The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-08-13
A Pointer For Vermont.

celebrated with a successful gathering
at Hampton beach, where a grea
crowd ofpeople listened to addresse,
upon topics vital 10 their interests.
Among others who took part in the
exercises was ex-Gov. Nahum j. Bach
elder, now secretary of the state board
OF agriculture, and master of the ma
tional grange. His theme was New
Hampshire and the Summer Industry
a subject in which he is perfectly al
home and competent to speak with au.
thority. What he said concerning the
summer boarding and summer home
business in that state should be read
and pondered deeply by every citizen
of Vermont. New Hampshire has moth
ing better to offer than the Green
Mountain state, so far as natural seen
cry, sparkling water and invigorating
atmosphere is concerned, and, as he
well says, these are as legitimate cash
assets in the inventory of the state as
are fertile soil and mineral deposit in
the inventory Of other states, all of
which need attention before finding a
market
IL is because these resources of the
Granite state have received attention,
and have been pushed persistently for
years that New Hampshire leads in this
matter, and Vermont is still yawning
and dreaming over the problem of pub
LEFTY, while the great tide of summer
travel sweeps on to the better adyertis-
ed but not more attractive scenes in
b sister states. Such language as
the following ought TO have stimu-
lating effect upon our lethergy if any
thing can and arouse local and state
organizations 10 take active measures
to reproduce these conditions here.
Secretary Bachelor says:-
Already more than fifty million dol
lars have been invested in the state,
nearly all of which came from outside
the state, in summer homes and sum
mer hotels. Ten million dollars are
annually left here by summer tourists,
every town in the state. When
we appreciate the fact that towns can
be named where the valuatibn has
doubled in 10 years by reason of the
business, one town having
within its borders 10 summer homes
costing one hundred thousand dollars |
each; that instances can be named
where the purchase Of n small farm has |
been followed by the expenditure of a
hundred thousand dollars in improve
ing IL; that building sites of one acre
each upon hilltops have been sold for
more than one hundred acres of some
farm would bring for any other pur-
pose; that thousand elegant boats
now traverse the water OF a single lake
dependent upon the surrounding land
or supplies, where few years ago
here were only a score. and that there
ire about three thousand summer ho-
els and boarding houses that for three
months IN the year become the distri-
,uting center for millions Of dollars
brought into the state, we get faint
iea Of the financial benefit TO the state
rom this great business.
The three thousand summer hotels
nd boarding houses and the five thou
and summer homes open eight thou
and markets in the state for The pro-
nets Of the farms for two or three
lonths IN the year at better prices than
ne Boston market. The demand is !
OF confined 10 field and garden crops,
at includes other things for which
God money is spent. For instance. a :
tile girl received $500 in single sen
IN from the guests at hotels for sweet !,
eas that she grew in her mothers gar !,
IN, and little boy received 800 in a
ngle season for fir balsam gathered in 7
i fathers forest. These are instances =
AT could be- duplicated IN many direc. |,
pss. 4 Rutland Herald. !,
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