The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21

\ is manifest in her centrally To-
Gated sections and in her tide
water counties kissed by the
sea, but the majestic beauty of the
State is only realized when the Ale
gheny Mountains of Garrett county
are visited and one has reached the
westernmost and northernmost boun-
diaries of the State.
Mountain range after mountain
range rises in darkly green and ever
increasing beauty until an altitude of
1920 feet is reached upon nameless
peak situated, according to DR.. Ed
ward B. Mathews, of Johns Hopkins
University and State Geologist, be-
tween Table Rock and Roth Rock.
Garrett county may be called the
Great Divide of Maryland, since it is
the only county in the State that has
rivers flowing westward as well as
eastward. The Youghiogheny river
rises in Garrett county and is tribu-
tary to the Ohio river. A branch of
the Youghiogheny flows through Mt.
Lake Park where it is converted into
a lake, which gives the place it's name.
Wealth and Power.
Here nature in her widest splendor
defies the feeble strength of man and
barriers of iron ore and rock and glis-
tening coal, locked in the mountain
heart, and streams and waterfalls
gushing from the mountainsides are
sources of wealth and power to citi-
-zens of the State.
The fertile soil brought forth abun-
(1ant harvest to pioneers who braved
the one-time outposts Of the West and
laurel covered the mountains in such
abundance that, in 1872, when a new
county was formed from a portion f
Allegany county, the name Laurel
county was seriously considered be-
fore the name Garrett county, in hon
or of the late John W. Garrett, of Bal
timore, was bestowed.
Nor has the Identification of the Gar
rett family with the county seased
with that The Presbyterian church
at Oakland, erected in 1868, and said
to be the finest church building in the
county, was erected by the late John
w. Garrett in memory of his deceased
brother, Henry S. Garrett. And in
the present generation three immense
tracts of land formerly belonging to
the Garrett family, have been set
apart as forest reserves.
Forest Reserves.
The Kindness reserve, just east of
Hutton, and extending along the south
side of the county road to Oakland,
contains 206 acres; the Swallow Falls
reserve of 1923 acres lies between the
Oakland-Cranesville road and the
Hutton Switch road, touching also the
county road at Harrington creek, and
the Skipnish reserve of 1893 acres is in
the same vicinity. Swallow Falls is
sone of the most beautiful free camp
sites in Maryland.
Several years ago Henry Ford, John
Burroughs, Thomas Edison and Har-
vey Firestone camped there for two
weeks, approaching to the full the
great beauty of primal pine trees and
gushing mountain streams.
Youngest County.
Apart from it's majestic hills, Gar
rett county is the gay, larklike school
girl daughter of Maryland. Youngest
in years she is bigger than her staid
sister counties, for her boundaries in
close $50 square miles. The county is
bounded on the north by Pennsylva-
mia; on the east by Allegany county
and on the south and west by West
Virginia.
Fine Farms are Found.
To the distant dweller in Baltimore
Garrett county is region closely as
sociated with coal.
So it is, but it is also county
where some Of the finest farms in the
State are found and where these
farms are chiefly owned and developed
by the farmers living upon them. Ag-
reculture and numbering were the
chief industries Of Garrett county I'M
til forests became depleted and coal
mining in some measure superseded
the numbering.
Garrett county is a land flowing
with milk and maple sugar, which
many persons regard as even better
than honey. Thousands of sheer
Craze upon the hillsides. Only mile
from Oakland, the county seat, there
is the largest florists plant south OF