{"1": {"fulltext": "25-0\\n32 5\\na Souvenir Directory to tbe\\nland of tbe Sks\\nCopyrighted August, !893,\\nby T. M. Barker. Jr.", "height": "1578", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class _il2:^\\nBook.\\nCOPYRrCIIT DEPOSm", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "V OCTJ8i8S;\\n^K^IJIZI}^-^-\\nV, \u00c2\u00bb^lj\\n1\\nnlS BOOK is given to the public as the initial number of a series of publications relative to\\nThe Land of the Sky.\\nTHE SOUVENIR DIRECTORY will be re-published every six months.\\n(j^- 1 Persons purchasing this number will do well to preserve it, as the illustrations in succeed-\\ning numbers will be entirely different, and, as the country developes, considerable alterations in\\nthe statistical information will be necessitated.\\nThese books will, therefore, in time to come possess historic value as well as artistic interest.\\ny THE EDITOR.\\ni\\n1/\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ll/C-r", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "The Valley of the French Bkoad. Mi. Pisgah iu the distauce. (I holo by Tarbell.)", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Cbe land of the Sky\\nTHE gatewaj to the Land of the Sky is fouud in the north-eastern part of Mitchell County. The pillows to\\nthe gate are Grandfather Mountain, the highest peak of the Blue Ridge and Roan Mountain, a lofty\\npeak of the Smoky Range. Between these titanic pillows in lieu of a gate stretches the Yellow Mountain.\\nFrom this gigantic gate way the two great walls of the Land of the Sky, the Blue Ridge and the Smoky ranges\\nextend southward, forming a gigantic loop 250 miles long by 50 wide, and finally meeting in the southwestern\\ncorner of the state. Between these titanic exterior ramparts is a region of romantic beauty unequalled on this\\nplanet. There are innumerable wooded mountain ranges, forest-clothed with lovely valleys that are usually\\npeaceful, except at camp-meeting time, interspersed between. All the valleys are watered by magnificent\\nmountain streams, that clear and cool fall over rugged boulders, purl and scurry neath banks of feathery ferns\\nor lay in deep dark pools beneath some giant birch s umbrageous limbs and form a mirrow for the midnight\\nstars to twinkle in.\\nJust south of the gateway to the Land of the Sky arise the loftiest peaks to be fouud along the Atlantic\\ncoast. The loftiest range is a distinct formation known as the Black Mountain, and said by geologists to be\\nthe oldest land in America. The highest peak is Mt. Mitchell, 6,717 feet. Clingman s Dome, 6,666 feet, is\\nthe highest peak of the Smoky Mountains. Richlaud Balsam is the higest peak of the Balsam Mountains.\\nThe Yellow Mountains are the highest in the Cowee range, 5,133 feet. Standing Indian and Wayah Bald are\\n3", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "the loftiest in the Nantahala ranjje they rise to an elevation of 5,500 feet. The Tusquittee peaks rise to an\\nelevation of 5,314 feet. There are 43 mountains in Western North Carolina that tower considerably over 6,000\\nfeet high.\\nIn the forceful tautology of the region, it can be said of the mountains of North Carolina as of her pretty\\ngirls, that the beauty about them is that they are beautiful. Their beauty is like the soft blue of\\nsilk velvet. All of them are clothed to their summits with foliage that turns its rich green to red and gold\\nwhen the sunmier days are gone. During the pleasant, crisp days of autumn the young people of the vallej-s\\ndelight in forming nutting parties and scale some of the loftiests summits in search, of chestnuts, chiniiuepins,\\nhickorynuts and walnuts.\\nThe game has for years been pretty well hunted out from the neighborhoo 1 of the larger towns but in the\\nprimitive wilderness of some of the more secluded valleys aud gorges bear, pinther and deer still roa ni at large\\nWhile squirrels, rabbits, partridges, pheasants and wild turkeys are numerous inmauy neighborhoods. In the\\nsummer months the trout fishing is the best to be had in this country.\\nConvulsions of nature in ages past, caused by subterranean disturbances, have so broken the surface of the\\ncountry that the lands are either gently rolling or mountainous, and a great variety of soils can be found, from\\ngravelly gray to the black loam, red clay and alluvial bottom lands. Cereals, grasses, tobacco, trucking pro-\\nducts, grapes, apples, peaches grow to remunerative perfection.\\nIron, lead, zinc, silver, gold, nickle ores, mica, asbestos, corundum, talc, vitrified brick clay, monazite,\\ndiamonds, rubies and sapphires, besides many new gems, have been discovered in this favored region.