Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-05-23

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number Of our citizens have been n,
terested. The following were in the
party from Huntingdon; William Dor
ris, Esq, David Blair, Esq, DR.. r. A.
Miller, John Whitehead, oil of whom
have interests in the Clearfeld coal I;
s. +. Henry, James Port, Hon. Alex.
Port, Joseph Watson, Frank Hefright,
Ex-senator r. B. Petrikin, Samuel T..
Brown, Esq, Brother Lindsay, of the
Local NelrS, Brother Durborrow, Of The
Journal, the editor of the Globe, and
Monsieurs Colbert and Brasseur, the
Belgian Plate Glass gentlemen, for
whose benefit the expedition was or
ganized.
At Tyrone we were augmented by
r. A. Mccoy, Banker, W. +. Steiner,
Lumber Merchant, Thomas Nee Cauley,
Lumber Merchant, and AL. Tyhurst,
editor of the Tyrone Herald, and q
carpet-bagger, formerly from this coun-
ty. Then there was 5. S. Blair, Super.
intendent of the Tyrone Branch Roads,
to whose courtesy and guidance we
owed our ride in special car, and W.
! c. Irwin, Conductor, ID. D. Wood,
rrainmaster, "Yank" Lathon, Engi-
neer John Botger, Fireman.
Thus made up at 8 o'clock we took
TO the mountains. Up we went-and
still higher-and higher. For thir-
teen miles an average OF one hundred
and six feet TO a mile, and at one time
the ascent is even one hundred and
iorty.seven feet to a mile. Soon we
began TO "look down with contempt"
on small towns like Tyrone. At length,
at Vanscoyoc Station, four intrepid ed
itors mounted the pilot-cow-catcher
Ito view the landscape DER. Theview
was grand, glorious and peculiar
mountains, ravines, cuts, curves, saw
logs, houses, fields, &C., especially the
and so-forths. Lindsay was just crack.
ing joke about any COW that might
be on the track, when there appeared
vertable lean, lank, dilapidated spec
linen of the bovine tribe. She stood
fair on the track before us. Then she
retreated few steps and again faced
us. We had visions Of spattercd blood,
and scattered cuds, with hoofs, horns
and all the incidentals of butcher
shop. The engineer shut off the steam,
put on the brakes. Still she didn't
scare. At length she got one good
look at the editor of the Journal, when
she took fright aud leaped over the
bank We were saved, and here the
episode ends. Moral. Those who own
cows and those who run engines should
always keep the Journal man on the
cow-catcher as a precaution.
At Sandy Ridge, which is little
beyond the summit on the road we
exchanged the dangers of the front
position Tor more comfortable seat in
our car At Osceola we were trans
ferred to the Moshannon Branch. We
were glad to see that the town has
been resurrected from its ashes and
stands forth anew and beautiful. Here
Ex.Sberiff Pie Joined us, and being
Frenchman, kept company with our
French speaking Brasseur. The logs
in the dam at Osceola are a surprise
to those of US not familiar with the
lumber regions. We passed up to
Houtzdale and then TO the end of the
road at Ramey & McCauley'ssaw mill.
This saw mill Is mammoth affair.
1t uses up saw logs faster than Amos
Martins dog took down buckwheat
cakes, which he described as being "a
flop, flop, and it was gone" We saw
one log 60 in and emerge in eighteen
boards. They have 4OO,OO0,00O feet
on hand ready for market. A portion
of the saw dust is carried to the fur
mace and supplies steam sufficient to
run the whole machinery The lum-
Der mill was carefully examined and
our Belgian friends were much de-
lighted.
Houtzdale in spite OF the depression
in the coal and lumber trade seems to
be thrifty village, and improvements
seem to be going on briskly. This
place was laid out by the late Dr.
Houtz, OF Alexandra, and his heirs
still run the Eureka, Franklin, Penn
and Webster mines. We did not get
time to call on several friends in the
village.
Returning below the town we again
took the Goss Run Branch road north
about two miles This road was built
by John Whitehead & Co., Fisher
Bros. 4 Miller, David Blair, all of Hunt
ingdon, and Keatle & Co, of Pottsville,
to reach their respective coal lands. In
tour months after the commencement
of theroad coal was shipped on it from
Whitehead's opening, and during the
first year 1900 tons were shipped
from this mine.
The mine Of Fisher Bros. a. Miller
was opened in the spring of 1875, and
since then shipped about 100000 tons.
II has capacity of four hundred and
fiftv TONS nor dav and Ia novy rnnnino,