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there, in the original forest where the sound of the "woodman's 

 axe" was never heard before, mills have been erected capable of 

 cutting out fort}' thousand (40,000) feet of lumber per day, and' 

 cars stand ready to transport it to the markets of the world. A 

 large number of men are there employed, and it is estimated that 

 they will work up during the season six million (6,000,000) feet of 

 lumber. 



We cannot boast of having any "money kings" in this county, 

 and if we had them, I do not think that we should be any better off 

 industrially, but we have "apple kings," and I notice that one of 

 these potentates is on your programme to speak to-day. This gen- 

 tleman raised this last season fifteen hundred (1500) barrels of ap- 

 ples, and ever}' barrel was grafted fruit ; and he manufactured his 

 own barrels, and of that fifteen hundred barrels of apples he evapo- 

 rated twenty-one hundred (2100) busjiels ; and that fruit thus pre- 

 pared and put into the market in his inviting way, is worth as much 

 as the best quality of raisins, pound for pound. 



Perhaps the best illustration that I can give you of the thrift and 

 general prosperity of our people may be found right here ; just 

 across the way there is an institution, modest and with little noise of 

 machinery, but very telling in its figures ; I mean the savings 

 bank. You will find deposited there over four hundred thousand 

 dollars ($400,000) of the people's money, and not one dollar of the 

 insurance money paid in, on account of the recent fires, is included 

 in that amount. The People's Trust Company of this town has 

 also on deposit three hundred thousand dollars (8300,000) above its 

 capital stock. 



There is another savings bank in the thriving town of Phil- 

 lips, with one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) more, making 

 eight hundred thousand dollars of the savings of the people piled 

 away in this little county. There are also three other banking insti- 

 tutions in the county with a capital stock of two hundred and 

 twenty-five thousand dollars (8225,000) more. 



Gentlemen, on behalf of the Franklin County Agricultural So- 

 ciety and also on behalf of the Grange in this place, as well as 

 on behalf of the farmers and the people of this town of Farmington, 

 I bid you welcome. We welcome you to tiiis once the "loveliest 

 village of the plain," now stricken and humbled. Its magnificent 

 streets were the pride of our own people, and the envy of those less 

 favoured. Those streets were lined with the homes of cultivated and 



