. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . ly not half have yet beencleared. Here are vast solitudes where onecan cruise through mile after mileof trackless forest, or canoe oversilent water ways, day after day andnot meet with any other humanbeing. The only one who goes this way is the hunter, trapper or woods-man. These forests every yeargive up their thousands of deer,their hundreds of moose and numer-ous bears. Judged by dictionaryor popular standards Maine hasa frontier, which, if not known tothe sojourner upon the coast or tothe student of economic conditions,is yet well known to m
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . ly not half have yet beencleared. Here are vast solitudes where onecan cruise through mile after mileof trackless forest, or canoe oversilent water ways, day after day andnot meet with any other humanbeing. The only one who goes this way is the hunter, trapper or woods-man. These forests every yeargive up their thousands of deer,their hundreds of moose and numer-ous bears. Judged by dictionaryor popular standards Maine hasa frontier, which, if not known tothe sojourner upon the coast or tothe student of economic conditions,is yet well known to many a busi-ness man of New York or Pennsyl-vania, who comes to bury himselffor weeks together in its restfulsolitudes. We have our frontier then—21,000square miles of it—but what is itsrelation to home missionary en-terprise? Missions are connectedwith mankind and not with foresttrees or moose and bears. Againwe appeal to the map and the re-ports of the Forest Commissionerand the Bureau of Industrial andLabor Statistics and of the railroads. A LUMBER SETTLEMENT IN THE MAINE WOODS i0k r ? ? ajfifc.^ -#* • -<?, POTATO HARVEST IN THE AROOSTOOK that are helping to develop thestate. A large area of the state iscovered by water. Besides thenumerous smaller streams which rundirectly into the Atlantic there aresix great river systems, each con-nected with chains of lakes anddraining wide areas of are the Saco, Androscoggin,Kennebec, Penobscot, St. Croix andSt. John. The two latter form inpart the eastern boundary betweenMaine and New Brunswick but themain watershed of each is in theformer state. This great watersystem has given to Maine naturaladvantages possessed by but fewother states. An estimate wasmade a few years ago by one wellqualified for the task, that thenatural fall of these rivers in theircourse to the sea, would ,000 horse power available formanufacturing purposes. But whenwe add to this the fact that withinthe past few years a careful
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