{"1": {"fulltext": "jVVV^", "height": "3476", "width": "2275", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3477", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "S 451\\n.N54 W2\\nCopy 1\\nTHE\\nNatural Resources of New Hampshire.\\nAN ADDRESS\\nDELIVBJtHD AT THK\\nAnnual Field Meeting\\nNew Hampshire Board of Agriculture\\nBoar s Head, Hampton, August 27. 1891\\nJOSEPH B. WALKER.\\nCONCORD. N. II.\\nIra C. Evans, Printer. 13 and 15 Capitol Street.\\n189:.", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3477", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "T II E\\nNatural Resources of New Hampshire.\\nAN ADDRESS\\nI I I l ERKD AT TIIK\\nAnnual Field Meeting\\nNew Hampshire Board of Agriculture\\n11KI.K AT\\nBoar s Head, Hampton, August 27. [891.\\nJ )SE PH 1 I. WALKER.\\nCONCORD, II.\\nIk a C. Evans, Printer, [3 and 15 Capitoi Street.\\n1892.", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3477", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The Natural Resources of New Hampshire,\\nBY HON. B. WALKER\\nSome years ago, in the days of our genial Adams, this\\nBoard s first secretary, I was engaged by him to deliver at\\none of its institutes an address upon the subject of Forestry.\\nWhen he reported this tact to his chief, the present chair-\\nman, the latter remarked with some surprise, v Forestry, for-\\nestry, nobody cares anything about forestry. To say that\\nthis remark put my sweet temper into a state of violent ebulli-\\ntion, is to state the fact in the mildest possible terms. At\\nlength, however, when the harmless boiling had subsided, I\\nbecame convinced that Uncle Moses was righl that, for once\\nin my entire life, I had got ahead of my time, and that while\\nI was in one respect like John the Baptist, a voice crying in\\nthe wilderness, I was in another, entirely unlike the great\\nforerunner, for he had followers and I hadn t.\\nBut while Mr. Humphrey s remark was true twenty years\\nago, it is not so to-da\\\\ a fact which affords gratifying and\\nimportant evidence of the growth of our agricultural intelli-\\ngence.\\nIt New Hampshire were to-day, for the first time, put into\\nour possession, as was Eden into the control of Adam, to\\ndress and keep it, our first inquiry, doubtless, would he,\\nwhat shall we do with it To answer as best 1 may this\\ngreat fundamental question, so important to all our interest-,\\n1 am in your presence to-day.\\nA survev of our State -hows that we have a territory\\nncarh two hundred miles long, with a greatest breadth of", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "about one hundred embracing an area of about six million\\n(6,010,880) acres of diversified surface, lying at elevations\\nwhich vary all the way from the sea level to an altitude of\\nnearly a mile and a quarter above it, consisting of multitudi-\\nnous water areas, amounting, according to one official author-\\nitv, to a million acres, but which I venture to place at one\\nhalf that number; of much good arable land, and of far more\\nof a rougher kind, which has never yet tolerated culture, and\\nnever will.\\nThis is our inheritance, not a great, but a very respectable\\none. Are we equal to its full development? What shall we do\\nwith it? Yes, what shall we do with it? This question is not a\\nnew one, first asked in our day. It was propounded by John\\nMason, the first proprietor of New Hampshire, more than\\ntwo hundred and fifty years ago. It has been asked over and\\nover again, by the nine or ten succeeding generations which\\nhave occupied it, and been variously answered by each in its\\ntime. It has come down to us and we cannot evade it. To\\nwhat uses can we most profitably apply these six millions of\\nacres of which we are now the guardians. This is the great\\nquestion of to-day.\\nSome of the earliest settlers of the State said, establish\\nhere the fur trade, and it was done; but the catching of\\nbeavers, and muskrats, and skunks, and woodchucks, proved\\na meagre business and was discontinued, for the want, possi-\\nbly, of a Legislature to attract by suitable bounties game from\\noutside our lines.\\nOthers of the earliest inhabitants, of ardent thirst, perhaps,\\nsuggested the making of vineyards, and vines were planted\\non the sunny banks of the Newitchewannock. But this busi-\\nness proved unprofitable. Modern experience indicates that\\nhad they established breweries instead, their ventures might\\nhave proved more remunerative. But they probably would\\nhave been premature, for there were not then in all New Eng-\\nland parched throats enough to swallow a thousand barrels a\\nday.