The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05

DAY tho surveyors at sons pointAj find IL
rough, engineers passing thro1uf h i II,
making railroad survey. q R1fatnrE stlir that It
IS 1.-THE most difioult 2ot access they ever
encountered. 81 " I'M iffS a
Mssss R!5se
land. iTs IN 1913 a rev vision 5wjs made OF
the limo BY oommis3 toner's appointed by
tho States OF Pennsy fyanla, aryland ana
5DelowareIt 5S SO accui rate .waY the work OF
Mason and Dixon TINT thb change 4, II In 4
volyed by the corrS ystion am|ounted 70 less
than two acres, ,leh we're added 70 the the
which are 8 70 yot e tact, we're transported
from England They arr OF a light grey
%isl1- brown color being Ss peculiar sadmix-,
sture Of sand al q limest tone and are dis
tingufsha bic b a peculiar odor, not 5,in..
stone essNsa stonss
which were 1blanted ehst Of sldellng5 Hill
we're landed At New Castle. L,eleware,s
and transpo1 ted across the country hose M
for points test Of sideling Hill were e
I hrougt hit IN the Il sPotomao q liver on. fiat
boats. The ssto1es Telg b In the eSneig hbor.
hood pounds and are IL leet I, .9ns 9
ter la Insport hem through the wild + y,
mesa. wv has been necessary TO substi-s s' s.
tute abd5u seventy-flve new stones tore
place those carried ava or broken up:
The ne fW stones are all Sof white mar M DIG
long and Ten ehes sauaI g, !, s l, \.
Goa T. rl,f arms OF Penn on one side and the
cscuf fqheonSo OF Lord tlmoreS on the Sotn- =
!. .er.t III The &other+sstone are marked With
al ri on one side and an NJ on the HotheE.t
Thd stones on the entire line nun nberf 2oo
an up to 81 ldeling6 Hill i3a stones Y haze
les 5of %. mil
10 sidelIng Hill they are bell e ypla ce ~
II reculars In tervals "A OF f from one fha e
nile ,to 2one and one. hal lf miles. Z his p
4 |necessaryfl In the N oun tains as the stones
are set In a straight line so that one. can
be seen from anot her. This its done ato
/ given the basis for work and are en-
N abled 10 run strait ight line. bout sev.
five stones will be replaced west so{
sidelt hi, Hill Mr.. Martin has had m any
Sintefa sting exper fences In etracinE ana
grecoy4 ring stones He has observed that
$at lea st eIght persons responsible for the
remoy hl3 q olltion ,of the stones have 8
met e. e. .,ath In a tragic; way---by suictde
3hangins. N,S7urder and accident The four
teen old Istnss,1e planted west Of stdel!ng
Hill were srecoYe>red near Clearsprlns, NC. i,
and hauled to the slsS2ints where they have
asa door steps other we into
porch steps and others were. used as sills
In carriage var ds. 5 One was Is AIKEN up in
4 the streets OF Clearspring, where It was
used as q curb Two were taken Nut 2of
s the Park Head Church, along the = Ma
tional Pike nine miles east 9! aanco ock::'rr
There are still six Of the original stones
In use near Clearspring g as fdoorstlls. The
people in whose possession they now arc l' ,
refuse to give then, u =. This fact has
been reported to the Maryland Commits
bslon but SO far no legal proceedings have
been Instituted to recover them IS 8l1
4 CROWN STONE. q
sEAt the town Of Eliersls, SIX miles above
here a beautiful crown stone has Just
been placed. It is very conspicuous and
As al facsimile OF the stone now In pos
sessions OF the Pennsylvania Historical So
sciety OF Phia d phia.S T he latter stone
was found In a cellar at he corner OF
sCalvertSan Lombard Streets, Bplttmore.
northeast corner near Frairyiew, ,tss on J
North Mountain. The IS tone had i lain
there since 1876 and had been forgotten
EItliwas shipped to Arthur r. Bner. s. Co.,
leather dealers. who desired to present II
to Druid IIlll Park, but those In charge
of the park refused to receive It, Sd Z
was then relegated to the gcel liar and was
Clearspring, who had hauled the stone
to the railway station for Mr.. Baer, who
had bark interests In the mountain. This
lad Mr.. Martin to look up the Baers TO
fine that4the firm had gone ont Of husi-
ness. He at length located where the
firm had once been!tn business and called
there, explaining his mission only to 4he
told that there was no stone 4 In the cell
liar, He persisted, however, with b his |
belief that It was on the premises. ard
was at last permitted TO make search Els