The Springdale news., 1889-04-05

FALLS WHERE FULTON TRIED HIS MODEL.
 ionable part of the city should grow. Il was reaching out towards the beautiful suburban villa sites along Rock creek that take so many wealthy people out that way. The rest of the city flied in after them very naturally. There are few houses along the valley. Although the building sites are the finest any where around Wash ington and occur at every bend and sweep of the stream, people seem to have stunned the borders of Rock creek because of the expense necessary in clearing them of heavy timber. Towering oak trees three and four feet through are very common in this forest. Sycamore, elms, tulip trees, red cedars. hiesories, black wanuts and almost every species of forest growth com mon to the temperate zone are to be found.
 Few roads cross the valley. During the war two or three were built at Government expense in order to effect communication between forts on the Fenlevtow, road and those alongnear the Fourteenth-street road.
 Under President Cleveland $ admnistra- tion fine road has been made, cutting across the creek just aboye, connecting with Connecticut ayeEue extended.
 The Rock creek valley is tae fayorite re- sort of fox hunters. here are here and there, not far from the city, foxes to be chased, and out d few miles fox hunting is q very common sport. The fashionable fox hunters in Washington city invariably d. rect their runs across the valley towards country club. The negroes of the vicinity have always regarded the valley as good coon hunting ground, and it is now and then still common to see band of col ored folks following their econ dogs through the woods, liz htng up the column with the flame of their torches.
 In some places the creek is very much like q Rocky Mountain stream tumbiing through it's canyons. There are great masses of powders and rocks, high over hanging cliffs, and the water comes tum. bling down hill, white and seethiug in it's mad course
 At Bughtwood is a genuine canyon, one that translates one to Colorado, so charming is the scenery. It only needs the building Of roads along the valley to make it one of the most delightful pleasure spots in all the world. It wifi take several years and a great deal of money 10 accomplish this but when done Washington and the Nation will have a park in which ali AmerIcans may take pr1de. The land along the stream has been held for many years at high figures in expectation that, sooner or later, either by private enterprise or Government out. lay, a road would be built which should bring all this outlying country within the reach of wealthy people who would prefer to build their villa sites out of toWn and reach the departments and the capital on steam cars, rather than live in the city
 The Government pays for the 2.500 acres of land taken all the way from $500 to S4. GOO an acre, the entire appropriation for the land being million and half It will not cost half of this to make park imme- diately available for a pleasure ground by the building of n few good roads This be ing done a great deal of the territory ad joining the park will be available for build ing sites for people who want 10 live out oi town. The ann is to make this park a rival. fl not a superior, of the famous Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, which embraces the valley of the Wissahickon. Nopp