The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-24
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some seventy families who have removed
from Schuylkill and are now engaged in
farming. All, CT nearly all Of them liv-
ing on land purchased by their respective
heads and whieh they now are clearing
and improving. Most of them reside
near Germania on the head quarters of
Kettle and Pine Greeks. had the pleas
ure of meeting our old quandom citizen,
Capt. Mills. his son Sam aud Son-in- law,
Dan Glassmire, and their respective fami-
lies. Sam lives about 7 miles from Cou-
dersport, the County Town-on the Wells
vile road-has over 700 acres of excellent
land, improved, with a large well furnish
ed Tavern House, store, Sawmill, fine
large barn, and other out-buildings, his
cattle are of the best blooded stocks, his
farm well fenced and cultivated, yielding
him as he informed me, very heavy crops.
As an instance of the strength and pro-
ductiveness of the soil he pointed ont to
me his oats field which was now in oats
for the seventeenth successive year and
until the last three years had never been
manured. On the whole, Sam is model
farmer, is becoming rich, has very tine
family of sons and daughters who he is
very carefully and commercially educat-
ing. The "Old Captain" resides about
two miles from Coudersport, has over 500
acres of land, with good improvements,
tells me he is ort of debt, with money at
interest, has his heart open to receive any
one from Schuylkill county, and the kind
cordial greeting and many attentions he
bestowed on myself convinced NE I con-
stituted no exception in his attachment to
his Schuylkill County friends.
Dan Glassmire is the proprietor and
keeper Of the principal Hotel in Couders-
port, very large, we'll finished establish.
ment, he is also the owner of some out
lots and farming land, out of debt, and
annually adding some s., 900 to his 'pile."
Fresh Venison and Trout, added to the
many other delicacies of his bountiful
boards. Spurious liquors, are under tho
law of the "teetotap Judges of Potter
county, who construe even our new Ii
cense law as giving them uncontrolled dis
cretion in rejecting applications for ii.
eenses and which they exercise to the
chagrin of any would be humanitarian,
who seeks to relieve suffering maa with
potations of rectified spirits and burnt Su-
gar, yclept in Schuylkill Co., Brandy III
Dan RECALLED us however with Lager"
And such Lager. Yuengling and I.auer
can't be beat in this part of the world, but
the marvellous superiority of the Lager
made at the Germania Brewery in Potter
county, my cultivated taste can't explain.
The County Town, Coudersport, is a
beautiful place, situated on plateau on
the Allegheny river. The Court House
and other buildings are of the most taste
ly and commodious kind. The private
residences are all built in cottage style,
very pretty, with spacious grounds around
and ornamen ed with shrubbery and ilow-
ers. The town generally has the appear
ance of a thrifty New England village and
impresses the stranger with the anomaly
that whether there be persons of extraor-
dinary wealth there or not, there are Ger.
tainly no poor people there. The houses.
however small, are clean, we'll painted and
with grounds ornamented with flowers
and shrubbery.
Potter County although represented on
the map as amongst the spurs of the AL.
legheny range gives no indication of any
upheaval or disturbing of the rock strait
ication. On the contrary the general lay
Of the rock is horizontal, while the valleys,
which follow the streams seem to be made
entirely by washing, and may properly be
said to represent cutters formed in the
plains. The stranger who travels in thi.
county by reason of the roads following
the streams is likely to be greatly deceived
as to its true geological formation and to
be impressed with the idea that the coun-
ty was very mountainous This is, how
ever, far from the fact. On either side
of the roads the traveller notices steep
slopes, but on ascending them will find
that the country spreads off from the top
Of these slopes in beautiful table land.
Even the slopes generally are covered with
deep soil, and may be advantageously
farmed. The air and water of Potter
county, are remarkably pure, making it
one of the healthie.t localities in the
world, and which fact is now inducing
many invalids from the west and north to
spend there their summer months. Trout
fishing, and hunting, unrivalled elsewhere,
afford attractions there for the sportsman
as the abundant success of our friends,
Campbell, Palmer, Womelsdorf, Bland,
and others Of our citizens can attest.
In conclusion let me add that few
hundred laborers who depend on their
daily earnings for support and are now
out of employment in Schuylkill Co., and
who can do work on the farm or in the
forest can find ready employment at good
wages in Potter Co. Those who have
saved from three to eight hundred dollars
can buy enough land, so that with good
saving management they can clear it and