Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-06-23


Though the season was almost over
some work on Mt Mansfield was accom-
plished. A trail has been blazed from
the Forhead to Nebraska Notch, and
the trail will soon be carried on over
Bolton Mountain to Bolton, which will
open beautiful varied and easy APP
proach from the south.
An Independent club was organized at
Waterbury in the spring of 1908 to pro-
mote the use of Cancels Hump by max
ing trails and maintaining a camp on its
summit. The ascent is made from
North DuXbury, the nearest railroad
station to its base, which has a road
running up the slope of the mountain
for three miles. The town of Duxbury,
influenced by the Cancels Hump Club,
have spent their appropriation literally
on this road, and have made fine high
way which is a continuous revelation of
woodland beauty. Where the road ends
a well-marked trail leads to the summit
Three hundred feet below the top, the
club maintains a camp of four large
tents with two caretakers in charge.
Camp supplies are sold, cooking and
dining outfit provided, blankets to be
had and balsam beds to sleep on, with
the caretakers to aid in cooking. Two
/ fine springs of water are directly at the
camp. The charges for these good
things are nominal, the club only seek
4 ing to promote the use of the camp, and
should balance in excess of the camp
maintenance appear, it is used for fur
Their improvements.
Another important object for which
the Green Mountain Club will use its in
/ tluence is the resumption of the u. S.
Geological Survey in the State of Yer
mont. The Typographical maps of the
survey are absolutely accurate, showing
every water course from springs to
rivers, and all lakes, ponds, and marshes.
The contour lines show the varying ele-
vations of every portion of the surface
mapped. Railroads, electric roads,
| highways, even private roads, and
every house is indicated.
The mountains have been surveyed
and mapped on the west side of the state
from the Massachusetts line to Addison
County but no survey has been made
which touches the mountains to the
north of this point.
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Mansfield and Cancels Hump region is
regretable, where the necessarily
crude maps of the Green Mountain Club
must serve in place af the accurate
maps of the U. S. Survey.
The State of California, finding that
one of its important products was un-
appreciated and overshadowed by its
imported rival, decided that it was not
beneath the dignity of a great
Commonwealth to exploit her own
products, so created a state holiday to
be known as ''Raisin Day."
The Green Mountains are the silent
witnesses to the making of the history
of the state and form an integral part
of the lives of the people born in the
shadow of their peaks. The past
generations, whose hardy spirits breath
ed inspiration from the mountains and
laid the foundations of our State. the
living, who are proud of this heritage
and love the mountains, and her children
| dwelling in distant states whose men,
cries continually revert to the beauties
of her peaks and valleys, all would feel
that such noble natural monuments of
our history and progress should be Gel
ebrated by having the state set aside as
a holiday, day to be known as Green
Mountain Day.
The day should be seasonable, and. if
possible, historic. A hasty review of
possible dates shows Ethan Allen S
birthday to have been on January 10.
and Ira Aliens on April q. The day
when the Constitution of the United
States was accepted by the Bennington
Convention was, by singular coinci-
dence, also January 10, 1871, and by
another, equally strange, Vermont was
admitted to the Union, March 4, 1871.
The only other historic date, not of
distinctly local significance, appears to
be Bennington Day, August l6. There
are, doubtless, many others to choose
from, and, in the awakening of an in
terest in the mountains, one will be
found at time of year when Vermont's
sons and daughters will turn to the
mountains with renewed love, and
never forget their peaks and valleys.
Making Latin Live LANGUAGE.
Those who know DIR. Sanford, the
Latin teacher at Middlebury under
whose direction the Roman drama was
splendidly presented at Middlebury col