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drop a rock over the bluff, which rises almost perpendicularly, and later 

 see it splash iu the seething waters of the wild mountain stream which 

 goes bounding through Trout Glen, hundreds of feet below. The mansion, 

 85 by 115 feet, and three stories in height, besides the full sized basement, 

 is of sandstone, quarried a quarter of a mile away and 800 feet below 

 the site selected for the mansion. By use of a hoisting engine, the stone 

 was then hauled up the heights on a miniature railroad. Almost all the 

 material used in the construction of the mansion, stables and water tower, 

 all of which are of stone, was obtained on the place. There the lime 

 was burned, there the sand was made of two kinds of ground rock, and 

 there the oak timber for the immense joists, 12 by 14 inches, was cut. 

 The buildings are practically fireproof. 



The Mansion, 85 by 115 Feet, Built of Native Stone. 



"In the mansion are twenty-eight large rooms and many smaller 

 ones — about 60 in all. The entire building is wired for electric lights 

 and piped for water and gas, 7,000 feet of the best piping having been 

 placed in position. Immense furnaces in the basement supply the heat. 

 Rooms had been planned for the various members of the family. Then 

 there are guest rooms, smoking rooms, billiard halls, banquet halls, etc., 

 each facing on an enclosed central court extending from first to topmost 

 floor. Mr. Snyder had selected his own suite of rooms on an upper floor 

 and in the southwest part of the building. From the windows one 

 catches a view of unsurpassed and indescribable loveliness and grandeur. 

 From here he sees the sun sink behind the blue ridges far beyond, lighting 



