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it far up river. Another is being built at Eed Eapids, which 

 will be a great boon to farmers of the neighboring settlements. 



Victoria County now is very much as Oarleton was before 

 the building of the New Brunswick Kailway. Farming and 

 lumbering are still carried on together, and by the same 

 persons, and consequently neither is so flourishing as it ought 

 to be. 



A great drawback arises from the large tracts of land 

 withheld from cultivation by the New Brunswick Eailway 

 Company, which is apparent now, when we see that almost 

 all with that exception is being farmed, and there seems no 

 very near prospect of this land being put on the market, 

 though much of it is very fertile. 



Within ten or fifteen years, Victoria County will probably 

 become such another as Carleton in its farms, and have beside 

 the advantage of the gypsum deposits and other natural 

 resources. 



