The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-13
MINERS READY TO
WIRING GOLD FROM
HILLS IN NEWTOWN
Ccoutinued from Page L.


af him, some politely ignored him.
end many said he had a bug on
the subject. Who is right and who
is wrong. the sequel must SHOW
few weeks later Mr.. Ensign returned
and In company with the tgold-bugs'
spent a. Jew weeks with hammer and
bags prospecting ana carried away
With him samples OF the various out
croppinEg OF basic rock. What tne
results of the assays showed may be
predicted by the leases he secured on
lowed. These leases covering the
tested grounds were duly assigned to
the Metals Reduction Company, the
Evaporation name of the Smelter Trust,
As appears OF record also.
Now on the plains near Deep Brook.
g mile or more south OF the Borough
of Newtown, they have erected a S.
coo plant installed mining machinery.
and employ few miners who are lay
ing bare the faces OF mineral bearing
hills. preparatory to extensive opera
tions in the spring.
That this is no stock-jobbing scheme
OF promoters to exploit stock appears
Snelter Trust only takes hold. Of min
fng propositions for IT'S own goods
and never touches anything not prov
en delds- 50 1t looks as IL the gold
burg, enthusiast of Newtown has
more in his head as Sanford Under
Hill SAYS, than a fine tooth comb
can take out Also it is pointed out
chase OF the lands within two years at
figures That will staLt1e all the real
estate knockers around these parts,
end make the Grand Levy of Newtown
for 1913, back number; unless the
sessions OF the Board of Assessors and
Relief are turned into continuous per-
formances to keep pace with the rap
idly advancing land values. Already
this unay5 be seen in the Tightening of
the lips of adjoining land owners when
price for their land which before the
inclpient boom could not be sold for
twice the cost of the deeds per acre,
and which for farming purposes would
not make sheep pasture, there being
hardly room enough between the ledg-
es and boulders for the mouth Of a
lamb. But now the price is almost
rrohibittve. and each owner may be
seen doing amateur prospecting on
his own hook. when he thinks no one
is looking, while doubtless, visions of
millions. automobiles, European trips,
etc. dance through their brains as
they contemplate what the future may
no further sales Of land in the locality
are made, or leases recorded. All are
awaiting the prospective boom.
~,5Ite- 70 5r111g- coTrasDondent. and is
interesting in the extreme. In the past
IT has been the scene of investigation
by biologists for the state, and IS yet
frequently visited by parties Of STU
dents from Yale's scientific classes in
geology and mineralogy. The mineral
region now in the limelight, Is located
spur of. the Hoosac Mountains extend
ing southwest from the Housatonic
River, the known gold-bearins stratas
running along the western side of the
Pohtatuck stream distance of six
miles from mouth to source. New
town village lies midway on a Around-
cd terrace Of this worn-down noun
tain ridge, for mountain it is, as the
evidences of erosion and glacial action
are everywhere to be seen Castle
Fiji over1oolzs Newtown street, and
from this vantage ground the prospect
Is bounded only by the horizon IN ev-
cry direction Eastward from here
the land descends in gradual slopes
and terraces to the sinuous valley of
The Pohtatuck, two miles below, on
both banks of which at the foot of
Mount Piagah. nestles the placid little
village of Sandy Hook Northward
from the village the eye may see the
cleft in the mountain spur where the
through the mountain heights, famed
Tor and near as the picturesque Rocky
Glen. then tumbles and falls from
rapids to rapids till It's turbulent wa
tiers are s4ilIed forever in the sluggish
HOusatOnic.
Thence to the eastward of the Poh-
satuck the country rises gradually,
abrupt falls and ascents, but upwards
always TO the horizon where the other
Faa1f-circu1nference of the mountain
eflipse curves to the southwark. The
aye roves with delight over chestnut
crowned Curtis Hill to the crags of
Jeremy Land, past the 'birchen slopes
Of Great Quarter, UP the velvety
lawns OF Gray's Plain, and over the
rolling plateau Of Zoar,f and beyond
60 the heights of Great Ring where
che skeleton trees seem to beckon to
the struggling cedars Of the Hills of
Palestine to the westward across the
upper course of the Pohtatuck, where
the gold Is. thus completing in the
mind, the lofty circle that girdles the
town From these heights well as
from Castle Hill may be seen the IA
NOUS varying views of this pictur-
esque town.
But this is a unitarian age, and
this article has to deal with the most
unitarian of all things, gold. SO the
aaaeriptfon returns to the western side