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3GE t - v "X 1 N : ' ' v A Weekly Journal for Homa and Fam; giving reliable information of tHs new country. VOL,. I. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTN. C, FEBRUARY 8, 1883. NO. 3. -. - - .. , I - rrr : 1 BLUE RIDGE ENTERPRISE, FUBUHnrO EVXBY THURSDAY MOUSING . HIGHLANDS, IfACOK CO., N. c. TH3 HIGHEST TOWN EAST 0? THS BOOST MOUNTAINS. U. E. BWIXG, Editor and Preprielor. Terms, Payable in Advance : $1.60 LOO 93 80 0 Tbx ExTBFim tails all about Mm; BLUE filDCIE COUflTttY OW WORTH tjLfiOUJT Tta STuit2rtar;j cf America ! U pure mountain air, cold springs, grand scenery, cool summers, mild winters ; a paradise far the hxalth sxxkxb ond tour ist ; a land of rest for exhausted workers, and balm for invalids ; a garden for the florist and botanist ; the delight of the HKRALOGIST, HORTICULTURIST, DAIRYMAN, and BKX-EBCPSR. Dr. yV. H. Fritts, PhTsieian & Surgeon, OFFICX ROO. FOUR, HIGHLANDS HOUBH, Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Highlands and vicinity. nltf C. A. Boynton, millwright & Machinist, HIGHLANDS, If. C Highlands School, Highlands, Uacca Co., It Primary, Intermediate and Advanced Classes in all English Branches. "WINTKR TERM OPXKS -JAJfUARY 6TH, 1888k 3r"TennB $1, $1.50 and $2.00 per month. 1-tf Orpha E. Rosa, Principal. Highlands House, HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. a Newly repaired and fitted for the enter tainment of ttoeravelinfr, health and pleasure spiffing" pubHc. Good rooms and other aeoommodations. Table supplied with toe best that can be had in the mountains. Per Day Per Week $L50 7.00 Ppedal rates to boarders and facailien nltf JOS. FRITTS, Prop. Boynton's Mills, HIGHLANDS, N. C. Sawing, Planing, Hatching, &c, done on reason able terms. Lumber furnished. GIVE US A CALL Cocoanut Grove House, Lake Worth, Fla. Fifteen minutes walk to the Sea Beach. Fine climate for Invalids. Fish and Game plentiful at all times. Boose Newly Fornlahed. & W. DIKICK - Pbopubtosjl. W. t. MeClcarie, HOUSE PAINTEB. AGENT FOB The most durable Paint manufactured for a damp climate, ltf P. O. Address Highlands, N. C. Highlands Mills. Cash paid for all kinds ef Grain. Wheat, Rye and Buckwheat Flour, Con ICeaL Bran and Shorts for sale. AH kinds of custom work dona ' promptly 14f Wm. Pabtrtdgz, Proprietor. Horse Cove Nursery. FivelMOes & K of Highlands. A few hundred well grown Apple Trees,' comprising an excellent assortment of leading varieties suited to this region of country. These Trees are of two years growth - from the graft. F. G. HILL. Hone Core, N. G. ltf Rdlter A CcrlraeUr. Contract taJcsiCf or Biddings. Specifica tions furnished on application, or work done by the day. J. A. ltoGTJLRE, 1-tf - - Highlands, N. C. Beeswax Wanted. Cash paid f or Bees-wax in Wge or small ioU at tiw office of the BluxRisgb Entkb- BXSB Uf Mineral Wealth of tlie Blue Ilidge Country One of the wide-awake men of the day is Ool. Charles W. Jenks, of this city, whom I first met a few days ago. Be telle me that there is unsurpassed mineral wealth in the Blue Ridge country. "It is agenuine terra incognita," he said, and added : "the only scientific man who ever made a thorough exploration of tie coun try was Prof. Gray, of Harvard, who went there botanking. Colorada, Neva da, Montana and Idaho . have all been taamped over, and yet, within three days of Boston is a country almost unheard of, certainly quite unknown, and offering threat inducements for the prospector." 1 Cat ewrgsje me some new lie regarding the mineralogy -of the -Blue Ridge country, whichoontains gold, silver, copper, iron, mica, marblt, corundum, porcelain clay, soapstone, etc. Some of these minerals are being profitably worked. The discovery of corundum in this region is quite a inineraktgical romance. Col. Jenks, while roaming and prospecting through the mountains, discovered unmis takable indications of this remarkable mineral in a North Carolina mine, where the corundum carrying veins show the mineral in massive and crystal forms. ALL THE GEMS OF THE ORIENT. This mineral is remarkable for the gems which it carries. Col. Jenks says that tn this Blue Ridge mine there have been found the oriental sapphire, ruby, asteria, emerald, topaz, amethyst, girassal and ehatayant. The value of corundum in the arts is