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POLK COUNTY? The Gateway off Western North Carolina
Tryon, N. C., September 10, 1925
Five Cents Per Copy
$1.60 a Year
igjkr Harrows Peculiar In
I ?m Says fli Bradley Who Fulh
I Describes Miors of Fishtop ^
Lii's Us iln!s Md Chimney Too m*,* ?> . .
Kcwm Country. Bradley fails Has sfr l /* *lm of
I we( b?d Cataracts a?d oiw Po/nts If ?? Drop
I MI, UMiw Miles toto. IhXmZnmi
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? '?
:i~ sketch is the th
??d with the Fisht
: original and naive
:u' sage and philoso
I'tter 8ive lhe read
short account of
? :.c and attractive
jocts of this section,
Narrows on Green
js Always Pinch But
Has To Come
And So We All Kick
(Nature ftoeents Compulsion Bat
j H?t No Choice in the Scheme
tGwnment Has Rijlit of Con
fiscation to Provide Fuods
. -il football, taxation
l.u;r Is. But taxation is
; 'A.. \> government Altho
tax is the power to
r may be said aiso that
' tu pay tax is the right
Th- same power to tax is
r:i-ar:s of providing civlll
stability in government,
;r noting the welfare and
-- : the people.
? > taxation policies have been
votest the taxpayer has
> al;t'i of "high taxes" to de
nailed public improve
Taxes do pinch. No one
i that tact But because taxa
jr a dangerous weapon in the
tie iess considerate; be
unr a.* >nabie taxation has
spjsed in isolated cases. Uie
J Times has, used the effect
: instances as a diplomatic me
: ?aving himself from contrfbu
-;ortion of wealth to the
! while the institutions
can be carried on
y by taxation^ or by
which amounts to the
? 'lid show the same zeal
?linwn prices of many
ir.d luxuries that they
nming out the alleged
?.f taxation, the cpuntry
-I'-r off. The reason
- hard to pay is because
pay them. Choice- has
rho scheme unless one
? his property to the
?i nature resents com
tfiis statement 'heart
r things being equal,
out of the dollar than
;r we spend.
ttoolz Gets Contract
fo Build Resort Hotel
On Jump Off Mountain
Ji P^y Stollz, Owner of Miami's
Fleetwood Begins Building Operations
In Henjfer-.rnville. Ground Brok
en Tuesday.
?'tract has been award
'Jore J. Perry Stoltz
?? . ?
i icctwood Hotel at Ml*
fur the erection of
? -?m1 Hotel at Hender
?vhich is estimated to
including building,
?I site. G. W. Buch
' -lolz Construction Co.
' who was awarded
- the new Fleetwood
'-ted on Jump-Off
1 Hark Estate*, Hen
heen awarded at $1,
'-K to be fire proof,
with 300 rooms and
. Le Grand & Gaiss,
' architects, are now
" U plans and will be
" modern hotel bulld
iucludes mechanical
rit | v^tors and complete
ft>r occupancy, e*
ft*
i'<ing the award for the
H.m.,. ( 'the proposed Blue
oh will call for a slmi
u in Polk County and
-Vl n't have long to wait
" 11 -vir. McGulre?
ird of * series of local historical facts
op neighborhood and athe Cove"
manner, by E. J. Bradley, for many
pher of his home and community.
River near the selected place for the
dam now in prospect for the Blue
Ridge Power Company. Will say
that it will not take an expert geolo
gist, if he will visit he surroundings
to see that Green River did not al
ways run the course It follows now,
but possibly flowed into the French
Broad River. It would seem that by
some great convulsion of Nature that
a rift, fault, or crack was made in the
mountain running across West of the
Cove, and the great body of water
gathered above, tore through the
mountain just b^ow where Hungry
Creek enters the river, which heads
in the Sugar Loaf Mountain and runs
a Southwest course for 12 or 16
miles, there to meet the river which
heads in Transylvania County, and
runs Northeast. in its race it
scattered the broken up stones of Im
mense size all along the river for
several miles, eventually coming
down to solid granite and for ages
it has been wearing a small channel
through, in our present day, known
a9 the Narrows. An active man
could jump across here, and It has
often been done, although should he
make a slip and fall he would prob
ably never be seen ag^in so I'd ad
vise visitorg to be careful.