\\nMining was proposed, and search was made for precious", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "and useful ores; but in vain. These have never yet been\\nfound in plentifulness sufficient to return a new dollar for an\\nold one. The history of mining in this State from i m, to\\nthis year of our Lord, 1891, has been one of uniform failure,\\nand at times of sad personal disaster to those who have pur-\\nsued it.\\nOthers said, look at these broad forests which everywhere\\ncover the ground and saw mills were erected upon the Pis-\\nqua and its tributaries. The manufacture of building\\ntimber and plank, pipe Staves and masts, was commenced and\\nprosecuted with vigor. Ships also were built and in time the\\nlumber interest became the leading business in many localities.\\nResulting from this came a considerable exporl trade of for-\\nes! products to West Indies, Southern Europe, and to our\\nmother country.\\nBut when in time, the importation oi foreign corn tor the\\nsupport of the people proved too costly, and its transportation\\nfor grinding, to and from the wind-mill at Boston, too oner-\\nous, local agriculture was suggested. From that day, down\\nalmost to the present, New Hampshire lias been regarded as\\nan agricultural State.\\nSuch were tin- leading answers given by our progenitors\\nto this important question. What shall we do with our\\ndomain? again put it to you to-day. Let us summon into\\nactivity our broadest wisdom and answer it as best we can.\\nIt our friend, Colonel Wean-, is present to-day, as he\\nusually is at these gatherings in his neighborhood, he will he\\nlikely to say, agriculture has been our chief support for two\\ncenturies. Improve its methods, enlarge its operations and\\nlet it remain such. But nature has restricted our farming\\nto less than one half of our territory, we have never plowed\\nmore than one sixth of it. we have never pastured more than\\none quarter of it and we never can, to any profit. Our agri-\\ncultural operations cannot be much extended beyond their\\npresent limit of some two millions and a quarter of acres. To\\nattempt it would be to contend with nature, in an effort sine- to\\nprove as vain as it would be foolish. What, therefore, shall\\nwe do with our remaining three millions of acres?", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6\\nA partial answer to that question is sure to be, utilize our\\nubiquitous water power and establish manufacturing industries\\nin all sections of the State, from Indian Stream to the mouth\\nof the Piscataqua. And in this proposition there is truly\\nmuch wisdom. While our manufacturing interests are already\\nof great importance, we have but very partially utilized the\\nnatural powers offered by the streams to be found in every\\ntown in the State.\\nSome twenty years ago, following the example of her sister\\nState of Maine, New Hampshire made a slight effort to ascer-\\ntain the locations and amounts of her water powers. A com-\\nmission was appointed by the governor and council, who made\\na cursory examination of the subject, and a preliminary report,\\nin 1S70, which embodied many important facts.\\nWe learn from this that nearly fifteen hundred streams of\\nvarying volumes have been laid down upon our state and\\ncounty maps, and that, in answer to a circular sent to the\\ntowns by the commissioners, asking for the number of water\\npowers in each, returns were received from ninety-one of the\\ntwo hundred and thirty-eight, or thereabout. These were as\\nfollows\\n21 towns in Rockingham county returned\\n48 powers.\\n30\\n36\\n20\\n94 kt\\n138\\ni59\\n36\\n132\\n58\\n91 751\\nThe officers of many of these towns accompanied their\\nreturns with the remark that they were imperfect, and that\\nthey had made but partial lists of the water powers in their\\n6\\n1 1\\nStrafford\\nc\\n5\\n1 t\\nBelknap\\nk 1\\n4\\n1 1\\nCarroll\\nu\\n9\\nt\\nMerrimack\\n1 1\\n1 2\\ni i\\nHillsborough\\nU\\n1 2\\n1\\nGrafton\\n4\\ni i\\nSullivan\\n1 1\\n12\\n1 1\\nCheshire\\n1. i\\n6\\nt.\\nCoos\\ni i", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "several towns. Yet, these averaged eight and a quarter\\npowers to a town. Upon this basis, New Hampshire has\\nnearly two thousand waterpowers (1,963), a number doubt-\\nless much below the actual one.\\nThose on many of our streams have ne\\\\ er been utilized at all.\\nIndeed, thus far, New Hampshire has availed herself in but\\na small degree of this vast natural force which has been so\\ngenerousl) placed at her disposal. The full utilization of it\\nwould treble our population, more than treble our wealth, and\\nincrease proportionately our industrial and political impor-\\ntance. And yet, we had invested in manufactories in 1880,\\nover fifty millions of dollars ($51,112,263) which yielded an\\nannual product of nearl) seventy-five millions ($73,978,028)\\nfour or five times that of our farming. Manifestly, we arc-\\ndestined hereafter to become more of a manufacturing than of\\nan agricultural people, if, indeed, we are not already such.