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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
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J. J. MISTER, Manager.
BEEYAED, TEANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FEIDAY. OCTOBEE11.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 41
TRANSYLVANIA LODGE
Not 143, K. of P.
Meets Tuesday evening.-
8.30., Castle Hall, Pra-
ternity building.
A hearty welcome for
visitors at all times.
R. L. GASH, C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMinn Block. »
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Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
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LAWYER
Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C
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N. C.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
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and up.
Plates of all kind at reasonabh
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All work guaranteed; satisfactioi
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Teeth extracted without pain.
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The Mthelwold
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The patronage of the traveling publi*
as well as summer tourists is solicited
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C.
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RAILROAD!!
From Transylvania Pioneer, Sept. 16, 1887.
At last our patient citizens hg.ve the opportunity of securing
the building of a railroad througti their beautiful and productive
county. *
There is no county in the state, nor probably in the whole
south, which promises the speedy and great development which
awaits us, if we can get the road. The road means everything: to
us—wealth, progress and thrift; the rapid increase of the value of
our lands; work for all who desire to work; low prices for all we
buy, and ^i^ood cash prices for all we sell; it means a home cash
market; good cash prices for eggs, chickens and butter; good cash
prices for all the ties and telegraph poles you can cut.
Tt means the building of several large and first-class hotels in
the county, to accommodate the thousands of wealthy visitors who
will make Transylvania their summer and Winter home.
It means constant employment and cash for the poor man, who
will not have any of the tax to pay.
And the real estate owners, who will have to pay the tax, can
cut enough telegraph poles, and ties and wood from land which is
now all but worthless, to pay all his taxes.
It means money and prosperity for us all.
It means the lifting us out of the old ruts in which we are im
bedded, and the placing of our unequalled county in t^e van of en
terprise and progress.
The tax will not be felt by any land owner in the county. On
the contrary, the railroad will give him mef.ns for paying not only
iiis railroad tax, but all other taxes.
The railroad itself, being assessed, will pay nearly all the tax.
Polk county was asked to vote $50,000 to bring the Asheville &
Spartanburg railroad throngh the middle of the county. Thinking,
it could go no other route, the people' refused to vote the subscrip
lion, and the road did not go through the center of the county. It
just grazed one edge of it, thereby leaving the county worse off
> han ever. They are willing and anxious to vote $50,000 now to any
•oad which will pass through their county, but it is tQO late! Let
Transylvania be wiser than the people of Polk.
All the ties and telegraph poles which you can cut will be
oought yjromptly for cash by the railroad.
Vote for a railroad while you haVfe an opportunity. Let the con
lition of Polk county be a warning to us. They haye repented ol
heir folly in voting against the road; but their repentance, like that
)f the dying sinner, comes too late.
In these editorial clippings of
20 years ago was there a promise
nade that has not been fulfilled.
True, the road for which bonds
.vere asked was never built, but
)ur people have had a railroad
.or 12 years and know the advan
tages they have gained thereby.
The developments of the Tox-
iway Company, and their system
)f beautiful summer re^Wt ho
tels, would never have been lo
cated here without a railroad.
The Rosman tannery, with its
narket for tanbark which scat
ters thousands of dollars in the
mountain coves; the Brevard
Tannin Extract plant, which has
made chestnut wood—(a w^aste
product until it made a market
for it)—the most valuable asset
(3f every farm; the cotton mill
oow building, all are the direct
t esults of railroad facilities.
And what about labor? When
the first vote for railroad bonds
was offered our county the writer
was swinging a paint brush for
nominally $1 per day—in farm
produce. In reality we received
10 lbs. of home-made bacon, a
bushel of corn or rye, 2 gallons
of molasses, and other produce
at similar prices, for a day’s
work. Good farm hands could
get 50 cts. a day in produce—no
money—but that was the highest
price—now wages are more than
doubled in all lines.
To pay taxes our mountain men
were compelled to get up a load
of something eatable—apples,
cabbage, Irish potatoes—and
haul it over the mountains to
some cotton mill town in South
Carolina, and peddle it out. The
money to pay taxes with was not
in this county. Now you find
plenty of money in the pockets
of every mountaineer who has
tan-bark, chestnut wood,'cross
ties, telegraph poles, saw-logs or
lumber. Our people don’t need
to be told what the railroad has
done for them.
