Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-06-29
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~ spicy sketch of the Trip
THE county commissioners made their
annual trip over the roads Of the unincor-
/ porated townships Of Hancock county last
week. TmE AMERICAN invited a word
| picture Of the trip and the following l. the
result:
AZ your request We furnish YOU 4 ha,ty
sketch Of our recent trip over The uninror-
porated townships Of Hancork county The
laws Of Maine make it the duty OF the COM
mis-tOner- to care for the roads Wing therein
to assess annually certain sums 10 be expended
on them, ana to appoint agents to rxg end them
1t also makes ii the official dury Of the com
mi-sloner- to 20 over these roads vice each
year-in the month, OF june ana September
10 zee what their agents have done. are doing
and oush. 10 10, to the end that suitable road,
shall be maintainei BY sufficient sppropria-
tion property expended.
We have six Of these townships. which em-
brace some twenty-five mile, or more uf roads.
and to cover them are Obliged to traverse
circuit hich takes into and through a
portion Of fourteen different towns ami town
county. Thi> route takes Us over mile, Of IN
inhabited territory. though long stretches Of
hard Mood forest. at this season Of the year
thicAly hung with green foliage through
wastes where fire has left naught but ,esoIa-
ton in 1t, path. through settled and cultivated
sections, where well-ceared farms and commo-
diou> farm building, form beautiful pictures
In the frame work Of natural scenery.
Rising often to an emnence that sweeps the
horizon, one becomes encirced in 4 wreath Of
mountains in which rivers and ponds sparkle
| like jewels in diadem, inters persed with the
variegated color, Of the forest, making a com
| bination Of charming views worth long
| journey TO behold.
THE START.
| on the 18th inst. we started our semi
annual trip, leaving Ellsworth about 1.3o a. m.
| for No. 3j via No. 5 and Walfham. The >ky
was somewhat cloudy and the air still and
| sutry. By the time we reached No. The
mosquitoes were out in full numbers, r, ady to
| give a hearty welcome. They were indeed
| hearty, and the way they partook of our mortal
| substance was enough to make grim nature
| curl. Ii was our part TO sit back in the car
.riage and fight mosquitoes, " bile the other man
| drove. Ii was desperate fight for life on our
| part; for the life OF the mosquito unceasng
| battle from the time we entered No. until we
| rested at the hotel in No. 80. These little
cannbas never put In more persistent and
effective work on county commissioners than
| ON June l3, 1898.
| How long it would take such an army Of
| entire board /. an unsoved problem. We had
no time to think or look with any degree of
| composure, because Of these harassing blood
suckers. We little but mosquitoes they
| filed our eyes, waded into our mouths, pene-
| trated our cranial regions, sung their lullabys
| in our ears, crowded up our shirt sleeves and
| well-nigh drove US out of our boots; but the
| blood stains on our lap robe showed that the
enemy had not fought without considerable
| loss.
A PRETTY SCENE.
| At noon we rested on Waltham Ridge
at the Fox hotel-a better resting place
| for the weary traveller it is hard to find neat
ness, hospitality and quietness are abiding
| virtues here. This ridge is well covered with
| thrifty farms, aud dotted with residences that
would adorn any landscape. On every hand
mountains rising in the distance shut in the
view, The Tunk mountain, Green mountain,
| Bluehill, and long chain of wooded and
nameless mountains stretch away to the north
west like immense earth works, thrown up
by nature to protect this section from an in
| yading foe.
From this ridge where we are stopping we
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