\\nBut when we shall have utilized all the water power in the\\nState, and surrounded their sides with prosperous villages,\\nthere will still remain some three millions of acres a strong\\nhalf of our area waiting to In- impro\\\\ ed. What shall w e do\\nwith these, or rather what can he done with them to render\\nthem the most productive: The Almighty has made them for\\nsomething, hut lor what: This is o^e half of the whole greal\\nquestion which asks an answer just here and now, with the\\ndeep resounding sea on one side of us, the plains and mount-\\nains ..n the other, and the blue vault of heaven bending over us.\\n[n my own humble opinion there is hut one sensible answer to\\nthis inquiry. The rugged sides of many of our mountain-- ami\\nhills, scattered everywhere over the State, spurn the plough\\nand will yield neither grass, roots, nor grain. Lett to themselves\\nhowever, they will grow wood and timber perpetually,\\nthe crop which nature assigned to them when the State\\nemerged from the universal flood which had covered it lor a\\nperiod of whose duration we have no knowledge. Thai is tin-\\ncrop and the only one which they have borne since man has\\nknown them. It is the only one which they are willing to bear.\\nIs it net as well t allow them to do a- they will and govern\\nthem in the line of their aptitudes:", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Early one morning, some years ago, as the late Mr. Thomas\\nB. Leighton sat upon the piazza of his Appledore House, just\\nacross this bay at the Shoals, and had taken from his mouth\\nthe long horn, with which by gentle tootings, oft repeated, he\\nwas wont to arouse his guests, your speaker said to him,\\nwhat do you do when they won t wake up? I accept the\\ninevitable and let them do as they will. We may wisely, I\\nthink, adopt this policy in our treatment of this large half of\\nour domain. For we cannot raise grapes on thorn trees, or\\nfigs on thistles, or maize on the shaggy sides of Mount\\nWashington, which will produce trees in abundance and for-\\never.\\nNow, in case we shall follow the leadings of nature, what\\nmay we reasonably expect as the annual return of these rough\\nacres? Each of these three millions ought to produce five\\nthousand feet of timber every forty-five years, amounting to\\nfifteen thousand millions of square feet, worth in the woods,\\nat five dollars per thousand, seventy-five millions of dollars, or\\none and two thirds millions ($1,666,666) per year, aside from\\nthe wood of which no mention has been made. We regard this\\nestimate a reasonable one, and its realization easily possible.\\nBut look a little farther. When this lumber has reached\\nits ultimate condition by manufacture, its value will have been\\nincreased all the way from two or three to a dozen times its\\noriginal amount, from four or five to ten or fifteen millions of\\ndollars, according to the uses to which it may have been put.\\nThis increase we are now giving very largely to manufact-\\nurers outside our lines, by exporting most of our lumber in the\\nlog or in partially manufactured forms, and thereby reserving\\nto ourselves but a small fraction of its final value. In\\nother words, we are selling raw material, to which foreigners\\napply their labor and make fortunes, which we may and ought\\nto secure to ourselves. Communities grow rich but slowly, if\\nat all, by the exportation of their raw products. Our Southern\\nStates are learning this lesson very fast, and it will enure to our\\nprofit, if we also hasten to do likewise.\\nThus far, our woods have yielded us but a small portion of", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "the wealth which they would have done had their capacities\\nbeen developed as they might have been. Properly managed,\\nwhere the) are now affording occupation to do/ens of people\\nand supporting inconsiderable hamlets, they would give\\nemployment to hundreds, often to thousands, and convert\\nthese hamlets into populous villages and thriving towns.\\nNo -real interest in New Hampshire has been so recklessly\\nadministered as has that of very many of our forests. The\\nprivate interests of proprietors only, or rather what the\\\\\\ndeemed to be such, have been consulted. Formerly, and to\\nsome extent now, in the northern part of the State, no trees\\nbelow certain minimum sizes were or are cut. Under this\\nsystem, no immature timber is removed, the -round is shaded\\nand its moisture preserved. As a consequence, the young\\ngrowth is for the most part saved. Fires art- comparativel)\\nfew and their ravages not frequently extensive.