The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
VERMONT
AS A
PLACE TO LIVE IN.
AS A.

T T has sometimes been said that Vermont is good
State to emigrate FROM but when the advantages of
her situation SOIL climate, water production and people
are fairly considered when take the account Of her
moral social educational, and political privileges, her
facilities for manufacturing her nearness to the great
markets of the world her abundant means for the safe
and rapid transportation of her products to the great
business centres of our CONTRIBUTION all these and
many other circumstances in our favor allowed it
NAV safely be said that Vermont Is good State TO iCe
In; that here person may find that environment most
conducive to those fundamental principles Of life lib
erty, and the pursuit of happness'-le fully rounded
out from healthy and happy childhood strong and
full maturity to and contented age-hberty the
freest and purest-and in he pursuit of happiness
reasonable prospect Of success Let consider in their
ORDER few of the most conspicuous advantages of the
State.
SITUATION
Vermont is in the northwest corner of New England,
lying between Lake Champain and the Connecticut
River, extending from north latitude AZ A to As .
and from east longitude 3 35 to Sc 20 from Wash
ngton. Length of State, north and south, 1879 miles;
average width, east to west, 57I miles Area, 9,056f
square miles, 5795,9G0 Geographical center
in the town of Mortified.
Its location, Just south of the center line of the north
temperate zone and the same line of latitude sub
stantaly the great lakes extending from 200 to 1000
miles the west, and within $50 to 200 miles of the
Atlantic the east gives to Vermont the most favora
BILE conditions for healthy climate and abundant rain
fall while it's situation in the direct line of the natural
route of from the West to East has given
abundant lines of railways for the carrying of persons
and property the East West In fact by the Fitch
burg, Rutland & Bennington Central Vermont, Grand
Trunk, Canadian Pacific, Portland & Ogdensburg Mont
peler Wells River and other lines running through
Vermont great share of the travel and traffic from the
West to East and East West passes through the State
And through this State also is the natural outlet of
large part of the Dominion of Canada.
Vermont has almost every variety of SOIL Except bar
rem or poor soil We have of that.) Formed
largely by the grinding and mixing process of the Glacial
Period by the disntegaton of rocks by the action of
the clements Vermont soil to be full of plant food
which, dissolved by the frequent showers and heavy dews
in summer, and the and frosts of winter produce
abundant and useful crops when properly cultivated
Something always grows here burn the timber from
mountain top and with it all the soil down to the base
rock and in few years, by the decay of the rock and
fertility from the air, growth begins-fst and
chens then the seeds of take root and grow so
that many man has seen in his own lifetime second
forest grown the spot.
But better proof of the good quality of Vermont soil
is given by the noble cops it raises What they and
how much The eleventh figures not out yet,
but any Yankee easily guess and be safe that from
this same soil pasture and feed 100000 of cattle,
sheep and horses and have hay SELL and raise annually
nearly 100000 bushels of grain five and onehaf million
bushels OF potatoes We make some 80 100000 pounds