inestimable. Hitherto, it has been brought in small quantities from Ceylon and Hia doostan, where it was gathered in river beds and mountain ravines. It has never been mined for much beneath the surface. All that has come to this country has been in the shape of small crystals. European scientists were astonished when CoL Jenks showed them in London and St. Peters burg the specimens from the Blue Ridge. Amherst College bas a crystal from the Blue Ridge mine five times larger than any coruiidum crystal yet uncovered in the world. It weighs 312 pounds ; at one end is a sapphire and a ruby at the other. One ef these days all America may be getting its precious stones from the Blue Ridge. The Colonel is quite an enthusiast on the Blae Ridge country, and regarding a proposed development there of a new wool prod wet. The above was published in the Bos ton Sunday Herald, several years ago. Corundum has become so plentiful since the mines have been developed in these mountains that it bide fair to take the place of emory. From the same journal we clip the fol lowing on the value of the Angora goat and the inducements held out to capital to introduce the industry in the Blue Ridge mountains': SHEEP HUSBANDRY. Col. Jenks recently went through the Southern States at the repuest of such representative southerners as Senators Gordon and Hill of Georgia, If organ of Alabama, Lamar of Mississippi, Alexan der Stephens, Wade Hampton and others. They desired him to prepare a paper on the sheep husbandry of toe South. Some of his "points" are embodied in the fol lowing interview : "I wis," said he, "that the attention of the public might be called to a subject which is just beginning to attract atten tion, the rearing of Asgoca goats in this country. What is known as the wool of the Cashmere coat is, nine times eut of ten, the mohair of the Angora goat. There is a proper Cashmere goat vthieh pro duces not more than a pound or two ef wool per animal. Little of this w ool ever gets out of India; the native loom ab sorbs the product. The Angora gat has its habitat on the high plateaus of Asia Minor, 4000 feet. above the sea leveL Its wool is especially valuable, as it takes dyes readily and is of great lustre. Under certain conditions it cannot fail to come into competition with raw silk." "What are the relative values !" "Raw silk is to-day quoted at from two to seven dollars per pound. All things being equal, Angora goat wool or mohair will bring 75 cents per pound. You know the silkworm requires for its finest pro duet to feed upon mpJbelrrjr leaves. So. too, the Angora7' gwt rfquires a special diet anTa special climate, conditions of its Asiatic habitelanlleled in our Blue Id country. Now, . the. wool of the Angor oat ean advanteouelj to man ufacturer and- consumer, be substituted in part for raw bus? in most silk fabrics. The goods will wear even better, and have as msch lustre." CLIMATE AND WOOL. "Has anything been done to develop the mohair industry in this country t" "Very little systematically. The cli matic conditions necssary to the best wool product of the Angora goat have been often disregarded, with the naturally-to-be-expeeted result of : discouragement on the part of the importers or buyers of thf goats. In Angora the goats have fine wooiTtn pro:krtion to. the. altitude' pi their range, t'. Descend among the foot-hills and valleys, and yon find the goats producing a coarge wool. A Belmont (Maes.) gen tleman tried to raise some of these goats on rich bottom land, with the deteriorat ing result mentioned." "When did the importation begin V ' "In President Polk's time a Dr. Davis of South Carolina was sent to Turkey, at. the request of the Sultan, t experiment there in the culture of cotton. When Dr. Davis returned, the Sultan presented him with a small herd of choice Angora goats; sons of the descendants of these goats were scattered about the ownirjjy. Yon say, Colonel, that oar Bine Ridge country is the climatic parallel of the plateau region of Asia Minor T" "Yes ; all this country, say from middle Virginia to northern- Alabama furnishes traBcript, earOji .may be,vof the. native besae of the Angra goat. The isothermal lines, which run through West ern North Carolina also run through Asia Minor.' Land for goat ranges can be bought in the Blue Ridge country for 25 cents an