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"This piece was written for The Gazette years ago by Miss Georgia B. Titus of Garland. and reprinted by Liston P. Evans for the Piscataquis Observer March
12th, 1936.  The article is reprinted through the courtesy of the Maine State Library."

Some months ago S. Fernald Richards of this town, who is interested in minerals, inquired of me about an abandoned silver mine in Garland. Although I had known the town for 75 years I did not recall anything of it, the matter was settled.

The mine is located in the northwest part of town, not far from West Garland and in the issue of the Dexter Gazette for Jan 16th, Miss Georgia Titus who lived in West Garland when a child and does now in the summer, gave her recollections of its opening and the subsequent workings as follows;

The article in a recent issue of the Gazette relative to the topographic map and charts of the various Maine quadrangles, aroused  the query in the mind of your correspondent. "How much do people know regarding the 920 foot above sea level of Preble's Hill?" Before the change of property that gave Edwin Preble its ownership, it was known as Jones Hill, being a portion of the farm lands of one John Jones. Previous to that the farm was known as the Flanders place and Lydia, one of the daughters of the soil became the wife of  John Jones. The Flanders family, we believe, were among the many early settlers of Garland, then Lincoln Township, to come to the "Granite State."

Regardless of mathematics, we will not compute the time but turn back to a day when the writer was five years young, March 12, 1936. A shaft was being sunk on Jones Hill for mining galens ore. A long table of men working in the mine and boarding at Gordon homestead a mile distant to the south, is plainly silhouetted in memory.  Daniel Moor,
the bald headed and gentlemanly overseer, harelipped Brawn, Mr. Webber and others with names that possibly I never knew or have forgotten.

Blow pipes, mortars, crucibles and acid tests followed the evening meal with interesting experiment. The shipment of a car load of mineral to Philadelphia for smelting and
the return of two bricks of silver ore are outstanding features. The later larceny of the same was a somewhat tragic mystery which was never
fathomed.

The percentage of silver was not large enough to warrant continued operation with the possibility that the vein might 'peter' out and the incidental expense of smelting, (with the nearest works in Pennsylvania) ­"