\\n4", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "B^^^^Bk^iKi^ii\\n\u00c2\u00abii\\n6s-\\n^s^^- ,r f\\n1\\n^33^^\\nThe Rapids, French Broad River. (Photo by Tarbell.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "A recent publication of the Board of Trade has this paragraph\\nThe North Carolina Geological Survey, created by the legislature in 1891, tomake thorough examiuation\\nof the nature and extent of the mineral and timber resourses of the State, has been very active in its work,\\nand has issued the following bulletins, which will be mailed ou receipt of postage, to those desiring informa-\\ntion on the subjects treated Building Stone in North Carolina Timber Trees Water Powers Gold Mining\\nin North Carolina; Drinking Water Supplies Clay Deposits and Clay Industries; Mica Deposits and Mica\\nMining; Mineral Waters; List of Elevations and an Historical Sketch of North Carolina Scientific and Kco-\\nuomic Surveys and Bibliography of North Carolina Geology and Mineralogy. Bulletins are issued from time\\nto time. Address the State Geologist, at Chapel Hill or Raleigh, N. C. By addressing the Director, U. S. Ge-\\nological Survey, Washington, D. C, and sending five cents for each sheet wanted, topographical sheets of this\\nsection will be sent to any address. The sheets included in the section of country treated of in this pamphlet\\nare as follows: Asheville, Murphy, Nantahala, Cowee, Pisgah, Saluda, Mt. Mitchell. Checks and stamps not\\naccepted b\\\\ the Department.\\no\\n\\\\Diews and tResorts.\\nF the natural curiosities and views and resorts, that shoulil lie done by the enterprising tourists, we\\nwill give a brief description of those places that will best repay the traveller.\\nRound Knob\\nTwenty miles east of Asheville is Round Knob. The Southern Railway here presents a marvelous evidence\\nof the engineering skill of the .American. From one point the track can be seen at seventeen ilifferent eleva-\\ntions, as it winds its serpentine course down the sides of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, in a gorge\\nof romantic beauty, is Round Knob hotel, near which a sparkling natural fountain sends its jet of crystal water\\n286 feet high.", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "w\\no\\n0-\\nOS\\nH\\nS2 H\\nP^\\nSl\\nW Oh\\na\\na!", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Paint Rock J-\\nIs a granite formation of gigantic proportions, situated immediately upon the Hue between North Carolina\\nand Tennessee. It takes its name from a legend to the effect that certain characters upon its surface were\\nplaced there by the Indians with indelible paint. Some of these extraordinary heiroglyphics still remain, but\\nhave never been deciphered. This wonderful curiosity can be reached by train from Asheville.\\nMount Pisgah\\nPerhaps the most popular mountain trip in Western North Carolina is the ascent of Mt. Pisgah. This sym-\\nmetrical peak is iS miles from Asheville, as the crow flies, and 20 miles as the road winds its picturesque\\nway through fertile valleys and over wooded mountains. The road by the cotton factory, over the French\\nBroad river, Hominy way, as the country people say, will bring you to the foot of the mountain, where you\\nlodge for the night. The distance from the foot, by the trail to the lop, is estimated as five miles, but seems\\nmore like 50 to the inexperienced mountain climl)er. Near the summit gush the cold, clear waters of Rattle\\nSnake spring, so named it is legended, because as the discoverer knell upon its mossy brink to slake his thirst,\\nthe warning whir of a snake caused him to look up and there. Upon the opposite brink, lay coiled a gigantic\\nspecimen of the rattle-snake family. He sprang back just in time to escape a hideous death, as the snake\\nstruck at him across the spring, but missed its mark. After a lively fight he killed it and it measured but\\nthis is not a snake story. The summit of the mountain is covered only by low huckleberry bushes, and when\\nthe berries are ripe the snakes infest the spot, coiling beneath the bushes and striking at the birds that light\\namid the foilage to gather the fruit. Pisgah is 5,757 feel high. The forest trees clothe it nearly to the summit.\\nPisgah is one of the Balsam mountains, and was for a long time the favorite haunt of bear, wolves, panthers,\\nand deer but of late years the large game has all been killed off, or driven away by the liiuiters.\\nMount Mitchell\\nThe most difhcult ascent in this region is that of Mt. Mitchell, tlie loftiest peak this side of the Mississippi.\\nIt is 6,717 feet above the sea at the summit. The be^l route is via Black Mountain station. Mt. Mitchell was\\ns", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Fresh from the Forkst ok Shades. (I hoto by Tarbell.