Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-02
Samuel Zimmerman.

-hi. h dS 'Ol III IlulltllgCOn CO. Pcnn., in the year 1915, and in 1S42 removed to Canada, having no capital but energy, far Sightcdness, gray horse and a buggy He was then but 27 years of age. His first under taking was the construction of four locks and an aqucduct on the Welland canal which invol- ved something like one million of dollars
 Subsequently, he built l2O miles of the Great Western Railway, the contract price of which was about $600,0OO The building of the first Suspension bridge at Niagara Falls and of the great Railroad bridge at the same place, engaged his attention. He built the Co., burg and Petcrboro the Port Hope amp Lind say, and Erie and Ontario Railway in Canada. Mir. Zimmerman orig ginatcd, and had just con- p!eted the preliminary arrangement for building a new road to the West, nearly parallel with the Great Western, to the south of that line, and on shorter and better route This work was to come to ten millions of dollars
 Not long since he had purchased large property at Chiffon, Niagara Falls; and in the vicinity of the suspension Bridge, including the fine Hotel known as the Clifton House, and his excellent taste and liberal ideas were illustrated in improving this fine estate and atlornng it ar tstically. Fifty two acres on the Cliff directly opposite the American Falls are enclosed with an iron fence and private hedge. The topog- rarGy or these grounds is diversified and pictll- resque. That part nearest the river is level, and this is laid out in gravelled walks, with shrubbcry, forest trees and fountains. One fountain was constructed at a cost OfSl5, ,000
 These groves and shaded promenades are ighted during the summer eychi ,gs with gas
 The proprletors residence stands on a bluff some sixty feet high, midway of the ample grounds. In the summer it is nearly hidden by the foliage of the surrounding trees. This dwelling is an unpretending mansion, but has always been the scene of generous hospitality.
 He had perfected most extended and elab- crate plan for the establishment near the same spot of an elegant mansion house, with the prop CT accessories and surroundings The founda- tons of a building of Cleveland sandstone and Canadian brick to cost $l75, ,OO0were laid lately and the work was to be prosecuted immediate 1y. His lodges, of which there were four, the conservatory and tenements for his servants, are models of taste, His stables, completed last year, cost&43, 900. From the terraces on the grounds and the portico of his dwelling, splendid view Of the American Fall is obtained
 The Clifton House is near by-one of the most complete and popular hotels that any water Ing piace cOulQ DOaSC. ms was owned Dy NIT. Zimmerman and was worth over $3O0,00O
 He was the owner of the Steamer Zmmer- man, on Lke Ontario, and half owner of anoth- CT boat, the Peerless, his interest in both was near $lO0,000. He estimated his property to be werth three millions of dollars.
 The deceased was a man of limited educa- ton, but he was endowed with sterling mental gifts. Intercourse with men of the highest character and influence, had imparted an ele- 1 vated tone, suavity and cquanimity to his man. nerS, and his sway over other men was limit ed only by the boundaries within which he could possibly exercise it. Large benerolence was one of his most marked attributes
 1 He was one of the killed at the great rail road slaughter near Hamilton, two weeks ago. A RocKsL1DE.-A considerable portion of the high cliff of rock which overhangs the Vol cottve road just south of this village fell on Wednesday, tumllng and crashing down over the precpce and through a forest distance of three hundred feet or more. It caused a good sized earthquake at the time, and excit- ed no small degree of alarm among those who happened to be in the neighborhool The portion of rock which fell is said to be of the size of large house, and the wreck it caused was proportiolled to the weight of so ponderous body thus projected. So "Tme rusts a diamond" and the everlasting hills are l crunlbl;lg and lowing their proud heads at his behcsts.- Y 'instcd XcruM