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ONLY V/ ■ H«M k* ■ y l of SOUTHERN APPALACHIA V with Roger* Whilcncr S »il wiur -llppi-iliiM-. lor . irI.MH ■auli rilll 111 lloyrr. Wlilinir. H«>\ 171., llrHitti . s. I , znui GINSENG SEEDS $7.50; 1,000- - sl2. 50 WITH GROW ERS GUIDE. The want' ad above which appeared recently in the North Carolina Agricultural Review is similar to many others append ing in weekly papers, rural ma gazines, and farm publications aver the past few years. Two things may be inferred from such ads: one, wild gin seng is becoming more difficult to find; two, domestic use of sang is on the increase. . Thus more and more of the cultdva - ted plant is finding its way to ->-J Jg J Wildfire in the south. There’s no future in it. In the South, woods arson destroys nearly half a billion trees a year All because a guy gets mad at somebody, or mad | at nobody. Does this kind of destruction make sense 7 ■ J V. advertising contributed tor I the public good V^/ Help Prevent Forest Fires in the South Pone stop sales and service! B Factory Trained Technicians. §8 Qftoberts-Corn Chevrolet - Bu/cfcg j WES HERE | I 12X52 REPOSSED PICK UP 3 PAYMENTS I I TAKE OVER BALANCE 1 I USED 12X44 MOBILE HOME - f I USED 10X55 3 BEDROOM r MAICH SPECIAL I} ! 50" WORTH FREE GROCERIES WITH EACH I PURCHASE OE > HEW COACH HOULE HOME I 1 COME SEE THE NEW MOON j I 2*1972 MODELS MUST GO MAKE A OFFER! I A&U the market—but at a price far below that of the wild root. At one time practically all North American ginseng was shipped to Oriental countries when it was learned in the ear ly 18th century that the root found here was similar to the -• Asian variety. In the Orient, ginseng has, of course, long been held in veneration, not only for its health-giving pro - per ties but for its fabled contri bution to masculine virility. Chewed, made into tea, mixed with food and occasionally with whiskey, ginseng has been con sumed for hundreds of years by Asian p- >ple. Now with the back-to - na ture movement in America and the continued interest in health foods, ginseng is a great de - mand in this country. And the supply is dwindling. Ask a mountain man if he is digging any sang these days, and he will either shake his head or look at you as if you are fry ing to ferret out the secret of his private digging grounds. It still is being dug,cf course WilcOx Drug Company of Boonej North Carolina, one of the lar ger herbariums in southern Ap palachian, reports the purchase end .sale of over two thousand pounds of dried ginseng root last y®»r, most of it shipped abroad. ■j!‘ [Gary Wilcox, one of the own eri of the firm, says that the wild root is bringing the highest prices ever. "If you can buy it this season, it will cost you up to S7O a pound—the cultivated will bring about S2O. July through October is gen erally given as the digging sea son for ginseng, and for years root diggers have brought their harvest to general stores, ware houses and herbariums for sale or barter. H.W. Mast, the owner of the large general store in Valle Crucis, N.C., recalls buying "a thousand dollars worth of sang from one man some years ago when it brought about $34 dollars a pound. Now it would be worth about twice that mich" Mast, like many other small operation herb dealers, no long er purchases ginseng or other mountain herbs, leaving ft i s business to the few large herbar iums in *fte area and to health food stares who are beginning to purchase directly from the root diggers. Jim Shepherd, operator of The Green Revolution, a health food store in Boone, indicates that he will probably begin handling small amounts'cfboth wild and cultivated ginsengs this summer along with othjsr mountain herbs: "I get calls almost every day for ginseng powder, capsules, or tea bags occasionally the roots them selves. " At the moment he_ handles only Korean ginseng, wliich brings five to seven dol lars an ounce. Most wild roots brought in for sale today are comparative ly small, a root weighing half an ounce being considered a good size. Roots measuring up to twenty-one inches in length, however, have occasionally been reported in the past. I would like to pursue the digging and ;?le of ginseng in a future coJumn, so if you are a present or past digger of this root and other herbs, I would like very much to hear from you. I promise not to reveal the location of your diggings! Please send responses to Ro gers Whitener, Box 376, Boone, N.C. 28607. Ifc-Lo TenPERaToeE of Tm€ Ue» Upper Tdrch <!oiJ WTKI/ StdK A**-at* JLc~W letter To The Editor V Dear Editor: Opening week at the Yancey Theater was a