A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . Lake St. Catherine, Rutland Countv. quarries of Barre town and vicinity with lines at the cityof Barre; the one connecting the quarries of Woodbury withthe main line at Hardwick; and the Bethel granite first electric road in Vermont was opened in Burling-ton, September 5, 1893, supplanting what was the first horse-car line in the State. Since then electric lines have been
A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . Lake St. Catherine, Rutland Countv. quarries of Barre town and vicinity with lines at the cityof Barre; the one connecting the quarries of Woodbury withthe main line at Hardwick; and the Bethel granite first electric road in Vermont was opened in Burling-ton, September 5, 1893, supplanting what was the first horse-car line in the State. Since then electric lines have been putin as follows: Montpelier to Barre, Waterbury to Stow^e, to Swanton and St. Albans Bay, Burlington to EssexJunction, Rutland to Fair Haven, Poultney and Lake Bomo-seen, Bennington to North Bennington and Williamstown, 48 Geography of Vermont Mass., Brattleboro to West Brattleboro, Bellows Falls toSaxtons River, and Springfield to Charlestown, N. other lines are projected. In 1914 there were in Vermont over a thousand miles ofsteam railway, and 115 miles of electric road, operated by tendifferent Silver Lake, Barnard, Windsor County An effort is being made for the construction of permanentroadbeds along the common highways and, to encourage suchimprovements, a law w^as enacted in 1892 levying a tax an-nually for this purpose. The Legislatures of 1906, 1910 and1912 greatly aided the cause of good roads by making gen-erous appropriations and by providing for their constructionunder experts in road-making. Climate 49 CHAPTER VI Climate Vermont is near the middle of the North TempernteZone and is in the region of westerly winds. The tem-perature, the amount of moisture and the winds are favor-able to the health of the people and to the productivenessof the soil. The mean annual temperature for the differentparts of the State varies from forty degrees to forty-sevendegrees; the highest temperature varies from ninety to onehundred degrees; and the l
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