The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-04-13
NAMES RESOURCES UNLIMITED AND
SUMMER RESORTS UNEXCELLED
Yearly Income From Tourists Amounts to SIS
100000 Hunting Grounds Best in World .
Continued from Last Week.

No other place in the world offers
such splendid opportunities for the
man without a trade, or the man who
has learned a trade in which the
wages are low and employment un-
certain. He can get a home and in
dependence more quickly on Maine
farm than anywhere else in the world
Beef poultry, eggs and cream can
be sold at the door of his home for
good prices and for cash. In many
cases money will be advanced to him
by potato and corn buyers and in all
cases his chance for achieving home
and competence is immeasurably
greater than in any city.
A professor in the agricultural
school connected with the Nebraska
University recently said: Go East
young mani" thus reversing the ad-
vice of Horace Greeley. He hardly
realized the value of the advice he
was giving. Maine today Is the peer
of any agricultural ST te and is ad-
yancing all the time. Agricultural
education is finding its way into the
High schools and academies as we'll
as holding a distinct place in the cur
! riculum of the University of Maine
Farmers Institutes, oranges, pomo-
logical cattle, poultry and other SO
cieties as well as a thoroughly wide
awake and up-todate State Agri
cultural Department are spreading
the doctrine which contains the sal
walton of the farming industry.
Names waterpowers are capable
of developing energy equal to that OF
! 34.0o0, 600 men. While only a small
portion of this great natural gift is
now in use, yet Maine stands third
among the states of this country in
developed water power, with 100000
/ horsepower and $500 wheels Every
brook, every river, even the tides of
the sea are capable of developing
! power which can be easily and eco
nomically used for manufacturing
purposes. The state is a land of
promise for the user of small power
units, for, if he does not find his raw
material, help and power together, he
can always purchase power from
some large development where ma
terial and help are abundant.
There is savings institution for
every $500 people and in these inst-
tutions there is $176.S0 for every man.
woman and child in the State There
is church steeple for every 400
souls and 30 denominations from
which to choose form of worship
In addition there are hundreds Of
church societies not yet strong enough
TO maintain edifces, though they are
fiourishing and will soon own church
homes.
The vast wilderness of Maine are in
themselves a vast source of wealth.
for from them generation after gen.
GRAFTON has taken millions of feet of
/ lumber and bark 1t is estimated
that the lumberman and paper maker
take $40,000,000 from this great natur-
al storenouse annually and yet do not
endanger the supply If future gen
! erations.
Maine the playground of the ma
ton, entertains more summer gisit-
ors than any other territory, of e,luai
area, in the country, and is embrace
ing every legitimate facility for in
creasing her prestige as a recreation
ground. Already the railroad. auto
mobile, motor boat steamer and sail
| boat have been enlisted to combine
pleasure with transportation to Maine.
improved service at hotels, both year
round and summer. is constantly at
tracing better class of guests. Tel
ephone, telegraph and rural delivery
render communication with the out
side world convenient and continu-
GUS Bath rooms, hot and cold wa
ter, and other luxurious appoint-
ments of the hotels and cottages en-
able visitors to be as comfortable and
contented as in their winter establish
ments Good roads are a standing
invitation to the motorist and horse
lover to journey among our beauti
ful villages and farms for pleasure.
Yachting meetings, baseball. golf,
bowling and other sports of the
summer season furnish entertainment
among the colonies where the cottag-
ers come early in the spring and STAY
until late in the fall.
Maine IS plentifully supplied with
bathing beaches, ranging from the
magnificent stretch OF sand as hard
as asphalt at Old Orchard to the
small resorts like Crescent Beach in
Knox county and Bowery Beach on
Cape Elizabeth. Old Orchard has
been big resort for lovers of surf
bathing and cool ocean breeZes for
many years and has lost none of its
charm since swept by fire. In fact
the new Old Orchard is much more
attractive in many respects than was
the old
AT the mouth of the Kennebec is
Popham Beach, one of the best on the
coast It's development has not been
as extensive as that of Old Orchard,
hut doubtless in the near future its
beauties will be better appreciated.
All along the coast there are smaller
beaches which offer as fine, though
more limited, bathing facilities as do
Old Orchard and Popham while near
ly every mile of coast line contains
sandy cove or little beach among the
rocks.
Maine property used wholly for re-
creation, that is, summer cottages, ho-
tells, club houses and camps, with
their contents, have cash value of
approximately s50,000,0O0 This great
investment, which demands little in
the way of municipal Improvement,
pays taxes on a valuation of about
$16000,000. Compensation for this
low valuation lies in the fact that
whatever taxes are paid, are very
largely net profit to the townspeo-
pie. Anyone familiar with the vast
extent of this industry and it's rand