NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
A NEW CITY ON THE YADKIN AND
REDDIES RIVERS, IN WIE KES CO.
A Full Sketch ol its location. Beauty
of Scenery, Mineral Wealth and
Prospects—An Invitation to Visit
this Magnificent. Country.
The Company has puschased
one thousand acres of rich land of
great intrinsic value, almost every
part of which is available either
for business or residence sites.
This valuable property is on the
North side of the Yadkin river
and East side of Reddies river, one
mile North of Wilkesboro, the
county seat of Wilkes county,
North Carolina.
erne te- ^:..^1 J. r ^c „ ow
extension of the North Western
North Carolina R. R., a branch
of the Richmond & Danville sys
tem, has just been located in the
centre of the Company’s property.
The location of this stragetic
point just where the high Brushy
, and Blue Ridge mountains form
a geological trough, and through
which must pass all the great
through lines of railroads between
the East, West, North and South.
Here in the earliest days crossed
the great thoroughfares from Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina
to Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and
Indiana. The old stage tavern,
one hundred years old, has just
been torn down to make room for
a modern hotel. The instinct and
the woodcraft of the pioneer
marked with unerring skill the
highways which the learning and
the instruments of the engineer
who followed him have.only ver
ified and corrected. Over the
lines he traced, great railways
now run, connecting all parts of
the United States, bringing the
people of the whole country into
the most friendly intercourse and
uniting them in the bonds of com
mon interest, arising from profit
able interchange of commodities.
The officers of The Winston Land
and Improvement Company have
selected the name of North
Wilkesboro for their town, and it
is confidently believed there is a
combination of ability; energy and
experience in the board of direc
tors of this company that will car
ry to success its every under
taking.
SITUATION of THE NEW TOWN.
The town of North Wilkesboro
has been located in the heart of
the great Alleghany mineral belt,
seventy-five miles west of Win
ston; forty miles north-west of
Statesville; one hundred miles
north-cast of Asheville ; one hun
dred miles east of Bristol, Tenn.,
and eighty miles south of the
Norfolk & Western Railroad. The
-choice of the site was influenced
in the first place by the fact that
within this stretch of a hundred
- and seventy-five miles between
Winston and Bristol, some impor
tant centre of industry and popu
lation is bound soon to be devel
oped by the progress of the coun
try. After careful surveys of the
whole line, the particular locality
ofNorth Wilkesboro was chosen
as surer than any other to secure
to its settlers the advantage and
profits of such a development.
THE Situation OF THE LAND.
Because of the lay of the land,
the town site is a parallelogram
comprising one thousand and
eighty acres; a segment of beau
tiful and fertile valley, bounded
on the North by the Blue Ridge
and on the South by the Brushy
mountains. The town site slopes
gently down from the foot hills
of these mountains, forming in the
center a level, inviting railroad
transit; the trend of the valley
here is nearly east and west.
Height of this level (which is the
lowest part of the town site) is
one thousand feet above sea level,
while nearly in the center of the
town stands a beautifully rounded
knoll more than one hundred
feet above the level part of the
town, upon which the Company
proposes to bnild a hundred thou-
^pd dollar hotel. This yalley
land has been cleared and well
tilled for more than a hundred
years and dates its settlement
back to the beginning of the State.
As one travels westward from
Winston, this point is the first
that is suitable for the site of a
town which may reasonably .hope
to attain the growth of Asheville
or Birmingham; There are situ
ations on the way which are
adapted for hamlets and villages,
But until North Wilkesboro is
reached, none that is clearly des
tined by nature for a great aggre
gation of industries and people
THE SUCCESS OF OTHER NEW TOWNS.
The success of other new towns
(many of them with less than half
the natural advantages of North
Wilkesboro) in the South, dating
from 1871, lias been phenomenal,
even in an age of industrial im
provement. Birmingham, on
grounds cultivated in corn in
1871, is now a city of fifty thou
sand inhabitants with industrial
establishments paying one million
dollars per month for labor. An
niston, within whose corporate
limits there was not a human
habitation in 1872, has eighteen
million dollars invested in manu
facturing enterprises and im
provements. New Decatur, Shef
field, Florence, Bessemer, Roan-
OK^ and curb lay mu are other in
stances that might be cited, and
these are not all, to illustrate the
fact that, under conditions exist
ing at North Wilkesboro—capi
tal and skill united in the devel
opment of the mineral, timber
and agricultural resources of this
section—are certain of the rich
est rewards that come to well di
rected enterprise. The Elyton
Land Company, by which Bir
mingham was founded, was or
ganized with a capital of two
hundred thousand dollars in 1871,
and this has never been increased.