Then below here, cornea Flshtop
Falls, where so many people fish,
and opposite the path on the South
side of the North mountain, are
plats among the rocks which are cov
-with gr&ae, henco the reason for
the name "Feathert>eds. '?
Then there is Lula's Gap, also on
the North Mountain, a narrow niche
through which deer passed, and 'up
on one occassion an old hound named
"Lula" owned by Enoch Foster ran
deer through here and the name has
clung to it to this day. N
On this same mountain has also
been found silver ore in chunks, but
the real vein has never been discov
ered (but sometime will.)
Then to see the Cove to all its na
tive beauty, the best view is obtained
(for the upper portion especially)
from Hallum's Heights, and the best
view of the lower section is from
"Little Chimney Top" and from that
height one can not only view the
Cove, but all the surrounding peaks
including Tryon and Sugar Loaf and
Bradley Falls on Tittle Cove Creek
also, which '8 more of a cataract,
with falls of 60 feet. Bradley's Falls
on Big Cove between Holbert's Cove
auid Green River Cove back a hun
dred years ago was called "Ravens
Fajte" because the ravens built
'here every year, and is the grandest
scenery, said toy some to equal Nlag
aar (In proportion to size) with one
fall estimated to be 130 feet at a
?ingle leap with a rainbow visible
every fair day the year round. Also
the Raven Cliff near the Postoffice
oo North Cove Mountain is beauti
ful to behold, and a quarry of mantle
pieces, from which many fine ones
have been taken and sold, is located
near this cliff. ?
Some would be Interested In the
rock In the middle of the river on
which the white people slept of
nights while on a raid on the In
dians which eventually drove them
out.
The "Devil's Track'' is a curosity
which everyone like8 to see in the
solid rock, made ages ago by some
one while the rock that now is, was
^ay. Thi|8 Attracts more people
than anyother in these parts. The
ca^taracts on Laurel Creek are truly
magnificent .
Among the timber may be named
some balsaam, a grand sycamore
on Big Cove Creek that can be seen
and distinguished for miles away,
and a stump now of what wa^j the
largest apple tree areund here, possi
bly 200 year9 old and over 4 feet in
diameter, with a spread of limbs 100
feet, back 75 year8 ago. Another is
an oak, (the turkey variety) near by
me where tourists stop and park
th/eir cars or wagons in the winter
time to cook an<j sleep, and in the
mimmer to "rest under the shade of
the tree/' which is narked Stonewall
Jackson, In honor of that great ?ol
dier, and maybe, a Christian.
RED LETTER DAYS
By A. B. CHAPIN
"The DAY YOUR NAfr WOW THE \
* FREE -FOR -ALL "4t tue CoomtY FAiO.
Lake Lanier Visualized By Wright
Made Reality Through Aggressive Work
Of Eisele Brothers' Splendid Organization
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P. L. Wright and Waverfy Hester Turned Big Job Over to Eissies Who llded and Jfcslsfeil
By Clever and Competent Sales Force Sold Lake Lanier Before Lake Lanier Existed
Save on Paper. Million and a Half Now Invested in Homesites. Only a
Few Hundred Left. Eiseles to Develop Morris Island, S. C.
"Just look at those winding
roads ! Why we thought ? " And
then the enthusiastic babbling begttn
. Of course, the scene was Lake
Lanier, and the speaker, one who
had expected to see a lake, but
hadn't any well defined idea of
what else she was to Ibehold.
And it is thus that Lake Lanier
is a revelation to the majority of
folk who drive thither to catch some
little idea of what this big Devel
opment really amounts to.
It seems but a whoop and a holler
agof as time rune, since the represen
tative gathering of Tryon's towns
people licked their chops over Host
Brownlee's splendid dinner that
night and waited in tense anticipa
tion for the first man to "rise and
testify."
