. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . ■ A IK A K 0( )ST( )0 K iilled with passengers during the journey. As sportsmen andlumber operators, by twos and threes and dozens, have left thetrain at every wayside station, others have boarded it in theirplace, and here and there a crew of roughly garbed lumbermen,fresh from the drive have taken passage in the smoking movement of life extends into all branches of trade inAroostook and buying and selling are done in a large way. Aroostook is the county where 1 like best to
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . ■ A IK A K 0( )ST( )0 K iilled with passengers during the journey. As sportsmen andlumber operators, by twos and threes and dozens, have left thetrain at every wayside station, others have boarded it in theirplace, and here and there a crew of roughly garbed lumbermen,fresh from the drive have taken passage in the smoking movement of life extends into all branches of trade inAroostook and buying and selling are done in a large way. Aroostook is the county where 1 like best to go, said acommercial traveler, w^ line is tobacco. There are nosmall orders up here. A merchant at any cross roads or stationin the woods, where there may not l)e five houses in the town-ship that you can see at one time, thinks nothing of ordering ])ythe carload any brand of. 4 goods that hits his they have the tradeand the money to backtheir buying. Besides the rural l)eaut>-of the scene, which onelearns in Aroostook alwaysto expect and ceases neverto admire, I saw two thingsat Ashland Junction thatparticularly drew my atten-tion. One was Katahdinacross the woods, forty-fivemiles away in the south-west, standing massive and alone, robed in imperial hues ofwhite and purple. The other was a large sack transferred atthe junction, which had come up from liangor that morningconsigned to a camp on tlie line of the railroad extension nowbuilding be\-ond Ashland and it contained one hundred loavesof Italian bread. There are sexeral hundred Italians at work on the FortKent extension of our line, said Mr. Moses Burpee, the chiefengineer of the Bangor and Aroostook road, to me. At mostof their camps there is an Italian baker who makes the bread ]> IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 17 for all the gang. The camp that this is consigned to evidentlyis short a
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