For eleven years no dividend was
declared upon its stock—its prof
its having been devoted to im
provements. Its single shares of
on§ hundred dollars have sold as
high as six thousand dollars. Since
1883 its dividends have exceeded
six millions of dollars. The orig
inal investments in Anniston in
1872 was one hundred and rorty
thousand dollars and a fifty-ton
charcoal furnace. This capital,
its profits from year to year hav
ing been put into new productive
enterprises, had grown to six mil
lion dollars in 1887.
TOWN LOT PROFITS.
Two years ago Fort Payne,
Ala., had twenty-five inhabitants.
To-day five thousand busy work
ing people call it their home.
Fort Payne business lots were at
first sold at two hundred dollars
—they are now selling at five
thousand dollars. One North
Carolinian, on a capital of five
thousand dollars, has made, in
two years, sixty thousand dollars
in Fort Payne town lots. Mil
lions of money has been made on
town lots in Roanoke, Va., in the
last eight years. To give some
idea of the big advance in prices,
a few figures are given below:
A business lot in Roanoke which,
in 1882, sold for $500, was sold
recently for $15,000. Other Ro
anoke lots, which originally cost
from $150 to $400, have been sold
at prices ranging from $0,000 to
$20,000. Lots in Winston, N. C.,
which sold fifteen years ago at
$150, have been sold for $15,000
to $18,000, and land near Win
ston has advanced from $5 per
acre to one thousand dollars per
acre in the same length of time.
North Wilkesboro’s natural ad
vantages in mineral, timber, wa
ter power, scenery, climate and
agricultural resources are superior
to many of the above named
places.
NORTH WILKESBORO
Is situated on the north side of
the Yadkin river, one mile north
of Wilkesboro, the county seat of
Wilkes county, North Carolina,
in the beautiful and world-
renowned Yadkin Valley, the
scenery and climate of which are
not excelled in the most favored
sections of the United States.
North Wilkesboro lies at an alti
tude of one thousand feet above
the level of the sea. Malaria is
unknown 5 the atmosphere is clear
and bracing, and during summer
months a blanket may be used
with comfort almost every night.
Comparatively little snow falls
during the winter season, which
is usually mild and dry. In fact
the immense number of health
and pleasure seekers who annual
ly visit Western North Carolina
is the best evidence that can be
adduced of the favorable charac
ter of the pinnate and the beauty
of the mountain and river scenery
of this region. From the hill
tops of this favored spot may be
seen a stretch of more than a hun
dred miles of the Blue Ridge,
Brushy and Black mountain
ranges. Pilot, Hawk’s Bill, Ta
ble Rock, Roan, Grandfather,
Mount Mitchell and ip$qy other
peaks may be seen lifting their
heads more than five thousand
feet above sea level. Such grand
mountains are seldom seen in this
or any other country.
PLAN OF THE CITY*
Numerous broad, well-graded
avenues and streets; a public
square, park, engine house, mar
ket house, graded school, fair
grounds, manufacturing sites and
a church building lot for each de
nomination will be reserved and
donated free of cost. Business,
homestead and villa site lots will
be sold privately and at auction.
Electric lights, water works and
sewarage system will be estab
lished as the town develops, and
everything will be done to build
up a large and thriving city at
North Wilkesboro.
Are you an investor ?
Are you a business man ?
Are you a professional man ?
Are y ou of the arts and trades ?
Are you a manufacturer £
Do you wish to establish a mer
cantile business where the trade
of five counties will pour in upon
you ?
Do you desire to change your
field of practice ?
Do you want to make a sound
investment ?
Do you wish more lucrative
employment ?
Do you want to cheapen the
cost of manufacturing?
Do you want a new home?
proposition.
To obtain the promptest return
for your investments you must
look elsewhere than to the larger
cities. This fact needs no de
monstration. Rather seek a new
place which by virtue of its nat
ural advantages and surroundings
cannot fail to grow to large pro
portions. Start with such a town
and participate in its triumphs.
There is not a place in the whole
South that can offer equally as
good inducements to every class,
of industry as North Wilkesboro.
