The Portland daily press., 1894-09-17

tained-His Sheep Ranch in Freedom
A Representative to Canvass Maine.
A few years ago Mr.. Frank T. Bennett
of Boston, proprietor. of the United States
Investor and editor Of the Cotton and
Wool Reporter leading, financial, and
trade journal of the country, came into
Maine to start u somewhat novel enter
prise. Mr.. Bennett is native of Maine,
and has long held to the idea that many
of the out-of-the-way farms of Maine
could be made to serve valuable pur-
pose, either as summer homes or as places
for special agricultural enterprises. He
has himself started, on large farm in
Freedom, in Waldo county, an extensive
sheep raising industry.
Mr.. Bennett has ridden all through the
State, and is pretty well acquainted with
its scenery and withst class OF farms
which, although mot abandoned or de-
serted in the strict sense sof the words.
have ceased to be the homes of families,
and are ownedsby those who hold them
for what little can be gotten for the
wood or grass He believes that these
farms. which are generally in healthful
and picturesque places and furnished
with habitable buildings in many cases.
would be eagerly thought for Summer
homes if their locations were known. I'm
fact. he has generally, as che has gone
through the State, been commissioned
by wealthy acquaintance to get them
farms for summer homes. This has sug-
gested to him the idea of making his
paper, the United States Investor, a
bureau of information relative to Maine
farms. He has sent into Maine for
that purpose Mr.. Edward L. Peyton,
who is to canvas the State with that
end in view. Mr.. Peyton, who is at
the United States Hotel, said Ito the
PRESS Saturday, speaking Of the future
of Maine:
AT all times the in ducements for the
man of speculative genius is captivat-
ingly offered in more remote sections
than the State of Maine. The majority
of investors of such projects have
avalled themselves to such sfavorabl OPP
portunities and have overlooked the
possibilities of home speculation. 1t is
q uOUdDlO ldCb uudU Ado buO mCa VI cuCll
spirit exerted the same energy in the
opportunities that were in store for them
there would today be less dormant in
dustries and deserted farms. Not con-
| tent with this condition of affairs, in no
section of the United States, can be
found larger class of financial men who
have suffered the results of depressions
and collapsed enterprises in Western
| speculation. However, the tide OF affairs
| has begun to recede and the outlook for
| favorable and profitable investment
manifests itself to great extent in our
own State.
| There are in Maine, from a careful en-
umeration of statistics, in the vicinity
of 1000 farms not under cultivation, the
result of lack of interest in the younger
generation, whose ambition has been to
seek the more congenial pursuits that
present themselves in larger cities.
These farms in the main have facilities
for both stock raising, and other agri-
cultural pursuits, not to mention the
summer homes and resorts for the
tourist whose disposition it is to seek the
few years ago when Maine was not
| recognized as summer resort. When
Long Branch was in it's glory, Bar
Harbor was in it's infancy: but today
Names coast has become one of the
most ia vored locations for summer tour
lists. 1t is blest with ans unsurpassed
climate, has every facility for bathing,
cruising and recuperation; and in justice
to such features it may be of intere st to
note what such results have brought
about INLAND values. A great deal of
! the..avalable land from Portland to Bar
Harbor that offers location for summer
enterprises has advanced in value to an
extraordinary degree. Less than three
years ago what was considered ,unsala-
Bile land in the vicinity of Portland
now finds ready market for house lots.
awaits the hand of the man of enterprise
| as in this State. The writer is CONVEX
SAINT of acreage property and tracts ad-
jacent to the water, with every induce