pjY, NOV. 5. 1»36
the franklin press and the highlands maconian
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eauty of Macon Described over Radio
IRESS MADE
One of Macon County’s Beautiful Waterfalls
tv’sMany Advantages
ven Publicity By
Station WWNC
HoukT^riklin attorney
iiool principal, broadcast a
of Macon count>p.ts
beauties, recreational facil
vast natural resources-
address over radio station
. Asheville last Thursday
The address, one of a series
salutes” sponsored by
.rchants of Ashevdle, was ac-
Me daily papers of a full page
* tellinc of Mcicoii
isement teinub
^te^'ofS'Houk’s address
fs with a sense of deep ap-
tion to The Asheville Citizen
Station WWNC that the
hof Macon cousty, thiough
fell tonig-ht attempt to pre-
to other sections, ^ far anc
a very meager pictuie ot
county,'something of its past
-has endeared it to
lomething of its
I support a firm faith in
U 513 square miles contained
' the borders of Macon
C are largely within the water-
iof the Little Tennessee river
in a general way take the
,|of a great basin surrounded
fountains of majestic propor-
i To the west lies the great
Ihala range, rising well above
) feet above the level of the
^0 the north and east is lo-
d the Cowee range, almost as
Hand rugged. And to tbe south
|hes the great Blue Ridge
in which culminates in the great
nding Indian, one of the highest
Is of the whole Blue Ridge
g«.
I lindians Lived Thtere
In the valleys between these
iges, some 200 years ago, were
the principal settl'Cnients of
ijMiddle Cherokee Indians,
iinklin, the county seat of Ma-
■county, is located on the site
the Indian town of Nikwaski.
I the banks of the Little Tennes-
(f^river, within the limits of the
^ent Franklin, the great cere-
i|al mound of these people stands
3ay. The story of its building has
ijed with its builders. It stands
beside a broad highway over
1 speed the vehicles of the
:rn age, and within a few
is located a gasoline filling
m—the trade mark of this age,
yet—sometimes when the moon
e deer has come or when the
;st moon has bathed the sides
eastern pile with silver ra-
:e across the rich bottoms of
river can be heard the chant
arriors, the hoarse cry of med-
fmen or the eternal love song
ome forgotten maid,
roeated at Franklin is the ad-
ffitrative headquarters of the
lantahala National forest, which
^ains over 300,000 acres of for-
wands which have been bought
P by the Federal government and
Wch are administered in accord-
with the best practices of
m^ervation and iitiliz.ation. This
forest, 120,000 acres of which
^ Macon county, contains some
■the most magnificent scenery
Jsome of the most rugged areas
ill of Eastern America.
j^-Jadiating into all portions of
^forest are modern all-weather
roads which have been con-
ttcted by the forest service. On
E well graded and splendidly
„'tained roads the visitor may
^1 for miles through virgin for-
r''d over them can reach many
[ts.
Facilities Improved
^uring the past four years, pri'
by means of the program of
r'CCC camps, four of which are
iW in Macon county, the r-ec-
J^nal facilities of the forest area
'^sen vastly improved. New
> have been built, existing
I* widened and improved, camp
and picnic grounds de-
and rearing pools for fish
'been provided.
■
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-Photo by Courtesy of Nantahala National Forest
IT It • r„11a.ah river between Franklin and Highlands are viewed
The Upper Cullasaja or Dry Falls in t - J- country. They are regarded as the most
each vLr by many thousands of persons are known best, perhaps, as the Dry Falls be-
b^autiful waterfalls in this scction of the of water without getting wet. This and
cause a person can pass along ^ Bridal Veil Falls—are among the magnificent scenes that
w.terfalls-the lower Cullasaja and the ii wict,lands.. CCC boys have built a parking
tTo^;the; waterfalls-the lo^r Culh^ Highlands.. CCC boys have built,a parking
o-reet motorists on state highway -\o. to stou there.
It mav be in the plastic paint on
your wall. It may be in the wall
paper in your house. It is on the
composition shingles with vvhich
your house is covered and it is m
your automobile tires and in the
rubberoid roofing of your garage.
“Not only in the field of industry
but in that of agriculture has Ma
con county gone forward rapidly-—
particularly in tbe field of stock
raising and dairying.
“During the past few years Ma
con county has gone far towaid
providing better educational oppor
tunities for its children. To the
central high school at Franklin and
to the accredited high school at
Highlands it transports children
from all sections of the county,
thus bringing to the rural section
the opportunity of thorough educa-
tio.nal advantages. During the past
decade the enrollment of high
school students in Macon county
has increased over 500 per cent,
has Low TaK Rate
“Macon county provides one of
the most delightful places to live
imaginable. It is not a section of
cities hut every modern improve
ment is found in her towns. Frank
lin has one of the lowest municipal
tax rates in the country, and with
Highlands the county has two of
the most cultured, progressive and
enlightened communities to be
found anywhere. The people of Ma
con county are a friendly people, a
hospitable people, a neighborly
people. When you come to Macon
—whether to rest, to play, to fish,
or merely to ride over our magnifi
cent roads asd feast your soul on
the glory and grandeur of our
mountains—whenever you come—
you will be welcome, for we of
^Macon county know that when once
you come you will come again and
if you keep on coining you will
come to stay—to live—to become
one of us. For there is something
about our mountains to those who
have lived among them as there is
about the sea to those who live in
sight of its restless waves. He who
stays long in the presence of either
must needs go back again. There
is a pull—a longing for one more
sight of the blue ranges, for one
more breath of the winds from
lofty summits—for one more picture
of a sunset across the purple peaks
—for one more trip back to the
mountains of Macon.”
space near
‘Among the greatest of these has
been the wiJcniiig an.l '“'I'''™
'> to “1:.
road leads to t ie v er>
"’= raie.
ot IS ,» "k l.e forest scnioe tas
i r SO-foot lookout tower
^^:^\vhich the unaide^^^^
To
35 miles away the
rea,1iie-:'e " .e,f ,,1.1.
