most extensive irrigation system in New
Mexico, a new railroad, making connection
with the Texas & Pacific railroad at Pecos
City andrunning from there up through the
valley of the Pecos river, and other improve
ments, Eddy county has already wonderfully
grown during the past year and will keep on
that way to be excelled by no other county
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ting has rare pictures II IS as unusua
and individual as that associated with the
scenery CT the Nile valley. Along its
waters, deriving their sustenance from
fields enriched by its overflow, are Span
ish-American and Indian villages of low
rectangular adobe houses about the quaint
massive church standing against back
ground of mesas, mountains and sand
hills. The stretch of thick muddy water,
with its distant sheens of blue and silver,
winds its long way and amid prevailing
gray and red landscape tints interspersed
with the.deep green of cottonwood groves
and low thickets which fringe its banks,
and the lighter verdure of growing crops.
Mud-walled fields and gardens, irrigated
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the two great southern overland railways,
Albuquerque possesses commercial po-
sition of great advantage. From it the
Atlantic and Pacific Railway runs west
ward into California through a country
which from the Rio Grande to the Colo
RADIO river isl fine grazing, mining and
timber region. Crossing New Mexico
from north to south, the Atchison. Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway makes a junction
with the Atlantic and Pacific road at Al
buquerque, and continuing southwark,
connects with the Southern Pacific Railway
at Deming, and with the Mexican Central
and its connecting roads at Ell Psso, Texas !;
80 that Albuquerque has railway COM
munication with the great channels of
trade on the north, south and west.
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maintained by an appropriation OF $25 900
year from the territorial treasury. The
Albuquerque college was opened in 1887
for both sexes, with regular college cur
riculum, and 100 pupils were enrolled in
this institution last year. Its faculty con-
sists of president and six assistant
instructors. The New West Educational
Society has at this city its headquarters
for the southwest, and the academy OF
this association, recently completed, is
one of the finest school buildings between
Kansas and California. The Albuquerque
academy, organized and incorporated in
1888, occupies new three-story building,
with good library and large lecture-room.
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of the people. Six mule teams and OK
teams from camps and ranches, carriages,
sulky and tandem rigs, cowboys and
vaqueros on horseback, Mexlcans riding
upon burros, Pueblo Indians driving
donkeys laden with fruit or pottery, and
groups of wild looking Navaios, who
have come from their reservation on er-
rands of barter or curiosity, are common
features of the scene. Mingled with these
are miners, Cinnamon, tourists, and
sometimes strange visitors from the Orient
"a party of Turks or Arabs peddling
trinkets or exhibiting troupe of perform
ing bears.
The old town, following the religious
faith of its founders, the Conquistadores,
makes much Of the saints days, its most
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Several prospective railways, some of
which are now building, will connect
with this city or find in it terminus.
The extension of the St. Louis and San
Francisco road westward from the Indian
territory to a junction with the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway, possible cutoff by
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
way from Kiowa, Kansas, southwest to
the Rio Grande, and road connecting
the city with the Texas system of rail-
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GRAZING, MINERAL AND COAL REGION
that this vast expanse Of country is ever
to command the attention of capitalists.
As respects the raising OF live stock atten
ton is called to the fact that there is the
only place in the United States where
those desiring to engage in the raising of
flocks and herds can obtain title to large
tracts of land at low figures. 1t is also
important to know that by purchasing of