I recollect that Dr. Jervey rose on
his hind legs and ,told about Tryon
growing so fast that he like to never
got there ? and tben be delved into
ancient history about haw the germ
was first hatched about Lake Lanier
and how it was relegated to the
background on account of the death
of Mr. White, one of the originators
and further' because the war broke
loose about that time. Dr. Jervey,
and Mr. White*, and Doc Palmeil,
first conceived the bright idea. And
with his talk for a starter, the crowd
sorto' warmed up in preparedness.
Well, Carrol Rogers, I take it, start
ed the ball to rolling. And Mr. P.
L. Wright, the instigator, spoke a
piece "about it and about" ? and Mr.
Holmes took one, and Brodas Ballen
ber took ong and the Hesters came
on in, and the whole room wag charg
ed with that feeling one experiences
in church when waiting for one more
sinner to step up and be saved. And
directly the crowd began to fall like
nine pins, and the look out, if I am
not getting my metaphors mixed had
hard work iceeping cases till the last
of the initial l^ts was sold. That's
how the initial work on Lake Lanier
started . ?
Next morning as one walked fbrisk
ly to work the slogan that seemed to
have overnight taken the town by
storm was ? "Did you get a lot?"
Which made those who hadn't so
ashamed or envioe^ or something
that they ran right in the Bank of
Tryon and signed up. There was
also another phrase current, though
?aid to one another, port o' subrosa
on street corners ? "D'ye think it wilt
ever amount to anything?"
i
Anyhow, Mr. Wright, who said if
he could get rid of so many at the
banquet he'd start to work pronto,
somehow got ahold of the EiBele
Brothers., then went back to Hender
sonvljle and left Jem to do their
derndest. And close following at
their heels he shipped another little
fellow down here who ain't much big
ger than hi8 name ? Penney, for th?
purpose of plastering the* country
with the goings-on as they happened
in order.
It realty seems now as if them
Eisele boys had an AUadan femp
hidden away and all they had to do
was rub it and things would hop
along with freeh impetus, and the
next thing you knew before corn
plantin' time come round, the dam
was hajf way up across a gulley and
tree8 were coming down all along the
bank, anj dynamite was goin' off and
niggers were singin' and white men
bossing and Mr.. Ellsworth, who Mr.
Wright had also imported, was strid
in' up and down the theatre built a
purpose for him, and he was tellin'
spell-bouhd people all about the wa
ter that was going to run into the
three basins and the surrounding
hil|l8 upon which people was going to
build and sit on their porches and
look across the bosom of the placid
waters up to Hog Back ? and that
seamed to settle it; for an hour after
his audience had dispersed, another
gang of worker8 was runnin' aifcund
like mad sticking up little white
sigins hither and yon with the word
SOLD in big black letters on them
which they put under all the pine
trees and as thick around tiie shore
line a? they could crowd 'em.
The above paragraph is one sen
tence without a period in it, amd that
wa8 Just the way Mr. Ellsworth lec
tured to those homeaeeking people
and in the end, they capitulated.
Meanwhile, the mules kept pullin'
scrapers, and plows began to
scratch in new spots, and one now
noticed piles of lumber at intervals.
A handsome log cabin took. X>n form
for the tea house, and Mrs. Burleson
moved to temporary quarters jn a .
pretty cottage and began serving
splendid meals, and mone lumber
ptles followed new stretches of road
way, and presently it wag alio notic
ed that the holler that had been a
rendevouz for bull frogs began to
eddy with the water that was coming
in from the perpetual Lake Lanier
Pilling Station from back in the
mountains. And one day a little
boat was launched, and Mr. EUs
wortfc waxed more eloquent than
ever, and thousands now came where
dozens had started.
Somewhere I read a poem of Wfelt
Whitman's telling about crowds,
crowds, which reminds me of the
throngs that have visited Lake Lap
nier dally since the first spade spear
ed the earth. It was something
about, "From the East they come,
from the West, from the North, from
the South, from the Southeast, from
the Northeast, from the Northwestf
from the Southwest, across bridges,
across valleys, across mountains,
across ridges, across plains ? you re*
member how unconventional Walt
was, but if there had been any more
directions, the people would have
poured out of them tco ? as they have
done to get to Lake Lanier!
