Hawke Road
“The road we had come over was scarcely a road… it was climb, climb, climb… and then down, down a steep hill, car in low, single track road absolutely a shelf on the side of the mountain miles long.”43
“The road we had come over was scarcely a road… it was climb, climb, climb… and then down, down a steep hill, car in low, single track road absolutely a shelf on the side of the mountain miles long.”43
“If we only had a few more men we could play polo, as here it would be quite an inexpensive game and well within the reach of those with only moderate means.”48
Windermere, “claims justly, that there is no more beautiful townsite on earth than her own. She is modest about it, is Windermere, and she never institutes comparisons which are invariably odious.”53
“Windermere [was] a magnet for land speculation by government officials.”
James Brady’s skill at attracting investment for mining properties far outweighed his ability to assess those properties for their mineral wealth.
It could be that the naming of the mountain and the mine was a serendipitous case of separate parties deciding on the same name for separate features in a similar area.
The name “Firlands” first appears in print in early June 1899.51 The reason for choosing the name is unknown.
Even today it is assumed that Sylvester is guilty of Forster’s death. Legally speaking, he is not.
Forster certainly projected the air of a successful rancher.