Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-30
CHAPTER XIV.
TRIMMING THE LIBERTREE AMI
GROWING TIMBER.

GhOWINJ llMbEh.
Autumnal tints of crimson, red
and yellow were beginning to ap.
pear upon the foliage of the maple
forests; nuts were bursting their
shells and dropping from the beech,
butternut and hickory by the hand
of the seasons frost; birds were mi.
grating to the southland, harvest
time was in the full, pound sweets
and winter gratis were being gath
cred by the gleeful harvesters, when
our summer visitors, Mr.. and Mrs.
hardwood and Daniel Marktree,
with their school wards, Belle and
Robert Lovejoy and the scions of
the Libertree, Daisy and the twins,
Twig and Sprig, so nicknamed, but
whose honest names were Roger
and Franklin, took their departure
for Albany. And as they drove
away in the four-seated carryaIl for
Belamaqueen Bay to the nearest
boat landing, Uncle Ezra Hunter,
who was there with many others of
the mountain folks to see them off,
remarked, as the driver snapped his
whip and the departing guests and
children waved their handkerchiefs
in fond adieus to the parents and
friends: There goes buiIdin' ma
terial to Albany that'll mount to
suth'in n some day be in big de-
mand, mark my word fort. Dan,
lei Marktree went up on, Stark Hill
and marked that tree; he saw the
worth ont, now he's taken some Of
the scions to Albany to put in the
nus'ry o edication to improve stock
O. human timber. A mighty big
enterprise. He's maxim an invest
ment that's no countin' the wutt
on GROWN mountain timber fol-
the snip O. state, p'raps."
The Young mountaineers were
very happy on their journey in an
ticipation of the advantages they
were going to have of acquiring al
education, and as new scenes of pic
turesqueness and grandeur appeared
to sight, on their romantic excursion
up the lake. and through the canal
and down the Hudson, frequent ex
carnations of admiration were ex
pressed from their joyful lips, not
withstanding the tinge of sadness il
their hearts, as the peaks of tn
Green Mountains faded from view
The following Monday finds Their
in the halls of learning appropriat
ing to their active minds the ele
ments of growth and strength
Weeks and months pass, and tn
fine grain of the timber of thei
minds came out more and NOR
beautiful under the planning, polish
ing and fashioning Of the arts Q
education. 1t was all there in tn
first place." as Uncle Ezra sale
but it only needed better chance
grow n cultivation to bring it out.
The lumber mill established
; the partners, hardwood and Mari
tree, proved a great success.
furnished employment with GOO
; wages to a large number of the Sc
tiers, and many of them exercise
2 skill and tact in their department
t of work; as is often the case, mar
of these backwoodsmen- are natur
carpenters and machinists. Trees
n the finest grains brown ash, bircI
? birdseye maple, black cherry, ar
e others, were chopped down in Il
primeval wood, hauled to the m
= and sawed in proper dimensions al
q planed into choice furniture and fl
Y ishing lumber and freighted on Il
e lumber boat to Albany and stored
y in the lumber yards of Bardwo,
y and Marktree. Great care was TAX
&c in the selection of the trees, as Il
o mill was put up solely for the pu
n pose of turning out the finest wooC
10 Ebenezer Libertree and Uncle Ez
70 Hunter superintended the petti,