And it is lust this constant proces
sion, and their listening to Mr. Ells
worth, and their reading Mr. Penney
that has resulted in their PAYING
the Eisele boys, until the other day
the startling tidings were turned
loose that all but 300 lots had been
sold! ? (and they are probably gone
by now.)
And the woman /ywho expected to
see merely a LAKE last Sunday is
not to be giggled at, for such happen
ings don't happen onoe in a lifetime
in such a short time. In spite of
drought, In spite of heat, this most
wonderful of all all of North Caroli
na's Lake Development program*
has gone on until beautiful scenic
roads wind spirally up the wooded
hill sides; cottages are beginning to
take on shape of homes; the second
basin is filling and the third is being
prepared to receive its share In doe
time.
Years hence, that dinner at Oak
flail where the Big Medicine was
made for Lake Lanier, will shine out
in the anna|8 Tryon History, and
be a blessing to those who can dive
off their private wharves for m morn
ing dip, or paddle around in their car
noes to spend the. evening with "rel
atives and friends."
Rosalind C. Pratt, Well Known Artist
Who Spends Much of Her Time Here
Makes Plea ForClean-Up Campaign
Rubbish Cans and Street Cleaners Necessary and Streets Must Be
Kept Attractive If Restart Development Continues. Passing
Resolatioas Won't Clean Streets. Globs Can Accomplish
Macb Through Co-operation But Somebody Has to Work
"Bad nejfrg travels far" Is the <
the letter written us by a prominent <
Tryonf we never gave a thought that I
as Connecticut state and prove a
It came back to us in a charming
letter from Mrs. .Rosalind C. Pratt,
the noted artist who is welcomed to
Tryon each winter when she comes to
transfer to her canvas, the wonder
McWhirteFIarns Pay
As Publicity Man By
Keeping H'vllle on Map
Win to Edmunds of Manufacturers Rec
ord Rod by Thousands of Business
Men Ttaoughou! the Entire South
Good Work!
It pays any town wtti^ambltions to
employ a paid publicity man and A.
M. McWhlrter while secretary of the
Hendersonvllle -Chamber of Com
merce earned every cent expended on
bis salary? and more. Mac kept
Hendersonvllle before the public, he
wrote stories about It; he talked it;
he never let a prospective develop
ment rest.
After landing the ?toltz Hotel for
hla town he kept right on. boosting as
the following clipping from the Man
ufacturers Record of Baltimore
proves. t
"In a telegram to the Manufactur
ers Record, A. M. McWhlrter wired:
" 'Hendersonvllle is the town In
Western Nort^ Carolina that come?
nearer matching the best in Florida.
We are growing faster, more activity,
more buulding, more visitors, more
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actions and greater Increase ltrf%N
Come down and see for yourself."
"The statements made by Mr. Mc
Whlrter are not new to the Manufac
turers Record. Slmlllar Information
has come to this office from our own
representatives who from time to
time have traveled through that sec
tion.
Hendersonvllle is superbly located
and for the last few years it has been
putting forth a spirit of energy and
activity which, in its results^ is
matching Florida.
Similar conditions can be made to
prevaQ in hundreds of other towns
and cities throughout the South
wherever the people of these towns
and citie8 are awake to the opportun
ities.
We extend our hearty congratula
tions to Hendersonvllle and to the
energy of Mr. McWhlrter in wiring
the statement which he sent. Proof
of the correctness of his claim is seen
in the announcement of a $2,000,000
hotel to be built at Hendersonvllle by^
Florida interests."
0
Clinclrfield Industrial Agents
Says Mountain Country
Will Come Into its Own
Suifm Merely Scratched, Say* Pnnl C. '
Green, of Clinchfield Coapaoy win |
Predicts Continued Development for
section.
7"
Paul C. Green Industrial Agent of
the Glinchfleld Railway says of that
section of Western North Carolina
traversed by his road;
"This territory, after years of in
dolent enjoypient of its own pictures
que scenic grandeur and climatic
wonders, is now thoroughly animated
by an astounding recognition and
swift realization of its vast indus
trial potentialities and achievements.
