When Spaniards Carried Sacksof Silver From Black Mountain

One of the most picturesque legendsof tb" Highlands of the Hudson, a tale rithat was told by old residents now al- lamost all passed on, and which from its Iccircumstantial narration suggests some sifoundation of fact, is that of the mys- Interious "Spanish Silver Mine." This simine, said to have yielded almost pure I 1silver, was supposed to have been lo- \\cated on Rlack Mountain, a craggy c;summit 1,200 feet above the Hudson isRiver, and about four miles southwest nof Rear Mountain, headquarters of the oHarriman State Park. I.

Silver and even gold have been asought in the Highlands, for there Swas Raron Hassenclever, who came oover from Westphalia about 1730, with lia grant to seek precious metals, andbad to satisfy himself with iron, which Cbe took out of a shaft that still bears sbis name, near Lake Tiorati, in the iicenter of the Harriman Park. Rut he rwas a real enough person and one of shis sons was an engineer officer under I'Washington, who demolished an iron 1furnace at Ringwood, N. J., because athe owners were Tories. o

Tale Passed Down /As for these Spaniards of the Rlack

Mountain mine, there is only a tale, ppassed down from the father of Harvey f|Rrooks. an old resident of Queensboro, va one-time hamlet back of Rear Moun- rtain, and very likely deriving from fHarvey's grandfather or great grand-father, and told by him, not long be-fore lie died, to Major W. A. Welch,general manager of the Park, who smakes chills run up and down the Ibacks of boys and girl campers in 'the Park, when be tells the grisly .legend to campfire audiences. The _story is known to and partly believed,anyway, by others of the hills folks.

Harvey Rrooks long occupied the oldQueensboro Manor House, where theLong Mountain road turns off theSeven Lakes Drive, the main motorhighway in the Harriman Park, andbis father lived there before him, asinheritors of part of the ancient Ferrispatent, granted by the Rritish Crown,about 1660. Now it is known as CampQuannacut and is occupied by a groupof girls. Harvcv is gone to his re-ward, but here is the tale as be toldit to Major Welch:

Early in the Eighteenth Century theHighlands of the Hudson were a wildand shaggy wilderness, densely coveredwith forests of white pine and hem-lock, the haunt of bears and wolves.Rack of the river they were almostunknown, except to Indians and a fewwhit* ' hunters, and trappers. . XUe .Dutch settlers, with an eye to goodfarmlands, and with no love for theserough hills, after settling Rocklandcounty's gently rolling slopes, hadpassed above the Highlands to themore easily cultivable lands in Dutch-ess and Orange counties, about New-burgh and Reacon.

tThere were a few cabins along the I

river at points that are now well known elandings, and the beginnings of a bam- clet, with a rude inn, at the western (side of the southern gate of the High- 1lands, where Dundcrbcrg Mountain (slopes steeply to the Hudson, opposite IPeckskill. This was known as Cald- ;well's from a family which settled Iearly in these parts and whose name Iis further perpetuated on the Harri- <man Park map, by an iron mine which Ione of its members opened later near <Lake Tiorati. Caldwell's is now known ;

[ as Jones' Point, a station on the West? Shore Railroad, ofT which a hundred i

: of the Shipping Board's idle steamers ii lie anchored. iI The reason for the establishment of ii Caldwell's, and of the tavern, wherei strong schnapps were procurable lay; in the fear which the crews of the i

: river sloops had for the tides and[ sudden storms of the Devil's Horse- Race, the narrow and deep part of thei Hudson Gorge, between Dunderberg

; and Storm King, where Dwerg, Lordof the Dnuderberg, held sway and ex-acted severe reprisals unless the cap-tains lowered their topmasts anddipped their flags in the passage. Agood deal of Dutch courage was re-quired for the passage and Caldwell'swas the last oasis until Ncwburgh wasreached, so they put in to this landingfor the requisite rites and preparations.

Strange Ship AppearsAround about 1720, early in the

summer, a strange ship came up theHudson, of a build different from suchEnglish and Dutch ships as were

commonly seen, anil anchored off \Caldwell's. From it landed a party tof dark, bearded, fierce looking men.well armed, but who, also carried picks tand shovels and sacks. They told no :one their business, asked no questions, Ibut seemed to know what they were <about. They started west along an ;old Indian trail that led through the <defile between Hear Mountain and !West Mountain. No one saw them I

i during the summer, but in the fall ': back they came, each staggering under

\u25a0 a heavy load in his sack. But be-I fore boarding their ship, they stopped

; for Caldwell's cheer, and, in his cups, '\u25a0 one of them showed the contents of 1

i his sack, which, according to report, 1' Was rich silver ore. They made sail

i and went down the river.t During the winter, the hunters and jI trappers searched the woods of the5 inner hills and, on the north slope

of Black Mountain, found a rude logf cabin. As Harvey Brooks got it from: his father, it was a two room, saddle-

r back affair, and the porch in the mid-: die was oriented so as to point towardJ the summit of the mountain, as if: there was something which the build-i ers wanted to keep under observation.; The hunters suspected a mine, but

1 search revealed not the slightest trace- of any opening.

I Spaniards ReturnA year or two afterward, the Span-

iards came back again in the sameship, and again made their way backto Black Mpuntain. Their ficrce ap-

Tpearance seems to have discouragedany interference with them duringtheir summer's operations, and theyworked unmolested and again came out

e in the fall, with filled sacks and sailede away. Next year they came backli again, but the curiosity of the settlerse was now so intense, that the miners

were evidently disturbed into an earlierdeparture,but still with filled ore sacks.

A fourth time they sailed up theriver, in the summer or two following,and this time, six marched through theforest to Becchy Bottom, and theircabin on Black Mountain. There wasa quarrel at the tavern with the peopleof the hamlet who were getting in-sistent as to their business but theybroke away after some fighting, andwere not followed.

Four DisappearBut that fall, only two of the six

came out and returned to their ship,on which a few of the party had stayed,and all sailed away, never to return.Soon after, a search party exploredBlack Mountain. They found the cabin,and inside it were the bodies of twoof the men, long dead. In the ribs ofone was a Spanish dagger. The otherhad a broken skull. There was nosign of the other two. It was thengetting dark, but the cupidity of theseachers for that silver mine was sogreat that they climbed higher oil the

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LEGAL NOTICEljuunjj 11 w ixvu | pSCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES ?

TOWN OF SCARSDALEThe undersigned, Receiver of Taxes,

for the Town of Scarsdale, gives no-tice that lie has received the warrantfor the COLLECTION OF SCHOOLTAXES for 1926, and that he willsit for the collection of such SCHOOLDISTRICT TAXES at his office inthe VILLAGE HALL, Post and Pop-ham Roads, in the Town of Scarsdale,aforesaid, daily, Sundays and holidaysexcepted, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.;Saturdays 9 A. M. to 12 noon.

Rates of Penalties if Paid:During September NoneDuring October 2 per cent.During November 5 per cent.During December and Jan-

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