But the question of taxes is
entirely foreign to the present
proposition to issue bonds. There
is no such supposition that a sin
gle penny will be added to the
tax of any man in the county ex
cept for increased valuation.
Land that was not considered
worth the entry fee before the
railroad was built, is now worth
$3 per acre cash, and taxes are
higher accordingly. Land that
is now worth $3 will doubtless go
up to $10, and taxes will ^o up
accordingly—but if you get tired
of paying taxes the money is
ready to buy your land, at its
higher valuation.
In the bond issue for the South
Atlantic Trans continental Rail
way there will be no levy for tax
on the Bonds until the railway
property is listed for taxation.
This additional valuation, as
shown on page 8 of this paper,
will add more to the tax collec
tions than the interest on the
Bonds, so no man’s tax will be
increased a penny by voting for
the Bonds. In fact the county
will be $102 per mile of road to
the good by voting Bonds.
Be wis8"VotB for Bonds.
Railroad Election Onler.
QjSUxof the Board of Couardy Commis
sioners of Transylvania County,
North Carolina:
At a meeting duly, legally and regu
larly called and held by the Board of
Commissioners of Transylvania coun
ty, in the court house in said county,
on the 9th day of September, 1907, it
being made to appear to said Board
that a large number of the citizens of
said county have subscribed to the
capital stock of the South Atlantic
Trans-Continental Railroad Company,
and have been engaged in an effort to
build a railroad through Transylva
nia county in a way by which said
railroad will be independent in its
operations, thereby securing the best
rates that competition will make for
our people.
And whereas a petition signed by
fifty citizens of the county has been
duly presented to this Board in ac
cordance with the charter of said
South Atlantic Trans-Continental
Railroad Company.
And whereas the best interest and
prosperity of Transylvania county
depends greatly upon the construction
of said railroad.
And whereas, the construction of
said railroad will bring directly into
the county taxable property of several
million dollars, to say nothing of
taxable property that will flow into
said county by reason of said rail
road.
And whereas.^ the wisest financial
policy for the county will be subserved
by extending to the construction of
said railroad material aid by said
county.
And whereas, the subscription here-
inbelow mentioned is necessary to aid
in the construction of said railroad,
in which the citizens of the county
tiaTe an interest
Therefore it is or*dered by the Board
that the question of Subscription to
Lhe capital stock of said company in
Ghe sum of THREE THOUSAND DOL
LARS per mile of railroad for each
mile constructed within the county,
which amount this board proposes to
subscribe to be paid in county bonds
to mature in not less than thirty years
with 4 per cent, interest coupons at
tached, payable‘semi-annually at the
place provided for in said bonds, the
interest on said bonds and the bonds
themselves at maturity to be paid by
taxation as provided by law, shall be
submitted to the qualified voters of
said county, as provided by charter of
said company and Chapter 61, Vol. 1,
jf the Revisal of 1905 of North Caro
lina, on the 31st day of October, 1907,
jvhicb election is hereby ordered for
the purpose of voting for or against
uhe proposition to subscribe the said
amount of stock agreed on by the
Board of County Commissioners, at
^hich election the said voters shall
vote a ticket as follows: Those favor
ing the subscription shall vote a tick-
it upon which shall be written or
printed “For Subscription,” and
ohose opposed shall vote a ticket upon
AThich shall be written or printed
•‘Against Subscription,” and if the
majority of the voters of said county
shall vote for subscription, then the
bJoard' of County Commissioners,
through their chairman, shall sub
scribe to the capital stock of said
company the sum of THREE THOU
SAND DOLLARS per mile of railroad
to be constructed within the county,
to be paid in bonds as specified above,
which said bonds shall only be issued
upon the conditions following, viz.:
The said bonds shall not be issued
and delivered to ihe said company or
any one else until after said company
or its assigns shall have completed
and equipped for operation a stan
dard gauge railroad, in compliance
with construction contract submitted
for inspection of the board at this
date, from the northerly or easterly
boundary of the county, the southerly
boundary of the county, or from a
point at or near Brevard, following
the routes provided by the charter, in
sections of ten miles each, until the
entire railroad shall have been com
pleted, it being understood that ten
miles of railroad shall be completed
in accordance with the construction
contract and certificate of the chief
engineer as to such completion filed in
the oflBce of the Board of County Com
missioners before any payment shall
be made upon this subscription, and
thereafter in the same manner for each
succeeding ten miles; and provided
further, that when said conditions
have been complied with, then the said
Board of Commissioners shall issue
and pay to said»railroad company the
said county bonds in exchange for the
same amount of the capital stock of
said South Atlantic Trans-Continental
Railroad Company, at par.
