Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-08
REMARKABLE DECADE.
Hon. OyiiIe D. Bakers Response at State
sosrd Of Trade Banquet 10 Toast City o.
Augusta"

! Al snth u. possess io'ai Pihi' AZ 49,
! CITY of Augusta and were fortunate enough
| to be present at the State Board of Trade
banquet last week listened with especial
pleasure To the response of Hon orviilc u.
Baker to the toast The City of Augusta
( But those who listened were comparatively
few OF those in the city that are keenly
dive to the subject on which Mr.. Baker
spoke and ii is for such that the response is
herewith given. 1t being impossible to print
| il in the Journal the morning following
the banquet.
/ ! wish 10 call the attention of the Board
of Trade and through it of the people OF
the State of Maine, To the remarkable
record which the city of Augusta has made
during the last ten years
The growth Of Maine and of her Giles is
necessarily slow. The soil throughout the
greater part Of the STATE is rocky. al not
capable of webbing the exuberant wealth of
! product which Characteriles the wonderful
farm lands of the West. The drift of pop
ulation is not in the main toward US, but
away from us. The immigration that pours
in A rraseiess tide through the gates of New
nsi,....1... .i,bor ra,n,irs n..,r those .en,.rs
Ir;,,. y..stuard win the ann toward, til.
! ,t.1.,,.I;n,, ,,d f.rtii,. nr.iries of the West
". ,.,,, st. So, e,t;ce,pr,s in tho w.v
81 .,,1i.n sortnn.s IN any class of immi-
grants.
But. on the other hand, if the advantages
a., - ,l .,fsra arc les. brilli.,, th.v are
en, ,h,, v.rv re,snp NOR. solid Few states
n,n ha fo,nd which can offer with more
,,nsdanc.. annie remuneration To CAPITAL
! III I'D, AMI ,ay,u,napt reward tn labor
f., d., ,,1,darfn, exbil,ratiou of her eli
,,,,,, -, ,hat snIpnld mir which eools and
r..frcsLe. in simmer. and stimulates. like
| zine in winter no state can surpass her,
In tho stretch and beauty of her coast. in
III. alternating charm of lake and forest of
,,ounta;n,n river and sea. she offers the
Iu.tv d,,.ll.rs IN other states such peren-
nal refr.shmept. that through summer and
! autumn why nat through her splendid win
tcr-th, heat of pilrrir1 feet is never ali
..nt from her shores.
Hot after nil, It il to the Development of
manufactures that Maine owes her present
and must owe her future growth in wealth
and manhattan The raw materials for
this abound within our limits. Great for
e-ts of pine, of spruce, of hemlock and of
not,tar cover her soil and invite the work
| of the axe and the saw to convert them into
buildings or stately ships into all the cum
ming manufactures of wood, into pups
ground wood. soda and sulphite, and nlti-
ma,ely even into papers news, book and
MANILA.
To bring the logs to market. great rivers
traverse the State, and through their lake
sources and their innumerable branching
streams afford duick and economic trans
portaiion for timber: and these same rivers
which can be covered with freights in sum
mer. in winter Yield har,ests of unrieallei
ice. which give employment to thousands of
men
In Somerset. in Franklin and troostook
NOR. ar less elsewhere. il grown the wool
which through our WOODEN mills can be
xov,, i,,n tl.. dainty fabric. of tia. hmm.
N.,r Horklond aud Thomaston vast de-
nosits If limo rnek invite and can utilize
ra,i,,l IN, u,L,ovn vears Ia come. and
,ln,ost underneath our feet lie mighty beds
of ,,r.nite c.u.bl, of the finest polish under
Tho b,r1 ,f tho m,pufacturer whether for
h,;,,li,, ,,r r,onumantoI work
m sn,,nl, tho ,aaIed nower with which
u, .,,ry,r, all these raw materials of wealth
-, ,,,,,,,,fan,urod proa,cts majestic f,lls
~ ,,a,"r erom ,ro,stonk Ia York thunder
y, our ycrv ,loors and only a small propor.
- ~ ,h,,s. h,y., va, baen NM IN thair fnI
i,s, ,,so
+, - 90, s,r,r;s;,,, tina, ,;tb all ,bss. na,
,,..i .,,a,,,,as .ha ,.a,,tb os Maine ba.
80, - H. d, 3D., ,,r,,,.,h os Dor NAN.
nsa".nr,s AMI in hi. arowth tho ,ity If
,,,',s,a - no, h.ar l,',rr;,.,
'u ,s' -" ''-' ~ ,t,,e,.r;, j.,
l,.,r;as ns ,mg,s,a ia tho g,eat co,,on