Nor must we forget to mention the milk business.  Louis P. Hawkes has a herd of some forty cows and has a milk route at Lynn.  J.W.  Blodgett keeps twenty-five cows, and takes his milk to market.  Geo. N. Miller and T.O.W.  Houghton also keep cows and have a route.  Joshua Kingsbury, George H. Pearson and George Ames have a route, buying their milk.  Byron Hone keeps fifty cows.  Dudley Fiske has twenty-five, selling their milk.  O.M.  Hitchings, H. Burns, A.B.  Davis, Lewis Austin, Richard Hawkes and others keep from seven to twelve cows for dairy purposes.

[Illustration:  Residence of Charles H. Bond.]

Having somewhat minutely noticed the industries we will speak briefly of some of the dwellings.  The elegant mansion and gardens of Brainard and Henry George, Harmon Hall and Rufus A. Johnson of East Saugus, and Eli Barrett, A.A.  Scott and E.E.  Wilson of Saugus, C.A.  Sweetser, C.H.  Bond and Pliny Nickerson at Cliftondale, with their handsome lawns, rich and rare flowers and noble shade trees attract general attention.  The last mentioned estate was formerly owned by a brother of Governor William Eustis, where his Excellency used to spend a portion of his time each year.

At the south-westerly part of the town, not far from the old Eustis estate, the boundaries of three counties and four towns intersect with each other, viz:  Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex counties, and the towns of Revere, Saugus, Melrose and Maiden.  Near by, too, is the old Boynton estate, and the Franklin Trotting park, where some famous trotting was had, when Dr. Smith managed it in 1866-7, Flora Temple, Fashion, Lady Patchen and other noted horses contending.  After a few years of use it was abandoned, but it has recently been fitted up by Marshall Abbott of Lynn, and several trots have taken place the present summer.

[Illustration:  Town hall.]

The Boynton estate above referred to is divided by a small brook, known as “Bride’s Brook,” which is also the dividing line between Saugus and Revere, and the counties of Suffolk and Essex.  Tradition asserts that many years ago a couple were married here, the groom standing on one side and the bride on the other; hence the name “Bride’s Brook.”

The existence of iron ore used for the manufacturing at the old Iron Works was well known, and there have been many who have believed that antimony also exists in large quantities in Saugus, but its precise location has as yet not become known to the public.

As early as the year 1848, a man by the name of Holden, who was given to field searching and prospecting, frequently brought specimens to the late Benjamin F. Newhall and solemnly affirmed that he obtained them from the earth and soil within the limits of Saugus.  Every means was used to induce him to divulge the secret of its locality.  But Holden was wary and stolidly refused to disclose or share the knowledge