The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-04
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| oii lLc lllOuHlilH top, w Ille we are ct
 present in the midst of extreme drouth,
 and water supplies at lowest ebb-a
 find of great importance was last week
 revealed on Mt. Carmel. Workmen
 were ordered to excavate a pit in the
 basin near the house of Messrs Brown
 and Stillson on the top of the rock
 called Cedarhurst. This basin covers
 near an acre in extent, and is filled with 1 the accumulatons of the forest for un- | told ages. After two feet of the leaves
 and brush were removed the water
 rushed into the opening with such force
 that continued bailing was required
 for the Workmen to proceed. The in coming water was clear and of icy cold
 ness sufficient proof that it comes
 through some subterranean stream with very remote source. This water supply
 is on the very top of the mountain.
 Several houses are already built and
 more lots sold here. John Edward 1 Heaton owns a tract of twenty acres
 of land with right to this water sup
 ply and it is his intention to thoroughly
 clean out all the accumulation of peat, with which the swamp is filled, and when fully explored as to supply and volume, construct such a system of water distribution as will best suit the wants of the people who have or may l hereafter build a residence here. The
 name of John Edward Heaton is sutf-
 cient guarantee to all who know him l that whatever he does will need no cen
 sor and that to have dealings With him
 affords the highest qualification.
 l c. M. Conklin, the general freight | agent of the Consolidated road, with his family is now stopping in the Stone | cottage, where he has passed the month of August for several years past Rev.
 R. c. Bell and family from Granby, | Massachusetts, will occupy his house on the very summit, this week, for the
 ensuing month. Rev. MT Bell will supply the pulpit in the North Haven Congregational church on Sundays dur ing part of his vacation. The Palla-
 dium gave an unwarranted heading to an article printed last week, which was written to appear as Legend of Payne's Hoe," whereas it appeared
 under the heading of Trouble in
 Mount Carmel" The people who have
 lived their lives in amity about this
 mountain do not want it to appear to
 the outside world that We cannot con-
 done the enterprise of a citizen of
 New Haven who has bought lot here.
 There is land enough for a great many more buyers who will come and pay for it, and when they take a deed that reads and describes land on the "top of the mountain not expect it gives them a guarantee to go five hundred feet beyond the top, to the foot of the mountain, so as thus to secure a spring
 nf rofn ,ta1, 1o- Ira, o1 and controlled by the ancestors of the owners now in possession since the land was first granted in the original lay out The unauthorized lines are run by a surveyor who has found it a prolific source of revenue to run lines through | the woodlands for any one who will | pay for same and call them mountain | lines. A marked stone has disappeared | during these late surveys, which is severe grievance to the owners of the ! land, as the stone bore the family in- itials, cut and placed there more than ! one hundred years ago. The initials ! cut were "J. B." for Job Blakslee, and f I'll. IT," an adjoining land owner. These < initials were cut in a block of red | sandstone that is found at the foot of ! Che mountain near the former residence E of said Job Blakslee and now occupied . by Frederick Jacobs and family, the direct descendants and owners in direct succession. MT. Jacobs has lately filled term of four years as postmaster of North Haven. MT. Jacobs and family will try to bear the irreparable loss with Christian forttude and take such steps as to secure the land from being taken with the landmark. MT Jacobs last saw the marked stone in company with and revealed its hiding place be- heath a slab of trap rock, where 1t marked the boundary line to J. H. How arth, short time ago. just previous to the work of the surveyor employed by J. H. Howarth in running his new line, which diverged from the original line where the marked stone was deposited.
 Some other curious legends have their origin here. The Cave of Perpetual Sleep, or Amos Cave, was being sought for by a company of schooboys. Peer ing between the brush and overhanging rocks, one of the boys saw the form of a man, dressed as if in sleep. He at once shouted to his followers: Here 1t is and Amos is in it.' Further investi- gation showed the man to be indeed in his last sleep, doubtless having died from inhaling the noxious gases of the place and the body turning to petrifac- tion-a caution to visitors not to sleep in the noxious valley, the home of the Copperhead snake. There Is another cu- rious myth very we'll authenticated of an escaped lunatic rowing these wilds and after search proving unavaling be- ing sought for with bloodhounds, and his bones discovered many years later as proof that here was his end. Even now when the paying of the blood- hounds which roam these forests re- echoes from cliff to cliff magination can fancy the fleeing man crazed with terror flying from their pursuit. The chase now may be after nothing more than Reynard the fox, but at sunset and dawn the bark continues, with the occasional sight of a startled fox springing from pursuit, followed by two ferocious dogs of great size and bred especially for the chase Unmatched for courage, strength and
 speed"
 Truly we have still here a sylvan re- treat, rich in historic past and full of vagaries for fancy and imagination to explore Last night I slept there be- heath the stars, where unprotected from l the wind I awoke with a swelling 5