The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-11-19
THE VERMONT INDUSTRIAL
ASSOCIATION.

The Governor approved on Saturday
the bill incorporating the Vermont
Industrial Association. AS stated in
the act of incorporation, the bust" IS
of this association is:
For the purpose of establishing
medium through which to secure the
settlement of people within the State
and to advance the industrial in
terests of Vermont; to buy, hold, sell
and convey real estate; to manage an
industrial farm, or farms, for the
propogating of blooded stock; to inn
port and sell such stock, and sell the
products thereof.
The prime mover and persistent
genius in this enterprise is Capt. B.
+. Bowman, a native of central Yer
mont soldier of the civil war-and
a typical Vermont soldier. For some
sixteen years preceding $780, Captain
Bowman had been in the West, in
connection with the railways of that
region promoting and managing i'm
migration schemes, more particularly
in territory tributary to the Chicago,
Milwaukee, and st. Paul railroad in
South Dakota. Marked success at
tended Capt. Bowman's plans and
efforts in these enterprises. His work
received the high commentator of
the localities and companies whose
interests he was serving.
Capt. Bowman was East in 1900,
looking after the interests of the
Grand Army in connection with the
encampment in that year i'll Chicago
He was favorably impressed by the
possibilities presented here i'll his
native State, and in the sentiment eX-
listing in the West, the growing desi
prevalent there among men of fortune
to acquire rural homes in the East,
and particularly in Vermont, to which
they could retire for rest in the sum-
mer and on which they could spend
the closing years of their lives. What
seemed necessary in the situation was
an agency through which the western
er and the Vermont land owner could
be brought together. Capt. Bowman
determined to supply that agency.
of Vermonters in the State and he
You'd it's borders, and discussed the
feasibility of his plans with railway
managers. Some credulity was natur-
ally encountered. A less persevering
or resourceful man might have been
discouraged. Cap. Bowman however,
got some encouragement, and, I'M
daunted by the skepticism or lack of
enthusiasm of others, he kept at work
on his proposition, and on the success
of his efforts he is receiving the con-
CALCULATIONS of the men who at first
were skeptical, or Indifferent, or con-
WINGED that his scheme was visionary.
Capt. Bowman knew what he was
about. A judgment educated by long
experience, the staying quality he
had, as a soldier, to march all day and
come into camp at night, 'fresh as
a daisy" stood him in good stead
here, as in hundred other instances
in his long experience in the West.
He is practical man, he has an eX-
pert judgment, he is tireless and tact
full in the pursuit of his ends, he in
spires confidence in the doubling. 1t
became clear that he was the man for
this enterprise, and with him at its
head there could be mo such word as
fail.
There is nothing speculative in this
enterprise. There is in it nothing of
the' razzle dazzle" that has sometimes
beguiled men into injudicious invest
ments. The business cut out by the as
ISOLATION is straight work. The State
has persistently refused to adopt or
adhere to any plan for encouraging
immigration of any kind. 1t became
clear some years ago, and much clear
er in recent years, that the hope of
material prosperity, the upbuilding
of her waste places, was in the indiv.
idual enterprise of patriotic citizens.
This movement is born of that con.
considered lines, creeping before il
seeks to walk. the association will
begin it's work and enlarge its opera
lions as time and wisdom point the
way.
At Royalton DIR. Bowman, veal
thy citizen of Minneapolis, recently
purchased farm, whose productiv,
capacity he is developing. He il
looking for other farms for his friend
and neighbors. At Manchester Rober
Il. Lincoln, for similar purpose, ha
bought farming property. Capt. Bow
man has inquiries from variou
sources for Vermont properties desira
bly, located. Every property sold bring
inquiry for and the ultimate sal
of others. The class of people thu
attracted to and ultimately brough
into the State is the most desirabl
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