Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-02-04
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the garden spot of the world. Now I
don't know what Mr.. Corbaley regards
as the essentials necessary to factory
growth, but I do know what the
necessary essentials to the growth
and success of any undertaking of any
magnitude are. The first thing to be
considered is the wherewith to finance
the undertaking, the next thing IN
order is the facilities for cheap trans
portation. Next comes the propelling
power and the next is good common
sense.
New England had them all, and the
magnitude and success of her under
takings go to prove it.
The three states that Mr.. Corbaley
!, speaks of had three other New Eng
land states to back them>up and feed
her operators. Every one of them had
her waterways and her seaports; all
but one on the seaboard, and that one
with her three harbors on Lake Cham
plain. the cheapest transportation in
the world.
To give you one little example. Mr..
Corbaley: last spring in April and May
1 was buying potatoes in your state of
Washington for 80 cents a hundred
pounds delivered at our camp, and the
last of May and June our people could
get all they wanted by drawing them
out of the way. At the same time
{ Maine was shipping her potatoes to
Texas at remunerative prices. Cipher
! that out, Mr.. Corbaley, and see where
= you are AT. 1t makes all the differ
ence in the world whether you are at
the head of navigation or 1900 miles
4 inland. Now just word about power,
Y Mr.. Corbaley.-Maine has seven i'm
:. portant rivers, beside many lesser
? ones, which with their tributaries are
S said to furnish more than three fourths
. of her power used. The Penobscot
:. takes her course 800 miles within the
!. borders of her state, and is navigable
J. 55 miles inland. and the Kennebec two
n hundred miles, navigable so miles
S from her mouth. nearly all these rivers
s have their rise at high elevations and
h with their tributaries are estimated to
d make available power for manufacture
to the amount of $3.50, 200 horsepower,
and while her soil along the coast is
= light sand land, it is by no means
entirely unproductive, while on the
most of her river bottoms and their
tributaries and in her numerous ravines
among her hills and mountains, it is
rich and fertile, as also is much of her
s hill country. Her exports at one port
alone were 100000 in 1900 Her
water and transportation facilities are
said to be unrivalled in the world.
y New Hampshire has her four i'm
them, which is said to be more extern
sively used for power than any other
river in the world. 1t traverses the
whole southern part of the state down
= through the middle and through Massa-
chusetts and the Connecticut with it's
eleven tributaries running the whole
length of the state, afford unlimited
y water power, and the soil along the
"a river bottoms and their tributaries is
~ unexcelled in the world.
| Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
L Connecticut have fourteen important
rivers that with their numerous tribu.
w tarles intersect practically their whole
y surface, affording facilities for more
) power than can be used, notwithstand
ing Mr.. Corbaley's insinuation that il
is chiefly sold for domestic purposes
. What is sold has about as much effec1
d on its power as he would have in try
ing to dip out the Atlantic ocean with
pint cup.
!, The bureau of agriculture says O.
IN Massachusetts that too much praise
k cannot be said of the sturdy farmers
whose energy and intelligence have
10 high state of productiveness It ais
says of Rhode Island that corn. oat
'Q and hay are staples and that marke
gardening is profitable and largel,
engaged in, and of Connecticut tina
hay and beet crops are large and he
dairy products are enormous and iustl
famous.
And of Vermont it says that she
pre-eminently an agricultural state an
ISL adds that the percentage of improve
ce land was recently larger than an,
otb toto ,,,+ III
,st In one week last fall 35 carloads O.
~ cattle were shipped from one railroa
u station in Vermont and right now sh
ne is shipping cattle by the carload int
e; the middle west
ad L drove whole week last fall with
man that knew the country and tn
people to buy one carload of cattle i
the state of Washington, and W
Vt. bought all that we could find at an
price in reason. Now there are NOR
than 5000 square miles of territory i
Washington than in all New England
and very nearly eleven inhabitants i
of the census of 1900 and while many Q
-, New England's best sons migrated t
or the middle west and some to the ia
am west, but many others there were
mt that saw their opportunity at thei
ba own door, and they saw, too. the mai
essentials right at hand to warrar
their ventures, the cheapest transpo1
VT. tation in the world, for their import
and their exports. their market, Ne,
York and Boston. right at hane
Power without stint enough and t
,od spare, they had the sound commo
mt sense, and that is how came thos
NV New England factories, from sma
on beginnings by these same New Ems
put land sons, and the results have bee
els greater than their widest dreams
Now Mr.. Corbaley says. ''travelin
over New England. he saw much G
T. the country and came to understand. >
etc., etc. The land with it's man
VT. trees and its rolling hills is pretty t
look at hl1f If ic IL,