acre. You can easily care for five goats to the acre. Their habits are very simple. They eat 25 more varieties of herbs and shrubs than any other do mestic animal. Their wool product av erages from three to six pounds. For the last fifteen years this wool has been quot ed on the London market at double the price of the best English combing wools." The thermal Belts of tike t Blue Xtiajre. The mountains, but a Utile while ago so majeBtic in their dark-green robes, are now penciled over with the many hue of autumn, not by the blighting sting of frost, bat the gradual ripening and maturing of the foliage. Here in these elevated re gions, under a southern sky, king frost defers his visits till the slow process of Nature matures and ripens the foliage, and the dark green of the boundless woods gradually glides into the sere and yellow leaf, to be showered dewn by November's blasts of wind and driving rain. This, and the return of foliage when the ver nal season starts bud and flower into new life, are the auspicious seasons for detect ing the thermal zones or belts so famed as the fruit-growing locations in these Blue Ridge mountains. There are num bers of :rees which do not ripen tbek leares till the crisping power offroetover takes thm, and these trees mark the thermal belts round the sides of the mountains and ridges. In spring these belts are the first to show green foliage, and in autumn the last to lose entirely their emerald tint. These belts are form ed by the configuration of the surface of tbe country, and are always found over looking, as it were, broad valleys and generally, though not always, overhung by lofty mountain peaks and ridges. These thermal belts are commonly fouud only a few hundred yards in width and winding: round the sides of the mountains, main taining one general distance above the valleys. From the summit of Stooley mountain, which overlooks the ton of Highlands on the north,- at thia-season! may be seen one of the. most extensive thermal belts to be found among these mountains. A district of country lying south of and directly under the range of ridges, of which Stooley is the principal and most lofty peak, being 5000 feet above the sea level, a thermal district five ; to eight miles in width and winding as far as the eye can trace from the top of Mt. Stooley, east and west among the moun tains, may be seen in autumn r spring, mapped ont by the green foliage, hem med in on its ncrth and south borders by the tints of faded forests. In this tract of country the budsand fo liage make their appearance two to four weeks earlier in spring, and linger longer in the fall. Here cattle and sheep find fair browsing through most of the winter, and peaches, the tenderer varieties of grapes, melons and sweet-potatoes ripen in perfection. The most favored spots from frost, however, are narrow belts far vp on the mountain sides, and comprise what are termed "benches" of compara tively level land, containing ten to thirty or more acres. These benches are in most eases eatily accessible from the northern side, the mountains all having a gradual slope from base to summit on the north, but drop away steep and precip itous on the south. Above these benches tower the lofty peaks, and from their low er edge drop abruptly hundreds of feet in to the deep, broad valleys. These belts are kept free from late fall and early spring frosts by the rising of the warm atmosphere from the valley beneath. which meets and tempers the cold atmos phere which commences to roll dowmfrom above as soon as the son disappears below the horizon. Where , these strata of at mosphere meet and mingle an equilibrium of temperature is maintained, . and late spring and earley fall frosts prevented; consequently fruit within the borders of these tnermal zones is generally a sure crop. Fogs and mildew never injure the tenderest grapes, and the warm gravelly soil composing the slopes, with the re flected heat, from the mountains above, provide a-location exactly salted to the grape and peach. . When the ekiEed horticulturists of the 1 North have drifted farther Sooth in earchFjfTEKPXlsc. of a more genial clime to escape the rigors of winter, and the forests which cover these southwestern mountains give place to the apple, pear and quince; the peach, grape and small fruits, from no portion of