Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-26

Creameries: Granville, Walden, Rye
gate, Sheffield, Waterford, Richmond,
Brighton, North Hero, Alburgh, Shell
don, Washington, Brookfield, Williams
town, Lowell, Greensboro, Poultney,
Mount Holly, Wells, Bethel, Middlesex,
Roxbury, Montpelier, East Montpelier
and Rochester.
Cheese factories: Middlebury, Dorset
Canaan and Bridgewater.
Wood working mills; Lincoln, Burke,
Waterford, Charlotte, Lunenburgh, Ca
naan, Fairlee, Jay, Glover, MountTabor,
Wallingford, Barton, Westfield, Pitts
ford, Fayston, Warren, jamaica, Bar
nard and st. Johnsbury.
Electric light plants: Wilmington, Lon.
donderry, Johnson, MorristOwn and Bar
net.
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 Fairhaven.
An apple jelly factory at Marshfield.
A corn canning factory at Mortified.
An extension of lime and cement works
at Nottingham.
Gold and iron mining at Stockbridge
The Kempton Medical company at
Springfield.
A water power developed at Norris
town.
A cotton mill at Burlington.
A fiber leather company at Barnet.
A russell leather manufacturing com
pany at Bethel.
For the four years covered by these in
quiries, we find that 50, los, $50 in capital
has been invested in new manufacturing
and employment given to 1924 persons,
In view of this record it hardly seems
just to accuse VermonterS with a lack of
faith in their state. Whatever may have
been true in the past | believe that in
nearly all sections of the State today,
the people are taking an active interest
in promoting any local industry that
gives a fair promise of succeeding, and
that Vermont capital is being largely
used TO build up Vermont industries.
The two largest industries undertaken
l,a
mills at Burlington and the furniture fac
tory at Canaan, the former with capital
of 100000. and the latter with S250,0OO.
These two plants, as it will be noted,
called for over one-half of the total in
vestment of the past year and it is to be
hoped that the yet larger mill for which
the Queen City is now striving WILDE Sc.
cured and thereby help out the record of
the State in 1895 in still larger degree
than it has done in 1894.
Other new enterprises that are expect
ed in 1895 are an electric railroad from
Bennington to Woodford; steam rail
road from Hardwick to Woodbury.; cleo
trio lights and power at NOrshfield;
marble quarry at Topsham and box fac
tory at New Haven.
1t is matter of much satisfaction
that our State has not only been able to
keep all of it's 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 suffering from the f.
nancial depression that has been upon
the country for the past two years, and
while the news columns of the newspa-
pers have been filled with accounts of
suspended industries, idle wOrkmen and
suffering families, our agriculture,
though less profitable the past year than
previously, has yet yielded good sup.
port 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 prosperity
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 institu-
tions and its future and in being content
to live and labor in field where the
probable chances of just reward are so
many and the prospects of a meager re-
turn so few.
VICTOR l. SPEAR,
Statistical Secretary of the Board of
Agriculture.
Bralntree, VT, April 10th, 1895.