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RALEIGH. Aag. 31—Thu to the
»U*y «< • misty. behind the mountain
li ij.)i'irf finished thia month
which promiaes » <k-w W.y of life
for mm of the neat isolated leeThe
atory fergtaa nearly 100
|wn ago when Iron ore n> found i
in the mountain country along
Cranberry Creek, ta terrain wo
}<f«M*d that only a lew trafla e*l»lDHRra
Until thu day traffic ha* come
over the ridge* from upper Ea*t
Tenneoee into Northwest North
Carolina only in a trickle. Moat of
the road* in the area north aad
west of famou* Grandfather Moontain
wore narrow aad crooked,
suitable only for local traffic, and
a* one veteran highway engineer
commented "not adequate for
that"
But the iron ore a century ago
WW ■ lure, tad aa lobitltwi
greap «mM a railroad company
A Mt tar-aighU'd, they called
It tha "Tennaaara and Pacific."
Instead of pinking waat, bow
evar, the rail road want east MI
Ak„ M#4«aa44aaaV alMaana a«yi
towing uw winamg it resin# »«hj
■•mar valleyv into North Carolina.
tt waa a narrow-gauge track,
and an underaitad tralu ran up ta
Cranberry from Johneon CHy,
Tenn., for tlie iroa arc.
The train became known aa
T»eetsio, and lb whistle waa W
loved by the people who lived in
the mountain - hemmed cover.
Yean later the Iron ore played
out, and Tweetaie haa now become
a muaeum-piece.
It chugs again on a little track
built along a mouatalaaide near
Blowing Rock, attracting touriata
and bringing back memories
Along what araa once the Tweet
■ia line, highway crcwa have been
buoy.
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MIthM Mf*nU|AVAy
A few yeara ago the new fourlue
divided auperhighway mtf
lag ever the Blue Ridge from Old
Fart to Bidgecreat mi completed,
and hailed aa •• eagineeriDg and
road-building marvel^
The word far the nrveying and
planning the new road "on the
other »id«" ol fi miff it her lfouotats
I* "phenomenal," according
to Divtaion Highway Engineer J.
H Council! of North Wilkeabore.
By uaiag the new road, croeo
log the Blue Bidge and dropping
down oa the eaat aide to reach the
Old Port-IUdgecraat highway (U.
8. TO) the travel tint from the
Watauga County aeat of Boon* to
Aaheville ia now mawtired ia
minute* Inatead of houra. The trip
can be made leisurely in 1» miautea.
The principal part of the newly
coaatructed road, deaignated aa
N. C. 109. aavea only 11 milea In
dlatance from Boone to Unvtlie,
in Avery County. But It actually
opena an entirely new route out
of Watauga, avoiding the bottleneck*
of the very crooked Yohanloaaee
Trail and the heavy grades
and even more crooked turna of
N. C. 1M fraaa Vilas to Baaner
Dk
Trail la IWM
The Yohsakissrv Trill la utilised
as not only U. S. 211 from Urntrill*
to Blowing Hack, but alas by
tlx U. 8. Par* Service as that link
of the Blue Ridge Psrkwsy
' jam Yonahlossee Trail hugs the
(tony eastern slopes of Grandfather,
then Hindi through the
Moaaa H. Cone Memorial Park
south of Blowing Ruck With ita
vistas to the oast over the Johns
River Gorge, Ha foggy turns, cascades
and mountain strearha it la
scenic enough—but slow going.
Until • few years ago, apparently
no one had envisioned a
road "back of the mountain"—on
the other side of Grandfather—
which would surmount the naturtl
obstacles.
On the "yan" side of Grandfather
are the picturesque villages of
Poacoe and Shulls Mills nestled in
the flat yet high Watauga River
Valley.
Read Follows Old Liae
From Boone, the road swings
down gently through Hodges Gap
following the old Tweetaie line. It
crosses the Watauga River at
Shulls Mills over a slightly curved
reinforced concrete bridge and
follows the river valley up to
once inaccessible Foscoe.
From there it climbs steeply
for about one and a half miles and
then on a gentle climb for four
miles to Llnville Gap, elevation
just over 4,000 feet. Still on the
abandoned Tweetsie line, the road
then curves gently on the floor of
the high valley at the foot of
Grandfather Mountain to Linville.
From Linville, the route to Asheville
is U. S. 221 and U. S. 70,
crossing and re-croasing the Blue
Ridge. The Blue Ridge Parkway
sweeps up to Asheville atop the
mountains, past Little Switzerland,
Mount Mitchell, the Blacks
and the Craggies.
"Good Alignment"
Councill said "unusually good
alignment" with a maximum
curvature of only six degrees
achieved on the road was "almost
phenomenal for such elevations."
The grades are light, despite the
extremely rugged terrain
There was extremely hard rock
encountered in the Watauga River
Gorge, unusual quantities of
underground and surface water at
Linville Gap. Last winter, road
crews were plagued with rock
and land slides and surface failures
because of frosts and, as always
in the mountains, winter
Coffee Is Top 1
(J. S. Beverage
RALEIGH—Coffee is the national
drink here in the United
State* according to the U.'S. Department
of Agriculture* nationwide
household food consu mptioo
mrvejr.
According ti> their report, we |
drink mora coffee at hone than |
tea or aoft drink*. A little over 16
«ix-ounce cop* of eoffee a week
waa estimated to he the per person
average- This wu considerably
higher than the average for taa or
aoft drinka. .- -«iS
Compared to the average 16
cupa of coffee a week, household
purchases of tea indicated only 5
S cups per person, and a little
over two cups of soft drinks.
Use of these beverages differed
with the size of the household.
Those who lived alone—the singletravel
will be more difficult.
But Council] said N. C. 100, together
with the new link to Banner
Elk from Linville Gap, "will
be of tremendous service to tourist
traffic, and the industrial development
of all Northwest North
Carolina."
Accuracy Safeguards
Your Good Health
When illness strikes, you
can count on our registered
pharmacists to fill your
prescriptions promptly and
accurately.
. OUR PRECISION IS
YOUR PROTECTION
3 Registered Druggists
All Ways Reliable
Boone Drug
Company
mOw rt|L families
used more milk a«i Mfl drinks.
Regional preftrami in bavari|«
(bowed up in tile nnqr
figure*. In the North Central
states they drank the most coffee,
in the South tha« least—on the
average and par person.
la the Northeast they purchased
the moat fresh (laid milk, but
in the North Cantral they used
more because many of the family
farms there had home produced
milk. In the South and the North
Central regions they averaged
highest in home use of softdriaks.
The South purchased the moat
tea, and used most of it for Iced
tea.
While the United States is officially
off the gold standard, at
last count the earmarked gold in
the vaults totaled «0JM,OOO,OOO.
Foreign nations at home or In
other strongholds had *7,108,000,000
more. The United States
owns about (22.390,000,000, which
makes the total free world supply
of gold about 936.5 billions, excluding
international institutions. I
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D500 Engine, Radio and Heater, White
Side Walls.
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1956 FORD CUSTOMLINE V8
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and Heater.
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White Side Walls, Clean.
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White Side Walls, Clean.
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2 Door, Two Tone Blue, Radio, Heater.
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Side Walls.
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4 Door
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