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ILLUSTRATED EDITION. s LY C nnn Devoted to the Interests of Western florth Carolina. T 7 V A -T-T--"r DAI TIIR "Winyah Sanitarium," Abbeville, N. C. Kor tlie reception of patients stillVriug from lung and throat dis eases, and conducted npou the plan of the (militaries tit Gcurberg dorf and Falkenstein in Germa ny. Ours is the only such institu tion in the United States, and en dorsed by the leading member's of the medical profession. Terms reasonable. KARL von RUCK, B. S., M. D. Win. M. Cocke, Jr., REAL ESTATE AND MINERAL BROKER, ASHEVILLE, N. C. Can sell you one million acres of land, in tracts trom 50 to 100, 000 acres. Ha ve a number of city lots, improved and unimproved, which I can sell oil the best of terms. If you want a largo or small farm call on me If you. want minerals of any kind, you need go no further. If you want timber lands, 'his is headquarters. In fact 1 can suit you in anything you want in my line. Services of a first class civil en gineer and practical surveyor en gaged to how up all property when required. 1 have had fif teen years' experience in the real estate business, and I know what will please. ;i I tem ion to all inquiries. think I Prompt Real Estate ! D.S. AG13NT, (NQT a speculator.) Having by practical expc- riciiee, morougmy systema tized my sales department, I offer special inducements to those wishing to buy homes business property in Ashe ville or farms in this State I can save investors 4 hot cent. UU lli'IIorty lou j; li t . through me. I have a large amount o the very best city propert that must be sold. I hav some of the finest fariiis in the State, for sale. Hote pro)ertics, mineral lands .11 4 rt umoer lands, tor sale on most reasonable terms. All parties wishing to in vest in Ashevillc property, yvould do wcJ cpnsult my ist before buying. ... r Houses to rent and rents ..follected. ' ' V '. & 5, WATQN. Ag't. Ashevillc, N. C. Office C6urt House Square. WATSON WESTERN CAROLINA. itw pirri k r:(i i: m i:i:itv nam uitioi -i.m vri: nnii;u vvnmi, AivivrAji:. Ah All I he Vwir Hound Keptorl for lh Nerkpro of IMpiiiw ure.und llriillli-l'r From or I hern It l(t or and Tropli-nl Hem. r X) THIS SUCTION of North Carolina -thcrehas lieoli attracted the attention, not only of other parts of the State. but largely of the whole United HICKORY NI'T GAP States; an attention drawn to it by reputed favorable climatic onditions, rare beauty and grandeur of scenery, and rich 'onibinatious of ..the essential lements of prosperous industrial il'e. We propose, necessarily brietly. to refer to a division of the State which is set apart hv toposiranh- il conditions ns present features mid characteristics peculiar to itself. It is essentially a inoiin- lin region. From tlie coast to the foot of the- Hlue Kidgc, a dis- mce of about '25(1 miles, the as- eiit is very gradual, averaging, in that direction, about six feet to the mile. Then suddenly rises to the height of from 1.500 to 2,01(0 the bold escarpment of the Blue iidge. This long range, coming out of Virginia, enters North Car olina at Foster's Peak, in Alle ghany county, thence pursues an irregular southwestern course to lenderson county, when it hanges to a western direction. protruding near Ciesar's Head into South Carolina, returning mek. and again leaving the State in Macon county, where it passes into (Seorgia. This chain or es- arpment, with an average eleva tion of '2,000 feet, hut frequently rising into peaks of nearby six thousand feet, forms the eastern boundary .of the plateau of which the Smoky Mountains with equal. in some instances greater height, forms the northern and western. The whole enclosed area forms an elevated plateau of a mean ele vation of about 2,000 leet, crossed by several cross-chains of equal height with' the bounding chains which they connect. The political division of the State includes most of the Pied mont country, east of the Blue Ridge, in the general name of Western North ' Carolina, but which geographically and topo graphically is such as we have de fined it. TUe whole embraces an area of about ,.VM square miles. In this division the mountains reign predominant. The valleys are few and narrow, and are con lined tolhc margins of the vari olar streams, alongall of Which they are found of varying width. The mountains here attain their greatest height, surpassing all along the Atlantic slope. More than sixty peaks exceed 0,000 feet, Mount Mitchell in the Mack Mountains-being ((,717 feet high, and tlingninn'R .Teak, in the Smoky Mountains, being (1,000 feet in height. The general aspect is one of chastened RuhlhuUy. There is height and extent and all the at tributes of grandeur; but the . &Av.ivv. '-- -' -JM- Mift J( . t . '!'' i - ?s - z- ji graceful outlines, the symmetrical summits, the ever present verdure, the depths of forest and its rich ness and variety of color, till the ideal of beauty rather than that of sublimity., There can be no reason to call Western North Car olina the Switzerland of America, because there is not a feature common to two systems. The height, the nakedness, the rough ness, the ferocity of the Swiss mountains belong to the nnbHiita; the smoothness, the verdure, the grace of outline, the delicate play of light aniPsliudc, express the beautiful. These mountain' chains are everywhere intersected with AND IIKOAU KVKK, rivers and smaller streams, clear, strong and perennial. Adding beauty to the landscape, they offer boundless water power to econom ical use. With the exception of New River, which finds its way to the Ohio through the iKanawha, MOt NT kllTCIIKIJ.