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "named in honor of Rev. Elisha Mitchell, D.D., a professor in the State University of North Carolina, who in\\n1S35 made a geographical survey of the mountain. Dr. Mitchell made the first barometrical measurement of\\nthis peak, and established conclusively the fact of its being loftier than Mt. Washington. In 1857 Dr. Mitchell\\naccompanied by his son, returned to the mountain for the purpose of confirming his reports. The professor\\nsent his son down the mountain on June 27th exactly at midday, and was never again seen alive. Ten days\\nlater Tom Wilson, a mouulaineer known far and near as Big Tom Wilson, discovered a fool print in the\\nturf near the summit of Mitchell s Peak, and followed the professor s trail down a ravine for a mile and a (luar-\\nter, to a precipice 30 feet high, and at the foot of the precipice, in a pool of water, lay the dead body of the\\nprofessor. Dr. Mitchell s body was first buried at AsheviUe, but subsequently exhumed and interred upon the\\nvery summit of the mountain, where a monument was erected to his memory by the faculty of the Stale Uni-\\nversity. The work was superintended by Dr. W. D. Phillips.\\nJ- Hickory Nut Gap\\nThe most romantic and interesting pass of the Blue Ridge is Hickory Nut Gap, situated 14 miles southeast\\nfrom Asheville. Near the gap is the Grand Canyon of Broad river, wild and weird, but beautiful. Walls of\\ngranite rise in places to a height of over 1,000 feet on either hand.\\nRibbon Falls\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Over one of these walls falls a large creek a distance of 1,300 feet. This falls is sometimes\\ncalled Ribbon Falls and sometimes Hickory Nut Falls. It is the third highest fall in the United States.\\nChimney Rock is a curious rock formation shaped, as its name indicates, like a chimney of gigantic dimen-\\nsions. It is 500 feet high and commands a fine panoramic view of mountain and stream.\\nBald Mountain, made famous by Mrs. Burnett s play of Esmeralda, which she wrote while on a visit to\\nthe mountain. Esmeralda s cabin is still pointed out by the hotel proprietor at Esmeralda. This mountain\\nat one time caused the scientific world, as well as the immediate inhabitants, considerable anxiety by indulging\\nin repeated rumblings that resulted in local earthquakes that broke dishes and other fragile things for miles\\naround, and finally a large fissue of bottomless depth appeared across the end of the mountain. This crack is\\nhalf a mile long, about seven feet wide and the bottom has never been found. Smoke was reported to issue\\nfrom it at one period.\\n10", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Dose You Lub Me Like I Lub You (Photo by Tarbell.l", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "The Cave of the Winds is a larsje tissue iu the solid granite of llie niouutaiu. You enter through a small\\nopening in the side and soon find yourself in a large three-cornered chamber, walled on all sides by grauilf.\\nThere is a crack in the side of the mountain, through which you can view the scenery below.\\nThe Pools One of the most remarkable natural curiosities in America are known as the Pools, situated\\nnear the hotel, in the bed of a large creek. There are three of these. Oue is considerably more remarkable\\nthan the other two, as it is bottomless, or at all events, no one has ever succeeded in measuring it. The upper\\npool is lo feet across and 15 feet deep and is perfectly round. The water quickly flows out of this into the\\nsecond pool, which is also perfectly round, and about 80 feet deep; then it flows into the third, or bottomless\\npool. The fall is only a few inches from pool to pool, and the geologists are unable to account for their\\npresence.\\nThe general scenery around Esmeralda is poetic, varied and romantic to a degree it would be a profanation\\nto describe.\\nCaesar s Head\\nCaesar s Head is situated ou the line between North and South Carolina, 45 miles to the southwest of .\\\\she-\\nville. It is a precipice 2,000 feet high, formed by a spur of the Blue Ridge, on the edge of which is a great\\nboulder said to resemble in its outline the profile of the great Roman. From this rock you nny see, to the\\nnortheast. King s mountain, a distance of 70 miles Stone mountain, near Atlanta, 100 miles away to the south.\\nDirectly north, and about 100 miles distant, are seen Roan mountain and Mt. Mitchell. Pisgah is in plain\\nview, 35 miles away while Whilesides mountain glitters to the west. The best route is by train to Hender-\\nsouviJle and thence by hack or stage through the leafy and romantic Buck Forest. There is a good hotel at\\nCtesar s Head and a bold spring of clear and intensely cold mineral water. Many touri.sts spend the entire\\nsummer here.", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "A General View ok the City of Asheville. (Photo by Tarbell.