Show flfv qjb fyf + i > t In New Hampshire Hills Special Correspondence 0 Outside of the large cities almost all of New Hampshire has become a state of rest and recreation Quiet resorts In tho mountain country far removed from the noise of the railroad and the trolley are being sought after more and more Time Is at a discount Ten and twentymlto drives aro Incidents In the dally life of the people Good roads and good horses make them a pleasure but the nerve trying automobile auto-mobile Is the toy of the excitement loving patron of the big summer hotel ho-tel Baron von Sternberg the German ambassador established a home on Govurnors Island Lake Wlnnlpiseo gee and became so enthusiastic ovor It that ho declared that he bad seen no place even In Scotland or tho Bavarian Ba-varian Highlands with which tho Weirs could not hold Its own Winston Churchill after ho became famous as a writer of historical novels novels els traveled all over the country In search of a spot for the Ideal home Arriving In Cornish he at once made up his mind that he had found what ho was looking for Ho bought an old estate and by tho expenditure of thousands of dollars transformed It Into one of tho most beautiful country coun-try scats and now makes it his homo I tho year round Every year more distinguished names are being added to the list ot Now Hampshires summer boarders and tho Increase In not being confined to any particular town ExGov Frank S Black of New York spends his summers In Freedom where a few years ago ho saw what he thought was the most beautiful place upon which his eyes had ever rested and bought It Senator J C Spooner became enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the beauties of Pitts burg and purchased u largo farm where in summer ho leads the simple life In much tho same manner as Mr Cleveland Highways Being Built So the list might be extended taking tak-ing In localities from the coast where thousands enjoy sea bathing and the rugged grandeur of the cliffs against which tho great waves dash to tho highest point In the mountains where tho air Is clear and dry and hundreds find the keenest pleasuro In climbing great heights from which can be seen vast stretches of country countless hills where nature In all her majesty stands revealed In the White mountains more than fifty miles of permanent highways have been built by special acts of the State Legislature in tho most grandly beautiful section of New Hampshire at the foot of the Presidential range opening up now and beautiful regions and affording more convenient means of communication with different points of Interest These roads and tho ocean boulevard in process of construction along the sea coast strip represent the most costly stretches of tho proposed State system The Invasion of tho nutomobllo In recent years has Increased the Interest Inter-est taken in this work Last summer the number of automobiles that went Into the state was larger by hundreds than ever before and tho present season sea-son has already seen a greater invasion inva-sion Attention is also being paid to the forests under tho direction of the forestry for-estry commission while sentiment among tho people Is being stimulated by the work of tho Society for tho Preservation of New Hampshire Forests For-ests an organization which comprises In its membership sonic of tho best known men In the State as well us some of the most prominent of the summer visitors I For several years it has kept a trained forester In the field as a lecturer and adviser Tho most ambitious project i so far advanced and It Is said with good prospects of success suc-cess Is to have tho national government govern-ment make the White mountain region I a national forest reserve Abandoned Farm Problem But the development of New Hampshire Hamp-shire as n summer resort state as a land which Is proving attractive to wealthy amateur farmers the 1m provftnent of Its roads and preservation preserva-tion of Its forests has not como about by any chance There came a time In the history of the state when the people awoke to the fact that they must do something and the manner In which tile aoan doned farm problem was met Is told by exGovernor noteholder as follows In 1889 the New Hampshire legislature legis-lature becoming alarmed at the extent ex-tent to which the abandonment of the farms of the state was being cilrncd authorized the appointment by the Governor and council of a commissioner commission-er of Immigration whose duty It should be to bring about within the measure of his ability the repeopllng Governor David H Goodell and his counselors filled the olllce thus created creat-ed by the appointment of tho Secretary Secre-tary of the State Hoard of Agilculture who has continued to hold the position posi-tion up to the presen tlmo The number num-ber of farms in th state for which desirable owners and occupants have been secured through the efforts of the commissioner testify to the degree In which his success has been commensurate com-mensurate with his desire for the welfare of his state Why Farms Are Vacant As early as possible the malady was diagnosed and the causes for the vacant houses upon the farms were summed up under these three heads FirstThe children left the old homestead for other fields of labor while tho parents were In physical condition to manage the farm and upon the death of the aged parents In later years the children had become engrossed In business upon other farms or In other occupations and of the rural districts of the Granite State could not return The farms have passed Into the hand of heirs and are for sale Second Many farmers either with children engaged in some other avocations avoca-tions or without children having secured se-cured a competency by Industry and frugal habits lave retired from tho farm to the neighboring city or village to spend their declining yeavs In a quiet qui-et manner and the farm Is for sale Third Sometimes the owners of farms seeing imly the bright side in other occupations and the dark side In theirs have lift I the farm for some ilt > it lr 01 f r z R tr r s f r r xF Plangdon House Concord other business only to be disappointed and having raised money to engage it other business by mortgaging the farm tho farm Is for sale The first collection of statistics by the commissioner of immigration 1m mediately upon his appointment showed a total of 1342 abandoned farms within the state This was low water mark and while the causes named above continue to operate and farms are constantly being left unoccupied unoc-cupied here and there In the state the proportion of abandoned farms has been gradually but surely growing less |