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Milton. It would seem that the manufacture of these articles 

 in the place would be an added inducement to other factories 

 which use paper l)oxes to hold their product, to locate here, as 

 ihey must get this ])art of their material at a cheap rate. 



The counties of Queens and Shelhurne were so long without 

 railway connnunication that hitherto their natural advantages 

 were not so widely known as they shonld have heen, and there 

 was perhaps some excuse for the undeveloped state of this part 

 of the country. There have been, perha]js, a further excuse 

 I hat there was no useful work for these great natural powers 

 to do, l)ut now that the old state of things is no more, and there 

 is good and free communication by rail with all parts of *the 

 ]jrovince, coupled ivith the fact that at present there is a 

 decided activity in Canada in all industrial pu]'suits, the mag- 

 nificent water-powers on this river should not lie idle any 

 longer, and I think it is safe to predict that with a little 

 judicious advertising to make the situation known, all the water 

 now going to waste will be harnessed to some useful work, 

 and the Mersey river, from its mouth to the Indian Gardens, 

 will have a succession of large mills and factories along its 

 banks, making all kinds of goods for shipment abroad, and dis- 

 bursing enough in wages to sustain many times the present 

 population. 



Although the ]\[ersey is undoul)tedly the best water-power 

 stream in the province, yet it must not be forgotten that there 

 are many other excellent ])owers on other streams, and even in 

 the same county of Queens there are several water-powers both 

 developed and nnihweloped. The ]\rersey poAvers, however, are 

 exceptionally well sustained, both as regards gettino- the raw 

 material to the factory, and the shipment of the manufactured 

 ])roduct, and this fact would, T think, commend them to anyone 

 looking into the situation. I may say that I hold no " brief " 

 to s|3eak for anyone or for any interest on the river. I have, 

 however, had it impressed upon me as the result of a few we-eks 



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