Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-07-10


Mrs Anna NJ Ward Miss Mary Mowery
Miss Anna NJ Ward Mrs S Reckncr
Kate Hoblizcll o England
Nina Hoblitzell NJ Reese
| Mrs J X HobltZell Anna Evans
/ Miss Allie Hartzell Sarah Spcrry
Mrs A Porter Mary Thomas
II A Kane NJ E Kennedy
Miss Fannie Taylor NJ NJ Martin
Mrs G. McCuloh Sarah Noel
S + McCulloh Jennie Bowen
Miss G McCulloh Eliza Stephens
l. McCullOh vi Biddington
| Mrs S r Frost Belle Smeltz
Miss Haidee w Frost Laura Riggs
| Mrs J A Armstrong Jane Oats
Miss NJ Armstrong Kate Thomas
S NJ Armstrong Ann Reese
! The want of time only is the reason why
every lady in Frostburg was not called up
on All who were, readily responded and
approved the measure.
! WE went over to Brady's Mill the other
day. The route lies through picturesque
countrg-mountain hill, valley and stream.
The forests and fields have on their best
looks now, and the scenes presented were
'luitt l'it'Hiiis5 W 'iiS 'Aii "A'' i>''iN" ~
the sun set side Of the Blue Ridge.
The harvest of wheat was progressing.
The crop is thin but the quality is good.
! Corn is not far advanced, and some is wilt
| ing, or, as one old man said of his patch, ''it
/ is struck"
We rested awhile at the residence of Mrs.
! Mary G. barrow. From the front the Level
| bottoms, the river and double-trackcd rail
way stretch east and west On the West
/ Virginia side the mountains rear high their
rocky breasts, shutting out vista we some
times read of as numerous in Africa. But
! this is a beautiful view to those who love
! Nature capricious submi1y.
( One of the inalicnable liberties of the
ncighbolhood is the llnwrittcn license to
/ fish and battle in the Potomac, or, as the
rustic poet apothcosZcs
"Roll on, thou lovely Cohongoruton--
/ Long hast thou glor:ousv rall--
Giving fresh sucker fish to Olt Allcgany,
And-and- and-ficcdom to man
] We asserted the manor privilege of the race
the instincts and habits indeed of both
the peoples whom tradition and history
teach us have passed up and down the stage
of generations on these banks. We hathcd.
| Within the cool shade of stately trees that
fringe the margin Of the rivera grove fit
for the Dryads-onc may gam3ol in the soft
waters like the sporiyc Ncrcids OF the deep
in the translucent waves and upon the yell
q ~. a, ,1l,..
Really, it is a delightful, inyi@orating
pleasure, well worth the drive to the river.
A pENNsYLvANIA EDiroK's VIEW OF
FRosrHuEG.-Mr j. w. Yocum, editor Of
the Columbia (Pa) SPY, gives his readers
the impressions our public works, re-
sources, scenery, town, etc, have made upon
him in the following paragraphs. Aterduc
allowance tvr several triiling errors OF state
mcnt and figures, we may put them down
as complimentary
Thursday mornings excursion under the
general direction of Mr.. Cessna, the prcS-
dent, and Mr.. Provost, the superintendent,
took the newspaper men over the Bedford
& Bridgeport r. II. to Mount Savage June
on, and thence over branch of the Cum
bcrand & Pennsylvania II. II. to the city
of Cumberland, Md, Here Il speech of wei
come by the Mayor, who extended the
hospitality of the city, thing which has
always been incomprchensiblc to our
mind an excellent dinner at the Queen
City Hotel owned by the b. & o. II. x.
Co.; short drive over the principal
streets side glance across the Potomac
into Virginia and half hours thaw in the
shadow of Il big thermometer with the mer
curry at %, and we embarked again for a
trip over the Cumberland Il Pennsylvania
Railroad, one of the wealthicst corporations
in America The trip, in pure Western
phraseology, was red hot" Two putting,
snorting cintler throwing engines took our
train up the heights with grade VARYING
from 80 to 1870 feet to the mile. We
scaled" the heights of Frostburg by the
switch back process. 1t is a slow and te
dious way of ascending from the Potomac,
but it is the only way, and the traveller has
no alternative.
Away up ON these mountain heights,
$500 feet above the level of the sea, we ran
against the town of Frostburg, 1000 inhab-
itants, and our advance was unheralded TOO.
The raid was friendly one and the citi
zcns were not terror-stricken. 1t is a
wealthy town, and the money all comes
out of the everlasting hills. The site of the
town is undermined throughout, but the
people seem 70 live in undisturbed peace.
They have a Methodist church, ornament
ed with a solid stone, spirc, which cost 800,
600 A Roman Catholic church just finish
ed cost $4,000. Miners wearing caps or
namented with small oil lamps, attracted
much attention. The Frostburg Mining
Journal is the only newspaper and job of
| flee in the place, and the editor Is rich and
saucy From his door his eagle eye can
sweep three statcs-Nirginia on the right,
Maryland IN the centre, and Pennsylvania
on the left. The crop of children is large
one An Odd Fellows Hall was in course
of erection, at an estimated cost of $4,000
In the btuminous coal region, south
of town the mining operations are active.
We were told that the pay roll at the mines
in that region, aggregate $250,000 per month,
and that the receipts of the B, Il o. r. II.
company for tonnage from this region
amounted last year to about six millions of
dollars No chance there for ''P. r. r..
Thursday was the warmest day the citizens
of Frostburg had experienced for four
years. Ii is very cold there in winter, and
hence the name, we suppose. The town is
supplied with water from springs in the
mountains.
Another editor, Mr. Thomas Chalfant,