. Review of reviews and world's work. the older parts of New England. Themovement set in shortly after the Revolutionary-War. Maine was then a Massachusetts prov-ince. But in recent years it has had a namefor emigration rather than immigration. Threehundred thousand natives of Maine are said tobe living in other parts of the United , something has offset this tenden-cy. Maine lost population in the decade from1860 to 1870, doubtless an effect of the CivilWar. Since then the State, as a whole, hassteadily grown. In the new AVest we see thewilderness developing, rich virgin la
. Review of reviews and world's work. the older parts of New England. Themovement set in shortly after the Revolutionary-War. Maine was then a Massachusetts prov-ince. But in recent years it has had a namefor emigration rather than immigration. Threehundred thousand natives of Maine are said tobe living in other parts of the United , something has offset this tenden-cy. Maine lost population in the decade from1860 to 1870, doubtless an effect of the CivilWar. Since then the State, as a whole, hassteadily grown. In the new AVest we see thewilderness developing, rich virgin lands comingunder cultivation, busy new cities humming withindustry. In this old New England State wehave the same phenomena. It is the fruit ofrailway enterprise ; the building of new linesinto the waste places ; the development of nat-ural resources,—agriculture, timber-supply, wa-ter-power,—the creation of industries where Na-ture calls for them because the chief raw materialis at hand. Maines magnificent wilderness,—woods and. DIGGING POTATOES BY MACHINERY IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MAINE rivers, hills, lakes, andClear-running streams,—is a great natural playground for the country atlarge. But these things mean more than play,—they mean great industrial possibilities undermodern conditions. More than five thousandrivers and streams, with more than fifteen liun-dred lakes for their reservoirs, stand for vastpossibilities in the way of power. THE POTATOES OF AROOSTOOK. In this long-settled State there is still in itsnorthern part something like four thousandsquare miles almost unimproved and uninhabited,—more than two million five hundred and sixtythousand acres unutilized. This is called the mostextensive virgin field for development on theAtlantic slope. Fifteen years ago, north of aline drawn something like midway across theState from west to east by the Maine Central andthe Canadian Pacific systems, only thirty orforty miles of railway had been built. A greatpart of t
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