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J**«e Eiir^t THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Vass, North Carolina. Friday, October 12, 192= I I III]".. I I ~['frTrTTTTTTTTTififTTTTrr~irni[iniiii[iiiiiiii S H ## S n H 8 Revolutionary Development AT SOUTHERN PINES COUNTRY CLUB The Golf Course Extended Over the Hills and Streams, and Into the Most Rug ged Section of the Sandhills. Summit of Shaw’s Ridge Crowned with Greens and Fairways and the Valleys Opened to the Enjoyment of Visitors to the Park. Plans in Progress that will Provide Two 18-Hole Courses and One 9-Hole Course—Roads, Drives, and Walks though the 550-Acre Tract of Land, and Building- Sites Flanking many Fairways and Drives. From the day of its inception the Southern Pines Country Club has been a recognized factor in the prospects o f the Sandhills, and from the beginning the men who were in at the start dreamed a dream of a playground there tha t should be one of the biggest attractions in bringing visitors to the State and in affording enjoyment and social con tact that would help to carry out that hope of making in this community one of the most delightful places on earth to live. But it takes money and time to develop golf course.'^, and to make big parks and to build roads, and cany out landscape schemes essential to the desired ends, and to build dams and improve streams, and to select spots where groups of houses may be built, and probably a hotel site in suitable place to work in with the general idea. ^ the South- Country Club had to go according to its abilities. But it has been an active influence in the gro\\i:h of the Sandhills, and Southern Pines is a testimonial to its stimulus Without the Country Club this would be a different neighh orhood, for golf is one of the principal cards that make the Sandhills the success they are. The positive and substan tial growth of Southern Pines commenced when the Country Club established its permanence. The town at once proceeded to grow up to the program of action the golf facilities warrant ed, and now it is no longer something to foster the For that reason the Country Club has marked out an ambitious project, which starts with the purchase of much more ground, giving at the present about 550 acres, and the expansion of the number of holes, with a continu ing scheme that looks to the future as well as the present. wn The Fates that picked the location of the golf courses at the beginning picked wisely, for the original site of the club v;as immediately adjoining a big reserve of territory immediately south and east that permits expansion of the courses and into a topograph that is one of the most grow'th and broadening of the \illage, but something to take care of that contin uing gro^-th, for the de mands of the increasing i numbers of \isitors and guests require that more means for providing for their wants shall be stead ily forthcoming. interesting in Central North Carolina. The hills are rugged little mountains, giving all the charm desired to a climb or a walk in the pursuit of the game or in a ram ble among the pine woods, where walks and roads, and springs, and forest foliage suggest the primeval. j T takes money to carry out a big' narking and playground scheme like this. So because there is no place in the world more delightful to live than on some of the knobs or in some of the coves within the boundai-ies of the Countiy Club, building sites to a lim- ha\e been diopped in here and there among the fairways and drives, and these will be offered buyers and home makers and from the funds derived the further expansion and improvement of the grounds will be carried on. Already a series of drives has been opened, starting at Indiana avenue, in Southern Pines, winding in various ways out to the Bethesda road near the old Ray Mill property, across the stream in places, back by way of the Morrison and Grover neighborhoods, in past the Highland Pines Inn, with intersecting roads and walks. Already also homemakers hav^e been securing building sites, and several houses are in course of construction or planned. Harry W. Gage, of Rochester. N. Y., has completed the first house, located near the club house on one of the new roads, and it will soon be ready to occupy. John G. Nichols, of the Page Trust Company, of Aber deen. has secured a location not far from the Gage home, and is preparing to build that he may occupy his house in the winter. On the summit of one of the highest knobs, overlook ing the w hole horizon near the green on course 4, F. F. Travis, of New ^ork. has picked a location and is figur ing on building plans. His location is beyond the 01m- stead group of houses, west of the Grover road, and not far from the Robinson development. At the extreme east of the Country Club boundar>% F. H. Robinson, of Peconic, N. J., has seciired several acres, and is building ona of the ambitious houses of the South ern Pines secton. It is on the rim of a bluff looking down one of the fairways* with a \iew of much surrounding creation, and it will be one of the show spots of the neigh borhood. Mr. Robinson is so much pleased with his find in securing that location that ke has started the second house in the same vicinity, and he intimates that he has some friends that may some day want to be neighbors and he will have room for some of them to spread out. Across the border on adjoining- land James Wadsworth is preparing for a house on another group of the knobs. XIne Roads Opening for Travel The development is making such progress that many of the roads are now open for travel for those who like to see what i<? e-o ing on, and visitors are welcome at all times. BUILDING SITES FOR SALE I It IS the hope of the Country Club that it can dispose of some of the fine building sites within the various boundaries and thn« procure funds to carry on the ultimate development of the project that is planned. Here on these knobs are sites that cannot be^r passed by anythmg m the Sandhills, and prospective homemakers are invited to look over the area and become acauaintpH we are offering. Locations may be procured directly from— wnat SOirmt PDIES COUNTRY auB SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. Or from any of the Real Estate Agents of the section. " n. n tt :e s ts s :: » :: tt ♦♦ %
The Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.)
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