Bear Brook Valley and Quarry the of a Dromatic essay that rucely pairs the economic potential of the beautifore with its aesthetics/receivation potential. The central feature of Bear Brook Valley is the broad deep pool of water at the mountain's foot, fringed round to the south and we st by remnants of the anoient forest. This pool was created by the grinding of the massive over- riding 100-sheet as its bobbom layers, with their stone and gravel contents, blooked by the steep uplift of the mountain, bored heavily into the rook below. How deep it may ha ve been when the 100 went out, I do not know, for the tdo-sheet left behind it, filling the bottom, deep deposits of blue olay, so fine and clear that I have, at the request of artists sent barrels of it to New York and elsewhere for sculpture modelling. This 1. asin was known in the village in early days as the 'Cedar Swamp' and had SO long been a source of supply of o edar for shingling that none of the great,broad-based trees were left, when I first knew it, their slowly rotting stumps alone remaining to tell the tale, with pools of water between them where muskrats lived and herons came and fished as they dtted upgradually through the summer. 2. This pool had been for many centuries the home of beaver, as successive dams across its outlet showed. To drain it, for taking out peat for garden purposes thirty-five or forty years ago, it was necessary toblast into the encircling ledge to gain a five-foot depth below the water surface, yet within the pool, not far beyond, I was unable to reach the bottom, thrusting down through the peat and soft blue olay at a depth of nearly forty feet. I placed a dam across the outflow I had obtained by blasting and keeping the basin full as I removed the peat, created a feature of extraordinary beauty, with the forested mountain sides at noon or the sky at sunset reflected from the pool's quiet surface, over which swallows dart in swift pursuit of insects as the daylight fades. 3.0 Around the entire basin, marshland, pool and woods, I built, in the eighteen-nineties at the haight of the bicycling period, what was known as the Bicycle Path, Passing through the midst of one of the rare bits of primoval forest yet remaining and gtxdng given wood road breadth and character, it was widely used for years but did not, as I had hoped it would, lead on to similar construction elsewhere on the Island. Later, after the bicycling period ended, the path became, in its portion along the wooded mountain foot, a favorite walk with older people, and in the fall when the canoe and yellow birches had taken on their golden autumn foliage, my mother used to dráve through it in her light, one-horse open buckboard, taking great pleasure in its beauty, with the sunshine flickering through the leaves; and artists used it as a scene to paint. the A If any arrangement is made concerning Beaver Dam Pool by which the road Dam from the mountain round the Headow is continued Food through it, such arrangement must included assurance that what I stipulated for in giving the Long Field in the way of and wild gardens planting down the Long Field and across the Moadow will be honored and carried out, both as to Path construction a purchase of soil, and planting. The plants for this planting to be grown by the Nurseries in the Nurseries and the planting to be done by the Nurseries or under it their direction. This is all clear; ##/only needs some permanent assurance that It will be done. How can this assurance be given? And how can it be made a right and not a matter of favor, to be done or not done as the years go byt This and similar work and planting in Bear Brook Basin should be dealt with as one continuous work, starting at the head of the Long Field and continuing uninterruptedly across the Meadow and through the Bear Brook Valley section as far as to the quarry, with the Spring and Delano wild gardens included. As I have stated elsewhere in another paper, I have already saved the Government from seventy five to eighty thousand dollars, according to the Federal Bureau of Engineers estimate in obtaining for it the town's well based and solidly constructed roadway, with great gain of landscape and practical extension of the Park to include the whole Great Meadow basin. Ny plan for underpass beneath the Country Road instead of what was proposed, to the great injury of the County road by Mr. Olasted and Mr. Rockefoller's engineers by crossing by overpass at the foot of the Tern will, if the road be continued save the ****!! Government, as much again, that in, seventy five or eighty thousand dollars more at the least, I told again by the Bureau's engineers, for the route by the eastern sids of the mountain will save, as against the route through the gorge , two ********* hundred thousand more. In return for this I feel that I can fairly ask the Government's cooperation, not meanly given, in carrying out my own plan for the development of the land it has received from me. and in whose wight development I have so long taken interest. GBD's Bear Brook Quarry 1890's I opened Bear Brook Quarry some forty years ago to supply stone for the building of the Pulitzer tower, the wall and parapet of the terrace which the house opens onto above the shore and other work in rock which the architect's plans called for after Mrs. George Pendleton Bowler's estate of Chatwold had been Pedityze purchased by Mr. Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World. The quarry was near, the stone lay in deep, out- standing beds, easy to work, and much stone was needed as the tower had to be built up from a depth below sea- level to obtain a firm foundation, its base being made into a swimming pool which filled itself naturally at high tide and could be drained when the tide was low. The whole work then carried out cost Mr. Pulitzer a hundred and forty-thousand dollars and led to a law suit, but it was profitable for the quarry and give it reputation for the good quality of its stone which ex- tended its use for other building. 2. Two houses built of it at that time, using the brown, oxidized, seamed surface of the quarry beds, the Edgar Scott house on Cromwell Harbor and the John Innes Kane house between it and the village, still remain as two of the most beautiful and most solid houses ever built upon Mount Desert Island. Fred L. Savage, an excellent local architect, A was in charge of the work on these houses, the plans, prepared by leading architects in Boston and New York, hed David brook calling for this stone, whose quality they knew, and Mr. Savage did the work so well that I place the quarry Bear thereafter in his hands to operate, which he continued Juney to do till he died. Afterward the building of new summer residences at Bar Harbor coming to a stop, I closed the quarry and being occupied with other matters have never yet reopened it. But when later I gave my land upon the mountain to the Trustees of Public Reser- vations and they, later, to the Federal Government for the Park, I expressly reserved for the quarry sufficient rock for its future operation through many years. 3. Granite now is coming back into use, power drills have replaced the old hand drills, derricks are operated mechanically and motor trucks have replaced horses, creating great economies in the use of stone. There is no more enduring building rock than fine grained granite nor better monumental stone, as the old Egyptian monu- ments show, with the inscriptions upon them as clear as when first executed, after three to four thousand years. Bear Brook Quarry has lost no value through the years since it was operated. If the Government shall take it over for the purpose of its road, I do not want it taken as a thing without worth. I have taken interest and pride in the good product it turned out and the finely worked monuments to which the stone's good quality lent itself. But it so happened that there is no substiture for it as a road site if the Park's continuous mountain-to-shore motor road is built, for it occupies the corner where the road must turn and where the first sight of the ocean bursts upon one after descending from the mountain height. From the quarry summit the road shown in the survey made by the Federal Bureau of Roads, in preliminary study, runs straight to its objective -- the eastern end of the old Ocean Drive, near three miles away. [G.B.DoRe]