The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
LannOi11e County.

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- average Lamole County man who has long had his
home within her limits, and knows something of her his
tory and resources, feels that she is about the largest
County Of her size in the State
The Switzerland of America has not spot in all her
borders where beauty of scenery, of hill and valley,
mountain and river, is diversified pronounced
where cubic yards of pure bracng mountain air may
be found than in the little County that nestes among the
foothills of Sterling and Mansfield. Every town in the
County has, to greater less extent, furnished tenn
porary home during the summer months to people from
the cities and the popuous ceners who seek
ing recreation and from the and worry of bust
and that health which pure air, pure water and
wholesome fare imparts. The town of Stowe, especially
has for many years been popular resort The town is
situated at the base of Mount Mansfield on whose sum-
init, the highest point in Vermont is Mount Mansfield
Hotel, which is open to guests each summer The town
is rich in its farming lands, and its farming population
prosperous-a condition of things which may be due in
some measure to the fact that during the
the town is invaded by foreign population, furnishing
home market for their products.
What is true of Stowe is true in of the
rest of the County We have little waste land and no
deserted farms, and farmers are not looking for
chance to give away their farms The honest farmer who
has attended strictly to his VOCATION and has not embar-
rassed himself by outside speculation will tell you that
here and now farming pays No productive or bet
ter equipped FARMS and prosperous farmers are
to be found anywhere than found either bank of
the Lamoille river and its tributaries. From Hardwick
to Fairfax line nearly all of interval farms are under
high state Of cultivation and yield abundant harvests of
all our standard crops Little Western is
bought by men occupying these farms. They raise not
only their supply but have a surplus for their neigh
bo1s.
Cambridge is of the weathies towns per capita in
the State and yet is distnctveya farming town. Very
little other business is carried As a rule the farmers
their farms and till them scientific principles
using improved machinery and the best appliances
Fancy stock raising carried successfully
parts OF the County, giving especial attention to the
raising and training Of horses. Our hill farms, while not
productive rule river FARMS produce better
crops of wheat and OATS and better adapted to mixed
farming. Three four first class creameles are being
operated in the County and many of farmers are
relieving their wives and daughters of the burdens of the
dairy work by taking to these creameries their milk or
Nearly every farm in the County of any size has sugar
orchard Of from 800 to 5000 trees The manufacture
maple sugar is largely engaged in and the industry pays
good profit for the time and capital invested Most Of
the large orchards fitted up with the best appliances
and it is the ambition of the producers to turn out first
class article of honey sugar
The industry that ranks next with to farming in
magnitude and Importance the manufacture of hard and
soft wood lumber Saw mills and dressing mills found
every hand doing profitable business and giving
poymcnt at good wages to hundreds of laboreIs The
manufacture of shingles and butter tubs is quite largely
carried of our towns. In the nature of things
these industries terminate with the death of onr
forests but apparently, such towns Bevidere Eden
and Johnson, have wealth of growing timber that will
withstand the of the lumbelman for another genera
ton, at least.
Watervle johnson, Morristown and Wocott have
some of the finest water powers in the State waiting to
be harnessed to machinery.
Mines of lead and copper found in the County, but
mining in the past has not been of the industries Of
the County AT present however, the prospect that the
rich copper mines at Wocott will be developed An
English company has taken hold of the matter shaft
has been sunk and the outlook that in the future
the work will be actively pushed
In Waeryile there is nexhaustibe quarry of soap
stone, pronounced by experts be of the finest quality
which in the past has been but feeb and partially worked
1t would seem that here energy and capital might be
pended with the assurance of rich return.
SO much for the natural of County and
while proud of them, greatest pride is in the
character of our awabding people, homogeneous pop
ulation that has largely 'grown up with the country
We proud of splendid educational advantages of
homes Of culture and refinement of churches and
other agencies that working for the social moral and
religious well being of our various communities
Let the stranger come, for business recreation He
is TO find the atmosphere homehke. While we can
not introduce him to that stretch of magnificent dstan-
oes which he may find elsewhere he may feast his eyes
on the choicest specimens of New England scenery and
mingle in typical New England community.