Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-25

AHe tOWlis III WHICH HcW lHuus''N'
have heen started during the past year
are as follows
Creameries: Granville, Walden. Rye
gate, Sheffield, Waterford, ltichsnond,
Brighton, North Hero, Alburgli, Shell
don, Washington, Brooktield, Will
Jamestown, Lowell, Greensboro, Poult-
ney, Mount Holly, Wells, Bethel,
Middlesex, Roxbury, Montpelier, East
Montpelier and Rochester.
Cheese factories: Middlebury, Dor
set, Canaan and Bridgewater.
Wood working mills: Lincoln,
Burke, Waterford, Charlotte, Lunen-
burgh, Canaan, Fairlee, Jay, Glover,
Mount Tabor, Wallingford, Bar
ton, Westfield, Pittsford, Fayston,
Warren, Jamaica, Barnard and st.
Johnsbury.
Electric light plants: Wilmington,
Londonderry, johnson, Morristown
and Barnet.
Granite: Manchester, Williamstown
and Calais.
Gristmills, Mt. Holly, Barnard and
Irasburgh.
Hotels: Vergennes and Chester.
A broom factory at Hardwick.
A bottling company at Barnet.
A steam laundry at Brandon.
"A shirt factory at Fair Haven.
An apple jelly factory at Marshtield.
A corn canning factory at North
field.
An extension of lime and cement
works at Nottingham.
Gold and iron mining at Stock
bridge.
The kempton Medical company at
Springfield.
A water power developed at Nor
ristown.
A cotton mill at Burlington.
A fiber leather company at Barnet.
a russell leather manufacturing
company at Bethel.
For the four years covered by these
inquiries, we find that SO, 1885 in
capital has been invested in new
manufacturing and employment Civ
en- 10 5,264 persons. In view Of this
record il hardly seems just TO accuse
Vermonters with lack of faith in
their state. Whatever may have been
true in the past, believe that in near
ly all sections of the state to-day, the
people are taking an active interest in
promoting any local industry that
gives fair promise of succeeding, and
that Vermont capital is being largely
used to build up Vermont industries.
The two largest industries undertaken
during the past year were the cotton
mills at Burlington and the furniture
factory at Canaan, the former with
a capital OF S400, 900, and the latter
with S250,000. These two plants, as
it will be noted, called for over one
half of the total investment of the past
year and it is to be hoped that the yet
larger mill for which the Queen City
is now striving will be secured and
thereby help out the record of the state
in 1895 in a still larger degree than it
has done in 1894.
Other new enterprises that are ex-
pected in 1895 are an electric railroad
from Bennington to Woodford; a
steam railroad from Hardwick to
Woodbury.; electric lights and power
at Mortified: u marble quarry at
Topsham and box factory at New
Haven.
1t is matter of much satisfaction
that our state has not only been able
to keep all of its established industries
in operation, but has been able to
make so large an addition to them as
the record shows and this, too,at a time
when other sections have been suffer-
ing from the financial depression that
has been upon the country for the past
two years, and while the news col
umns of the newspapers have been
filed with accounts of suspended in
dustries, idle workmen and suffering
our agriculture, though less
profitable the past year than previous
~, has yet yielded a good support to
those who have labored in this field,
and no failure of any of our crops has
been reported from any section OF the
state. Certainly the citizen Of YER
mont, in view Of the general prosperi-
ty that exists here and the evidence of
progress that can be noted on every |
hand, is justified in having abundant
faith in its soil, its industries, its in
situations and its future and in being
content to live and labor in a field
where the probable chances ola just
reward are so many and the prospects
Of q meager return so few.
VICTOR |. SPEAR,
Statistical Secretary of the Board OF
Agriculture.
Rrointree. VT. April l6, 1895.