. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . it was only 41,700,while to-day it has been estimatedas being well up to 70,000. Therailroad which has done so much todevelop it is now engaged in ex-tending its line to the sea coast andis building up a new deep-waterharbor that will be open to trafficall the year round. The progressof development has been hinderedby lack of shipping facilities, butwith this new outlet, amply able tohandle all that can be raised on thefarms or manufactured in the mills,the increase in population will bemuch more rapid in the year 1870 saw about 40,00
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . it was only 41,700,while to-day it has been estimatedas being well up to 70,000. Therailroad which has done so much todevelop it is now engaged in ex-tending its line to the sea coast andis building up a new deep-waterharbor that will be open to trafficall the year round. The progressof development has been hinderedby lack of shipping facilities, butwith this new outlet, amply able tohandle all that can be raised on thefarms or manufactured in the mills,the increase in population will bemuch more rapid in the year 1870 saw about 40,000bushels of potatoes carried to themarket. In 1903 this had risen toover 5,606,000 bushels, or 11,214car loads, while 4,000 car loads oflumber products in 1893-4 had risenin ten years to not less than 25, is able to tell what the nextten years will show in the way ofgrowth? The call for mission work is de-pendent on this commercial devel-opment. Maines frontier is a mineof wealth. With four railroad sys-tems—the Rumford Falls, the Som-. THE OATS OF MAINE NORTHERN WISCONSIN erset, the Bangor and Aroostook,and the Maine Central—all reach-ing out into the wilderness to helpto make it blossom as the rose,the church may well keep wideawake, for its opportunity willsurely come, once and again. Inthis frontier region, or on accountof its development, the Maine Mis-sionary Society has built eight churches within the past two yearsand has four more now in hand, andit is safe to say that the next fewyears will see the demand for manymore. Whether there is a frontier in thiscountry or not, Maine has all theessential frontier conditions, and itgives her an interesting and fruitfulfield for missionary enterprise. II. NORTHERN WISCONSIN By Homer W. Carter, ). Secretary Wisconsin Home Missionary Society FROM Chicago to Cleveland bythe Lake Shore and MichiganSouthern Railway is 347miles. From Milwaukee to Ashlandis 367. Milwaukee is thirty-fourmiles north of Kenosha and Ashlandis
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