Why? First, you must recognize
the fact that the New South, for
many years to come, will be the
field whereon the mighty com
mercial forces of the country will,
be engaged. The South is, and
ought to be a section of the Uni
ted States susceptible of more
growth and greater development
than almost any other part of the
Union at the present time. The
vast variety of her productive
possibilities have hitherto been
but little known. But now,
keen-eyed science, commercial in
stinct and the tireless energies of
wealth-seeking enterprise have
sought her riches and are inviting
investors to sources of profit, nev
er before available in that direc
tion. New England was the first
to realize that its capital must
seek elsewhere for the income
formerly derived from invest
ments in another section of the
country. The West was not slo^
to discover the value of Southern
venture, and these two leaders,
uniting with the South, formed a
trinity of inestimable wealth and
unprecedented strength. Every
one is familiar with the rapid
strides made by the South in the
last decade, yet, but a step has
been taken, only a foundation
laid. From now henceforth the
progress will be greater still.
Do you desire to share in these
benefits and profits?
CLIMATE,
Health is of primary import
ance. No matter what powerful
inducements a town may boast
above all others, the matter of
health must first be considered.
North Wilkesboro is in the moun
tain region of Western North
Carolina, one thousand feet above
the level of the sea. The mean
temperature for the year is about
58°. There is no fever or mala
ria h§re. There is health in ev
ery breath, strength in every
breeze. North Wilkesboro has
a gracious climate, tempered to
all constitutional conditions in
summer and in winter, making
this spot in every way desirable
and advantageous fpr the thou
sands of people who are looking
for new homes and another start
in life away from limited chances
which haye hitherto C^.cqpiscpibi
nd their endeavors with the slow*
ly moving population of the Un
ion.
WATER.
Another important factor in
the matter of health is that of
pure water. Sparkling and cool,
never failing and in quantity suf
ficient for a city of a hupdr^d
thppsaqd population, is supplied
by a number of large, ever-living
springs, while the supply for wa
ter power, sufficient to run a hun
dred factories and for water
works, is furnished by the bold,
clear, never failing Yadkin or
Reddieg Rivers. There are with ¬
in a radius of te n miles of North
Wilkesboro twenty . mineral
springs, iron, chalybeate, sulphur,
arsenic, alum, lithia, cathartic and
magnesia. Many of these springs
have been noted for their remark
able cures for the last half cen
tury.
SEWERAGE.
No where will greater care be
exercised in all matters relative
to the health of the place than in
North Wilkesboro. Every pre
caution will be taken, the utmost
vigilance will be observed in all
sanitary matters. Sewers will be
constructed for carrying off all
filth into the Yadkin or Reddies
Rivers.
WATER ■ ORE-.
A survey lor .he vater works
is now being made. The water
will be pumped by "water power
to the reservoir on the top of a
hill one hundred feet above the
town.
HOTELS.
It is proposed to build at North
Wilkesboro one of the finest ho
tels in the South, approximating
in cost one hundred thousand
dollars. The style of the build
ing will be Italian—made attract
ive by some French detail. It
will be three stories high, with
hipped shingle roof, long veran
das and hanging balconies. It
will have one hundred and thirty
rooms, including many fine apart
ments. The day is not very far
off when North Wilkesboro, by
the force of her natural advan
tages, will become a summer and
winter health resort, not only for
people from States South of Vir
ginia, but from the North as well.
One has but to live here through
one summer and one winter to
fully appreciate all the advan
tages of this climate. In such a
climate and such a hotel, furnish
ed with every comfort that money
will buy, and communication
with the whole world by tele
graph and railroad, elegant drives
through shaded nooks or over
mountain sides. What more
could heart desire? This magnif
icent hotel will be in the center
of Kensington Park, near the rail
road station, overlooking the city,
and from its balconies may be
seen the Yadkin River, winding
through the valley for miles,
while from the tower a grand
panorama will unfold itself in
the stretch of hill and mountain
in every direction. Just over the
hills to the North and West rises
the giant domes of the Blue
Ridge and Black Mountains.
The valley is a natural path for
breezes of summer and the hotel
will stand in the center of the air
current,—standing above the lev
el of the valley the air will be
free and pure; the drainage will
be perfect. The travelling pub
lic now find ample accommoda
tion at the Hotel Gordon, already
built, a house whose table is un
surpassed, a reputation acquired
by careful and constant attention
to its cuisine.
HOMES.