We hare already numerous textile
mills utilising our native cotton, and
other varied industries throughout
our territory utilising the coal from
our own vast fields, the timber from
our great forests,- min .iv is from in
numerable mines, waterpower from
our own mountain streams and native
American labor from our own hills.
Notwithstanding the recognition
that has already been accorded us
and the achievements already attain
ed, we have merelj scratched the sur
face of our native resources, and In
dustry in our territory is yet in its
infancy."
And that is true of every section In
''The Land of the Sky."
)ld Baying, but when we quoted from
jitizen in re the untidy condition of
t would travel in the next mail as far
boomerang .
fa) bits of scenery that she lores in
all of Nature's changing moods. She
sees Tryon with an artist's eye, and
wonders in a puzzeled way why with
so much culture and intellect and re
finement here, suc^ untidy conditions
remain with us. Prom "Villa Vista,
Stony Creek, Conn., comes Mrs.
Pratt's letter:
"If another letter will help the
cause for a cleaner and more beauti
ful Tryon as per article In your is
sue of August 20th then herewith is
another appeal from a reader of the
Polk County News, also a frequent
visitor who for many seasons ha^
returned to enjoy the treasure store
of delightful Tryon..
From the skyline of the mountain
girt valley and lesser hills, one hears
the call and f^els the "urge the "lure"
in no uncertain way. And then the
duU thud, when one drops to earth
where scattered paper8 and a miscel
laneous assortment of rubbish meets
the eye.
"I know whereof 1 speak, because I
have not only .'een it, but have even
had the courage to call the attention
of the "powers that be'' to the un
sightly conditions that prevail. That
"Cleanliness is next to Godliness" is
a time-honored adage. If this be
true, then there must be a close rela
tion between the church spire, the
belfry belj, and the village sidewalk
and wayside gutters. Godliness in
their unity of mission and purpose.
town may be legitimately proud
fit itf churches aS#': public edifices,
their beauty of architecture and dig
nified outline, but somehow an iun
kept street fails to register, due; to
thoughtlessness, or possibly waiting
for the "other feUow" to take the in
itiative. Someone has to make a
start, and It may have been this urge
that Jed a noted authoress, assisted
by a bevy of prominent women qf a
summer resort to appear early one
morning to clean up the village street
Dressed in white, and fully equipped
for srtreet cleaning, the plan worked,
accentuating as it did, the dignity of
labor and imperative demand for a
clean village. Alto, the rebuke
"went home," and proved a lasting
lesson. Organizing and holding
meetings to make resolutions will1 not
take the place of rubbish cans, and
the fellow who follows after to pick
up the refuse that someone else has
carelessly thrown down.
No community can afford to be
without a group of citizens to attend
to this most Important branch of pub
lic work, also to "live wire" Individu
al who sees that it is done.
' In fact, this Justly comes under the
head of Welfare Work, known as
Sanitation. The enqlosed clipping
may find lodgment in the Tryon
Scheme ol Beautifying. One Is al
most warrented In arguing that Try
on i? beautiful enough but granted
the simple process of adding much
more of floral charm to the scenery
is not amiss. Also, granted that na
ture has already bestowed lavishly
even beyond the usual allotment of
oveliness In form and color along
the highways and byways of Tryon
and vicinity, and yet, there are local
ities and roadways that traverse out
lying districts where more would not
overcrowd .
Beauty a8 an asset Is not lightly to
be overlooked, as Tryon citizens al
ready 'appreciate its value, and prov
ed it by their works."
Note:- The clipping referred to by
Mrs. Pratt has to do with a Massa
chusetts organization cafcled MThe
Seed Scatterers" Inc. to which be
long a number of nationally known
and prominent folk who are making
it their pleasure to sow wild flower
seed in th^ w. ?te and barren pflaces
of their st^te, hoping that the custom
established, will take a firm hold in
every state in the union. Among the
women of prominence actively Inter
ested are Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
president of tbe Daughters of the
American Revolution, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, noted suffragist, Fp.^
nie Hurst, author, and many otlit.
The further object of this organza
tion Is to save the wild flowers and
shrubs from Impending extinction.