-'UHIUKST POINT BAST OH TUB KOCKV MtlCNTAlNS 0,717 FEET. PKOf. MITUHKI.I.'S GKAVK POOL IN WHICH UK WAS IIKOWNKI). all combine to -find their way to the (Julf through the waters of the Tennessee. ' With the exception of the in roads made upon the forests by the agricultural work of a iioat-. tered population,, they - remain as perfected by the lavish hand of nature. The size ;of the trees as great, their variety numerous, no part of the. linited States show4 in such perfection such a number of species. Oaks, pines, firs, hem locks, poplars, walnuts, hickories, locusts, cherries, buckeyes, beech es, birches, maples, in quantities apparently exhaustless, attest the richjioBsofthe soil, from. the low est valleys almost to the highest mountain tops; these last some. times covered wjtf u wealth ol grass surpassing the prairies of t ho west. In addition to the for est, there is rich and abundant shrubbery, with a lbn-a, tdat has no equal in tile temperate region. Tho climate of the whole sec tion embraced' between latitude 34 30' W., and -3.V 50' is much the same in all its parts, The average annual mean is 52. For tho summer 70 and for the winter 38. The summer extreme is 90, that of winter 10; and both of these are rare. The annual rain fall is, for the whole plateau area, about 45. The snow-fall is much lighter than might be expected from elevation, rarely exceed ing six inches at a time. The snow of December, 18S( thirty six inches was phenomenaland had not been equalled within liv ing memory. The highest moun tains are rarely covered for a week at a time; and cattle re quire no more winter protection than they do east of the moun tains; and farm work is rarely interrupted or delayed by the cold of spring. The prevalent winds are Northwest and South east, with rare fluctuations from other parts of the compass. The agricultural productions are the small grains of the other sections, of the State, to which is added buckwheat, tobacco, fruits of all kinds known to the temperate-zone, the apple in great perfection, the grape the Cataw ba indigenous, and other varie ties in great excellence; garden vegetables of all kinds, the cab bage thriving beyond example, and become a profitable product for distant markets, potatoes, Ac. Stock raising is a large industry, and dairy farming is beginning to excite the interest appropriate to the conditions so eminently favor able to its success. To other' sources from which industry and intelligence might draw theirtores of wealth should be added varied and exhaustless mineral wealth. But we proposed here to present a simple outline of what is here possessed. With such treasures now to be reached by railroad penetrating tho- section from all directions, and with the vigorous health the mountain climate gives and se cures we feel very sure that Western North Carolina will not long remain the sealed volume it has lioon to tho world up to the opening of the present era. ' Mount MlK-hell. This peak is one of a group of nineteen in the Black -Mountain Range,allof which are over 6,000 feet high. This range lies east of Asheville about eighteen miles, and is the oldest geological for mation on the continent. In June, is57, Prof. Mitchell visited this mountain in order to verify previous measurements mader In, carrying out the work he loft the party that accompanied him to the mountain, and failing to return, search was made and Big Tom Wilson, a .noted, guide, found his lmdy in tho pool at the L ittomof a gorge sixty feet deep, his remains were brought to Ashe ville but subsequently re-interred on the mountain, which bears his name. ASHEVILLE. WHKtT NIMNlR KKMOKT A KiA. ITARII'.II OK Til K mm tii ,33o i i:i: r A HOVE HF,A I.KVF.I I In ftllnutiom, Public llulldlngN, ('fcarrhea. Hotel ! McIiooIm 1m Remark' able Ikevelopmeai mud Improve' ' ' .. meal. . h in latitude 35 35? 53" north, 275 miles west from Raleigh, the capital of the State of North- Car olina, and is the county seat of Buncombe County, a county whose name had a wide spread semi-political association, and which had been made to enliven the pages of humorous fiction long before the name of the humble village had been heard beyond the voice of the crier of the court. Yet that same village had early attained sectional distinction, as for a long period the only one west of the Blue Ridge. Bun combe, created out of trans-mon tane territory, as a county, in 1701, with the Blue Ridge as its eastern boundary, embraced all the re gion went,' not reserved or occu pied by the aboriginal tribes; and in its extent and indefinite ness Beemed as vast as was once the great undefined north-west territory, now divided into great, populous and prosperous States. In like manner the State of Bun combe, with its head resting on the Blue Ridge; on the east, its arms stretching out right