North Wilkesboro presents a
diversity of sites for home build
ing. The range of choice is a
wide one, and no matter which
way one may go there will be
found pleasant locations tor
homes. Cool and shaded retreats,
commanding and lofty elevations,
smooth and level plats, near or
far removed from the busy streets
—any choice can be made. The
residence portion of the city sur
rounds the business center, and
one cannot go amiss in any di
rection. No particular section of
the town lands in pleasant homes,
each side of the valley seeming to
have an even representation.
North Wilkesboro does not boast
of any picturesque ruins or an
cient weather beaten, moss cover
ed antiquities—everything is new,
clean and wholesome.
MINERALS.
The mountains round about
North Wilkesboro seejp almost
bursting with mineral treasure.
The Winston Land and Improve
ment Company have just bought
four thousand acres of these min
eral and timber lands. Gold,
silver, copper, zinc, manganese,
red hematite and magnetic iron
ore in abundance, felspar, kaolin,
fire clay, glass sand, pottery clay,
granite^ soap gtcmc., ‘ surpentine,
asbestos, mica, limestone, plum
bago, ochre, umber, pipe clay,
sandstone, brick clay, and other
valuable minerals a-e found here.
Before the late war there were
several old fashioned Wn fur
naces in Wilkes county. The
one owned by Capt. Lovell’s
grand-father was on Mulberry
Creek, five miles from North
Wilkesboro. The ore bank from
which this furnace was supplied
is now being opened up and it is
said that a charcoal furnace will
be built very soon. A northern
nail manufacturing company has
offered to take the entire output
of this furnace. Placer gold
mining is now carried on to a con
siderable extent in the northern
part of this county. We want
to develop all kinds of minerals
and manufacturers to convert iron
into all kinds of iron goods.
Foundrymen, machinery manu
facturers, stove, agricultural im
plement, hardware, axe, shovel,
hoe, horse shoe, nail and paint
factories will pay here.
TIMBER.
North Wilkesboro is in the
center of the greatest hardwood
timber belt in America. The
conditions are most favorable for
forest growth, and the greatest
variety of timbers and woods are
found within the surrounding
country. The territory has never
been lumbered to any extent, the
nearest railroad being forty miles
distant until the completion of a
branch of the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad from Winston, N.
C., in August, 1890. Therefore
the greater part of this section
remains an unbroken forest, as it
was when the first settler came to
this country. Among the varie
ties of wood are yellow pine,
hickory, yellow poplar, holly,
sweet gum, black gum, white
pine, cherry, birch, maple, white
poplar, beech, lind, black walnut,
basswood, chestnut, cedar, ash,
persimmon, dogwood, sourwood,
post oak, white oak, black oak,
spanish oak, red oak, chestnut
oak, turkey oak, locust, cucum
ber, sassafras, mulberry, syca
more, mountain laurel and spruce
pine.
The yellow’ pines occupy a
prominent place, being well dis
tributed over the land. The
next in importance is poplar, oak,
walnut, hickory, locust, cedar,
chestnut, lind, white and spruce
pine. Many tall pines here will
scale a thousand feet to the tree
White pine is abundant and of
fair quality. The oaks form a
large share of the product, there
being seven varieties. The oak
is very sound and tough, especial
ly adapted to the manufacture of
plow handles, carriages, wagons,
carts, cars, agricultural imple
ments, and bending works gener
ally. Black oak has a very fine
grain when finished and is more
brash than white oak, and is suit
able for inside trimmings for
houses, car works, furniture of all
kinds, and staves. Spanish, red,
turkey, chestnut, water oak and
post oaks may be used where
black oak is suitable. Chestnut
is very abundant and valuable for
posts, fence rails, telegraph poles,
inside work and furniture. Next
comes hickory for all kinds of
bent work in carriages, wagons
and carts, agricultural machinery
and handles; the supply and
quality for factories in this line
would last for years. Red hick
ory is a fine lumber for house fin
ishing. White wood or poplar is
very abundant here, and of good
quality, both white and yellow.
It is easily worked into lumber
at small cost and is desirable for
wash boards, buckets, tubs, furni
ture, coffins and inside work.
Black walnut is more plentiful
here than any where else in the
State and is valuable for furni
ture, inside work and coffins.
