Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-03
ADVERTISE MAINE PROPERLY.
| Industrial Advantages should be
More Widely Published.
[rrom ,he Maehia. union.l

From the Machias Union.
The railroads OF Maine are sending out.
as usual this spring illustrated booklets
devoted to, relating and picturing the
beauty of our lakes and woods and cali
ing the attention OF the world to our un-
rivailed facilities for fishing and hunting,
and on looking them over the thought oc-
Cured that, while this sort of thing was
right from the railroad standpoint, per-
baps advertising Maine in that line had
been overdone, when the real good OF
state is taken into consideration.
summer travel is to be desired, and our
fish and game as well as our sea-
shore, our unrivalled scenery and our
splendid summer climate are great busi-
ness assets as well as sources OF innnite
delight and pleasure, but summer travei
alone and visiting fisherman, hunters ana
pleasure tourists never made state. II Is
possible to so emphasize those features OF
Maine life as to overshadow other things
of even more Importance, and create
abroad false impression OF the resources
of our State which might deter men from
investing the capital here which is needed
to develop them.
Our exhibits at the sportsmen's show at
Boston are always good and extremely in
teresting. Unfortunately that is about
the only public exhibition in which Maine
takes prominent part. We did attempt
representation at st. Louis, but through a
strange faulty. our State building there
was log cabin.
What sort OF an impression must the
outside world get of Maine' Certainly, so
long as the other side of life here is rarely,
if ever, brought to the notice Of the people,
it is but natural that the people OF our sis
ter states should believe that we live in
log huts, subsist chiefly upon trout and
bear meat, use wolf robes for blankets and
mocasins and snow shoes for foot gear.
Taking also into consideration that q
whole lot OF semi-literary idiots have
pictured Maine people in poems, stories
and novels as uncouth, uneducated, uncul-
tured and speaking dialect such as has
not been heard on earth since the Tower
| OF Babal, it must follow that q false inn
preston of our State and our people has
1
gone abroad.
Maine Is great STATE oniy smaH
portion OF II Is settled, ana none OF tnst
thickiy. Ii lsa state OF spienold resources.
| Our great coast line with It's spienoio mar
bors, our water power, our wealth OF
timber, our granite ana slate quarries, our
shore fisheries, our fertile river valleys
| when utilized and developed, should make
Maine leading state IN manufacturing,
in commerce and in every form OF agri-
| culture.
This State should support population
| OF millions instead OF q few hundred
| thousands. Many causes have tended to
| retard the growth which must come to US
sooner or later. In the meantime, II the
capital necessary to build up the state is
to be brought in here, II the enferprising
Maine business men who are working to
interest their Boston, New York and
Philadelphia friends to assist them in
! financing enterprises are to succeed, some
features Of our industrial life and our
! natural resources should be made known
| to the outside world.
few more pulp mills started, few
more quarries opened, few more cotton
and WOODEN mills and shoe factories, few