. The historic pageant of Fort Fairfield and the Aroostook Valley. 22,482 bushels 1915 14,967,859 bushels In 1915 the potato business done in Aroostook countylacked very little of $15,000,000. The small and unsalable potatoes are used in the fall , also sometimes those on hand at the end of the ship-ping season. The Aroostook starch business varies from 1,000to 2,000 tons a season. INTERLUDE A Symbolic Dance Electricity Harnesses the Spirit of the Falls. Its StruggleMith the Wild Elements and its Final Victory over Them. Five miles beloAv Fort Fairfield on the Aroostook riverare the
. The historic pageant of Fort Fairfield and the Aroostook Valley. 22,482 bushels 1915 14,967,859 bushels In 1915 the potato business done in Aroostook countylacked very little of $15,000,000. The small and unsalable potatoes are used in the fall , also sometimes those on hand at the end of the ship-ping season. The Aroostook starch business varies from 1,000to 2,000 tons a season. INTERLUDE A Symbolic Dance Electricity Harnesses the Spirit of the Falls. Its StruggleMith the Wild Elements and its Final Victory over Them. Five miles beloAv Fort Fairfield on the Aroostook riverare the Aroostook falls. Until 1907 the spot was one ofpicturesque beauty, attracting the tourist and the pleasureseeker. In that year Mr. Arthur Gould of Presque Isle, Maine,having secured a charter from the New Brunswick Legislature,installed there a power station under the name of the Maine& New I>runswick Electrical Power Company. To-day thecompany lights the following towns: Fort Fairfield, PresqueIsle, Houlton. Mapleton, Maplegrove, Limestone, Van Buren, 51. Washburn, Bridge water, Easton, Monticello, and Hodgdou,on the Maine side, and St. Leonards, Grand Falls, Andover andPerth on the New Brunswick side. It also supplies currentto the Aroostook Valley Railway, and is as yet using onlyabout one third of the available po\ver. GRAND FINALE MARCH Fort Fairfield of the Present Views the Grand Old Pastand Stretches out her efficient Arms to Posterity and theFuture. (Fort Fairfield enters in white chariot reining a span ofwhite horses. At her side, walk the symbols for which shestands, Education, Religion, Fraternity and Agriculture. Thencome her neighboring towns, Caribou, Presque Isle, Limestone,Easton, Houlton, Mars Hill, Blaine, New Sweden, Van Buren,and Fort Kent. Together they view the glorious past—thelong procession of events which represent also the making ofany one of the sister towns.) Majestically the procession wends its way past the whitechariot down the green valley
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