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Fred Ebert and Ed Hempstone
each loaded u a car of potatoes
last week.
The ]. N. McMillin family at
tended the meeting held by Miss
Richter at the ~headgate and at
Marquette No. Q Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Kuchera and
Mrs. Shaffer Of Greybull spent Sum-
day at the v. f. Rotter home.
Mrs. H. F. Bates and Mrs. D. D..
Stall spent Tuesday Of last week
with Mrs. Jim Corder in Cody.
Violet and Nellie Coe took sup
per at the J.. e. Horner home Sun
day evening.
Clarence Black helped G. E. Hem
stone sort potatoes a few days last
week.
Fred Ebert and family spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. ". F. Rotter called
at the VIM. Felsheim home Friday
evening.
Mrs. D. D. Stall and Loren were
callers at the w. A. Siddle home
Sunday.
, 1925-12-09
COWBOY wv" MEN SELECT
ED END OF GRID SEASON

Sixteen University of Wyoming
football men have been awarded
Varsity letters, following the reco-
mmendation of Coach w. H. Lone
star" Dietz last week. Following
are the names of those honored in
the selection:
Lewis Allsman, Lawrence Ormsby
and Glen Stanton, all of whom hail
from Casper; Lewis Williams and
Oscar Erickson of Cheyenne; Rob-
ert Gish. Edward Miller, Jay Mowry
and Franklin DeForest, all of Lar
annie; Harold Gilbert, (Captain) of
Lander; Neil Reimann of Buffalo;
Roy Greenburg of Pueblo, Colorado;
Walter Spears of Baldwin, Kansas;
L. w. Jones of Lincoln, Nebraska;
Whitman of Homer, Louisiana
and Claude Linton of Rustin, Tex
as.
The Cowboy team this year took
fourth place in the Rocky Noun
tain Conference and succeeded in
placing several men on mythical
all-conference elevens. Linton,
tackle, and Williams, guard, were
selected by a vote of conference Of
ficials IS entitled to a position on
the all-conference first team, and
DeForest and Miller were given
places on the mythical second elev-
en-.
, 1925-12-09
THE PARK COUNTY HERALD

Jack Ra drove to town Tuesday
where he remained all night and
returned to Woodriver on Wednes-
day.
At the Baptist church on Christ
mas v the Methodist Sunday
school will give a program. Mr..
Dickinson the superintendent has
started the training of children,
and a very enjoyoble time is look
ed forward to.
On Thursday Mr.. and Mrs. A. ].
Walsh brother of Mr.. Harvey is
quite i'll.
The Scott brothers, Powell piano
tuners, were in the city on Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Wilds return
ed from the Carter ranch on Tues
day to visist their daughter, Mrs.
George Weller who is convalescing
in the hospital.
, 1925-12-09
PAT O'HARA
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Lawrence Nordquist, who has bot
the Dickinson ranch in CrandalI
Creek came through here on Tues
day stopping over night at the
Marvin home.
John Long came out on the
stage last trip. He has been employ
ed on the Fred Wright place and
is going south for the winter.
w. o. Sanzenbacher returned to
Sunlight. He was accompanied by
Miss Martin and Miss Beesemeyer.
]. R. Huntington and Chas. Jones
came to town last Thursday. Harry
Huntington came in on Wednesday.
Mrs. Russell Oliver and Mrs. Nc
Carly we're passengers on the stage
last trip.
The Walters Inn is a busy place
these days there being 10 guests
On Sunday.
Pete Everett was seen hiking to
town. Pete is a good walker.
Joe Black brought his daughter
back after nice holiday at home.
The Marlin family spent Thanks
giving with the Jack Spicers on
Northfork. Everett Reynolds came
after them.
Fred Wright returned home after
an absence of nearly four weeks in
Omaha, Denver and other points.
He reports a fair market for his
cattle. He brought four Martin
bulls back with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. widows mo-
tored out to their ranch last Sun
day. Coming to grief on their re-
turn trip they were compelled to
spend a night at the neighbors and
be tewed into town next day.
Charles Grouse and party OF
friends managed to get thru to the
Mcknight ranch Sunday. The roads
were YER bad.
John Nelson and Jack Cameron
brot two loads of grain to town
the first Of the week.
, 1925-12-09

