The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-09
A GREAT BENEFIT TO VERMONT.
Lands Of Colonel Joseph Battell Are Very
Valuable.

i II is seldom that the will OF a Vermont
man has had as far reaching an influence
as that of the late Colonel Joseph Battel
Of Middlebury For many years he hat
been collecting wild lands, much as .
school boy collects postage stamps, AND
like some stamps collected only iron
sentiment. many of these tracts have
become very valuable owing 10 the grow
| ing scarcity OF timber These large hold
ings have now been divided through gilt
and Request among Middlebnry college
the state of Vermont and the United
States government.
Some three or four years ago Colonel
Rattell gave 10 the state tract compris'
/ ing about POO acres on Cancels Hump
4 including the summit, which has an Gle
walton OF over 1000 feet, The western
slope Of this mountain. contained in the
gift. is covered with splendid spruce tim
4 Der. and its preservation by the state
will assure the continuance of the noun
tain as a point Of interest Even now
the camp kept At the top by the Camels
, Hump club Of Waterbury, is annually
visited BY fully I 100 people. The east
ern slope Of the mountain, situated most
IN in the town of DFxbury. wac badly
burned over in 1908 shortly after lumber
ing. There Is here one Of the largest
tracts Of waste land IN the state.
Two years ago the state forestry de-
partment planted a few acres Of this
brush land with spruce and pine. The
success 81 the experiment has been -
encouraging that the work has been con
tinued this wear and 10000 Norwss
spruces have been planted on this area
during the past few weeks. crew
Is men were camped about half way up
the mountain in tents furnished by the
state militia. These together with the
trees had 90 be taken up By "a teams,
a. the roads are too rough for hor-e-.
During the summer a man viii he kept
on tie mountain hooking out for free.
improving the trail etc.
That the lands leit 20 Middlehurv
college arc also n h. conserved is well
shown hy the beginnings ALREADY mad
bv the executors 81 the estate President
Hnhn ". THONGS snd Mr.. Royce ~ a
large holding ~ 20G00 sores there arc
natural, many Small openings UNFIT for
agriculture. With ti,e sdsice Of the state
forestry department. tho eNefutors have
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