Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-06-16
"E'rOStbuI'n,"

cnOfIlN AFTER Cumberland permitted
the courthouse to burn down a pro-
posal to locate the county-seat at
Frostburg gained some Roadway.
OF course, the JOURNAL favored it
as just the thing, and in that con-
nection published the appended article
as the leading editorial in ITS issue of
January %, 1893.
the edition of that date was quickly
exhausted. Occasional calls for copies
OF the article below, and lately re-
quest for its republication, induce the
JOURNAL to comply:
Here on this high plateau, the penutimate
of Allegany attitudes the climax of Allegany
civilizations, the cynosure of Allegany in
dustries, the zenith of the temperate zone in
summer, the cimacteric ideal of dry cold in
winter-here is the perfected situS for the
future capital Of the old or of new county.
From across the mountaln-tops far above
all infectious taints, the breezes blow with
hte-giving salubrity.
Under our feet, within Gods own labor
atory, flows a river Of life free to us if we will
take it, and in itself almost a pledge of
mundane immortality.
Above the atmospheric stratum wherein
the falcon wheels his flight no raven croaks
within our hearing nor buzzard otfends the
sight. Of the soveregns of the air only the
OIL q n
this way.
No town in Maryland so large overlooks
an eXpanse so broad, or takes within its
horizon SO many objects Of sublime interest.
The hills and mountains of three States fall
within the compass of vision. Clothed with
Natures garment of Lying green, like the
gardens of Gul in their bloom" it is per-
spective which enchants the artist and fills
the reverent soul with the poetry of Paradise
Here on this plateau is intallible Natures
dream of the seat of empire. Here is where
she would rear the future rulers of a realm
that is kingless and ringless here she would
invite immigration from all intellectual do
mains, and from here she would send rep
resentatives and senators to thrill the legis
lature and the congress with an eloquence
cultivated and finished under the imposing
symbols Of individual sovereignty. From
here she would elevate to the bench those
who are alike scholastcs in law and models
of Judicial temperament.
There is, in short, nothing in municipal
preterment to which our town is not richly
eligible, and nothing 50 good that it is not de-
served. 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 was ever uneasily
accessible.
As the capital of the new county all the
prophecies of nature, as these are printed
upon the mountain sides, the hills and along
the valleys-wil have been fulfilled in the
culminant contamination on the watershed
of Jennings run and Georges Creek, the sur
face-centre of the core of all the semi-bltumi-
nous coal regions within 'earths 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 incalculable tonnages of the lower ranges,
and these will include biologists, engineers,
mechanics and mlners-each necessarily
more than now an artist in his line.
Here will be school of Mines" more
imposing, perhaps, than any pre- Alexandrian
university, and illuminated by more pro.
found scholarship than ever made ilustrous
an Athenian lyceum.
And upon the ruins of a storeboX archi-
tectural taste our children will erect the
arcades columns, and capitals of magnificent
summer resorts for overheated summer
sojourners, and shelter themselves within the
safe, comfortable and aesthetic shades of
palatial residences.
This, them is the place for the county. seat
1t is the centre of business gravity, the nave
of industrial motion and the nucleus of
metropolitan growth?
In this climacteric period of its history
therefore, Frostburg confidently asserts its
eligibilities as measuring to the full the
su"'nun, bo"um of all requisites and all ex-
cellencieS.
In physics it would be denominated the
axis upon which the county revolves; in
geography the natural junction of all popula-
tons and interests, and in topography the
ultima H"le of healthful location and environ
ment.
Its glistening church-towers catch the first
CLEANS Of the morning sun, and reflect the
latest glitter of his evening farewells Over
its homes bends the serenest of heavens, and
upon its roof trees day ana night the sun and
stars love to shine.
1t is the supreme pet of Nature.
And luminous picture of the ideal
metropolis of inspiration-"a city set upon
hill"
And ought to be the
Home, dear home, never shall forget
Of all its children-m homes as well as abroad.