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TWO?A. Resources TALK IS MADE 7 OVER WWNC BY LOCAL EDITOR I n Citizen-Times Devotes 2 Full Pages, Write-up To This County Much has been said of the beauty arid the hospi: ility >f Western North Cl Carolina. Thanks to the press, the radio and other media of advertising, the "state within a state" has enjoyed a reputa- < 1 tion surpassing any other section of these United States. P1 We of the western section of ^ North Carolina feel that nothing * could he added to that which we al- ca ready wyv. Any time ot tne year you will find the southern end of ^ the great smokies enchanting, you will find the climate healthful, the ^ towns progressive, the people, gener- ^ ally, happy and contented. ^ The citizens of the mountain section of North Carolina like to 7? took upon their land as one with |j!| common interests. The various communities are made up of the same dispositions. Wi Down where the Blue Ridge j-L mountains lose their sleepnness, where the rugged crags and rocky fords rkflnrrp f ! ?? .? *....--.1 ? . u?a ncauicnius precipes to fertile, sloping valleys, lies -nt Cherokee county. ^vr On the south the red clay hills of nii Georgia sweep into a sandy flatness we and the rugged, barren hills of the Copper Basin of Tennessee lead off to the west. lib At this tip end of the state Chero- coi kee county majestically tranforms Bo the flatness of the Georgia Tonnes- of see land into towering mountains, rot studded with virgin timber, to a hazy richness silhouetted against the skies. I,u Truly when one enters fcie giant, green Valley River valley they real- lis! ize they are no longer on ordinary wa soil. They are entering a land rich ho in scenic beauty, a land inhabited hy hardy pioneers of pure American bal stock who through their own initi- oI { HennTl MURPHY, NORTH CA | Cooled by washed air' $ Thursday, Friday | "ANOTHER | Wallace Ford, Brian Do > The story of a fancy getaway that A thrilling story of a crook who ch $ with murder . . . UNTIL A WOMA | Extra Added i | MAJOR BOWES A1 If A two reel sh< | Also FOX *; Saturday, August 22 | HAROLD BELL WRIC 1 "THE MINE WITH 1 Y ?with Richard Arlen? | Henry B. V *1* Roaring out of the Golden West i amazing story of the Riddle of th X Thrilling romances . . . film *1* great novel I f Also Chapt t "BURN 'EM U1 [ Monday and Tues< George Raft?Dolores j "YOURS FORI a ?with | Ida Lupino, Regino'd 0 j: "Slceets" Gallagher a Y A brand new romance team that'll 1 Also Musical The Cherokee i Of Cherol tive tilled the seemingly untillab'e,' it the virgin timber stands to make heir homes and build roads aecesible > every part of the county. Because of the difficulties they iced, ire original white settlers in le lower end of the mountain range :iturall.,r became more industrious lan those of the lowlands. They had fi'jht the ruggedness of the rnounlins for their own subsistanve. Created by an att of the legijture in 1S39, Cherokee county was amed in honor of that tribe of Inians that once gayly inhabited its rnfines. It is one of the largest >unties in the state having an area 462 square miles. The 1032 cen;s give, it a population of 16,151, it the figure could conservatively estimated closer to 20,000 at the resent. The first white settlers were mostnatives of North Carolina and ime largely from Buncombe, Hay' i and ndininincr counties. They ere of English, Dutch, Scotch and ish decent. Murphy, the county seat, was the rst white settlement, and was first lown as Huntington, from Col. K. Hunter, who, by permission of the vernment, had established a trad* post among the Cherokee Inins at the confluence of the Valley d Hiawassee rivers. < In 1836 Brigadier-General John E. 1 ool estabished an army post at < mtiugton for the removal of In ins to the Oklahoma country. The 1 >t was named Fort Butler in honor : B. F. Butler secretary of war ad 1 erim in the cabinet of President idrew Jackson, under whose adnistration plans for the removal 1 re formulated. J La ad Deeded Several years ago through the * erality of the Tar-Heel investment i npany, composed of Louis M. : urne and Dr. S. Westray Battle. 