Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-31
IN YORK COUNTY.

Some days ago wrote hasty sketch of
my rambles over the York county bills back
OF Wild Cat Falls and ofmy visD6 Codorus
flint mill. There are many curiSus objects
10 be seen in the vicinity besides the mill,
not the least interesting of which is the old
blast furnace long out OF use, ON the bank of
the Codorus short distance below the mill. |
1t is a solid stone structure something like
the tower of an old castle. 1t Is circular i'm
| form and bound by heavy iron bands. II is
| 80 feet in height, perhaps 30 feet wide at the |
| base and tapering to width of 20 feet at the |
| top, and upon tho summit of II IL an odd |
| looking little four-cornered brick structure, |
less than half the height or half tho diameter
| of the stone building. This is built not on
the centre OF the stone building, but extends
far out over the wall and looks rs though II
might easily he blown Off by a heavy wind
but there it has stood for years and years,
unused, and to most OF the inhabitants the
purpose of its erection unknown. Ferns and
shrubs and weeds grow in tho crevices of
both the stone and brick structure. Not being
an iron-export shall not further attempt to
describe it. AS a ruin of past age 1t is as
picturesque as an old German castle. Near
, | by It stands tumble-down building, partly
I stone and partly frame, filled with heavy old
fashioned machinery, and n little further up
5 the creek, DIR. Townsend informed me, while
q making excavations he came upon the site
of an old charcoal furnace, built before the
u Revolutionary war.
ALONG THE CoDoRUs TO TROUT RUN.
n Leaving the flint mill our party drove up
, the wagon road along the bank of the Co
u dorus as far as Trout run. There are high
y rocky bluffs on either side of the creek,
Is along the left bank of which the Northern
- Central railroad company is grading new
branch of their railroad TO York with the OBJ
/ ject of avoiding some heavy grades on theil
&c present line.
,r Arriving at the mouth of Trout run W,
leave our carriage and enter the glen afoot
10 and follow the babblng, splashing little
in stream into the gorge between the mountains
is The ascent Is rather difficult though not yer,
steep. There are rocks everywhere, SOM
of them picturesquely grouped and covere'
)n with lichens and MOSES. One of these l
Ii called Castle Rock, and presents a very fin
-, representation of the battlements and tower
ne of an old baronial CASTLE Another prett
to view has been named Dana's Bathtub. Th
in overflowing water has worn away the roc
" until it has formed pretty basin about tn
size of bathtub, into which water flow
from little cascade. 1t looked very inyi
ats ing, but none other than very "cold watt
man" would venture into II, as its temperatui
is that of spring water. After exploring u
the run for several hundred yards, and admi
,,, ing its many beauties, we retraced our stel
,' ' TO its mouth, where under the shade OF owe
sh- hanging rocks, we met picnic party lunc
, to ing having for their table broad, fiat rocl
der close DeSlues tne ripping water. Trout ~
me- is not so picturesque as Glen Onoko, but
,o, well worth seeing and some day, after u
~, railroad along the banks of the Codorus shf
'oi have been finished, will become popul
he summer resort.
ors THROUGH THE FOREST.
no Re-entering our carriage TO return to ne
$50 tho mouth of the Codorus, and ascend go
der but rather steep road leading into the fore
VII" through which we travel several miles Il
nns timber is heavy and much of 1t has been al
oi and is being used for railroad ties, fence pos
cuiI and rails and other purposes. There mu
be be at the present time 10, 900 railroad ties c
ent and lying along the road side awaiting sh
war ment 1t appears they were cut in antcil
80, ton of the building of railroad along
'oo' west bank of the Susquehanna from Wrigh
'ery Vile north to the Codorus, an enterprise Il
But has been suspended, If not abandoned.
AID At several points along these forest roa
nd n are openings from which may be seen all
TIT | upper end of Lancaster county, the vi
stretching from EliZabethtown, far
lcah yond Ephrata, and away down
terra most to the Chester county lii
There are few views more magnifc
to be seen anywhere. We scarcely real
tom what paradise we live in until we get uI
some elevated spot from which the eye tai
in forest and field orchard and gard
out mansion and barn, hOcks and herds and
the hundreds of other beauties and blessings
his | which we are surrounded. If Moses vi
900 | from the top of Mount Pisgah had been
''''' as lovely as was ours from the topo
York hills, he would have " viewed
landscape over and done a. ] did M
haste to get over the river j. NJ. ,