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* 11 V I 7 k'VIIIV til * • • « ■ .tho grounds of Col. Ed. Summers, says this about thorn:' • .•Col. RC, Siiiiwnciw.on-IiHillttistlon, knownfur and wide as the patron of-everythingwhich tends to promote titc pleasure ‘or amusement of mankind, is the fortunate owner of a rustic retreat situated on the Warm Springs road about n huH-mile from town, which he has felicitously christened Echo Glen. The Glen, comprises u tract-of 0110 hundred and ten acres and was put1' chased by Col. Sum mom a few years turn from the heirs Oi!!)r. ,MeMur(rip. At the eastern terminus of the tjlcii, distant about half a mile from the pleasure grounds connected with tho pinee, a magnificent spring gushes from beneath the lofty hill which forms the back ground of the place. The spring is of pure soft water ahdsiiflicie'nl in rapacity to turn an ordinary mill. Colonel Summers saw in this-spring and its surroundings, the means for no’t only enriching its owner, but of making him.tunions in ids day and generation as well. Acting on a well-matured phiu-hc commeucecl an excavation on the first level within n short distance of the entrance to. the glen, twohundred feet long, seventy-five feet wideand seven feet deep. On the next level two hundred feet further up, he made a similar excavation four hundred feet long, one hundred and twenty-live feet wide and fifteen feet deep. On the third level, one hundred feet further up, still another, three hundred feet long, one hundred loot wide and twelvefeet deep. Tho excavations were tilled with water IVom the spring immediately an their completion und present the appearance of miniature lakes. The first is stocked with black bass, goldfish. catfish’, and mmlisli; tho second wiLb goldfish, sUvorlish and buss; the third with carp, perch, goldfish,• and silverfish. All are now filled with fish. Ifc is the purpose of Colonel Summers to add another and much larger lake to the series. Its dimensions will bo fifteen hundred foci in length, two hundred (bet in width mid forty feet in depth. I t wil 1 be stocked wifh game fish and supplied with boots, bath houses, bul-lung costumes for Indies und gentlemen. fishing tackle, etc. _ At the entrance in the Colonel's residence, icq houses, barns and pleasure grounds. His ice houses contain' one thousaml tons of pure spring water , ice, through the agency of which yejuhdent' borough will try to .keep coed during theheated term, it is tins intention of Colonel
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Huntingdon Journal
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, May 12, 1882
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