THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
AS OTHERS SEE US
THE BALSAMS
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N. H.
Open June to October
Frederick J. Haskins Tells Bis Impressions of the
Sandhill Community
The new GOLF COURSE fulfilled every expectation
in 1915. Each season the playing conditions will be
improved.
The Club House, really magnificent ,and harmoniz
ing perfectly with its surroundings, occupies a site that
could not have been better chosen nor more excellently
arranged.
The Hotel Plant, complete in every detail, is situa
ated among forest clad mountains, upon an extensive
tract including farms, dairy, fish-hatchery, hydro-electric
plant, garage and machine shop. Pure spring water
is supplied in abundance. Indoors there are rest and
homelike comforts; out of doors every opportunity to
enjoy tennis, boating, bathing and wilderness life.'
The Balsams Winter Inn, having steam heat,
electric lights and private baths is open from October
to June.
For booklet and information address
CHARLES H. GOULD, Manager,
Dixville Notch, N. H.
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Full Half-pints
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BOSTON
Sole Agents for the United States and Canada
I Unsurpassed Mineral Water
Bank of Pinehurst
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES TO LET
CHECKING AND SAVING ACCOUNTS
4 PER CENT INTEREST
J. R. flcQUEEN, President F. W. VON CNON, Cashier
A Syndicate Letter Sent a Thousand Newspapers by one of the Keenest Observers
in the United States.
THE Sandhill Board of
Trade is a great deal
more than a commercial
organization. It is the
practical expression of
an ideal of community
life in the country. The
members tell you this;
then they lead you out in
the sand hills and show you their schools
and roads and scuppernong vineyards and
peach orchards and cotton fields and
tobacco patches. They show you a very
mixed farming community that flourishes
amazingly in a shallow and sandy soil,
largely by reason of the fact that all of
its members pull one way. They make
you believe in their ideal.
The Sandhill Board of Trade can't be
classified; it is the only one of its kind.
It is an independent and self -constituted
Democracy which has no regard whatever
for county lines. This is the way it came
into being.
Among those who have moved into the
Sandhills within the last five years have
been about forty men from New York,
Boston and other big cities. Nearly all
of them brought money, youth and brains.
Most important of all, they brought a
pretty definite ideal of what they wanted
to do.
Mr. Eaphael W. Pumpelly, once a New
York engineer is the chief expounder of
the Sandhill philosophy. Eural life, he
points out, should be the best kind in the
world. It may have much of the culture
and variety of city life, together with the
freedom and fresh air and health of the
great outdoors. England, of course, is
the classical example of this. But in
England the wealthiest people do not go
to the country merely to have a good
time. They live there and the best of
them devote their time and energy to
the development of their communities.
That is what the Sandhill men organ
ized to do, and they are doing it. Fur
thermore, they take themselves and their
work seriously. They do not merely come
here to visit once a year; they live here.
They wear soft shirts and khaki and
scout around in cheap autos. A presum
ing reporter from Philadelphia once
wrote them up as 1 guilded youths, ' ' and
they still frown when the name of this
particular scribe is mentioned.
These men made the Board of Trade,
but the natives made it go. They are
highland Scotchmen whose forefathers
came here in Colonial times. They move
slowly but certainly and they are the
bone and sinew of the Sandhill Board of
Trade. When the prime movers of the
organization had made their plans, they
called a big meeting of all these farmers,
and laid the proposition before them.
The farmers "sat and studied" a while
and decided that it was good. A circle
of the Sandhill country forty miles in
diameter was taken as the territory of
the board. It was divided into twenty
nine districts, each of which had a bit
of a village as its center. Each district
was given three representatives in the
council of the board, and each district
had one vote. A meeting is held once a
month, not to talk, but to pass upon some
specific project. These meetings are
heavily attended.
The Board has an executive committee
which meets every week, and an executive
officer in the person of Mr. Clyde L. Davis
who is on the job every day and nearly
every night. Among other things he has
been a Kansas farmer, a rural evangelist,
and a student of the classics. He needs
all of his versatality. The Board of Trade
calls upon him to produce anything it
wants. Not long ago it wanted a fair,
and told Mr. Davis to organize one, but
not to hire any balloon ascensions, mid
ways, or anything like that. Mr. Davis
went among the people, and had them
rig up their farm wagons to suit them
selves for a great parade. The farmers
fell back upon the" story and legend of
the countryside. They came as wild
Indians, as highland clansmen, and as
soldiers of the Revolution, bearing the
muskets and powder horns of their ances
tors. They showed such a vivid con
sciousness of their own remarkable story
that Mr. Davis is now under orders to
produce an historical pageant.
These, however, are the frills and fur
belows of the Sandhill Board of Trade.
Here is another thing it did. When the
European war broke, and cotton went
down and down until the little planter
and the tenant farmer were within an
inch of starvation, the Sandhil men were
hard hit. They raised other things, but
cotton was their best money crop. In
this emergency the executive committee
of the Board of Trade held a solemn
meeting.
' ' If this Board of Trade is of any use,
it's got to prove it now," said one, and
the rest agreed. There was the emer
gency currency issued by the Government,
of course. The executive committee went
to Raleigh and found there was not go
ing to be enough of that to go around.
Then they went to New York. Although
there were men in the Board of Trade
with a lot of credit, they found that money
was very scarce in New York, too. At
last they got a credit of a hundred thou
sand in Boston. They returned to the
Sandhills and built a warehouse in each
of their districts. The farmers were told
to come there and store their bales, that
they would be given receipts based on a
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