Gum, cherry, maple, beech, birch
and basswood are plentiful, and
make fine furniture and inside
work. Cedar, ashe and lind can
be obtained cheaply and of good
quality, valuable for buckets,
tub,s and wooden ware generally,
household and kitchen furniture,
inside house work, handles, agri
cultural machinery and coffins.
Sourwood, dogwood and persim
mon are plentiful and are used
for shuttles, bobbins, spools for
cotton and woolen factories. Lo
cust is very plentiful and is much
used for fence post and telegraph
p’oles. Millions of chestnut oaks
abound throughout- this entire
section, enough bark could be ob
tained to supply a dozen steam
tanneries for years.
COST Of LUMBER.
qualities :
Yellow pine, 1000 feet,
Oak, “ “
Yellow poplar, “ “
White poplar, “ “
Chestnut, “ ^
Cedar, “ “
Walnut, “ “
Mind, “ “
White pine, “ “
Dogwood, “ “
Persimmon, v “>
FIRST. SECOND. THIRD.
$ 8.50. $ 7.50 $ 6.00
10.00. 8 00 6.00
10.00. 7.5Q 0.00
?^ ’LOO 6.00
8.00. 6.00 5.00
12.00. 10.00 8.00
15.00. 13.00 10.00
18.00. 15.00 12.00
25.00. 20.00 16.00
18.00. 16.00 13.00.
8.50. 7.00 5.00
16.00. 14.00 12.00
16,-00. 1,4.00 1.2.00
BUILDING MATERIAL.
There is no place in the South
where the cost of building, mate
rial is more moderate, by reason
of the facility of supplies, of ma
terial and labor. None of the
great young cities which have
grown up of late years in this
country have enjoyed, at the start,
such advantages in this respect.
The sources of lumber supply are
all around the town, the hills are
full of granite, sandstone, sand
and brick clay in abundance.
MANUFACTURING THAT WILL PAY AT
NORTH WILKESBORO.
Saw mills, sash, door and blind
factories, brick making, terra cot
ta pipe works, paving block fac
tory, granite works, paper mill,
cotton and woolen factories, foun
dries and machine works, railway
car works, furniture factories,
coffin factories, wagon and car
riage factories, spoke and handle
factories, plow handle factories,
paper mill and paper bag factory,
rope works, bagging factory,
match factory, trunk factory,
knitting mill, steam tanneries,
(chestnut oak bark only costing
$2.50 per cord, delivered.) Shoe
factory, harness factory, leather
belting factory, stove works, ag
ricultural implement works,
woodenware factory, (to manufac
ture buckets, tubs, washboards,
stepladders, Ac.) Inside house
furnishing factory, shuttle, spool
and bobbin factory, wood excel
sior factory, barrel factory, well
bucket factory, hame factory,
roller flouring mill, "wood pulp
factory, pottery and earthenware
factory, tobacco factories, tin and
holloware factory, straw hat fac
tory, broom factory, bent wood
factories of all kinds, cheese fac
tories, fruit and vegetable can
ning factories.
FACILITIES FOR MANUFACTURING.
The most essential requisites
for successful manufacturing are:
An ample supply of raw material
at low cost. An eligible location
with economical conveniences and
favorable surrounding conditions
for the home and satisfaction of
labor. Ample shipping facilities
and proximity to the consumer
The Yadkin and Reddies Rivers,
flowing through North Wilkes
boro, afford ample water for raft
ing the millions of logs that are
now on the hill and mountain
sides, and millions of water pow
er for manufacturing purposes.
Railroad sidings will be built
along the front of manufacturing
sites, and the sites themselves,
lots for employees, and capital,
will all, as circumstances seem to
justify it, be furnished on most
satisfactory terms. Through the
medium of the great Richmond
and Danville Railroad and the
Richmond Terminal System an
enormous territory is reached and
its markets made tributary to the
manufacturers of North Wilkes
boro. Favorable through rates
of freight will be made to every
important town in the South,
North, East and West. The pol
icy of the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad has ever been rec
ognized as most progressive and
liberal, and the policy has been
the most important factor among
the many influences which alone
built Winston, Durham and Ashe
ville, and which have been at
work in the development of the
wonderful riches of North Caro
lina and of the upbuilding of the
now numerous manufacturing
towns and cities which mark its
course from end to end.
HOW TO REACH NORTH WILKESBORO.
From all points call for your
tickets via Greensboro, N. C.,
which is just one hundred and
three miles east of North Wilkes
boro. If through tickets are not
on sale then buy your ticket to
Greensboro, N. C., and buy a lo
cal ticket from there to Wilkes
boro, N. C.