1 Asheville, an acre of ground sur- * inding and including the fort wa* ^ sded to the town of Murphy for a , blic park. When Cherokee county was estabbed in 1839, the new county site s gifen the name of Murphy in nor of one of the state's distin- | ished superior court judges, ArchiId D. Murphy, whose championship popular education resulted in heater ji KOL1NA ^ * ?"The Safe Way" | < r, Aug. 20-21 1 FACE" j; ~ J nlevy, Alan Hale!! X puzzled the G-Men. Tells the y anged his face and got away N ? Attractions $ MATEURS No.3 | )rt subject X NEWS 1 rv... rv_i viae i/ay v/Iliy ^ | JHT'S ? *HE IRON DOOR" | - . % -Cecil Parker *| Valthall | comes Harold Bell Wright's ? e Rockies! ? ed with all the power of the :er No. 8 P BARNES" iay, Aug. 24-25 | Costello Barrymore | TOE ASKING" j wen, James Gleason ] nd Edgar Kennedy | tave you blistering your hands. ? 1 Flashes | - Scout, Murphy, North Car iee County the foundation of North CaioBna s system cf pub!:c schools. The r.ame of the town w&* originall v :>elied M-u-r-p-^-e-y, but throusr'u a ypographical error on the part of a legislative clerk, r the state printer, it was speiled M-u-r-p-h-y a.- it remains today. Andrews, 1G miles east of Murphy. wa- first settled in 1835, when Col. A. B. Andrews, one of li.e piun-j eers of Western North Carolina, and j a party ?>f railroad officii '- came ? ?; Cherokee county looking for ,t plac.1 j to establish a commissary fr m which | to supply crews then engaged in building a railroad westward from Bryson City. The trading point thu- established soon grew into a thriving village and Andrews was incorporated in 1905. It is the seat of the F. I*. Cover and Sons tannery plant and the Teas Tanning extract company. These two plants use thousands of dollars worth of acid wood and tan bark annually providing a source of income to residents of this section? that is unsurpassed. c. Marble, nine miles east of Murphy, is the scene of a large marble quarrying and finishing industry. The town is said to he the smallest incorporated village in the state The quarries of the Columbia marble 'company have supplied a large part >f the paving in the towns of the ;ounty; the Murphy court house, aid to be one of the most beautiful in the state is built of pure marble ind even dwellings and barns are finished with it. At Kinsey, three miles south of Murphy, the finest talc in the world is mined and shipped to American ind foreign ports. The forest area of Cherokee county is approximately 204,895 acres, :omprising 75 per cent of the total irea. More than 62 per cent of the forest area is farm woodland in- . luiiing some 22,000 acres of wood- ' and pasture. The Appalachian ? /cneer company at Regal, three niles east of Murphy, is one of the ' largest veneer plants in Western . N'orth Carolina. Iron ore, high grade asbestos, feldspar, managanese and gold will , be found in the county but have never been mined to any extensive scale. Cherokee county is served by two ' railways?the Southern which comes ? lown through the county to Murphy | from Asheville and the Louisville ' ind Nashville which runs into Mur- t phy from Atlanta, Ga. A privately | nvned lumbering railroad extends iouth from Andrews into Clay county ! it Hayesville. Good Roads The highway system of the county ! includes state and national trunk line routes, and a system of fairly rood secondary soil and gravei roads. Highway No. 10, known as North Carolina's "Main Street", and No. 28, another main line highway converge at Marphy. These two state routes form U. S. 19 which extends from Canada to the Guilf, and U. S. 64 from East ern Carolina to California. Last week work began on the last unpaved link of No. 1:) from the Kovth Carolina-Georgia state lino 17 miles below here to Blue Ridge, Ga. When this paring project is completed this fall, the route will become the principal Itunk line between the East and the South-. Cherokee county ranges in elevation from about 1300 let above *ea level in the western part to about 5000 feet in the northern part. The elevation at Murphy is 1,614 feet and at Andrews 1800 feet. Grassy Top in the northern part, and Weatherman Bald in the eastern part, are each 5000 feet above sea level. The stream valleys are narrow hnd deep, the currents swift and there are many falls and shoals furnishing fine qport for anglers. Of monumental importance to the citizens of Cherokee county at present is the Tennessee Valley Authority's plans to build a $15,000,000 dam on the Hiawassee river 18 miles be-1 low Murphy at the sate known as Fowler's