Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-08-09
AZ a Summer Resort.

also exhibit an augmenting tendency
on the part of our city friends toward
recreation and recuperation during the
heated term" to an extent that in
numerous instances inferior opportu-
mites arc accepted to partially CRAFTY
their wishes. Obtaining accommoda-
tions is frequently attended with fail
ure, or, if successful often after recur-
ring trouble and delay, because the
demand is overreaching the supply
In presenting contrast of the
Glades resorts with our cl,ims we de-
sign no depreciation of our neighbors
any farther than candid statement
offacts will work this result, but main
ly to remind our citizens of the pres
ence of vast opportunity to effect a
permanent local good.
The locations of Oakland and Deer
Park, though high, are upon plateaus
the soil Of which is inclined to be
spewy, damp and cold. As such it is,
to some degree, malarious The air
must, therefore, partake Of the miasna
thus engendered, rendering it incom-
plete in the essentials which make up
purity, vigor and elasticity. Carrying
the exuded moisture, instead Of exhil-
arating depression or recuperating
weakened energies, it's manifest ten
dency is to afford no relief or relaxa-
ton. TO person in the delicate
stages Of wasted health, we deem a
summers stay there as positively haz-
ardous. nearly as much 80 as conGne-
ment to cellar damp"
Of the water we have learned moth
ing exceptional, but presume it is as
good as mountain water generally
And then, what surroundings have
those localities to attract the interest
of the visitor? None more than any
agricultural, cattle-growing, or trout
fishing section has, and not as many
OF these as a vast majority of places
No great productive interest, no par
ticularly grand scenery Or superior ia
cilities for pleasure, exist.
Yet, because they have been favor
ed with large lodging establishments,
they are crowded beyond their capac-
ity by people anxious to escape for q
season. the restraints of business, the
heat and turmoil of the cities.
Hero at Frostburg we have air and
water regarded by all who know there
Of as unexceptionable. Our situation
ID high, dry and cool, with the best
natural advantages for thorough drain
age. 1t is nearly impossible for MAS
ma to exist, except such as may result
from artificial causes, and these are
easily remedied. Our soil ia firm and
close, with no disposition to turn up,
or resources for baneful evaporations.
These. therefore, mover vitiate the pu-
rity or diminish the force of an atnos-
phere which maintains perpetually its
maximum of oxygen, and circulates
INCREASINGLY with exhilarating effect.
Our water is pure. soft, cool, and
reaches our doors fresh from the beds
Of mountain boulders. Several sui
phur springs are contiguous to add
curative to the recuperative properties
of our water
Our altitude affords landscape per-
spectiye of wide extent, diversified
beauty and romantic interest, inclu-
ding the bold outlines of lofty noun
tains and massive hills, the softer
features of intervening valleys and
streams, Swallowed all around by un-
dulating and luxuriant forests. A few
miles away far grander scene is Wis
ible. where, standing upon the summit
of DAM Mountain, "the world lies at
the tourists feet.
And the sojourner who quits the
city's dull season finds us in the hey
day Of the years work. The "black-
ensd harvesters" are then cutting their
widest, deepest "subterranean swaths"
while locomotives and cars are press
ed to their. utmost to carry away the
fruit Of their labor. He finds stir
ring. growing town-no Fictitious To-
cality, destitute of all interest except
that bestowed for speculative purposes
but one standing environed by all
the immediate and many of the collAt-
eral employments of the greatest in
dustry in the United States.
In point of varied attractiveness we
know of no place which combines so
much to invite, to entertain and to re-
cnperate. To the romantic, the prac
tical and infrm, special advantages
present themselves. To the latter orr