tremendous success and we can only thank the people of this area who made it all possible f>y their wonderful response to the "new" theater and our family entertainment format. We hope we can truly provide the people here with a family entertainment center and that in some small way it will repay the welcome we have received here not only as a new business but also as new residents of Yancey County. We would especially like to offer sincere thanks to the many people who have been so kind and have gone out of their way to make us feel at home here. Sincerely, Ben and Carmela Mandala and family. BY JIM DEAN 1 Before it's too late, maybe we ought to take a closer look at some of the water management projects planned far this state. That was the basic suggestion outlined in a speech giv en by Clyde P. Patton, Executive Director of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, at the recent North Carolina Wildlife Federation annual meeting in Ra - leigh, North Carolina. Patton pointed out the rapid loss of wildlife habitat and „ undeveloped land to various types of accelerating develop ment such as dams, stream channelization and dredging— particularly huge impoundments. "We have been losing this battle far years, " said Pat ton * "Where an impoundment is involved, there has de veloped a little gambit whereby a few hundred acres of habitat are set aside for wildlife, while thousands of acres of all types of wildlife habitat are inundated. This is call ed mitigation, except that it doesn't work. 'You can't flood miles of river bottom and replace it wi ft a few duck ponds and expect turkey, deer and quail to live on it. It's an unequal trade-off in which wildlife all species of wildlife—will always lose. " Patton also pointed out that sometimes the mitigation is never actually accomplished by the builders of the pro ject. "Take, for example, the mammoth New Hope pro ject in Chatham and Durham counties, " said Patton. 'lt will destroy thousands of acres of prime habitat, and in re turn, we will get a thousand acres of waterfowl subimpouiri ments that will be cut by new Interstate Highway 40, a con nector road to Highway 54 and a 70-fbOt power company easement. At one time, a golf course was planned in one of the duck ponds, and a new waste treatment plant has been built in another. " Patton told the Wildlife Federation that the Falls of tfe Neuse project north of Raleigh was causing similar problems. 'Before the first foot of land has been purchased for the project, there is a plan to relocate N.C. Highway 98 and chop 77 acres out of another waterfowl impoundment, "said Patton. "The Wildlife Commission is supposed to get 860 acres for waterfowl subimpoundments and several thousmds more acres for wildlife management in the Falls of the Neuse/pi'oj ect. "Sounds good, but there's a catch, " continued Patton. Those several thousand acres are lake perimeter and often nothing mere than a buffer zone between the hamburger stands and the water skiers. „ ™ rCtUr \ the FaUs ofthe N euse project will destroy 55, 000 acres of excellent wildlife habitat, and this doesrft include the 8,500 acre Wilson Mills project which, when completec will back water almost to the foot of the Falls. Taken individually, " Patton said, "these projects do not seem too unreasonable, but when you put them all dam on a map, it really becomes frightening. There are 20 re servoirs planned within a Simile radius of Raleigh, and f°T * maSSiVC NeW H °P e Project. When you look at the total impact of these projects, you see hundreds of thousands of dcres of wildlife habitat being de stroyed. What happens when you flood deer and turkey out of the „v« bottoms 7 Where do they go? Into the next watershed? It too may be flooded by another project. " Patton called for a closer look at the total impact of such projects and their possible alternatives before it is too late. The sportsmen of this state have always been the first to recognize the forces at work in our state and coun - fry that are detrimental, not only to hunting and fishing, but the entire environment, " said Patton. "Now, the time has come for sportsmen aid professional conservationists to join forces with non-hunting, non-fishing, but environmen tally-oriented groups in a common cause. "Tomorrow we may have reached the point «f no return." ALCOHOL PROBLEMS? """ HELP FOR ALCOHOLICS ANO THEIR FAMILIES For Information Call The Yancey County ALCOHOLISM TASK FORCE 682-6128 o' . I wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm THE YANCEY JOURNAL Burnnvtlle, N.C. 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