Provided further, that under no cir
cumstances shall the bonds be issued
except upon the conditions set (forth
above.
Office of the JBoard of Commissioners of
Transylvania County, Noi’th Carolina:
At a meeting duly, legally and regu
larly called and held by the Board of
Commissioners of Transylvania coun
ty, in the court bouse in said county,
on the 27th day of September, 1907, it
appearing to the board that the regis
tration ^oks for election to be held
on October 17th, 1907, as ordered on
September 9, 1907, upon questions of
subscription to the capital stock of
South Atlantic Trans-Continental
Railroad Company, were not issued
to the registrars in time to comply
with the law as to said election,
It is ordered by the board that the
date of said election be postponed to
Thursday, October 31, 1907, and that-
said election be held under the same
terms and conditions, and that said
order be amended by striking out
October 17th, 1907, as the day of elec
tion, and inserting October 31st, 1907,
as the day of election.
Said order in all other respects be
ing affirmed and approved.
By order of the board.
L. W. Brooks, Ch’n. B. C. C.
M.' W. Galloway, Cl’k B. C. C.
The railroad has approved an
amendment to the foregoing call of
election requiring construction of its
road to or within one mile of the court
house at Brevard, and said amend
ment will be duly published as a part
of the contract prior to date of elec
tion. M. W. Galloway.
Clerk B. G. C.
To the Shereff of Transylvania County:
You are hereby notified that the
County Board of Elections have ap
pointed for the bond election for the
South Atlantic Trans-continental
Railroad Company, which election is
to be held on October the 3Ist, 1907,
the following persons as registrars
and judges for holding said election,
and you will so notify them accordinar
to law:
Brevard Township—E. T. Henning,
registrar; J, M. Kilpatrick and W. H.
Grogan, judges.
Boyd Township—E. B. Clayton,
registrar; T. R. Duncan and A. J.
Beck, judges.
Catheys Creek Township—J. M.
Southern, registrar; Jos. A. Bryson
and R. L. Hogsed, judges.
Cedar Mountain Precinct—J. R.
Bishop, registrar; E. A. Heath and
Geo. Bishop, judges.
Duns Rock Township—Wm. Max
well, regi^rar; Walter Hogsed and A.
C. Landreth, judges.
Eastatoe Precinet—E. M. Whitmire,
registrar; W. E. Galloway and L. M.
Glazener, judges.
East Fork Precinct—Milus Garren,
registrar; J. P. Hays and John Gar
ren, judges.
Gloucester Township—James W.
Owen, registrar: W. M. Bird and W.
E. Hall, fudges.
Hogback Township—Flem Gallo
way, registrar; I. S. Fisher and Al
fred. Collins, judges.
Little River Precinct—Lad Hart,
registrar; P. S. Shuford and H. P.
Nicholson, judges.
This 27th day of September, 1907.
Frank L. DeVane,
Temporary Chairman.
D. L. English, Secretary.
That the said registrars at said
voting precincts shall revise and cor
rect the registration books so that
they will show a truthful and accurate
list of the qualified voters in his pre
cinct, and register all such as may
apply under the law to be registered
who have riot heretofore registered.
That the said election be advertised
for thirty days by publication in Syl
van Valley News at Brevard, N. C.,
and by posting a notice at said voting
precincts, and that said election in all
particulars shall be held by said
judges and registrars as provided by
law.
L. W. BROOKS, Chairman.
M. W. GALLOWAY, Clerk Board of
Commissioners for Transylvania Co
T. P. Patton, Frank L. DeVane,
Board of Elections for Transylvania
county.
Deafness Caimot be C iirecl
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of* the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitution
al remedies. Deafness is caused by
an inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed*
Deafness is the result, and unless the
inflamation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal con
dition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing
but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
HalPs Cattarh Cure. Send for circn-
lars, fr^. F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for con
stipation.