\\nBut when, at dry seasons, tires have started upon lands\\nfrom which the entire growth has been removed, their attest\\nhas been well nigh impossible, and every thing upon them,\\nliving and dead, has been destroyed. In some cases, the soil\\nitself even has been consumed, and only one sad scene of\\nawful desolation has been left to tell the story of mismanage-\\nment and neglect.\\nLast season, the speaker followed up a valley of the bite\\nMountains, some seven or eight miles, which had been\\nthus made frightful. The fire-bleached ledges which Hanked\\nits entrance instantly suggested the horrible inscription which\\nDante, in his Inferno, has placed above the entrance arch\\nof hell,\\nAll hope abandon, ye who enter here.\\nIn this devoted valley, some five years ago, from crest line\\nto crest line of the mountain ranges which wall it in, raged\\nfor days devouring flames which consumed every living object\\nupon its surface, save here and there a few trees which tin-\\nwet -found protected, and the limpid stream which detied\\ntheir power. the whole scene there unfolded to view afford-", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\ning a marked example of the effects of drought, denudation,\\nand careless firing combined.\\nAs one wanders through that valley, gazing up and down\\nits desolated sides, and pauses here and there to look upon\\nthe pure waters of the stream which divides it, he may realize\\nas he has never done before, the sharp contrast of the black-\\nened horrors of the eternal pit with the river of water of\\nlife, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and\\nthe Lamb.\\nBut forest fires and denudation do not affect injuriously the\\nforest alone. Their disastrous effects are felt by all our other\\ngreat industrial interests as well, for these are all more or less\\ninter-dependent upon one another. This remark applies par-\\nticularly to the agricultural and manufacturing industries of\\nthe State. Whatever tends to diminish the water supply or\\nto render it variable and uncertain, is detrimental to these, to\\na marked degree.\\nIt is a mistake to regard the lakes and ponds of New Hamp-\\nshire as her great reservoirs. These are her forests. The\\nformer are simply catch-basins which hold the stores which\\nthe latter have received from the clouds and yield as wanted\\nunder the gentle but constant pressure of gravity. Fires con-\\nsume the covering of leaves and mosses which give them their\\nretaining power, and convert their surfaces to blank areas of\\nrock and sand, down which the rains flow as readily as\\nshowers down a roof.\\nDenudation causes them to freeze early in autumn. As a\\nconsequence, the entire precipitation of winter rests upon an\\nimpervious bed, exposed to evaporation and removal by sun\\nand wind, whereby much of it is lost. Whatever of it\\nremains until spring, melts before the frost leaves the ground,\\nand is converted into torrents which plow the plains with\\ndestructive violence, cover fertile fields with barren debris\\nand in headlong haste cause devastation wherever they go.\\nThere is another great interest, not yet mentioned and of a\\ncomparatively recent date, which is particularly sensitive to\\na maladministration of our forests. I refer to the summer", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "11\\nvisiting interest. This is omnipresent throughout the State.\\nWe all of us know more or less about it. but, in the absence\\nof exacl statistics, have a vague and inexact idea t its magni-\\ntude; yet, our personal observations are sufficienl to indicate\\nits greal importance and thai it future development bids fair\\nto materially increase the value of our real estate, to awaken\\nfrom their letharg) scores of our now too quiet villages, to\\nimprove our social condition, to render more attractive our\\nhomes, and afford us local markets where ultimate prices may\\nbe realized for the surplus products of our farms and gardens.\\nMr. ]olm Lindsey, of Lancaster, remarked some years ago\\nthat he remembered when the combined annual receipts of all\\nthe White Mountain houses were but twelve thousand dol-\\nlars 2,000).\\nMr. Edward Hungarford, in the present August number of\\nthe Century, tells us that the White Mountain hotels and\\nboarding-houses now have accommodations for eight thou-\\nsand persons, and that Bethlehem alone can take care of three\\nthousand. According to his estimate, no less than three hun-\\ndred and twenty thousand (320,040) persons visit this part of\\nthe State every year. But reduce his estimate one third, cut\\nthe number down to two hundred thousand .200,000), and\\nassign to each an expenditure of five dollars while there (and\\nwho can run the gauntlet between Boots and the hell boy\\non one side, and the gentlemanl} clerk and the invisible pro-\\nprietor on the other, tor a less sum:), and this number will\\nhe found to have left behind no less a sum than one million\\ndollars, besides the amounts paid to railroads and stages tor\\ntransportation.