Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-04-24
WHOLE NUMBER, 44S.
or a.' sell, deliberately announced his

and the discoverers. Lynch's faith in
the value Of tho mine is such that he
has refused to sell his one-sixth inter-
est on any terms, .and has calmly
waited" ed"developments, never being
tempted from the spot by the most
brilliant prospects eleewhe, e. While
Twas at the mine, one of the squat
ters" went into an old drift, and
brought out about two quarts of the
pulverized and rotten rock, out of
which he washed over dollars worth
ofNRold; and was informed by the
chief storekeerer in Elizabethtown
that this same "squatier" had during
last winter, gone into the old shaft
and drifts and brought out 'speci-
mems which had yielded him over
$2,O00,-ths storekeeper having pur-
chased the specimens" and paid the
money. Hence Mr.. lynch's faith
seems Justified and his assertion that
the mine is worth $6,000,000-he
having the most intimate knowledge
OF its resources of any person living
does not seem so impossible to me as
it did when / was talking with him
last evening. la'7f
/ became curious to know how this
vast and valuable property was lying
apparently dead, when on every hand
was the incentive for both capital and
labor to enter into competition for
its development; and, on my way
back to Elizabethtown, from my three
companions I heard the history of
what must certainly be classed as one
of those wild border tales, whose
Homeric proportions dwarf the trans
actions of ordinary life to such an ex-
tent that the credulity of an eastern
man is first exhausted ia believing it,
and afterward his Imagination stretch
ed to its utmost to grasp the colossal
grandeur and scope of its large posi-
bilities. I do not think I could have
taken it all "in" myself, assisted as l
was b. the memories of my oompan-
ions, who were intimate with ita de-
\
tails, had I not happily been first
given an "object lesson" on scale of
magnifcence worthy the theme un.
der discussion.
THE ASCENT OF BALDY,
considering its height-nearly $4,000
fest above tide-water- not diff
cult; indeed, it is the least difficult
of any peak l have ever sscen led.
Horses can be ridden to the timbe-t.
inc, and from thence the ascent over
huge boulders and loose shale, thst
make it tolersbly easy climbing. TIE
summit IS a perfect cone, terminating
in peak nearly level, about 500 feet
in diameter, and from which view
of almost unparalleled magnifcence
is outrolled at our feet. The whole
horizon is exposed to the eye at the
same moment. Away to the west is
seen through the glass the San Juan
mountain, nearly 800 miles distant;
to the north, 200 miles away, can be
sem Pixies peak, looming darkly
against the sky to the east-beyond
the tunbling foothills, which seem
mountains from the plain, but at this
elevation look like ant-hills-stretch-
es the rolling country away into Tex
as, while south the view extends $50
miles. The diameter of the limits fix
ed by the rounded horizon is bs:ween
500 and 600 miles--a view worth
coming all the way from Chicago to
look at.
1t was from the peak of Baldy that
Mr.. Sherwin pointed out to me the
vast limits of his "farm," and enabled
me to better understand the score of
the story was subsequently. told
about.
| THE MAXWELL GRANT.
Locking off toward the north from
the summit of Mount Badly, the eve
runs over the vast stretch of alternat-
ing parks and foothills that lead up
in the Ration mountains until it rests
upon the Spanish peaks, towering
high over all. Just south of these
famous mountains, nearly rs miles
away, stands Cutebrs peak, lifting
its head proud y above its neighbors,
like mighty sntinel guarding the
gateway to the northwest corner of
the territory / wn as the Maxwell
grant" OFF T. ne northeast over so
miles away, seen the, Eagletail
mountain, beneatl which, few miles
south of Tril Il, the Atchison. To-
peka and Sa: Fe road enters tho
4 grant. Due Cayt over f;ftv no;lo, a..