The Misses Erna Homer and
Alta Garrigues spent the week end
with Miss Mary Gipe at the Chas.
Bradbury home.
MI. and Mrs. C. E. Hempstone
and Mr.. and Mrs. v. F. Rotter
attended the Shamrock club in Cody
Monday evening
A good number from this flat
attended the play given by the
lrma flat young people at the Up
per Sage community hall Friday
evening
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ceived a telegram a few days pre-.
viously stating that Mr.. Rumbler's
father was in poor health and fol
81 to came prepared to stay.
Bill Darling and his family re
turned last week. He has electri-
clan work to look after.
Miss Eve Harrington has been
teacher of the Dick creek school
from her Powell home and spent
two weeks with friends in that
district-visiting the Abstons, Lar
sens. Blackburns, Heaveys, Flor
idas. She returned to Powell on
Tuesday.
Kurtz the hide buyer was here
on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James from Their
mopolis were Meeteetse visitors on
Wednesday and Thursday.
Ralph Stalcup came to town on
Wednesday
Friday night the Play, 1.-The little
Clodhopper" rendered by the High
school, was a grand success in every
way-The superior acting would
have done credit to older and more
experienced pupils.
The proceeds from the Play and
Dance and supper were for the
benefit of the school to be used for
equipment.
Mnss Stanley teacher of the Bird
and 4th grades is now rooming at
the Overland hotel, since the depar-
ture of her sister, Mrs. Rumbler.
Mrs. Arthur Argents has had
several teeth extracted by DR.. Dun
kle during the week.
Mrs. Roy Niles has been under
the doctors are this week but is
much improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. DeVault OF
Billings came to visit their brother
c. o. March for a few days. Mrs.
March and son accompanied them to
Billings and on Sunday Mr.. March
drove to Billings to bring them
home.
B. B. Wogoman, Painter, Wyom-
ing. visited friends at Sunshine on
Wednesday and Thursday.
Messers Miller and Little from
Grass creek drove to Cody on Thur
day and back home on Friday.
On Sunday Leo Newton came in
for supplies and returned to the
mountains on Tuesday.
Rev. Dickinson preached in Grass
creek, Thursday evening and Sun
day returning home on Wednes-
day.
Ed Lawrence took his wife and
two children to Basin on Wednes-
day. Mrs. Lawrence was operated
on in Basin hospital on Sunday
and reports are that her condition
is improved.
The st. Andrews Guild met at
the home of Mrs. Minnie Peoples
on Wednesday and completed the
articles of fancy work for the Ba-
aar which was held in the Episco-
pal church Saturday afternoon. Near
ly all the pieces were sold in a
very short time and cake and cof-
fee were served to a large crowd.
, 1925-12-09
PENROSE

q
MI. and Mrs. Don Parkins have
moved into Penrose for the winter.
George McClain is hauling hay for
Sol Wardell this week.
Robert Carol and C. A. Davis
attended the Baird sale Tuesday.
T. j. Walters was in Penrose on
business Wednesday,.
Mrs. J. C. Berthelson is fast i'm
proving and will soon be able to
be up and around again.
David Wasden has been home the
past week.
Robert Carol and son. Merrill
went to the coal mine after coal,
n day this week.
F. w. Hopkins has finished his
threshing this week.
, 1925-12-09
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE
ASSIST HOG PRODUCTION

Since there is misunderstanding
on the part of some farmers in this
locality as to the usefulness of the
information as to hog production
and crop acreages, obtained from
the cards distributed by the rural
mail carriers, Postmaster Sonners
has requested the Park County Her
aid to publish the following state
ment furnished him by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
These surveys are made with the
help of the rural carriers, who
either distribute the cards to a GER
tain number of farmers along their
routes with the request that these
be filled out, or the carrier fills
out the card himself by interviewing
the farmer. The carrier is instruc-
ted to get Information from farms
which will give a good average
picture or sample of farms on his
route. preferably by taking all of
the farms along a part of his
route. big and little, good and poor,
owned and rented.
If a fair sample of all farms is
returned in each State, figures for
these farms should show the same
changes as all farms. 1t is impos-
sible to take an actual census emu
meration of all farms each year,
so changes in production and acre
e. each ear must be estimated
from samples. The nearer these
samples are to being exact, the
moro rarrnnf -rfll -Iz +lz o,c,ox4r
The need and value of such in
formation for individual farmers
and agriculture in general hardly
need be stressed. Without depend
able information as to actual pro-
duction and trends of production
both of livestock and crops more
balanced production and better mar
ket distribution are impossible.
The Department of Agriculture is
the best qualified agency to under
take such work. but the accuracy
of its estimates depends upon the
accuracy of the returns made by
farmers.
The beneficial efforts that such
information may have upon price
is shown by the level of hog prices
during the winter of 1924-25 COM
pared to the previous winter. The
pig surveys of June and December
1924 showed a decided decrease in
hog production in 1924 compared
to 1928. Marketings, however, dur
ing the winter from the 1924 crop
were almost as large as the previous
winter, and in December and jan
uary were the highest on record.
In spite of these heavy marketings,
hog prices were from $500 to $500
per hundred higher than during
the winter before. The heavy mar
ketings were rightly interpreted as
being an early marketing of a small
number of hogs caused by a short
corn crop and not as indicating a
correspondingly larger number of
hogs.
But unless these estimates can
be kept dependable the trade will
disregard them and will be guided
either by private estimates or by
actual marketings as these take
place. Therefore, every farmer
should help to make these reports
accurate by making the report for
his own farm complete and accurate.
, 1925-12-09
MEETEETSE

