The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-12-27
;,o.o On The Maine Coast.
Notes OF a Trip to Searsport and
sVp' stockton Springs.
RESCUE Isle Star-Herald.

.,tfrr all be secondary ldCUoI
OTTO .tsytty Of Stockton Springs as a
- oo.nt 4 greater volume and
fP D. r nroportlon of the manufac-
i5' .+inrts of Northern Maine will
Fl. seek, an outlet by way of
IAN will find a way to mar
..a shape of farm products.
wa. Great possibilities in the way
" mural increase, but the ad-
fum ms source will be of
lnt later development than
.+Ia forest in its various manu-
.r a- Industries.
marry Inducements to further
.r.., Of railroad expansion in
I.- must be furnished by OPP
..t-, TO build up new manufac-
- .uts on big scale or more
',.... transport the products of
INFANTS, and the further spread
ifalng industry will merely
ms expansion, as it makes
..- for profitable clearing and
..5. new tracts of land, now too
b.. ...a the railroad to be inviting
cement The farm rather than
to be sure, always the sub
.-.. The desirable and the final and
rg outcome of the process of
arBt Cleared and settled
filed with prosperous
-l The ideal acquisition, and
result of real value, but no
.0. "a. or will invest millions in
tensions into the wilderness,
.r.rt wholly for traffic on the
i.t-s Of opening up a new coun-
Inrally. A manufacturing
ne built in a year as con-
.- ..N are in our county, that
... ps furnish the railroad a
..u f. relght a day. while sever
..- ms of wilderness soil might
..r II years reaching an equal
... iNm products under the slow
l process of agricultural de-
So, indirectly, Stockton
.. N be the up-builder of our
losperity, because, without
.. outlet, further railroad ex-
..Ud be impossible on the
A., on which it could be put
practical business PROPOSE
....Wg to capital.
move of the seaport ter
ade lumber manufacturing
u Maine had reached its
... this outlet there is pos
.NDdusiOn without limit, and
increased railroad mileage
-a With it, will go increased
Uou to farming communi-
Ippred for want of rail IA
.. opportunities for prohtably
uto large tracts of fertile
... wilderness state.
t- r.e.esS, down at Stockton
Agoostook potato is in very
-eweuce. A more impressive
....l 10 a great industry could
found than is afforded in the
. 5otato storehouse of Carter,
. This great structure, 675
and l25 feet wide, capable of
.Ol 10000 bushels of potatoes,
Al lie labor of unloading from
ys uIo the bins, and from the
... vessels at the wharves done by
rnsry operated by electric power,
III. far cry from the little pioneer
c factory built in Pressure Isle
wears ago, but the immense
t. mise ON the Stockton pier is the
1.a- If the little factory. If the
e $ correctly informed, what is
SD the Bridge st. starch factory,
. Isle. was the industrial exper-
a l-lrly two generations ago out
The vast potato raising indus
.uostook has grown. Possibly
-,ly might have found its way
.ulgt The movement started by
oters of this starch factory
comment among whom, we
VAS the late DR.. George II.
-.a But just as probable the pc
ess of Aroostook. soil for
4act Of usbandry might not
... IIseoyered, and the agricul-
..- sounty might have develop
... a-Uvr, and almost surely on
5itable lines.
HIH must be admitted to have
-f W.ryels of prosperity for our
.. .nty. Railroads, thriving
school systems, twenty
'l ar farms, and all the
-. -Iings we have, all boil down
.,o and if this unpretentious
mould 60 on a protracted
urle of growing so prolifically
t.c soil down might very pro-
.- tue fabric of our prosperity
.use If cards. Happily, there
~ 10 ground for apprehen-
Twenty-Five years the staying
'" ui he Aroostook potato, its
s.. 100 the way of abundant yield,
"Iassing quality have been so
HlU, demonstrated that it has not
Aitr' the obscure county it was
is't 70 INTO wealth and prosperity,
as gwen it a reputation for this
speciality all over the country.
fts .6ng time before the Aroos-
+ potato product was called for
-i@sp tAan in the form Of starch.
Vas 'i,st discovered that the Aroos-
mtato excelled all others to be
-4 n point of flavor, and the first
iemand for the tubers grown
'ts for table use. Gradually, a
'l--aae demand grew up in this
BOOM and then the further discov-
fa- made by potato growers of the
loire AID Southern States, that it
.Httble to use Northern grown
hat of all such seed that pro
Aroostook gave the best re-
|4 Of these facts has grown
0. potato raising and shipping
.lN INF Aroostook, and these undo
.ia-s- that this great Northern
"as a peculiar adaptability of
"W3te which enables it to raise
49, Arger quantity and of finer
i.au tan be raised elsewhere i'll
Except, perhaps, in two To-
T Nci of limited area, Long
y and Greedy county, Col
likely to make this farming
"uT county a permanent III
asset. Based on the great sue
WI 'ls speciality, real estate values
l,au until they have reached the
4 the most favored agricultural