Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-04-07
coos CO., n. II.

Mr.. EDITOR few words in regard
to this growing and most interesting
division of the Granite State, near
neighbour geographically of your own
County. may not be uninteresting to your
many readers.
AS the famous White Mountains lie i'll
this County, good proportion OF the
more than FIVE millions OF dollars,
spent annually by summer visitors to
this Switzerland of America, comes to
our hotel-keeL ers and indirectly to almost
everyone. We expect the city boarders
as certainly as.we expect the robins i'll
their season. A general out door house
cleaning" tells when the time of Their
coming is near at hand. Every old rock
or twisted tree has its money value.
This winter some city papers have dis
cussed, with considerable indignation
and not little sharpness, the inroads OF
this winter that are being made by the
rough-audready logman upon our grand
old mountain forests.
II there was some way-a few men APP
pointed to look after the matter might
do considerable-to prevent. or keep in
check, the almost inevitable fires that
follows after the logging camp, the es-
thctic city tourist would have little rea-
son to complain OF the hard working
axc-man.
One of the largest numbering compan-
les i'll this County, is that of he Brown
Bros. of Whiteheld. Their annual sales
amount to over four hundred thousand
dollars.
There is a sharpness to the New
Hampshire mountains and hills; and
there is much of certain directncss to
the acts. political and otherwise, of the
inhabitants. The two great political
parties are ever wary as close-matched
gladlators OF old. There is no sleeping,
no uncertainty. As all know, ut the last
presidential campaign, some OF the great
republican states went dreamly over to
Grover; but the almost evenly divided
state oil New Hampshire gave no "unccr-
| tain sound"
The rapid growth Of railroads in Coos
County has helped to give sort OF
western push and activity to What
ever is undertaken. Just now the sleepy
water power which has tumbled in dark
ness for ages over the tlfteen-mile falls in
| Dalton, Is to be utilized and will
soon send electric light and heat to all
who wish to purchase. A few weeks ago
there was regular Seven Oaks" excite
ment and revelation in our county. The
condition oil affairs at the County House
at West Stewartstown, was reported to
he in a most depiorabe and shameful
condition. Let it see the light. The north
ern boundary o: the county is very curl.
Gus and ragged looking as torn cabbage
leaf, following as it does the ever chang
ing line Of the height of land. If drop
of water would, fits own sweet will,
flow toward beautiful lakes which form
the source ofour noble Connecticut river,
the land belongs to New Hampshire but
If said drop oiwater decided to go north,
the land belongs to Canada. Berlin, hav-
ing an almost unlimited water power on
the AudroscoRgin, is at present the most
rapidly growing town in the county. 1t
is reaching up for the honors and tiibu-
lations OF being city. Allow me to close
this imperfect article by giving briei
sketch of BerliI's Congregational church
and society. This church, with its beau
tiful ediice ofworship valued at ten thou.
sand dollars, it's almost elegant parson.
Rage, its Sunday school of over zoo
members. its hand-to-hand working soci-
ETY. OF Christian Helpers, has a history
on paper of only sixteen years This
church belongs to the Oxford, Maine,
conference. Not very many years ago q
native Of Berlin exclaimed in blank as
tonishment-"A prayer meeting in Der
lin A prayer meeting in Berlin Why
Who ever heard Of such thingl"
o.S. RICE.
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