Great bmoKies massive
tl'cir keaJ. over 6.-
peaks hfhng t
? ^'tt’the Santeetlah lake spark-
l^^^he sunlight
retr^tSlves above the surround-
the Federal govern^nent
E S^l^i^d the Wa^
apart,
wild
road runs on a shelf carved out
of the side of the sheer Si'amte
walls. Two hundred feet below the
roadway the river falls nearly 100
feet in one of the most magnificent
waterfalls m the whole
region. In order to carve out the
shelf of the road it was necessai>
to lower the engineers and work-
„ien down the sides of the
cliff
hiker or horseman and at various
points, particularly at Vanhook,
eight miles west of Highlands,
capip grounds have been set aside
where provision has been made for
water supply and cooking facilities.
Another of the same type is at
Arrowood, eight miles west of
Franklin. At other, places the for
est officials have set apart sites
wlvere camps and dwellings of a
" Irit they might drill the wlvere camps and dwcmngs oi a
tlnP cxDlosives which permanent nature may be built on
of the
orpn of 11,000
'TSevS wilderness set
- ^ f h Siv?I S
fowl, and fis „atura
towi, 1 tiieir natural
Here ^nd turkey, and
;J°?s1fteyearihey are open to
fisherm'cn__
«At Fr=^nklin the
ville highway, route
intersected by Nor^ the outstanding
way No. 28, Appa-
scenic drives borders
lachian regioi. crosses
of Macon „tain ranges
three great ino
through gaps J east of
above sea level e^^^te ^s
Franklin on th gi-jes what
Highlands this roaj
was T ay construction
miles of hig highway system,
the whole S ate to fol-
Here the road is co 1^^
low the , this point fron
* w deep. The
thousand feet deep.
rock for the explosives
blasted the highway out
^h>er cliffs of living rock.
' “Several miles further on toward
HiJhlands the highway passes the
Pnlla=;aia dry falls where
famous Cullasaja _ uiy
the 40-foot curtain of water ia
far out into its bed below, leaving
oom behind the fall for a person
Jr etS -t.tf-miles further
'^''h ?m|ng from'tLdiff above,
which,
^VSd aUows%he motorist
coBplet* behW .he ve.l
of water.^^
‘Twenty miles to the east of
„ thn is Highlands, the highest
.rated town in Eastern Amer-
incorporated towi
This town ot iUU peui
L p nne of the most popular re-
'^"T’ n the whole section. It is
sorts in Atlanta ;
of the
S«.rwT.I. v.,i.ors
come from the less
riv(
500
^nk ISO maes"‘from Atlanta and
dunng a greater portion of
year
who
it 15
have
wegions t; revel in
summer climate of a reg-
1 4-000 feet in elevation.
around 4^ tee ands
cS where Bobby
Se have
less
well graded
land belonging to the forest. The
whole area is a. botanical paradise
in which practieaOy every plant
species native to Eastern America
may be found. The wide range of
flora and the wealth of biological
material has led to the establish
ment at Highlands of a research
laboratory by outstanding scientists
of some of. the great universities.
This institution bids fair to become
in the botanical field what Wfcods
Flole, Mass., is to that of marine
life.
Extensive Mineral Deposits
“Macon county has not been in
the past primarily an industrial
region but it is impossible to^ esti
mate the millions of feet of timber
or the amount of mineral products
which have been removed from
Macon county in the past; and,
while much has been taken, the
resources-particularly in the -min-
■ eral field—have hardly been scratch
ed, There exists known deposits
of copper, feldspar, mica, cyanite,
keolin, vermiculite and other min
erals, and with the presence of the
national forest, where the timber
supply is protected and treated as
a crop, the section is assured of
further development along industrial
lines.
“During the past few years Ma
con county has rapidly become one
of the chief centers of the mica
grinding industry. There are sev
eral plants located in the county
which are engaged in the industry
and in all probability there are few
people anywhere who do not have
somewhere on their premises some
Triails for the ground mica from Macon county.
Map Aids In Working
Out Farming Program
The farmer who wishes to have
a well balanced, profitable farming
program next year will stand a bet
ter chance of succeeding if he
works out beforehand a systematic,
budgeted system of operation.
F'irst he should consider the type
of land he has, then determine
what he can and desires to pro
duce on it, said Dr. G. W. Forster,
agricultural economist of the N. C.
agricultural experiment station.
He should estimate the ,number
of acres he wishes to devote to
various crops, the yield expected,
the livestock and poultry he wishes
to raise, and the commodities he
expects to sell.
After making preliminary esti
mates, 'he should study them to
see whether they will make for a
well balanced program.
In working out next year’s farm
ing budget, it is important to
know the size and type of various
fields. By making a map of the
farm, the farmer can have a defi
nite guide to go by.
Such a map does not have to be
as exact as one made by a civil
engineer, Dr. F'orster explained,
but it should show the approximate
boundaries and areas of various
fields, the location of buildings,
roads, woodlands, and pastures.
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