| Show ROSE POND STILL MECCA OF CURIOUS believed to be crater of extinct volcano evening shade ark rach summer with its crop of tourists sees a renewed interest in rose itose pond near here bere vt tt aich Is thought to be the filled in crater ot of an extinct volcano and Is pointed out to all newcomers as a natural curiosity rose pond la Is about twelve acres in extent it Is literally as level as a floor it takes its name from the fact diet that hint when white while settlers first cattle came liere here it wat wa a place covered thickly the wild rose that li ii native to this section se cllon one old timer sais gas lie he luis lots yet to see a more beautiful sight than thail was rose pond in those days with the early morning few dew on the lie pink and white blo blossoms ant P ait the roses have disappeared now alie first eneis found it impossible to clear the lie pond so BO thickly did tile lie rose brambles grow and water stood in rockbound rock bound courses over the marsh fut joseph Sch Se aloi balet from germany acquired the pond tiny liny meant more than roses to so with a prodigious amount of labor lie cut the alie brambles and rooted them out of the mud dug out the rocks and drained file he pond wild liny hay for hlin him and later owners but such stich prosaic crops as corn and cotton will not grow in the pond nith any degree of success it Is as if tile the spot resents giving up its ancient wild heritage students of geology say there Is no other soil in the state jut just like that of lose itose pond it resembles so it Is said ashes or lava reduced to powder and mixed with nith vegetable matter brought in by erosion and water from the slightly higher ground |