AGRICULTURAL.
No city can grow to great pro
portions and remain prosperous
which has not a good farming
country to draw from. Cheap
subsistence holds too important a
place in the affairs of men to be
easily set at naught. From the
rich lands of Wilkes, Caldwell,
Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany and
other counties, West of the Blue
Ridge, will con: e great supplies of
fruit, fat cattle, butter, cheese,
honey, hogs, sheep and poultry,
and from the never failing fertile
valley of the Yadkin will pour in
enough grain, meat and vegata
bles to feed a mighty city.
• TRUCK FARMING.
The concentration of popula
tion affords a regular and stable
market for the products of the
truck farmer, fruit grower, poul
try raiser and dairyman. Their
most liberal and steady patrons
are the skillful wage earners, fac
tory hands, carpenters, brick ma
sons and miners; those who earn
good wages and spend the same
freely for their table supplies.
FARMING.
Farming is profitable in this
section of North Carolina, even
by the old method, slip shod go
as you please policy. Hundreds
of men, who at the close of the
late war had not a dollar in the
world and not a foot of land, are
to-day wealthy farmers. The
valley soil is - deep black loam
that produces an average of fifty
buslicis-of corn to the acre, amir
worth from forty to one hundred
dollars per acre. Corn usually
sells for seventy-five cents per
bushel. Such a thing as a crop
failure in this section is unknown.
The table, rolling, hill and moun
tain side lands are also very fer
tile and produce twenty to thirty
bushels of wheat to the acre.
The land is especially adapted to
the cultivation of corn, oats, rye,
buckwheat, clover, timothy, or
chard grass and rich, yellow to
bacco; this county having receiv
ed the first prize on bright, rich,
yellow tobacco at the World’s
Fair, in Vienna. Tobacco is one
of the most profitable crops and
often pays a farmer from two to
five hundred dollars per acre.
STOCK RAISING AND DAIRYING.
Stock raising has for yeais been
one of the great industries of the
surrounding mountain section.
Grass is a natural growth of this
section—wild mountain grass,
clover, blue grass, timothy, orch
ard grass and red top all do well.
The cattle, hogs, horses and sheep
fatten on these grasses and are
driven to market and sold on foot.
The fine grades of cattle, the Jer
seys, Alderneys, Ac., flourish as
readily as the more hardy native
born. The flow of milk and the
yield of butter is as abundant as
in any section, and the universal
existence and general distribution
of cold, clear free-flowing springs
make this an almost ideal dairy
country.
FRUIT GROWING.
This broad Union does not af
ford a better, never-failing, ever
keeping fruit section than this—
western New York not excepted.
Apples, pears, peaches, plums,
apricots, grapes, cherries, straw
berries, whortleberries, persim
mons, chestnuts, walnuts, hickory
nuts, blackberries and cranberries
all do well. The apples are of a
very fine flavor and keep through
the winter.
POULTRY Raising.
This section of North Carolina
seems to be a natural home for
the fowl. The earlier settlers
found the woods swarming with
wild turkeys, pigeons, ducks and
partridges. The domestic fowls
do well also. Immense quantities
are now raised. In some instances
artificial hatching, or the use of
the large incubators, is resorted
to, and invariably with great suc
cess, but in spite of the present
extent of the industry and the
large quantities of eggs, chickens,
turkeys, ducks and geese market
ed, the demand is far from being
met by the supply.
There is every requisite here
for successful poultry raising, and
no more profitable field for it can
be found in any country.
LANDS.
Lands for stock raising and
dairying, truck-farming, farming,
and fruit growing, sell within an
area of one to twenty-five miles
of North Wilkesboro from fifty
cents to one hundred dollars per
acre. There are thousands of
acres oyer-lying the ore beds that
are fertile and susceptible of large
yields and easily brought into cul
tivation.
The workman, mechanic and
business man can certainly find
a fitting field in this section for
their labor and their enterprise.
Millions and billions of wealth is
here dormant in nature’s greatest,
richest store-house.
Of Colonization.
From the North and the North
west farmers and others are look
ing to the Middle-South in great
numbers, and immigration thither
has year by year increased, under
conditions never the most favor
able. This company will take
steps to secure low rates of travel
to make known the advantages
Western North Carolina affords ;•
to organize excursion parties, and
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