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your fair, and are well worth a careful examination as samples 

 of their work. 



The falls at Union are successfully occupied in the manufac- 

 ture of tools, and materials for the extensive carriage factory 

 at that place — a factory that is not only an advantage to the 

 town, but a credit to the county, and an honor to the State ; 

 and I venture the assertion that the specimens of carriage work 

 from that factory, on exhibition at this fair, will not suffer by 

 comparison with similar work in this or any other State. 



Look at the rich farming lands in the interior towns extend- 

 ing from Dresden to Union. There is an almost uninterrupted 

 tract of land not only well adapted to agriculture, but under a 

 fine state of cultivation, which is constantly advancing, as ap- 

 pears from the improvements in the houses and farms, the en 

 largement of barns, the increased crops of hay and grain, and 

 the decided change in the quality of cattle, horses and hogs. 



Much of tliis improvement is dependent upon the high and 

 ready market afforded by the vast amount of shipbuilding and 

 lime-burning that is carried on in the seaboard and river towns 

 — the former, a business that has been carried on to a greater 

 extent in the county of Lincoln for several years, than in any 

 county in the State — a business that, while it has enriched those 

 who have engaged in it, has furnished employment to a large 

 number of workmen, and opened a ready market for all kinds 

 of farming produce. Look at the changes, notice the inrrease 

 of wealth growing out of this branch of business. 



At the extreme west of our county we have the beautiful 

 town of Wiscasset, with her proud ships floating on her basin 

 of never freezing waters — ships built by her own citizens, with 

 their own capital — and owners ready and able to buy all the 

 surplus hay of the interior towns at remunerating prices, thus 

 furnishing cargoes for their ships, and a market for the farmer's 

 produce. 



At the east we have the young city of Rockland, situated on 

 the broad waters of the Penobscot, Journing its vast amount of 

 lime, and building its large amount of tonnage of ships, furnish- 

 ing employment for thousands of men, and opening a market 

 for any amount of farming produce. - 



Notice the rapid growth of Newcastle and Damariscotta, 

 - towns that have grown almost as by magic, — towns that have 



