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illilliOtitlen-Lnii-ididSt!1*LCteie“Echo Glen.”A correspondent in lust week’s Nipva, whorecently spent some lime in rumbling ovnv tho {'rounds of Col. Ed. Summers, savs this about them:' • .•Col. K C, Hummeis,of Huntingdon, known fur and wide as the patron of -ovarythin# which lends to promote tlic piensure bf amusement of mankind, is the fortunate owner of» rustic re trout situated on the Warm Spring# road about n half-mile from town, which he has felicitously ohristunad “Echo Glen.” The Glen, comprises a tractor ono hundred and ton acres and was purchased by Col. Simmiesrs a few yeura aim from the heirs Oi!!)r. JfdNfurlriu. At the eastern terminus of the glen, distant about half a mile from the pleasure grounds connected with the place, a magnificent spring pushes from beneath the lofty 'hill which forms the back ground of the place. The spring is of pure soft water amlsuflicicnl. in rapacity to turn an ordinary mill. Colonel Summers saw in this-spring n juL its surroundings, the means for no’t onlj/ enriching its owiier, hut of making him.lunious in lus day and generation as well. Acting on a well-matured pluu-hc commenced an excavation on the Ii rat level within u short distance of the entrance to. the gion, two hundred iecfc long, sGventv-iive J'uot wideand seven feet deep. On t he next, level two hundred feet further up, he made a similar exeftration four hundred feet long, one hundred and twenty-five feet wide and fifteen feet deep. On the third level, one hundred feet further up, si il hum the r, three hundred feet lung, one hundred loot wide and twelve foot deep. Tho excavations were filled with water IVom the spring immediately on thencompletion and preaent the appearance of miniature lakes. The first is stock of ............... a! withbiucic bass, goldfish, ratfish’, and nunllsli; the second willi gold fish, silvorlish and. buss; the third with ctu'p, perch, goldfish, and silverfisli. All are now filled with fish. It is the purpu.se of Colonel Summers to add another and much larger lake to tho series. Its dimensions will bo fifteen hundred feet in length, two hundred feet in width and forty feet in depth. .11 wil 1 bo stocked with game fish and supplied with boats, bath. houses, bathing costumes for Indies and gentlemen, fishing tackle, etc. _ At the entrance is t*ho Colonel's residence, uie houses, barns unci pleasure grounds. II is ice houses contain one thou sand tons of pure spring water, iee, through the agency of which yejuieient'a v V] i i v ‘ ** ^ ▼---- V ,borough will try to.keep enol during thohonied term, it is tins intention of Colons](Summers to iinbellish and improve his grounds us rapidly an possible, mu king thorn a source of pleasure to the visitor as well as' of profit to himself. The writer was courteously shown tho grounds recently and had tho pleasure of Boeing soma of tho largest of the goldfish and carp sunning themselves along the shores of the di fibre nt lakes. Bass are proverbially wild and shy and nono, were to bo seen, but the Colonel assured mo ho had them by hundred. Persons desiring young buss with-which to stock ponds or streams can have them True of charge by calling on Colonel Summers, who will not only give you all the fish you want, but will treat yon with all affability ami kindneas, “lilcho Glen, under the guardianship of Colonel-Summers, is destined to become a famous place. That it may become so in the wish of lus inmiy friends.
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Huntingdon Journal
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, May 12, 1882
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