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On Wednesday Mr.. and Mrs. Baby
Phillis Humber left us to drive in
their car to their former home at
Milford, Nebraska. They had re-
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on top Of Little Savage Mountain.
SIMPSONS Rock corresponds in
elevation and geological formation to
St. Johns Rock on the opposite side
Of the National Road, about one mile
south Of the present Mountain Inn on
top Of Big Savage Mountain. About
500 feet south of the rock, whose
elevation is 1880 feet, one may notice
the low point where the mountain
was crossed by Braddock's Road,
which followed the general course of
the Nemacolin Indian Trail. At the
west foot Of Big Savage Mountain.
IN line with SIMPSONS Rock. is said
to be an old camp site of the Allewigi
Indians, after whom Allegany county.
Maryland, was named. Many arrow
heads and spears have been found
there.
Dams Rock, the third of these
noted high rock formations, is on the
summit of Dams Mountain (named
Tor Daniel Cresap, son of the pioneer,
Col. Thomas Cresap), about seven
miles southwest of Frostburg. That
great object of interest is visited each
year by thousands of people to watch
sunrise or to behold a superb land
scape view of orchard, forest-crowned
mountains and winding valleys en-
bracing parts of Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia, and espec-
tally long stretches of the north
branch of the Potomac. Here one
may see rocks broken or split asunder
by some giant force, and awe-inspir-
ing crevices and assures at his feet:
and the famous Narrows, with Cum
berland nestled like a phantom city
in the distant morning fogs of the
Potomac River Valley on a mild,
bright morning
Forest SuperstitiOns.
AS the Black Forest of Germany
had its legends and superstitious peo-
pie, so with these forests. Many now
living remember that along Piney
Run from Finzel, Maryland, to and
beyond Findley Bridge, a covered
wooden bridge in Pennsylvania, a
strange noise was heard after dusk
and almost any hour throughout the
night for many years, by people who
were superstitious, as we'll as by
those who were not.
1t is said that when the sound was
heard downstream at the bridge, it
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Dividing the Waters.