Bend. Already hundreds of vrorkmen are busy making accesable roads into the | site from Murphy and from Turtletown, Tenn., over which they will haul the ponderous machinery used in building Norris dam. Thousands of dollars in increased business is anticipated by Cherokee county merchants wl\en the project gets under full sway. Many unemployables will he put to work regularly and the towns are already in olina Defined I creasing their capacities in all lines meet the bid for increased business. Of more importance to the people at large is the fact that the TVA's decision to build this dam in North Carolina marks the initial effoits to bring the benefits of the Tennessee Valley Authority's yardstick power and flood control policy into t.us state. That, the Cherokee county people consider of greatest consequence. They realized the TVA did not care to step in where they were not wanted. They continually urged upon the TVA officials the importance of undertaking this project. A motorcade went to Knoxville while ali the business house shut down. Wires were sent to Washington officials imploring them to back up Cherokee county in their fight for a dam in this section. Time and outlay were spent without reserve. And finally the decision was made. The appropriation went through and the people rejoiced that not only they, but the state at large, would have the benefits of this governmental institution. Nor has the TVA by any means confined its interest to Cherokee county through its flood control program. It's more far-reaching program of sensible rehabilitation has been patterned in many ways. Jt's most important, in the instance of Cherokee county, was its interest in agriculture. Being principally an agricultural section farmers have derived great benefits through its program of tesfc and demonstration farms. Through the efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Cooperative a cannery at Murphy has been refinanced and is proving a real boon to farmers in that section. While heretofore the farmers have | I A Distinguis I | to an Advance F | Very Newest De I ^ ^ Wo i | Wehaveacomplei I the sch(x | Dress them warm I IIS ^ As Usual We off Lowes CARRl I Departm :j: Murphy, N Thurs., August 20, 1936 n Address 1 had to rely principally on corn, wheat and other staple crops, a now source of better revenue ha> Ken opened to them. The refernce is to | vegetable crops. As long as there was no market?no medium of ??- - ' change for them?the farmers stuck to their corn and wheat. 1 J Now the cannery buys up their to- ' | matoes. their beans, every vegetable I they raise and either can them or | find a profitable market for them. Cooperatives Become Popular \ Sometime ago a cooperative cream- ; cry was established at Brasstown ' close to the Clay county line for the !. benefit of the dairy farmers in that section. It grew and thrived. The farmers learned the importance of the word "cooperative" when applied . I to their farm products and soon cherished the idea. i; | Today cooperatives are meeting with success in the Cherokee county ? [ area and their exponents are handl- \ ing half-dollars instead of dimes. I In back of the creamery which II brought about this change lies the |i John C. Campbell Folk school at g Brasstown. || It was established several years !j ago by Mrs. John C. Campbell in fj memory of her husband who spent his life in behalf of the Southern 'J Appalachian mountaineers. | He realized the falk schools of H| Denmark had a place in America. He j became interested in the work while H staying here in Asheville. But he a never lived to see his dream come a Mrs. Campbell, however, had be- f come fnterested in the work. With r the help of the Brasstown citizens and Uncle Luce Scroggs, the school was founded. Small of student body and small I of faculty it seeks to combine the two and do away with cut-aud-dried Continued on page thre* A hed Invitation I all Showing of the | Luxe Gentelmen's X olens I i X I Elxpressly Woven For !; igarvt Made-To-Measure :|: Tailoring I presenting The Famous English-American ? Tailoring Line X . | le very finest quality at X tie Very Lowest Prices ? x X ;e line of clothing for | j| children.x and reasonably for f hoot. ! er the Best for the | it Prices. f INGERS | ent Store [ orth Carolina |
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