Show arm the dally of foa if current reports concerning the depreciation depre clAtion 0 cultivated lands in vermont be true the old green mountain state is in worse neel of a boom than almost any other part 0 the country it in not that the land has 1 et its fertility nor atiat its attractive cea aa diomes for americans lias passed aaa with tha years nut high taxes have at last got in their deadly work and the high prices 0 manufactured goila though the chills and factories are so near as to be almost beard into the innermost recesses of the granite hills compel the farmers to seek homes where land can be more cheaply cultivated where it can be more extensively farmed and where its products are cot only much larger to the acre but north much mora in the macket while in lie abstract it presents merely an old question of economics complicated according to the democratic view by the pressure of tha high it is really nothing but a confession that the boundless west and its breezy enterprise has achieved another victory over clr hardshell hard shell and ei lurian systems common five decades aeo and in the height of their perfection ft hen the present century was born the following follo winz discouraging comparison and statement of the present condition of affairs in the native state of john starke eiban alien and georae F edmunds appears in a recent issue of the boston journal our town were aye sud at boine live dollard per arc and the bame property was ulu edat two dollars pir acre less and still a great part where they have hi en koledo not bring the present appraisal probably in one third of this town here there were in the memory ot the oldest inhabitants our aci t farms and bout prosperous tanners the building aie now going and hao already gone to decay and what w as a ew acara ago fertile foeldi are aed or pasturage and fast grow ing timber I 1 think I 1 can safely say that anco an co can be sed in tins tow n alone adjoining and 0 this amount about one halt are in anna et from w enty to tw 0 hundred acres and some ot these w ith buildings many ot them occupied which bould bo bought tor from three to tour dollars per acre the remaining halt are lands which comprised good farms with buildings now gone and fart grow ing up to timber some arc used for pasturage and on othir farina the cencia are nut liep tup there are roi lenot atone to and lands bould he bought tor from one to tw 0 dollar per acre what lends peculiar interest to this dismal picture jast now is the plan in contemplation for a resurrection of the old states prestige and prosperity A scheme of swedish colonization is on foot the objects of which are to place alie north men of europe on alie deserted and decaying farms and to restore it possible the past glory of the commonwealth the transplanted boilers toilers of a leas inviting clime will bring their frugal mayx with them and they will in time make rood republican vo tersa combination of benefits which is awaited with some anxiety the proposition strikes new england dumb with wonder yet the experiment la secretly encouraged fand the solution of many a knotty problem in the other states will depend upon the transformation which the industry and patience of the foreigners aie expected to bring about whether the swedes will be contented any longer than the katics nati cs when they learn that by going further they can fare better or whether high taxes and other burdens will be less grievous to alie new settlers than to tae old are questions which the future will have to determine |