the couutry will each fine-fiarored, well matured and handsone-appearing fruit find its way to the markets as from the Blue Ridge of the Carolina. . Hundreds of thousands of acres now in primitive forest will in the future be devot ed to fruit-culture ; while the tourist will find no part of the world more con ducive to health than the pure air and mild temperature of these Southern moun tains. Correspondent of th GermamUwn Telegraph. Catalogue, etc. We have received the followinr cata- logues and price fists for 1683. Hiram Sibley & Co.'s Farmers' Alma nac and Seed Catalogue, Rochester, N. Y. S. L. Allen & Co.'s Descriptive Cata logue and Price List of the Planet, Jr., Seed Drill and other garden and field im plements. 127 Catharine Street, Phila delphia, Pa. E. Whitman, Sons & Co., Farm Im plements, Machinety and Seeds, Balti more, Md. Bee-Keepers' club list and circular of bees a club list of the principal periodi cals and journals of the country, combined with circular of queen bees Italian and Palestine with catalogue of plants straw- and raspberry and grape vines. GL.M. Doolittle, one of the leading bee keeping Specialists of the country, Boro dino, Onandagd County, N. Y. Given's comb foundation press and wiring machine, a 'descriptive pamphlet of a prers for making comb foundation and fastening it in frames with wires. D. S. Given & Co., Hoopeston, 111. The Bee and Poultry Magazine, chang from Bee-Keeper's Magazine, is on our table. The new arrangement makes a neat and useful magazine which cannot fail to please every reader. We club the magazine with the B. R. Enterprise. King, Keith & Co., Publishers, New York. Birdsville seed and stock farm, Hern don, Gs., W. B. Jones, Proprietor. How to Slake a Town. The Colombia Register has a long and well written editorial under the above caption from which we make the following extracts. After stating that natural re sources and surrounding have much to do with the inception and growth of towns, and pointing to instances of great cities at times springing up in out of the way places and growing from the capital and appointments of civilization into centres ef trade, controlling largely the commerce of the world, the writer says: "The social complexion of a place, the charaoterof the-people who do business and dwell therein the merchants, the professionals, the men and women of socie- ty-all these things have a vast positive moaning in the economy of a city, and are as capable of attracting bnsinss and visitors as jhe . substance of high individual character, the gifts of genius and the smiles of beauty have a charm for thearer sge child of oar raee. Then we may accept it as a troth that there is much in every town that .is made that is borrowed from the energy, the sharacter, the culture. the taste, the refinement, and, above all, the go-ahead business qualities of a place i the pluek to spend money and the judgement and discretion to plaee it well. No two-penny policy in onr day can con duct a State, a city, or boainessonagreat scale, or, io fact, on any scale at all worth talking about The narrow parsimony that is caught by the aphorism, "a penny saved is a penny cleared," it is easy of ut terance, but it has sunk millions in the penmriousness which takes it for a motto. Influence of Agricultural Papers. BY THEMIS. Looking over a paper recently my . at tention was attracted to this: "I remarked to an old farmer back in the country, whom I had not seen for sev eral years, and whose farm in the mean time had improved wonderfully, that his place was so changed, that I hardly knew it.". "Yes," said he, "I've been fixin1 op, a little. The old woman pestered me ju death about the garden, nod so I slick ed, it up a little, and fixed about the boose, and it looked so nice I went at the farm fences and the brush and saved more ma nureand kept killing the weeds, and the crops got better, and so I kept on, and things dot luok: pretty good now. Wife tajjes apapejand I take one and I get time "to read it, too, and I used to think that f hadn't time for anything." Indiana Farmer, Good wages mays be made daring the winter season, canvassing for subscribers toutha Blae Bidge Enterprise. Persons willing to act as canvassers m ill receive instructions and statement of terms by sending their address to the office of the FACETLC. A