Not far from and surrounding this
field is the watershed and source of
five streams whose waters are divided
n an unique geographical way. Some
81 them finally reach the Atlantic
Ocean by the Potomac River and
Chesapeake Bay; others follow a
much longer course to the Gulf of
Mexico by the Casselman, Youghio-
gheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Miss
issippi rivers.
Here the Savage River has its
source, flowing south across the Ma
tional Road between the two Savage
mountains about two miles from its
source, and empties into the Potomac
River at Piedmont, W. Va. 1t is
spanned on the National Road by an
old rubblestone bridge, of which
many touring motorist has stopped
to take snapshots.
FIaugherty Run has its source not
far away, and flows north into the
Casselman. Laurel Run starts here
and flows northeast into the historic
Wills creek that winds through the
Cumberland "Narrows;" and Jennings
Run, the fifth stream, runs east,
emptying into Wills Greek.
The stump field near the village of
Finzel, Md, is between Big and Little
Savage mountains not far from
SIMPSONS Rock, an uncommon
natural feature at the crest Of Big
Savage Mountain.
Picturesque Rock Formations.
The two-mile road from Finzel to
ne National Road comes out right
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15-foot logs and one 16-foot log-or
106 lineal feet of tree trunk for lum-
Der
Patrick Dorsey told my father that
he had cut pine tree in the "WoIf
Swamp tract of timber, on the east
slope and summit of Meadow Noun
tain, near the National Road, that
made 135 lineal feet of logs. About
1873 Dorsey furnished the large tim
bers for building the winchester
Bridge" which carries the elevated
Georges Greek or Western Maryland
Railroad over the Winchester Pike in
the vicinity Of the SiX-Mile House,
near Cumberland, Nd. All was white
pine, mostly SXS and 12x12 inches,
and though some of the pieces were
60 feet long they are still solid and
serve their purpose to this day.
Pioneer Saw Mills.
Saw mills have been called the cad
vance agents of civilization" and that
has certainly been so in Garrett coun-
ty. The first one in the county was
built about the year 1890 and owned
by Philip Hare. 1t was on Meadow
Mountain Run" two miles below the
"Stone House" on the National Road,
orabout one and one-half miles north
of where the Braddock and Washing
ton army camped at the historic Lit
tie Meadows" on June IS, 1855. Tray
elers of today notice the same little
sleepy stream, winding its way north
amid the luXuriant wild grass of the
long wide meadow.
That mill was equipped with the
primitive iutter-wheel and like APP
pointments of pioneer times. Water
power, with the "up and down" saw,
cut the planks or boards. Hare ran
this mill himself for more than forty
years, and died very aged, suddenly
and without ache or pain, 1881. 1t is
believed that the old Tomlinson Inn
was built out of lumber made at this
mill.
The next oldest mill of the kind was
built by Jesse Tomlinson at the Cit
tie Crossings" about 1915 in connec-
ton with grist mill previously cree
ted near the site of the great old
stone bridge just one-half mile east
of Grantsville. 1t had excellent water
power and manufactured a great deal
of lumber which was sold along the
National Road. The first steam pow
er saw mill operated in these forests
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A REGION OF VANISHED PINES
Old and Historic Forests Along the National Road
and Other Highways in Western Maryland
and Adjoining Sections in Pennsylvania
By LEO J. BEACHY, Studio. Grantsyle Maryland.
Travel, March, 1925.

branches was fine shelter for the den
liens Of the wild.
From ten to fifty thousand feet of
lumber were produced to the acre; it
is reported that one particularly good
acre produced 1900 feet and another
even 100000 feet. Sometimes only
ten or twelve of these great spreading
trees averaging four or five feet in di-
ameter, found room for full develop
ment on an acre.
My father, now 81 years old, who
operated a saw mill in the New Ger
many, Md, pines for few years, tells
me that one day they rolled a pine
log four feet in diameter and twenty
feet long onto the carriage of the saw
mill and were afraid it would break
down the carriage. The saw could
not reach through it until they cut
slabs off with an axe; and there were
two logs like that one out of the same
tree.
Rather than to have so much trou-
Bile in handling the second large log
in the mill it was converted into shaw
ed shingles and made 1900 of them.
-Four hundred and seventeen logs
were lying at one time in the mill
yard and on the skidway. Another
tree that he cut at this mill to make
lumber for Samuel Clusters house
(now the residence Of his son Richard
Custer, within half mile Of where
this is being written), contained six
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was built by a man named Williams,
from Pennsylvania, eli Red Run, two
miles above the National Road.
He bought a splendid lot Of 250
acres of pine from Daniel burst which
was cleared OFF in about three years,
with no profit to the proprietor. \
steam. saw mill was then as much Of q
sight as Barnum's big show. This
mill was located on the same stream
as my fathers water power mill up
stream two miles farther in 1872.
The next steam saw mill in order of
time was that of krebbs, between Big
Save and Little Savage Mountains.
Lumber from this mill was brought
at an oblique angle up over the west
slope Of Big Savage Mountain on a
tram road by horses and landed in a
lumber yard near the site Of the pres
ent Mountain Inn on the National
Highway. The writer has recently
been told that traces of this tram
road can still be seen.
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Stump Fences.

