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year guarantee, at less cost than ony otKer. A. Solid Car diio-
this week.
Cincinnati Tin Shingles, Perfect in construction OLnd materials
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Sherwin-Williams. John Lucas and Devoe-roof paints, cdlj
Standard Brands. C A
Syracuse Plows in aU weights from 65 to 128 lbs. Prices fronv
$4.50 to $9.00, all Steel beams. v
Syracuse Repairs, all sizes, Barb Wire, Nails, Bar Iron. Tha
famous "Whitehall Cement" the kind that built "Carnegies Man
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Stoves all kinds and sizes, Little Dandy No. iO at $6.50. Lit-,
tie Dandy No. 7 at $9.50. Little Dandy No. 8 at $11. 5O.
Devoe House Paints with a record of one hundred years to back
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ADVANTAGE OF THE CAR. LOAEH,
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e will My your Land!
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Land
No matter how mich or
how little, or wha.t kind.
City property. Cbvintry Pro
perty, Farm Property, Tim
ber Land, Swa.mp Land,
Mineral Laurid, waiter Powers
County Commissioners
The county commissioners met last
Monday and transacted routine bus
iness, mostly. The only matter of im
portance was about issuing the bonds
for $12,000 to take up the floating in
debtedness, authority for which has
just been granted by the Legislature.
Mr. J. P. Hickman's offer of $12,000
for the bonds was accepted, and the
printing of the bonds will be done as
soon as possible.
It is expected the claims of the county
will be taken up in about one month,
that is, , they will start then. Thefi
nancecommittee passes on aH claims.
The commissioners met on Monday,
adjourned to Tuesday, but transacted
do business then. They then adjourned
until next Tuesday, the 12th, in order
to avoid calling a special meeting for
that date. Just why they are going to
meet is somewhat of a mystery, but it
was announced that something big is in
the wind which, will come up at this
meeting.' One of the commissioners
said it meant the saving of several
thousand good dollars to the county.
yoj watnt to sell yovir
launds or property, I am in a
position to make you a prop
osition that - will interest
you. : ), f- ; .
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Office, Hustler Building
next door to Blue ILidge Irin
Notice to Tax-payers.
This is to notlfly all Taxpayers who
have not paid their city taxes for the
year 1906 to please settle at once and
save costs Alter March 26, 1907, I will
advertise all property personal and real in
the town of Hcndersonville, which may
under the law be levied upon and sold to
pay taxes due to said town by delinquent
tax-payers. This is tuy last call and it is
now left withy ou to say what you will do.
This Mareh oth, 1907.
' Respectfully,
t. m. Smith,
Tax Tax Collector.
Hendersonville's Opportunity u
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upon the bl lt"', uuimrs mure ur
mv- , it . " . . - M- . . piejf. or ianar mere is not a
, The following article, written by mnute rule lan(J l offered butcould teke
of the the men intimately connf ) that time A rice and make money. He
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Notice.
To the JuBtict s'of the peace of . Hen
derson county: -
I take this method of announcing to
you that 1 will be a candidate for the
office of . tax collector of Henderson
county at the May ..1907, lectionv. and
will appreciate any support given me
by any and all my friends at said elec
tion, i
I do not wish in this contest to create
any factional Cents . in the .democratic
party and shall urge my claims for the
office with the best of feelings for any
others who may like myself jdesire the
position. ; ' Yours truly,
v ' J. V Oakland.
.ills River, N. C. FeV 27th, 1907. . ; .
with the big lake project, Is
Interest.
onaii we nave a million dollars,, t -4
on Henderson county this year or not?
y u can help to answer the question. ':
For about four and one half months
the question of lake or no lake has been
agitated and there has been some strong
work done for it by some of dur repre
sentative, - public spirited citizens.
The people have come nearer -bring .a
unit on this question -than any other
question that has ever been before our
people. Some from one motive and
some from another, we have had a few
pessimists and a few croakers,but only
a few. .. - .
The originaters knew from its incep
tion that It Iras going to be a hard
thing to carry through on account of
two things. First it would require a
vast amount ofmoney tp carry out the
plan on a sufficiently large scale to make
it a success. . There was only one plan
to do and that was to get up a large
body of Lake Shore land at its present
value and put it in with the submerged
land and get a Real Estate Develop
ment Company to buy the whole bound
ry andbuild ' the lake, boulevard, drive
ways and electric car line and take
chances on these things advancing the
price of the lake shore land enough to
get back the cest of the original tract,
the cost of the boulevard, drive 1 ways,
electric oar line, parks, street and land
scape work "neccessary to make it a
thing of beauty. v
We have succeeded in finding such a
company and they are ready with the
money to pay for the land and put in
the improvements contemplated and
spend from $5,000 to $10,000 a year in
Magazine Advertising, which will reach
the weatby people from Maine to Cali
fornia and from the lakes to Mexico and
put Hendersonville prominently befere
these people every month. They say
they will be compelled to bring a wealJ
thler class of people here than have
ever come here in order to be able to
sell the real estate for, price ',tbat will
get iheir money back and a profit cn the
investment. They are men whtf are :ac
tlvely engaged in the real estate devel
opment work and on making a success
of it they know just about what they can
afford to pay for the lands and add to
that the cost of all these improvements
and get their money back with pay for
the investment and risk. . They haye
been here and looked over the entire
boundry and submitted a definite offer
for each man's land that is necessary
for them to own. Here we strike the
second and greatest difficulty that we
expected to strike when we started put
There are 135 people to be traded with
before we can have the lake. If each
one of them should get excited enough
bv the agitation to ask $100 more for
his land than he did before the agitation
was started that would make a differ
ence in the total price of $13,500. It is
but fair to some of the land owners to
say that they have come forward and
put their land in at exactly what was
offered for it and three men have put
theirs in for less.