New York dandy, wishing to be witty, accosted an old ra -man as follows: "You take all sorts of trumpety in your cart,don't yout" "Yes, jump in, jump in." A little girl in a neighboring city see ing a dog scratching to be let in at an op posite d or, knocked on the window and called out, Ring the beU, doggie; ring the bell." Winter Evrning Fun. There is a game known as "Mind-Reading," from which much pleasure may be drawn. Though a curious trick, this "mind-reading" is quite rfmpTe in plan. Suppose jtlwAm a: party only osjsrsn-dnnaV iar with the game. Letihis person make a few remarks about the mysterious ar rangement of the nerves or the electric power of mind, and then annouee that he is ready to read the minds of all the others present. Each person is requested to write a word or a sentence on a slip of pa per and to place it in a hat, which stands on the table. The performer then takes his scat behind the hat and draws oat one of the papers. This paper he presses against his forehead, covering the slip from view with the fingers of each hand, which touch each other. After anxious thought he says : "This slip of paper con tains" such and such a word or sentence. Then he glances at the slip as if to see whether he read it right. The next slip is treated in the same way, and so with all the other papers, which are placed up side down on the table near the hat. Now, when the performer reads the first slip no one recognizes the word or sentence then used. Bat that does not matter. Each person thinks that the wori or sentence was written by some one else. Therein fies the trick, which consists in inventing a word or sentence for the first slip and glancing at its true contents when laid on the table behind the hat. Of course the performer ap plies the real sentence on the first slip to the second elip, the second slip to the third and so on to the last slip. When the last one has been placed on the fore head it is concealed in the hand or drop ped into a side pocket, or mixed with the rest, which rarely are examined so care fully as to discover its absence or as to detect the trick in regard to the first slip. When the slips have been read the com pany pas them round in wonder at the power of the "mind-reader." Our ZHarket Abroad for Dried Fruit. It is a mistake among many farmers and fruit-raisers in the United States to think that the different varieties of fruit, such as apples, pears, peaehes, plumbs, cherries, gooseberries, &c, are grown in greater perfection in Europe than here. It is not the fact. We raise these as abundently here and in as much perfection as they do in Europe, and with not more than half the labor and expense. It is true, however, that more pains are taken there, and their modes are more thorough ly systematized ; but the cost ot produc ing a crop, we repeat, as very much great er than here, bnt still the profit snaj be; greater, as nearly all Jcinda of fruit sell at a much higher price there than here. We have not a doubt that the United States, ere many years, will become the greatest fruit-raising country in the world. Oar soil and climate partake of every descrip tion, and if one kind of fruit is not adapted io a particular place, another is, hence the wide extent of our territory presents to us a means of cultivating successfully all kinds of fruit. For yean we have been shipping enormous quantities of apples to Europe, and this exportation is etaadily increasing and will continue to increase until the trade shall become of National importance In dried fruits, such as peach es and apples, the exportation has already acquired large proportions, and in ten years more it will go on multiplying in extent until fruit-raising will become a far greater and more profitable branch of in dustry than at present. With such a mar ket open to us we can never grow an - over-abundance of apples and peaches; while these, in addition to eraaberries, in their natural condition, fresh from the trees and vines, ought to be and no doubt will be produced in sufficient quantities to meet any demand. The very cheapness that we can send them abroad for will open for us an unlimited market for all with which we can supply it. German Uuen Telegraph. As a comment of what the Telegraph says, which is every word true, we can add that there is no part of the country