. Review of reviews and world's work. ,—as might be de-manded under governmental rate-making,—therailway management would not have consentedto the proposition. A NEW TOWN FOUNDED ON PAPER. Wherever a river with rapids and falls runsbetween banks of favorable contour we have thepotentiality of power and industry. Such a placeis Spragues Falls, on the St. Croix River—thesoutheastern frontier of ]\Iaine. Here is one ofthe early settled regions of Maine and NewBrunswick. Calais is hard by ; on the Canadianside of the river lies St. Stephens. A sectionof one of the oldest railways in the United Sta
. Review of reviews and world's work. ,—as might be de-manded under governmental rate-making,—therailway management would not have consentedto the proposition. A NEW TOWN FOUNDED ON PAPER. Wherever a river with rapids and falls runsbetween banks of favorable contour we have thepotentiality of power and industry. Such a placeis Spragues Falls, on the St. Croix River—thesoutheastern frontier of ]\Iaine. Here is one ofthe early settled regions of Maine and NewBrunswick. Calais is hard by ; on the Canadianside of the river lies St. Stephens. A sectionof one of the oldest railways in the United Statesruns past the falls,—now absorbed in one of thenewest lines in Maine,—the Washington CountyRailway. Being a coast line, this railway had tomeet the competition of little schooners andtheir low rates. The company became bankrupt,and the line, joined to the great Maine Central,became a part of the yet greater Boston & Mainesystem. AVith its improved traflBc possibilities,the railway is putting a new face upon things in. WHEKK THK ANDKOSCOdUIN IMJNOKS TIlKOluai KlMKORI) , TH K CATARACT. ? THE REDEyELOPMENT OF AN OLD STATE.
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