One of these men Is Henry Hyder who
put his land in for i of what he was of
fered for it There are eight men who
have nut theirs in for what they were
offered. Eight and three Is are eleven
take eleven, from 125 and you have 114
left. f this number hardly any but
ask $100 more than was offered and
nearly all of them want as much as $500
and many of them want as much as
$1,000 more and some $3,000 more than
was offered.
It does not take much of. a Sourer
to see that we eoon get fifty or
stxtv thousand dollars difference be-
r
tween what was offered -for the land
and what is asked for it, 114 at $500
is $57,000 and 114'at $1,000 is $114,000 The
prices offered were submitted to several
parties some of whom were the land
owners in question and some were not
but were well informed as to real estate
values here and elsewhere, aid the
unanimous decision was that they were
fair prices. It is true that the asking
price for land here is higher than U al
most any town of Ittrslze In the world
but that land is not . selling, it- ia, the
cheaper land that trades; some of you
have got. mad with the Real Estate
agent and have taken vour proper y
out of his hands because he sold other
people's property and did not sell yours
you thought ;he: was , using. partiality
toward the othar fellow when as a mat
ter of fact the' reason .he did - hot sell
your land was on account of the price,
you thought it was, as cheap as the other
property, but the buyer did not and the
real estate man knew it was net. -He
could not afford to tell you so, it was
not his business to price your land but
yours to price and his to get it if he
could... " . , " "
t Now can, we afford to let this lake .
and tAhg in lands that are not want
pne '- ' JaKe: boundry and pay even
uiotv fOiit than' the owner Is asking
bow and then in three years time he
will be worth twice as much as he will
if he holds his land high and causes us
to loose the lake. If you are one of
the men who has been asking more for
your land than you are offered find the
difference in what was offered and what
you ask and multiply it by one thirty
five and see how much it is, the other
fellow has just as much right to have
that difference as you have. I know
you think he was offered enough for his
land but he thinks you have been of
fered more than yours Is worth. This
sounds rediculous ' but itia an actual
statement of facts as they exist among
tome of our men who are regarded as
good business men.- You ought to get
yourself off by yourself somewhere and
have a talk 'with yourself and then go
and hunt up the option taker who has
been talking to you and put your land
in for any where from $100 to $1,000 less
than you have been offered for it and
then you would get a lot more than it
will be worth any day during this com
ing June and more than it will be worth
in June 1910 if we do not get the lake
and your putting your land in for what
it is really worth, not what you hope
you can get for it some day or at : least
your grand son may gef for it, , will
make the other feilow ashamed and he
will come up and put his In cheaper and
then we wilt get the lake, but unless: a
lot of you do this and do it quick we
will be just as sure not to get it as the
sun hiis been rising and setting. If is
already a settled - fact that - we cannot
get it unless almost, all of these 114
land owners do this and do it within the
next two or three 'days. All has been
done that we know how to do and If we
fall on it no w we may as well kiss it
good bye, forthe queston of price gets
worse every time a rade is; made in
thisbdundry. I c would have been easi
ier to do this two years ago than now
and is 9 sier now than two months from
new. If you are one of the land owners
come up today and make your price ac
ceptable and shift the responsibility for
its failure on some one else. If your
option has been taken for a higher ; "
price than you were offered you, will be
responsible for Its failure. If you. are
not one of these probably you know who
Is and you may have soma Influence
with hat one, go and talk to him and
see. If carried through this town will -be
a city in a few years. If it fails It
would have been mnch better for us . .
never to have L-ehtioned it. Haye a
heart to heart and some sensible -business
talk with youself about this
matter to night and let us know your
decision tomorrow. If in doubt about -It
give the lake the benefit of the doubt
and you will never, be sorry for it even
if it fails. . - : -,
Steamers On The French Broad. j
Last Sunday the new steamboat running
on the French Broad passed Horse Bhoe
for the first time,' She carried a. good
load of passengers and made a brave show
ing as she went up the river. Bhe is about
88 feet long and 2o feet wide, was built
under the direction of a man from Norfolk,
Va., and is owned by Miss Eastman and
Mr. McBee, of Horse Shoe. The new
boat runsfrom Fannlng'sj, Bridge up to
Davidson River, and covers a distance of
about 15 milles. V
There is a decided possibllty of ' Ashe
vills men building and operating a steam
boat to run from Asheville to Long Shoals.
Passengers will then be transfererd .
around the Shoals, a distance of a few hun
dred feet, and re-embark on the boat now
running. For picturesque scenery and
natural beauty the trip is unsurpassed,
it is said, aoy where in the world. ':
This steamboat line is one of the novel
ties of the world, as there is probaWy only
one beiog operated at a higher, altitude
than the one now making regular trips past
Horse Shoe. It is really a steamer line in
regular operation on the top. of the moun
tains, and aside from the beauty of the
trip, possessess the charm of , a decided
. novelty. If the Asheville men carry out
their part, it is expected it will be a paying
proposition from the start . 1 .
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