\\nTlie industrious secretan ot this Board of Agriculture tells\\nus that, in response to his circulars sent out in [889, to the\\nhotel and boarding-house keepers in New Hampshire, asking\\nthe several amounts ot their gross receipts tor that ear. he\\nreceived returns aggregating live millions of dollars, five times\\nas much as the value of one ot the ordinary annual corn crops\\nof the State.\\nThese figures abundantly show that New Hampshire pos-\\nLofC.", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nsesses strong attractions of some kind, which bring within its\\nborders every summer the throngs of men, women, and chil-\\ndren that appear among ns. What are the attractions?\\nThey are not those of Mecca or Lonrdes to which multitudes\\ngo as pilgrims impelled by religious motives. They are not\\nthose of New York or Leadville, nor those of the prairies and\\nthe plains, whither men and women go to make money, for\\nvisitors do not come here to worship, but to have a good time.\\nThey do not come to make money, but rather, to spend it.\\nThey are an amiable, well-behaving crowd, with shekels in\\ntheir pockets which they are willing to part with for a fair\\nconsideration. Their numbers increase rather than diminish,\\nand thev penetrate every town and almost every school dis-\\ntrict in the State. What attracts them\\nAmong the attractions influencing this great throng are\\ni. Pure Air. When, in July and August, a few weeks of\\nrest and recreation are offered to men and women who spend\\neleven months of the year in close streets and furnace-heated\\napartments, they naturally seek God s open country and the\\nfresh air of the hills and mountains, upon whose sides many of\\nthem first saw the light. However perfect the ventilation\\nwhich art, guided by science, has introduced to the crowded\\nstores and offices and work shops of our large towns, their\\natmosphere can never equal that of the highlands of the open\\ncountry, or of the surf beaten shore where the pulse-beat of the\\nwide ocean invigorates the weakened pulse-beat of man. In\\nthese sultry months, New Hampshire offers to all who pine\\nfor freshness and space, invigorating breezes brought upon our\\ncoast across the arctic current, or strengthening ozone wafted\\nover all our inland country from the great storehouses of the\\nfrost king in the far north-west.\\n2. Pure Water. Next to pure air, pure water is essential\\nto the physical welfare of man. When large numbers of peo-\\nple settle upon limited areas, the obtaining of this is a matter\\nof no small difficulty. They are obliged, consequently, as the\\nbest to be had, to use waters of inferior quality. But this\\nnecessity does not destroy their relish for those, clear", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "13\\nas crystal, which our mountains distill from the clouds and\\ntransmit everywhere through rock-bedded channels tor the free\\nuse of all who care for them. It rather increases it.\\nlie who has been obliged to drink the indifferent waters of\\nthe great cities will appreciate the worth of our mountain\\nstreams. He who has journeyed from Jersey to Florida, over\\nthe great sand belt which lines the Atlantic coast, and noticed\\nthe turbid character of the streams which cut through it to the\\nsea, will understand the surpassing excellence of the white\\nwaters of granitic regions, lie who has attempted in vain to\\nallay his thirst with the Hat, tasteless waters of the prairies,\\nknows how to value those of our Xew Hampshire springs.\\nNext to the living waters of eternal life, springing in the regen-\\nerated heart of man, are the crystal streams of our hills and\\nmountains.\\n3. The Ace ssibility of our Position is a Third Attrac-\\ntion. The great Creator of all things has seen lit to place the\\nlute Mountains and their ten thousand surrounding hills\\nwithin the hounds of Xew I Iampshire. That of Mount Wash-\\nington is the highest mountain summit on the east side of this\\ncontinent, north of North Carolina. In July and August, ten\\nmillions of people may reach it between the sunrise and the\\nsunset of a single day. Luxurious railway trains from all\\ndirections converge to it, as did the great highways of the\\nC a-^ars to imperial Rome.