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Bsbcvillc\\nResident Population 12,000 Miles of paved streets 6}4\\nFloating I opulation 4,000 Miles uupaveil streets 4^%\\nTotal Population 16,000 Miles street railway about 11\\nMiles of sewerage 12 size of sewers 6 to 12 inches.\\nThe most important city in Western North Carolina is Asheville, situated at the juncture of the French\\nBroad and Swannanoa rivers valleys. The town lies in the lap of the mountains that encircle it on all sides and\\nkeep away the northern and eastern winds. The place is 2,250 feet above the sea. The streets are well paved\\nand electricity furnishes the means of locomotion for the street cars and of light to the city s street lamps.\\nBesides the natural surface drainage, furnished by the slope of the hills upon which the town is built, the\\ncity has put in a most excellent system of sewerage. The hills on which Asheville rests are gentle elevations\\nthat give a picturesque slope to the lawns of the residence portion of the town, and afford numerous opportu-\\nnities to the house-builder of choosing a building site, from which he can not only be certain of a magnificent,\\nunobstructed view of mountain scenery, but at the same time be assured of every facility for perfect drainage\\nand the best sanitary conditions generally.\\nThe shopping centre of .Asheville is so up to date in all its features that one might well believe themselves\\nin a city of 100,000 inhabitants. The cosmopolitan and high grade nature of the local population, as well as\\nthe absolute refusal of the tourist population to purchase anything but the best, has had a very distinct effect\\nupon the character of the stocks of goods carried, as well as upon the merchants themselves. Coming in daily\\ncontact with people from all over the world, the man who attempts to do business here needs to be thoroughly\\nposted in his line, if he hopes to achieve success, as many have in years past learned to their chagrin. The re-\\nsult is, that the present busiue.ss element in Asheville is as live and energetic a set of men as can be found in\\nthe United States.\\n4", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Lawn ok I he Batteks- Pakk HuTEL. ^PUutu bj Tdibell.", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Made up of people fro ii all over the Union there is, nevertheless, a strong town pride evinced by ill the\\ndwellers in Asheville, and anj enterprise looking toward the material interests of the community meets an\\ninstant recognition and support.\\nThe business of Asheville amounts to about #3,500,000 per annum. The assessed value of city property is\\n54,758,801. The rate of taxation on |ioo valuation is $1.20 for the city 120 cents of this for schools), and 90 cts.\\nfor State and county (iS cts. of this for schools).\\nThe following are the most attractive of the drives and near by views to the city\\nBeaucatcher Directly east of the city is Beaucatcher mountain. This is an easy and couveuient ascent, ind\\nis far-famed for the beauty of the sunset effects that can be witnessed from it during the early autumn. The\\nroad is out College street, thence up the ri.jht hand drive to the Hazard mansion on the summit. There is (juite\\nan extensive drive along the ridge, which returns you to the mansion in an oval course.\\nTown Mountain is a little to the north of Beaucatcher and a trifle higher. The road is the same as that to\\nBeaucatcher except that you take the left hand fork instead of the right.\\nSunset Drive begins at the end of Baird street in the north-eastern portion of the city, and extends along\\nthe side (if the mountain until it reaches the Beaverdam road. The drive is one of the most beautiful in the\\nworld every turn of the road presents a picture of voluptuous charm. Hogarth s line of beauty predominates\\nin all the foregrounds, middle distances and prospectives.\\nGouch s Peak Another drive that is never missed b\\\\- tourists is that to Couch s Peak. There is a vast pan-\\norama of mountain streams and waving woods seen from the peak that always fills the lowlander with surpris-\\ned rapture. The way is out the Beaverdam road to the fork, a mile north of the city, where you take the left\\nfork to the foot of the peak, when you take the road to the right hand. There is an old mill a quarter of a\\nmile from the foot of the peak that the hackman will point out as a picturesque bit of rural ruin.