Several farmers near Finzel have
pulled out the huge scumps and made
fences Of them. often with the roots
sticking up into space six or even ten
feet from the ground, interesting
sights for travellers. One of the ac-
photographs shows an ex-
ira large pine stump and roots form
ing part Of an unbroken stump fence
half mile in length. 1t may be seen
along the roadside enclosing a field
on the Isaiah Baer farm, Pocahon-
tas, Pa, two miles north Of Finzel.
After being broken at an intersecting
road, the fence extends another half
mile, and thus we may say there is a
mile Of it altogether.
Ny grandfather, Daniel Yutzy, was
supervisor with a crew Of men which
built one endaef this fence along his
farm adjoining the village of Poca-
honcas, who according to tradition,
saved the life of Captain John Smith.
The stump root in that picture is -
feet inches high to where it is brok-
inches in diameter, which indicates
that it was perhaps eight or ten feet
longer, giving the standing tree a root
spread Of probably 20 or so feet.
On the Werner farm, one-half mile
north Of Fi0zel Is a large, clean look
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Looking down the western slope
Of Little Savage Mountain. across
Red Ridge to Meadow Mountain
lin the extreme distanceD The
farmhouse at the right hand
north side Of the road in
about the center Of the photo
@a@ph is owned by Thomas
johnson, descendent of the
first State Governor of Maryland,
who at the outbreak Of the Revo-
l1Jicnary War nominated George
Washington as Commander-in-
Chief of the American armies.
His residence is at the 18th mile
post on the National Road west
of Cumberland, or the 4th be-
you'd Frostburg. Nearly opposite
but trife farther west, are MIR.
Johason's spacious barns. the
larger one of which is at the
beginning Of the famous Long
Stretch" d continual succession
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Pennsylvania C'Penn's Woods"-syl-
vsG-meaning woodsy) has also been
cut with the exception of a small
acreage now owned by Congressman
Samuel A. Kendall and brother, Jacob
l. Kendall, of Greenville Township, a
few miles north Of Finzel at Kendall
wood" their summer home. Here the
visitor may still see the aboriginal
white pine trees in all their grandeur
and magnificence, standing as a rem
nant Of sentinels and moaning, as it
were, over the departure Of the glor-
ious forest of which they were once
a part.
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ing, well-sodden field still wonderfully
studded with great pine stumps. The
field is also fenced with stumps that
were pulled from adjoining fields. The
fence resembles a mile of monster
moose heads aud horns enclosing this
curious kind of "statuary" as monu-
ments to an army Of departed trees.
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found, in fairly good state Of preser-
walton, a pile of white pine slabs cut
there over century ago.
Most of the beautiful white pine
across the line in Somerset county,
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whose father, Henry Finzel, is still
living at a ripe old age at Finzel, tells
me that the logs were hauled by yokes
Of oxen to the mill. He still remem-
bers their names as Buck and Berry,
Tom and Jerry, and the slow move
ment over the road with their burden
to the mill. At Finzel is still to be
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ASKED Robert Z. Lee Broadwater, Of
the Maryland pine country, to meas
are off a plot containing an acre Of
those old pine stumps and count them.
He reported having measured two
plcts, each 1OX16 rods, finding that
the one plot contained 50 and the
other 30 stumps.
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1t would take a thousand years to
grow monarchs of the forest like
them and others of long ago.
To ascertain how many pine trees
actually grew on an acre, the writer
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seemed to be echoed the same instant
upstream at Finzel, eight miles away.
By some it was believed to be a bird
or the spirit of a departed Indian;
and whenever the phantom was
heard, it was referred to as the cold
saWfler," from the noise being like
that made by filing a cross-cut saw.
For many years residents of that
neighborhood were on the lookout to
see what made the strange and hid
eous noise; but no one ever solved the
mystery.
My grandmother told my father
that when they lived on the William
Bender farm they often heard the
sound Of some strange bird only
about quarter of a mile away down
Shade Run, the stream that crosses
the National Road southwark. lust
west of Grantsville, known locally as
Little Shades of Death" Grand
father John Beachy often mounted a
horse in a hurry and rode down to
the Valentine Bender Bridge over
Shade Run to find out what kind of a
bird it might be; but was never able
to see it.
Another story told of the pine
country around Finzel was Of a man
who came from Baltimore and cleared
about two acres of dense pines near
the present town site, along the
Mason and Dixon Line. He built a
mansion on the cleared lot. but in
time the house was entirely abandon
ed; it was believed that the owner
had gone back to Baltimore only for
a short while, but he never returned.
The more superstitious people be-
lieved the great old house haunted;
finally some of the farmers about
there investigated it, searching and
examining the interior from the &C.
lar to the attic.
1t is said that they found lot of
trunks, satchels and vaIises in the
different rooms, and many books on
witchcraft. In the cellar they dis
covered some barrels, in one Of which
was bushel and a half of keys; but
even with all those keys, the mystery
was never unlocked. The house was
left standing for many yeras, and at
one time was used as a barn for
storing hay; but was finally torn
down.