A little lakelet, very deep, is at the bottom. A platform has been built above the water at the base of the trees. In early days it was used as a dancing platform. The music in such a place must have been simply Paderwiskean in its influences, and romantic beyond conception. We again visited the Compromise mine.
Work is still in progress.
What seems strange to us, is the fact that the mine is for sale and no one will buy it. Its past history is part of our county's richest story. Castle Dome and Garden Springs ate the mine's name and we can safely say that no grander environments surround any mines in the country. Their associations are in the county's 400 amongst mines. Within sight and above on the North Fork is the Compromise, across the North Fork is the Bondurant and Louisiana, below on the same stream is the Banderita that has turned out immense fortunes.