\\nElk Mountain is also a peak within easy of riding, driving, or if you are athletic, walkiugdistance of Ashe-\\nville. The way is also out the Beaverdam road, only you take the right hand road at the forks and proceed for\\nhalf a mile until you reach the foot of the mountain, where you take the road to the left. After the a.scent is\\nmade the road stretches along the top of the ridge for a mile and a half to Buzzard Rock, which is the point\\nof view. There is a bold mountain spring near the rock.\\n16", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "|lH^=/.i:Mj:UM:rIWIr-4l\\nWinter Sports.\\nOne of the attractive features of the win-\\nter in Asheville are the games at the Golf\\nLinks. A new building is in process of\\nerection, and a splendid new link is being\\nprepared for the winter season.\\nThe Country Club s Meets always\\nform a pleasant break in the social routine,\\nand are well attended.\\nThey boast some exceptionally fine riders\\nand their work makes a meet of the club\\nan exciting incident in the experience of a\\nnovice.\\nMany of the members ride with a grace-\\nful dash and spirit that takes the breath\\nfrom the breast of the uninitiated and\\nleaves him or her far behind in the chase.\\nSpangenberg s Shoe Store. (Photo by Tarbell.)\\n17", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Swannanoa The most written about drive in the neighborhood is that along the Svvannanoa river, which\\nbegins at the foot of South Main street. Here you take the left turn and drive past the Water Works.\\nYou drive along its tree shaded, moss and fern covered banks to the Cheesborough Bridge, where you turn to\\nthe right and drive back to Asheville over the summit of Heaucatcher, and get a glimpse of the sunset as it red-\\ndens in a brilliant, magestic, flashing dome of crimson and gold over river and darkling woods, and soft, blue\\nmountain. The whole experience of this drive on a summer or winter afternoon is one of enchantment, and\\nits memory seems almost unreal.\\nFernihurst, or Connally s View This is one of the short excursions always taken by visitors. It is\\nreached by an excellent drive to the southern limits of the city. The road is always good and the view com-\\nmands a wide swetp of territory and a glimpse of many noted peaks, such as Pisgah, Black Mountain, Craggy,\\netc. The French Broad river flashes its curving course, and the Swaunanoa sweeps in graceful beauty to their\\nmeeting at the foot of the hill. The Biltmore estate lies in full middle distance before the enraptured eyes of\\nthe visitor.\\nRichmond Hill This drive has lately assumed, in addition to its natural beauties, a semi-historic inter-\\nest from the fact the hill is largely the property of Congressman Richmond Pearson, uncle of Richmond Pear-\\nson Hobson, the gallant destroyer of the Merrimac. The drive is out Academy street to a pretty graded road to\\nthe French Broad river. Mr. Pearson has built an iron bridge across the stream, which he allows the public\\nto use as freely as it desired. His residence is at the top of the drive from here you drive along a winding\\nway to the summer house, from which you get an exquisitely varied view of the French Broad valley.\\nBiltmore Estate always comes in for a large degree of attention from the public during the mid-winter and\\nsummer seasons although it is becoming a twice told tale to the more experienced tourist.\\nThe estate lies to the south of the city and can be easily reached by carriage or bicycle. You must be\\ncareful to secure a pass at the auditor s ofiice before attempting to enter the grounds, either afoot, awheel, or\\nhorseback. The gates are not opened before three o clock, and only upon Wednesdays aud Saturdays. Of late\\nthe passes have been limited to fifty on each visitors day.\\nThe mansion is a French Reuissance Chateau, 375 by 150 feet. The estate proper contains 10,000 acres.\\nMr. Vanderbilt s Hunting Preserves of Pisgah Forest is estimated at 84,000 acres.\\n18", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "View Ai.hm. th). Swannanoa. (Photo by Tarbell.)\\nTHE SWcANNcASHOcA. By Jacques, of Charleston. S. C.\\nSwannanoa, nymph ol beauty,\\nI would woo thee in my rhyme\\nWildest, brightest, loveliest river,\\nOf our sunny Southern clime\\nSwannanoa, well they named thee,\\nIn the mellow Indian tongue.\\nBeautiful thou art, most truly.\\nAnd right worthy to be sung.\\nWhere O graceful Swannanoa,\\nAre the warriors who of old\\n-bought thee at thy mountain\\nsources,\\nWhere thy springs are icy cold.\\nWhere the dark-browed Indian\\nmaiden,\\nWho her limbs were wont to lave\\n(Worthy bath for fairer beauty).\\nIn thy cool and limped wave\\nCrone forever from thy borders.\\nBut immortal as thy name\\nAre the red meu of the forest\\nBe thou keeper of their fame!\\nPaler races dwell beside thee\\nCelt and Saxon till thy lands,\\nWedding use uuto thy beauty\\nLinking over thee their hands.