HARRINGTON] HISTORY OF BURTON MOUND 61 
that the hotel dining room occupied the second story above that spot. 
The fumes from that spring crept up into the dining room and 
blackened the silver and it also affected the utensils in the kitchen. 
Mr. Potter determined to do away with the spring, and had it covered 
over with a layer of cement a foot thick and 20 feet across. 
There were two pipes by the swamp, at a location which is now 
approximately the middle of the eastern lawn. These pipes were 
inserted in the ground, projected vertically from the ground, were 
several feet apart, and one had water or nothing in it, while the 
other had natural gas, so that sometimes it would burn if you held 
a match to it. Mr. Aman does not know who put these pipes in the 
swamp or what the idea was. 
The near-by swamp had blue and purple colors on top of the water 
every once in a while, as if there were an oily film. 
Mr. Henry Tallant was agent for the property when Mr. Aman 
rented it. Once Mr. Aman asked Mr. Tallant if he would have any 
objection to some one digging for relics. Mr. Tallant did not like 
the idea at all and said, “ Don’t you dare to dig for relics.” 
Mr. Aman found most of the relics that came to light when he 
was living there at the little vegetable garden, which he cultivated, 
which as stated above was at the locality of the present palm grove 
at the west of the mound. There he found arrow heads and Indian 
bones. 
The roof of the adobe was shingled when Mr. Aman lived there. 
The gable ends of the house were of brick and had evidently been 
put in later than the adobe. 
Mrs. Harry Jenkins had lived at the house just prior to the time 
when Mr. Aman lived there and she was an artist, and painted the 
beautiful oil picture of the adobe, showing the red blossoming roses 
around the veranda, the morning glories climbing up the posts, the 
old well, the trees, and many other details. Mrs. Jenkins sold this 
picture to Mr. Aman while he was a resident at the mound for the 
very modest sum of $20, and when Mr. Potter had finished the hotel 
he approached Mr. Aman on the subject of purchasing the picture 
from him. Mr. Aman refused to sell it. It is still in Mr. Aman’s 
possession. 
INTERVIEW WITH ARTHUR GREENWELL 
Mr. Arthur Greenwell has lived practically all his life as a neigh- 
bor of the Burton Mound property and recalled many interesting 
details concerning the former condition of that site. 
Mr. Greenwell recalls fig trees, olives, pomegranates, and pears in 
the old orchard at the southwestern end of the mound where the palm 
grove stands at present. 
