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?%£/ y. •■ ;'x$$? -Unearthing Old Water Pipe Reminds Us*'«A ^ ‘ ’-' • : '■Vf: A'r^/OF THE DAYS, OF ’49u;?\V-. -•Pipe Borer and Others Got Gold Fever-—Prospector Died by Gold Nugget—-Cassen's Wink and Heavy Tool Chest Causes Excitement.r. -V- . *''1 : •K . •lrf» • • • - * *r“Workmen employed in digging ditches in the city for the mtturui gu.s coup 'paiiy, unearthed an old log pipe at ltie Corner of Balti uorii ant* Liberty streets, which recalls the days when Cumberland was little else ih'ui u ni-lufic.Mr. Casper Casscn. a pioneer resident of Cumberland, who lived on Columbia street, bored these pipe logs; in fact he bored nearly all the pipe Jofcs , and wood pumps In those days, therebeing no other man of that trade or occupation in the community.Mr. George DoWden, y*:ars of nvo, says that old I otf “belongs ;*» Cumberland's primitive water work.* system and is a part of the log piping if pH was used to bring wate*‘ Jrom the tj•eo at a point about w'v.ue Dan .ir,»l Kill's cafe now stands, then MeCecnry's :ur-niture factory, i** shryer^ inwry that stood between Liberty and Centre . . streets, on the north side. There was;i also a similar log mp; that brought !water’ from what now i:.wn as; Darnell's Spring. out th*; Kiluruoro ; pike, to the old Burn H^nsv , o-v ornr- ;•' pied by Kcnnowt^ St Co Abater was.fed. into the pipe running to .wirver s tannery by a water wno.d :r. tin* vnr*\ As Incur us I can ronuiibe?\ -aid M.-'■ Doviden, this pipe was pm town aoout.- seycnty odd years ago. At that ume(there was a hotel on the :ute of yio i ,■ Second National Bank and a HaOtsiuBU;shop, belonging to John where,the Citizen’s XatUnmt Ban It stands, j There was no Liberty street invn and, Baltimore street hud out lew jkhiscs [ upon it” .itK
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Evening Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Mon, Nov 26, 1906
Page 6
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