Saltillo borough

Saltillo: a visitor's account, December 1875

From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Saltillo borough. A correspondent of the Huntingdon Journal wrote up a visit to the town, and the paper printed it on 10 December 1875. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

Saltillo is improving considerably, several new houses have gone up since my June visit, and the improved appearances are very striking. McVitty the life and master-wheel of this place and community still lives, consequently the town must live. His Tannery is working off 125 hides per week which gives us some idea of McVitty's real worth to the community. All the bark he uses, which is many thousand cords a year, is produced within the immediate vicinity of Saltillo, or at least the larger part of it. Saltillo has a nice hotel also. The Broadbeck House has changed hands, it is now kept by Mr. Elias E. Borst, under the name of the "Royer House." It is strictly a Temperance House, consequently a nice, civil home-like accommodation for Local and Trancient custom who enjoy good eating, good treatment, and quiet rest at night.Huntingdon Journal, 10 December 1875, p. 3 · character 0 of the scanned text

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