The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-21
THE WATER MILL.
HE OLD-TIME CORN CRACK
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Indiana Gone wi,h the ToIIga,s
 and Wen sweep.

and Well sweep.
 Where have they all gone-the old Ater mills-the overshot wheels that lacked the corn that nourished the ledmen that cleared the forests and led the land of pioneer Indiana?
 They have gone with the old sweep sll, with it's moss-covered oaken |cket, with the old tollgate and its pne-weighted pole, with the old log hoolhouse, and it's red-wielding hster, with the cumbersome shuttle ld loom. Abandoned, dismantled, he. A steam engine or a new-fangled $namo cracks the corn, and grinds the heat and bolts it, too. nowadays.
 tThe old water milis-the overshot heel mills. with the melodious splash
 the water as it went over the wheel, te as scarce in Indiana to-day as are |e old log school-houses or old church. I. There are four of the former, one
 the latter, and probably only one fershot mill now in operations in Idiana. That one grinds between its .|d-fashioned buhrs, back in the hills
 Brown County, the old kind of meal pm yellow corn that made the good lrn bread and pone of the years ago.
 Down in the hills of Crawford and arrison Counties there are few of le old mills left, but most of them are lthout their overshot wheels now, Id are propelled by the water shooting Trough homemade turbines, consisting, tier all. of miniature water wheels en- 'sed in a sort of barrel. They are imitive as the old wheels themselves, bthing like the modern patented tur- he wheels that one sees out of the Ills. One of the most picturesque of lese is in the old William Henry Har- Son farm, six miles from Corydon, and
 used in working a digger saw. It is Hid that the frame of the old mill was ailt by William Henry Harrison, when " planned to lay out a great estate in arrison County, and did build an old 'Slonial type of house and plant an or Bard. Certainly the old mill to-day, ith it's queer water propelled digger Isw. is primitive enough to date back
 the territorial days. There are two M three other primitive enough water ills along Big and Little Blue Rivers, It of old overshot water wheel mills Here is none. The only overshot water heel in all that part is now partly hid In by the trailing vines of Harrison punty hills overlooking the Ohio. It nd an old ramshackle building are all lat is left of the old Boone mill, built |y a relation of Daniel Boone, who Tossed the Ohio and opened his corn lacking outfit in Indiana Territory Inc old Boone m-ll is one of the most Picturesque ruins in Indiana to-day, len if it has been years since the water Assed over, and carried around the |eat wheel, as it hurried down the hill |reams to the Ohio, then to the Missi- &ippi, and to the ocean.
 Another one of the rare old relics ot e pioneer days is hidden away in the Ills near St. Paul, in Shelby county. A ilroad passes within an eighth of a ile of it. but in that eigth of a mile he passes, through the narrowing inks of the river, from the twentieth injury back to the early nineteenth hck where the shade in summer is the
 epest and where the waters of Mil -eek, as they leap over casades, sing
 cir sweetest melodies; back where
 e birds seem to have a little paradise
 of their own, stands the old mill
 is another of those that will never lind with the water that has passed
 has passed many years, but the ole ill itself, perhaps all the more pictur
 que going to decay, still stands as z
 Tt of pathetic reminder of it's glory hen it was the hive of industry ani