Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-04-30

ground some six or eight rods belo "
the dam at the outlet, and near the
residence of T. j. Fayer. All the
lodges are similar in character and
have the same range, running north
and south. / am not well enough
versed in geology to name this
rock formation, but the stone is very
fine grained, of blush color, and
nearly as hard and heavy as iron, and
almost impervious to hand drills.
The mill dam is some six or eight
rods down the stream from the outlet
where the ledge crosses, and the bot
tom of the dam ID some three feet
lower than the top of the ledge, go
that when the water is seven feet deep
at the dam it is only about four on
top of the ledge, and if the dam
should go out entirely, only four feet
of water would run out and this won d
have TO pass slowly through a narrow
channel.
The ground about and below the
outlet consists of thin layer of com
mon soil and underneath this is a hard
clay completely filed with hard,
round cobbestones from the size of
an egg to that of bushel BASKET. No
current of water, however swift, will
gully this In 1853 1 remodeled the
mill at the outlet, taking out the old
upright saw and wooden wheel, and
putting in circular mill and iron
turbine wheel, ad wishing to lower
the wheelpit, had three men work two
days with picks, bars and show els,
and they only 10 wered the pit and
channel about twelve feet long from
ten to twelve inches. A large waste
flame for running off surplus water
passed through the dam and with
steep incline and with the lower end
six feet above the ground and the
water striking the ground with great
force had in forty years only washed
away the top layer of soil, leaving in
tact the clay and cobbles
The old hotel at Glover village is
10 feet lower than the dam at Stone
Pond, and many years ago George
Leonard when fishing at the pond let
down lines to the depth of two hun
dred feet, so the bottom of the pond
in lower than the village and with
four miles of intervening land and
hundreds of acres of meadows for the
water to spread out upon, there is no
probability, however small, that the
village will ever be swept away. The
dam has withstood the many high
water tests for sixty years and is not
going to play any new tricks in 1906.
Should the four feet of surface water
run out as fast as it possibly could,
none of it would reach Barton village
in less time than six hours, possibi y
not less than seven, and all of your
capitalists will have ample time to
make their wills after the water starts
before they will be swept away. ]
have had no talk with T. j. Fayer
| whose residence is below the dam
some eight or ten rods, where he has
| lived I think for as much as forty
years, but venture the assertion tb al
liz interviewed in the midst Of the
present scare he would say that he
had no fears o. Stone Pond running
away. M
In the famous seven years. lawsuit
"Selectmen of Glover VS.. G. w. Me
Gaffey," Capt. Caleb A. Clark, a reiia
BILE and respected citizen of Glover
who if now living would be nearl.
one hundred years old, testified unde
oath that when a BOY he used to go i
swimming in Stone Pond and man
I'll mes when the wa er was low ha
stood on foe ledge that crosses tn
outlet. For seven years the authori
ties Of Glover with all the legal know
edge and acumen of Gen. w.
/, G. out and l.. H. Thompson to ASST
them, tried in vain to establish I'll
fact that the dam at Stone Pond W,
oi unsafe and that the pond was me-
If ace to the public, but they failed
I'd accomplish their object and aft
th spending nearly $4,000 of the ia
Us pay ers' money, they were obliged
ne leave the dam and the water power
re- the hands and control of the defen
las ant, whose property, consisting of t'
circular mills, one bobbin shop, o
dry house and three hundred q
twenty acres of timber land, had be
damaged $1,000. Now if all the 81
he and art of those learned gentlem
In after seven years. trial failed to &C
~, vi vince the several courts in which
les case was tried that the dam
nd pond were dangerous to the lnha
nus tants and the property on thu sire
sst bslow, are irresponsible persons "
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