Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-06-11
AnqeItown.

we often e s0t hamlets and even
towns springing up like a mushroom in a
single night. but never observed any such
phenomena in Barnard, still an enterprise.
started this spring since snow went off,
deserves a notice.
1t rerssined for Robinson & Jaquith,
twcsypde-awake gentlemen from Tilton,
N, to discover q profit in utilizing the
timber on a large tract of land situated in
the western part OF Barnard. comprising
400 acres of a dense forest, which included
the o-called Daniel Angel farm and ad-
joining lots. This property passed into
their hands last year, but nothing was
done until the present season opened.
Now they have erected a large steam saw
mill with an engine of 60 horsepower
running two double-geared saws,
capable OF cutting 1900 feet of lumber in
a single day, and will run through logs
from three to four feet in diameter; same
rig once cut from pine 5000 feet in an hour.
The company has also built two board
ing houses, a horse stable, B feet long. and
other buildings used for st~orehouses, all
standing on the northerly part Of the
Angel farm, from which they have made
q good road to Henry Flint's, which was
place, and intersects with the Gaysville
highway.
From this mill to a railroad either in
Gaysville or Bethel the road will be easy,
no hills to climb, but descending nearly the
entire route. The company already en-
ploys ten men with horse teams and will
soon increase the force. Your correspond
ent is indebted to Chester Cady for this
report.
Only a few OF US can remember this To-
cation fifty years ago, then known as
Perkins, or school district No. 2, in Bar
nard, where Daniel Angel, Isaac Estey,
Elisha Lyman, Gardner Jerome and John
..sNk gkasu NatAaa TTral, nas.ra D.rl-s-- -
Jinks ! once lived, gloried and boosted Of
owning the towns garden. 1t was then q
large and prosperous neighborhood, with
a fairly good ~schoolhouse, the skeleton of
which is still standing as a literary monu-
ment to ito early history. Two dwelling
houses yet remain occupied, while all
others mark their site with stones, brick
and rotten timbers. Elisha Perkins built
a dance hall which was %patronized largely
winter and summer by Stony Brook, Gays
willie and Barnard. 1t has long since sunk
to the ground, and nearly all who used to
gather there nightly have passed over the
river, joining that great majority to which
we are all fastening.
Forty years Of a Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
has given old District No. 2 a long rest
and scrapings of fiddle, shufling of slip
pered feet, running gear Of weak brains,
have long since passed into history. In
stead, we hear a steam whistle, buzzing of
saws, neighing of horses, shouts OF drivers
and the woodlands axe.
OF course this new industry will be of
short duration and in a few years the
plant removed, but it is a change and not
4 bad one. Another sleep will grow a
second crop for future generations.
How much better to get the good Of a
luxury while life lasts We know Of many
farms where owners for a life time have
been so careful of timber that they used
dead limbs and decayed logs for tirewood,
rather than cut a sound tree. Now strange
hands skin the land OF all that is valuable,
with no thought of the preserver.