Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
J. u. ODER. Editor
Frost burg,


exposure of Allegany industries, the
zenith of the temperate zone in summer
and the climatic ideal of dry cold in
winter-here is the perfected SitnS fol-
the future capital of the old or of new
county.
From across the mountainous, far
above all infectious taints, the breezes
blow with life-giving salubrity.
Under our feet, within Gods own
laboratory, flows river of life free to
us if we will take it, and in itself al
most pledge Of mundane immortality
Above the atmospheric stratum
wherein the falcon wheels his flight,
no raven croaks within our hearing
nor buzzard offends the sight. OF the
sovereigns Of the air only the eagle,
with his eye set upon the sun, passes
up this way.
No town in Maryland so large over
looks an expense so broad, or takes
within its horizon so many objects Of
sublime interest. The hills and noun
tains of three States fall within the
compass of vision. Clothed with
Natures garment of living green, like
the ''gardens of Gul in their bloom"
it is perspective which enchants the
artist and fills the reverent soul with
the poetry of Paradise.
Here on this plateau is infallible
Natures dream of the seat of empire.
Here is where she would rear the
future rulers of a realm that is king
less and ringless; here she would invite
immigration from all intellectual
domains. and from here she would send
representatives and senators to thrill
the Legislature and the congress with
an eloquence cultivated and finished
under the imposing symbols of indi-
vidual sovereignty. From here she
would elevate to the bench those who
are alike scholastics in law and models
of judicial temperament.
There is, in short, nothing in munic-
ipal preferment to which our town is
not richly eligible, and nothing so
good that it does not deserve it. The
county-seat, fixed here, all the few
needed facilities will quickly follow
and year or two of Improvement will
blot out of memory the fancy that it
ever was uneasily accessible.
AS the capital of the new county all
the prophecies of Nature, as these are
printed upon these mountain-sides,
these hills and along the valleys,-will
have been fulfilled in the culminant
contamination on the watershed of
Jennings run and Georges Creek, the
surface-centre Of the core of all the
semi-bituminous coal regions within
''earth's remotest bound"
Here the philosophers of Appalachian
development will find their true sphere
of evolution. Here, above the lost
remnants of the Great Vein, must live
the generations who will explore and
bring to the surface the incaiculable
tonnages of the lower ranges, and
these will include biologists, engineers,
mechanics and miners each necessari-
ly more than now an artist in his line.
Here will be "School of Mines
more imposing, perhaps, than any
pre-Alexandrian university, and il
Illuminated by more profound scholar
ship than ever made illustrious an
Athenian lyceum.
And upon the ruins of storebox
architectural taste our children will
erect the arcades, columnsand capitals
of magnificent summer resorts for the
overheated summer sojourners, and
shelter themselves within the safe,
comfortable and aesthetic shades of
palatial residences.
This, then, is the place for the coun-
ty-seat. 1t is the centre of business
gravity, the nave of industrial motion
and the nucleus Of brilliant growth?
In this climacteric period of its
history, therefore, Frostburg conf
IDENTIFY asserts its eligibilities as meas.
uring to the full the supmun 5onum of
all requisites and all excellencies.
In physics it would be denominated
the axis upon which the county re-
wolves; in geography the natural
junction of all populations and inter-
ests, and in topography the ultima
thule of healthful location and environ
ment.
Her glstening church-towers catch
the first CLEANS of the morning sun,
and reflect the latest glitter of his even
ing farewells. Over her homes bends
the serenest of heavens, and upon her
roof-trees day and night the sun and
stars love to shine.
She is the supreme pet of Nature.
And a luminous, picture of the idea
metropolis of inspiration-"a city sci
upon hill"
And ought to be the
Home, dear home, l never shall forget
of all her children-at home as we'll as
abroad.
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