and left to South Carolina and Tennessee, and its feet projected into the vague ree8ses of thelndian soli tudes, Irfy .until its"timefor sub division came, the giant of coun ties, the monarch of the mountain wilderness. Until Haywood coun ty, on the west, was formed out of it, it had not been shorn oLits di mensions nor its preeminence, the chief of which was that it possess- tvd the only town to which the' mountain people could repair to see "the sights," to trade, to at tend the courts, and get their ideas of the ways of the great busy outside world. Ashevillc stood solitary and alone in all the dignity and consequence of its sole possession. And it crept along, but slowly, in the stages of growth. It was hard to reach from any quarter, the roads to it were all across or through the mountains, and in its early days the ways of travel were not thickly strewn with roses; the roads were bail, - tlie - bridges were few, public convey ances had no existence, the sulky or the old fashioned stick gig, sometimes a phenomenal phieton, were the only 'private vehicles, and the saddle was the almost only seat for travelers male or female long journeys, therefore, to Asheville were not often under taken. Reports of magnificent scenery, of charm of climate, of recuperation for the invalid, did reach to very distant points, and the perils of travel and its rough ness and inconveniences were of- TIIK NKW PKI)HKAL''!ieil.mN) AT ASIIKVI1.I.K. ten braved with such good influen ces that Asheville, in time, began to be known and longed for. It is a fact, though not a strange or discreditable one, that it was first and better known to the people of youth Carolina than to those of our own State. The wealthy citi zens of the former State, espec ially those of the sea coast, were compelled by climate to seek a healthier section w here to spend the summer and autumn. ' While the citizens of our coast towns and counties, in like manner, were compelled to seurch for health, they sought it in the middle coun ties of the State, as remote from them as were the mountains from the South Carolinians. These last early found .their way to lo calities, to points indelibly stamp ed, even now, after the ravages of war and amid the wreck of for tune, with the impress of wealth, elegance, taste and culture. There are summer resorts fixed in what is now known as Cashier's Valley, iiwJaekson county, along the French Broad river valley; near Brevard, in Transylvania ; at Flat Rock, near Henderson ville; along Cane Creek, in Henderson county; and to significant, though not to large extent, in and around Asheville. F'or those who came to Asheville were sagacious enough, while enjoying health ful summer vacation, to ob serve not only the beauties of scenery and the happy influences of climate, butalso its remarkable topographical relations to the new system of internal improvements then beginning to agitate the pub lic mind. If these iron high ways were to be built to connect the Atlantic ports w ith the pro ductive Ohio and Mississippi1 val leys, they of necessity must cross the mountain chain ; to do so they must cross at Asheville, because these natural barriers were more completely thrown down than anywhere else through - these chains, and the way opened, not to one line, but to several, mak ing Asheville a crossing or carry ing point; and, with theo develop ment of other conditions locked up in the future, an important railroad centre. This idea took shape as far back as 1837, when the route of the projected Charles ton aim Cincinnati railroad was defined, with Asheville im its course. What was a project then, is a reality now, after a lapse of half a century, not in original form, perhaps, but with practical ly the same ell'ect. With long and faithful labor, with long and patient waiting. more" than one railroad reaches and passes through Asheville rauroails not simply passing through it, but making it an ob jective point i railroads not serv ing simply regular or casual du f ties of incidental travel and traf fic, but bending all their energie to perfect their lines, their speed, their equipment, their service with end and aim to make Ashe ville, of all others, the destination the culmination of all pleasure hope and expectation. Up to the suninier of 1SS1, dur ing which season the Western North Carolina railroad reachei the Swaiinanoa .1 unction, two miles south of Asheville, in its progress towards its terminus at Faint . Rock,' the little city -Inn' made some considerable increase in population, ami hail made large gains in notoriety ; for as tho lines of railroads from dill'erent direc tions coming towards it neared completion, so were tho facilities and comforts" of travel greatly oONTt.M'KO ON FOURTH 1'AUK. A. J. LYMAN, Att'yat-Law. JOHN CHILD. MEMBERS OF THE national Association of Real Estato Dealers." REAL ESTATE AND Loan Brokers. STRICTLY A Brokerage Business. LOANS Securely Placed at 8 Per Cent. Refer by Permission to Rt. Rev. T. B. Lyman, Raleigh, N.O.. 1 The National Bank of Asheville, . Asheville, N. 0. Chas. W. Wharton. Lyman & Child Philadelphia, Pa. Wm 2VL Niles, New York, N. Y. i Howard Smith, "Newport, R. I.
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