Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-09-04
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Newport's Hotel Project.

Inc montreal OH CT Oh DlOUs UOU 10"
ward $3.50, 900 hotel in Newport is
the kind Of reciprocity" which Yer
mOnters will not shake stick at or
build wall against. Moreover, this
evidence of faith in Vermont's posi-
bilities as a hotel state ought to
bolster up any waning courage in the
breasts of Vermont people. If Can.
adian money is ready to invest in
Vermont hotels. surely Vermont
money should be equally willing
Barre Times.
The new hotel project at Newport
seems to be getting onto a business
basis. Mr.. Mckay, of Montreal, has
agreed to underwrite 500, 900 of the
capital if Newport will raise $50,
and build the hotel on Fender Point.
The committee are now canvassing
the community for this amount and
the matter is in the hands that will
that Mayor H. B. Stewart of Beebe
has offered to sell the Newport House
at reasonable price. 1t is quite
evident that Orleans county seat is to
have very much better hotel accom-
modatiops. Stanstead Journal.
Mr.. Wright Of Coventry.
The little town of Coventry has a
loyal son in the person of Captain
Riley E. Wright, who has presented
the town q handsome soldiers me
mortal. His expression Of that loyalty
in a speech delivered on the occasion
of the memorials dedication is a
touching tribute. few sentences of
which are here reprinted: Its
people seem and are, and always will
be to me as my people. My dearest
recollections cluster around this spot.
Humble it may be. but to me it is the
dearest spot or earth. Here | grew
from prattlng childhood to the toll
and strength of manhood. In the not
far distant old Center churchyard lie
buried many Of the nearest and dear
est of my kin. 1t is hallowe d
ground, and absence from the old
home during these long years has
served to endear it to me. No other
town, no other state is quite so at
tractive." It is a sentiment worthy
of the best of Vermonters, and as
such it deserves more than passing
notice. 1t may tend to Undue present
residents Of the state with a greater
generation for the old commonwealth
and lead them to still greater loyalty
to the interests of the te.-Barre
Times.
New England Does Lead in Agriculture
With characteristic loyalty to Ne1
England, the New England Home
stead publishes in its current issue al
article on New England Leads Their
All" and includes with it certai
charts which go to prove the declare
ton contained in the title The cor
temporary takes different product
for the different states of the gee
graphical division and compares thel
West or middle West. Maine
potato crop, it is found, yields 2t
bushels per acre, against 120 bushe
in Minnesota; yet the land value
Maine is only S24 per acre, again
S37 in Minnesota. Taking hay
New Hampshire's product, the col
temporary points out that Ne
Hampshire produces more to the &C
than Iowa. but the land value in IoV
is nearly six times as great as
New Hampshire. Coming next
Vermont, a comparison in wheat
made with Illinois; and it is four
that Vermont raises p bushels p
acre against Illinois II bushe
Still, land value in Vermont is )
per acre and in Illinois it is $95 p
acre. Likewise, other New Engla
states show far greater producivi
per acre than western states and Wi
far less cost for the land.
The lesson which the contempora
intends to convey no doubt is that
will pay people to come into NJ
England and raise crops, becau
they are able to secure the land
- far less money and at the same til
produce far more per acre than tn
would be able to produce on the sal
amount of land in the western secti
of the country. Of course, the We
ern states are producing far great
quantities in the aggregate becar
they have more land to be devoted
cultivation than New England boas