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tion of the section, but of late years
trucking has increased considerably
in importance.

The most celebrated writers always refer
to certain "centers of settlement Humboldt
mentions the central radiant
points" of Sandy Spring? The
fountain head literally as well
as figuratively is a Spring from which
the neighborhood receives its name.
The first annalist of Sandy Spring
writes thus of the spring;

"No longer does the water bubble up
through the white sand that gave the
Spring its name, as famous once that
the neighbors sent to it, some distance
round, on account of its peculiar scouring
and polishing excellence. Where
the red Indian stopped to drink, unfastening
the wild beasts skin from
his swarthy neck, where the white
man chasing the deer the wolf and
the bear, first parted the tangled