\\n4. oj the Fatherland. Thousands of choice men\\nand women during the last seventy-five years have gone from\\nthe home of their nativity to seek fortunes abroad. Large\\nnumbers of them of the first or second generation, attracted to\\ntheir fatherland by an interest which can be better felt than\\nexpressed, come hack from time to time to visit kindred and\\nscenes hallowed hv the associations of other davs. Not a tew,\\nwith the means which enterprise has gained for them, are\\nbuilding summer homes here and there, all over the State.\\nThe love of country life is a characteristic of our race, which,\\nif circumstances allow, is sure to manifest itself in the acquisi-\\ntion and improvement of landed estates. There is no property", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nso precious to a man who has English blood in his veins as a\\npiece of God s fair earth, extending from the point where\\ngravity centers to the realms of illimitable space.\\n5. Our Sec cry. But the strongest attraction of any,\\nprobably, is that afforded by our scenery. I spent a winter\\nsome years ago upon the flat lands about the Gulf of Mexico,\\nand became familiar with the floating bogs of its northern\\nshore, with their gradual elevation to marshes, and still higher\\nsand plains farther inland. They proved exceedingly monot-\\nonous and uninteresting. And when, at length, I started\\nhomeward upon the great Mississippi and watched, league\\nafter league, from the steamer s deck the rich bottoms through\\nwhich it flows, that depression of spirit which monotony and\\nennui engender became painful. But when, at length, the\\nlittle bluff upon which Natches stands came into view, exhil-\\naration succeeded, for it seemed a gate post of Paradise.\\nIndeed, there is very little to interest in the vast sedimentary\\nplains which stretch, in some sections of our country, in all\\ndirections to the horizon, reminding one only of former\\nsubmergence and of pre-historic monsters which the geol-\\nogist only cares for.\\nBut when the traveler rises to higher regions, where omnip-\\notent Power has bent the pliable strata of the earth s crest\\ninto mountain and valleys, and clothed their sides with forests\\nof perpetual green, an interest is awakened which never flags.\\nWhat the Alps and their outlying foot hills are to Switzer-\\nland, the White Mountains and their notches are to New\\nHampshire. Its mountains and valleys have made that litde\\ncountry of central Europe the sanitarium of the continent. If\\nwe improve, as we may, our grand opportunities, similar\\nattractions will make our gallant State an important health\\nresort forever.\\nThe sum of wdiat I have thus imperfectly said is this:\\nWe have in our little State of New Hampshire a respectable\\nheritage, affording some half a dozen leading resources, which\\nare valuable, just in proportion to the wisdom and energv\\nwith which thev are developed.", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "15\\ni. We have an agriculture whose products may be doubled\\nor trebled, it the farmer will but rise to the level of his oppor-\\ntunities.\\n_* We have water power, of which only ;i tithe or less has\\nbeen utilized, sufficient to give us high rank as a manufact-\\nuring State, it it he utilized as it ma\\\\ he.\\nWe have forests covering half our area, which will yield\\nus annually ami perpetually for the simple taking, crops of\\nwood and timber, whose manufacture may give profitable\\nemployment to large numbers and increase greatly the popu-\\nlation of the State.\\nWe have scenery unsurpassed in many respects by that\\nof any other State, which in consequence of its attractive\\npower has just as much a cash value as the soil of our fields\\nor the granite in our quarries. It any one doubt this let him\\nii\\\\ to buy the summit of Mt. Washington or the old man of\\nthe mountain in Franconia Notch.\\nThese and other resources to which I cannot now allude,\\nthus far hut partially developed, have hitherto given us a fru-\\ngal living. Utilized as they may he, they will make us rich.\\nIn a word. I can best illustratemy idea of our present situa-\\ntion as owners of this heritage h\\\\ quoting the remark of a\\ncanny old Scotchman who once called upon me to see my\\nfarm. As we rode over it he complimented the different sec-\\ntions and I became so inflated with sweet satisfaction as to\\nendanger the button-holes of my jacket. But his parting\\nwords produced a sudden collapse and removed the strain.\\nThese I have never forgotten. Said he: You have a\\nverv good farm, Mr. Walker, hut you don t half earn it on.", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "1900", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n003 192 359 1", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": ".Ife/W", "height": "3466", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nMilium!\\n003 192 359 1\\nu-vi*", "height": "3441", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "naturalresources00walk_0024.jp2"}}