The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-07-02

wife from Washington were guests OF
Henry Huntington Sunday
Warren Crafts and wife from Oxford
spent Sunday in town.
The East Corinth correspondent
would do we'll to read that feed prob
lem, as he calls it, over again before
trying to write up a reply. We think
he did not have his eyes open the first
time. There is nothing in the so called
problem that would lead any one to
believe that the trial had been made
on an old and shopworn COW. We did
say and say now that good COW will
give good returns on hay and grass
alone, and we do not think that extern
sive feed of grain will make a good
COW enough better to pay the expense.
By good feed we mean plenty OF good
hay and grass. 1t is fact that it costs
many farmers as much for their feed
as the butter amounts to. Now what
is the profit? 1t is not every COW that
is a good one. Farmers have gone in
for cows so fast that anything of the
COW kind will do to make up the num-
Der. This is a mistake. Not so many
cows, but good ones should be the rule.
We do not understand the correspon-
dent when he tries to compare a COW
to water running under barn or to a
mill power, bat take it that he has
some time been a milkman. However
we do think that your correspondent
has hit the nail on the head when he
says chad better look for their profit
to the sale of cows" No doubt far
mer could do well to raise good cows
for the market. A good COW will
bring a good price any time, and the
cost of raising is not much. There are
plenty of poor cows but limited sup
ply of good ones.
One question we would like to ask,
and we may get a reply, Who ever
heard of bovine tuberculosis before the
days of ensilage, high feed of grain
and dehorning?
Miss Ella j. Butson of Topsham
closed very successful term OF school
at COrinth Centre.
F. w. Newcomb commenced this
week the canvass of this town for the
Vermont Bible Society He is selling
bibles at cost and gathering the relig-
iOus statistics of the town.
Miss Della Heath was called to Bos-
ton last Saturday to see her sister
Julia who is very sick at the hospital.
A game of base ball was played
Tuesday afternoon between the West
Fairlee nine and COokville nine.
Corinth creamery paid 16 cents per
pound for May butter.
IN MEMORIAM.
Allen Towle, senior member of the well
known firm of Towle Bros Co., died in
Oakland Cal, Wednesday, June I'd. His
health failed only in February. and he
went from his old home and place of bus
mess at Towle to his Sacramento home
for treatment. Under the advice of ply
sicians who diagnosed his ailment as
Valvular disease of the heart, he went
with his family to Santa Barbara, where
he spent a restful month and returned
trifie improved in general health. Later
he went to Woodland to avail himself of
treatment under DR., Martin. On account
of the severe heat it was deemed advisa-
BILE that he should go to Oakland and on
Tuesday, June Sth, with his family, nurse
and physician, he went to the home OF his
sister-in-law. Mrs. L. w. Towle. He
seemed to stand the journey well, was
delighted with the change and hopes were
felt for his improvement. His death at
6.25 next morning was great shock to
his family and friends.
Mr. TOWle was born in COrinth, er-
mont, July 26 1888. HI was educated in
the district school and in Corinth Acad-
emy and worked on his fathers farm be-
tween whites. At the age of 10 he went
to New YOrk where relatives OF his moth
er were engaged in business, and with
whom he stayed some two years. In the
mean time his father had discovered a
copper mine at Pike Hill, and New York
capitalists having invested in it, sent him
home to look after their interests He
took kindly to the pursuit of mining but
the scope was hardly broad enough when
a loo
which were at that time Being sent home
by Corinthians who had gone to Califor-
MIA, and i'll January, 1896, he landed IN
San Francisco. He proceeded at once to
the mines and located at Dutch Flat. He
was fairly successful, but after a time
bought saw mill, for this business he
seemed to have a natural bent and a
wagon road having been built from Dutch
Flat to Downer lake, by which to reach
the ComStock mines, he built another
mill near Blue Canon to supply the de-
mand for mining timber. This wagon
road was but the fOrerunner of the Trans
continental railroad. The Central Pa
cific line passed on to the summit and the
east, and the Towle saw mills supplied
timber for ties, trestles, bridges and snow
sheds and literally turned their lumber
into gold, their receipts from the railroad
amount ing at times to $25, 900 per month.
Mr.. Towle was followed to California at
different dates by his two brothers who
became his partners, but he was president
and manager of the company. He has
built at different times 10 saw mills, also
30 miles of narrow guage railroad, sup
piled with locomotives and 81 cars with
which to handle lumber from the mills off
the line of the Central Pacific. They EN-
ploy in the busy season about $50 men
some of whom have been in their employ
% and 80 years and who are independent
as far as money is concerned. For many
years Towle has been a sure place of EN-
ployment for any young man from Yer
mont, and scores of well TODD men on the
Pacific coast date their prosperity from
the start they got here. Owning $4,000
acres of land they decline to sell foot
for any purpose lest saloon should be
located there; no liquors can be bought
or sold on land owned by them. The
Baptist chapel is built on land for which
they gave free lease of 30 years.
Mr.. Towle was a republican and high
in the councils of his party. Although he
would never accept nomination to an
elective office, he was sent delegate to
many County and State conventions, and
was appointed by the Governor as dele
gate to the National Irrigation Congress
which convened in Salt Lake City in
September, 1891; also as a member of the
Viticultural Commission, and elected by
that board as their treasurer He was
president of the Gold River Ditch and
AT;nino M and of the Feather Rivar