Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-10-01
WEATHERSEIEID.

The crop of butternuts, beechnuts, and
chestnuts is apparently much above the
average. Especially is this true of the
butternut crop and many people are lay
ing in full supply.
ERRATA-In last weeks items please
read ''his town" for "this town. as
printed. Each town in the state has or
should have copies of the State Geologi-
cal Report. Also please read "syno-
nyms" for synonymous"
Beds Of field strawberries in full bloom
and another crop of wood violets, those
earliest of wild flowers, make it seem as
If nature had skipped cog in her gear
ing OF the seasons and it were spring
again. 1t hints what this region might
be were our warm season prolonged only
Il few weeks.
A few early sportsmen are to be seen
but game seems to be scarce, judging
from their empty game bags. If these
gentry would turn their attention to
coons, hawks, and foxes it is probable
they would find better sport and more of
it. Coons are very plenty and as yet no
hunters have molested them.
Strange that owners of real estate on
Ascutney mountain in this town do not
wake up to their opportunities in way
of advertising the ineXhaustible supply
TO be had there of that beautiful flesh
colored granite and notified syenite.
The town has in its granite, soapstone,
and cement lime rock, elements of vast
wealth cou.d capitalists be induced to
fully develop them. The flesh-colored
granite has been used to some extent for
monuments, enough to prove it excellent
| FnrS xryhtt hn fpat
syenite is stone of great beauty and of
point of Ascutney mountain within its
limits this town ought to be known as
high up" in production of this valuable
stone.
A correspondent at Perkinsville writes re.
garding the railroad as follows: The people
along the Black River Valley are anXiousy
awaiting the building of the railroad, the
town of Weathersfeld will be greatly bene
fitted, the water power will be taken up and
new business will start, increasing the towns
valuation and making genuine boom. Tho
town of Weathersfeld can easily bond fol
$4,000 if necessary to secure the railroad
and it will be the best investment the people
ever made. The men who are pushing this
enterprise are workers and stayers and
backed up by the aid that the Boston anC
Maine and Central Vermont railroads will
give, will make it success.
We clip the above from the editoria
columns of the Springfield Reporter Of
september Is and would remark tina
the town of Weathersfield cannot easily
bond for 5000 as our experience will
a war debt of some $50, 900 ought t.
show. Bonding towns to help railroad
does not increase valuation of real estat
but, on the contrary, has decidedly op
posite effect. If our enthusiastic Pei
kinsville correspondent will 60 to Wood
stock, johnson, Brookfield, Randolph
and many other towns in the state whic
have bonded when that was quite tn
fashion, he will soon learn that increas
of debt and taxes does not increase tn
selling price of real estate in town as
whole. Claremont, N. H., bonded TO
$50.0 in aid of the Concord & Glare
, mont railroad. Ask tax payers there
they would repeat that experiment. A
the proposed railroad will benefit thos
:. most who live in the Black river valley
let them secureit, by the right of way FIRE
5 of cost; let them buy stock and aid in
) ,,s.aaees will permit, but don't attempt b.
combination of interests in the wester
part of our town to vote bonded in
debtedness which all must help to meet
We wish success to the Pot-HoOk raj
road (named from its shape), but woul
say that Weathersfield, as whole,
better off without it and getting out G
debt than with it and an incumbranc
by way of an interest bearing debt likel
to outlast this generation.