Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-08-28
Some Economic COnditi0 ms
al Eagles Mere.

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business the returns that it should
This is true of every material inter
est represented in the community
whether it he our working men and
women, the farmers, the Land CO.,
the Boat Co. or the Railroad Com.
pany.
Perhaps the earliest fault is with
those who own the land, whether
the Land Company or private own
ers. Some one is willing to pay five
hundred dollars for lot and build
on it. In the effort to gel a little
more than the wOuld-be buyer is
willing to pay the negotiation fails.
What is the result: The lot remains
unsold and in nine years it would he
necessary to get twice the price in
order to cover interest and taxes,
the loss in revenue to the Boat Co.
will have been not less than fifty to
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about one hundred dollars and loss
i'm current labor, exclusive of that
employed in building the cottage,
not less than one hundred dollars
more.
The summing up is that in the
attempt to get hundred dollars
more than the proposed buyer was
willing to pay there has been an
actual loss of five or six times the
difference, not counting the material
advance that would have been gained
in other property by reason of the
advance in population.
Nothing is more needed i'm Eagles
Mere today than greater activity in
dealing with possibilities similar to
this. 1t is the fashion to complain
of the Land Company and the Boat
Company but the fact is that every
interest in Eagles Mere is making
the same mistake or it looks that
way to the writer.
In table supplies we are lament
ably deficient so far as home produc-
ton is concerned and it would be Il
good thing if we might have SER
les of Farmers Institutes to demon
strate to us how to avail ourselves of
our advantages so as to keep in our
midst the largest possible percentage
of the money SO freely brought here
by the summer visitors. With an
ice supply unsurpassed as to quality,
and ineXpensiveness it
ought to be possible to preserve
every product that could be furnish
ed here and lay it on the tables in n
that is impossible to any
but home producers.
Certainly five thousand chickens
ought to be consumed here every
and be cheaper than beef at
Trust prices as we'll as far superior in
quality and acceptability and yet we
suppose our own people hardly fur
nish hundred. Perhaps we are out
in our calculations as to this latter
guess but of the prime question we
feel sure.
1t ought to be possible to produce
gilt edge butter here all the year
round and with the facilities that
nature gives us for cold storage it
should be placed before our guests in
far better condition than that fur
nished by foreign creameries.
This market has never been sup
piled with veal but is filled with
Chicago beef until one tires of it.
In garden produce we have prac-
tically nothing to sell. Cottages get
along fairly well with what is
brought i'm from farms five to twenty
five miles away.
Our home work ought to keep
between seasons enough
horses to furnish a team to guests
whenever wanted but the fact is
that one is fortunate to find a team
for drive unless arranged some
time i'm advance.
Why not let us have a Fair right
here i'm Eagles Mere in September
while many of the summer people
are still here and yet enough have
left to make it possible to entertain
any reasonable crowd of Fair visitor.
Get Capt. Chase to arrange swimming
races, boat races, and every other