that will approach the Blue Badge country of North Caroline as an apple and peach growing regihn, if the fruit industry is once properly inaugurated here.. For quantity and flavor of her apples the Blue Bidge is the peer of any country, and horticulture, dairying, sheep and goat husbandry and apiculture should be the aim of those who settle in this country. Their arrangements should be made with these Industries in view and plans matured to pursue one or more ot them. Thirty miles of railroad a day were built last year in this eoontry. GOOD COFFEE. Everybody wants it, but very few get tt because most people do not know how to select cosfce, or it is spoiled in the roasting: or making. To obviate these difficulties has been our study. Thurbers package Coffees are selected by an expert who un derstands the art of blending various Sa vors. They are roasted In the most perfect manner (it is Impossible to roast well in small quantities), then put in pound pack ages (in Ike bean, not ground,) bearing oar signature as a guarantee of genuineness, and each package contains the Thurber recipe for making good Coffee. We pack two kinds, Thurber's "No. 84." strong and pungent, Thurber's "No. 41." ailld and rich. One or .the other will suit every taste. They have the three great points,, good fuaUty, honest qttam X. rtasomabU yria-JK it. Qstsm forTkmcf roasted Q&es&pamd pock Vs, "No. HT or "No. IV Do not Depot off with any other ktod your own palate will tell you what la beet. Where persons desire it we also, famish the "Ideal" Coffee-pot, the simplest, beet and cheapest ooffee-pot in exlstenoa Oroeecs who sell our Coffee keep them. Ask for descriptive circular. Bespectfully, Ao., H. K. & F. B. THUBBEB k OOs Importers, Wholesale Grocers and Coffee Boasters, New York. P. 8. Aa the largest dealers in food pro ducts in the world, we consider it our la terest to manufacture only pure and whole same goods and pack them in a tidy and satisfactory manner. All goods bearing our name are guaranteed to be of superior quality, pure and wholesome, and dealers are authorized to refund the purchase price in any case where customers have cause for dissatisfaction. It Is thesef ore to tste Interest of twth dealers and een umers to use Thurber's brands. FOR SALS BY MRS. A. G. DIMIOX- Dtttse and Sign Painting, The undersigned, having had considerable, experience in House and Sign Painting In Chicago, Charlotte, N. C, and other cities, is prepared to exe cute work la the best style. Work done by contract or the day. t3FESTIMATS8 GIVEN OW JOBSi3 Beady mixed Paints furnished at lowest cash prices, or Oil and Lead when preferred, ltf C. B. Edwards, Highland., JS. C. Highlands Nursery. The subscribers offers for sale for the Spring of 1883 a quantity of well grown Apple trees of the best varieties for ibis section. Selected Trees Be. fsrit, Per ISO VX No agents employed. Cease to the Niusssp and get year trees fresh from the ground. 1-tt 8. T. KELSEY, Highland!, N. C Important to Bee Kespsrs. I supply Italian Bees, Eclipse, New Amer ican, Langstroth and Simplicity Bee Hives, Honey Extractors, Section Honey Boxes, Boe Veils, Honey Knives, &c Please send for my descriptive circular and price lias. Sent free. Address F. A. Swell, M tiled ge ville, Carroll Co., I1L - vl-nl-lm. -Florida- Florida Land and Im provement Co. "DISSTON PURCHASE" 4,000,000 ACRB8. CL MITCHELL, fort Uetdt, Ftertft, GKR FOX rOUC AHD XA9ATSX OOUHT1M. 1 The Florida Land and Improvement Company, owning nearly 30Q,oto acres an this Agency, have announced tnat tnesr lands wiU be thrown open for sale at Gov ernment prates (fi.i per acre) irom Oct. 1, 1882, Until Uay 1,1883. Thin rr oooortunitv of securing desira ble locations for Orange Groves and oUmt cemi-trpical fruiu, at nominal prices, etll neer occur again. Tiki Aduntage ef It mile Ym Cn ! As owner of the Suknybidb Ncbsssy, I will supply all varieties ot irees. nan, and Seeds. I plant . Orange Groves, enter lands, pay taxes, and attend to auotner business lornon-rewaeuufc t' solicited. l-y E. MB, SIS & CO, BaltLmre, SMM MANUFACTURERS OF" STRAW CUTTERS, CORN 8HELLER8, PLOWS, HARROWS, WHEAT FANS. IRON FRAME CULTIVATORS, IRON BEAU D. 8. PLOWS, And an Kinds ef Agricultural Implements 8Hn FOB CSXALOOCX. Mt ...... -... I - Y J,'
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