\\n19", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "MOUNTIAN FLfiWIiKS ciF lilCAl TY KAKIC. I liol.. hv Tarlu-11.", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "4i%vi\\n-\u00c2\u00bb?r--\\nThe Dickson-Mason Lumber Company. (Photo by Tarbell.)\\nThe accompanying illustration gives a view of the mill of the Dickson-Mason Lumber Company near\\nBlack Mountain, N. C.\\nThis company was established the 15th of January, 1S95, by Harvy M. Dickson, President, and William\\nT. Mason, Secretary and Treasurer. The company owns several saw mills and 34,000 acres of hard wood timber\\nland, the growth on which consists of oak, ash, poplar, chestnut, bass-wood and other varieties. Most of this\\nis virgin forest, purchased from the Indians and heretofore protected from destruction by the white man. In\\nthe mill here pictured they manufacture telegraph pins, chair and small dimension stock for the foreign trade.\\nThe Asheville office is rooms i and 2 Paragon building.", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Monument Square and Stores Adjacent.\\nThe central picture on the opposite page gives a represenlatiou of the Vauce Mouutnent recently erected\\nin the centre of the County, Court House Square, at Asheville, to the memory of the late United States Senator,\\nZebui.on H. Vanck, who was during liis life time one of the most beloved, as well as the ablest, of Nortli Car-\\nolina s distinguished sous. Previous to the beginning of his phenominal career in the Senate he was elected\\nGovernor of his native State. The monument is a simple shaft of granite, of pyramidical form, with the name\\nVance cut across its gray base.\\nIllustration No. i gives a view of one of most romantic bits of picturesque mountain mill-dams and water-\\nfalls in Western North Carolina, a few miles from .\\\\sheville.\\nIllustration No. 2 gives a view of the Window dressing of the Bon Marche, one of the leading dry goods\\nstores of Asheville. This firm makes a specialty of Fancy Goods, Knitting and Crochet Wools, Small Wares\\nAgent for Centemeri Fine Kid Gloves, Her Majesty s Corsets, and forwarding agent Old Stateu Island Dyeing\\nEstablishment;\\nIllustration No. 3 gives a view of the Asheville Hardware Company, the leading house in this line in the\\ncity. The Asheville Hardware Company use a large warehouse back of their .store, which is the nicest reposi-\\ntory for buggies, carriages, and vehicles of all descriptions, in Western North Carolina. Their stock in this\\nline is very attractive and well worth looking over.\\nIllustration No. 5 gives an interior view of Way s Pharmacy, corner East Court Square and College street.\\nVisitors will find any and everything they need from the Drug Store. Prescription work a specialty. Tele-\\nphone No. 82. Day or night.", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Vance Monument and Stores Adjacent. (Photo by Tarbell.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Ashevillc Library and Stores Adjacent.\\nThe central picture, on opposite page, is a front view of tlie Asheville Library. This classic little structure\\ncontains a most excellent collection of standard works of fiction, reference books, besides all of the best of tlie\\nlight literature of the day, magazines, periodicals, etc. It is a pleasant place in which to pass an idle forenoon.\\nIllustration No. i gives a picture of the exterior of Bainbridge s Book Store. All the newest books ami fin-\\nest stationer} can be found at Bainbridge s, i8 South Main street.\\nIllustration No. 2 gives a view of the windows and entrance to Whitlock s Clothing, Tailoring and Furnish-\\ning Goods Kstablishment, next Opera House. The leading concern of this character in Asheville.\\nIllustration No. 4 gives an exterior view of the Asheville Steam Laundry. This concern is equipped to do\\nthe best class of laundry work in the most approved manner. Ladies lelicate fabrics handled with extra at-\\ntention.\\nIllustration No. 5 gives a view of the residence of one of Asheville s Leading House Builders, Mr. O. D.\\nRevell. He also has houses to rent of all sizes flats and apartments. If you call upon him he can give\\nhouses and apartments from $12.50 to |i. 50 per mouth, either furnished or unfurnished. .4.pply to O. D. Revell,\\n24", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "M\\nLIIiRARY AND OTHER KUILDINGS. .i luitii by TarbcU.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "Asheville Postoffice and Adjacent Stores.\\nThe central picture here given is an excellent view of the Asheville Postoffice and Federal Court building.\\nIt is a solid structure of red brick and granite, imposing in its effect. It is situated at the corner of Patton .Av-\\nenue and Haywood Street, in the most convenient spot imaginable for visitors to get their mail, as it the com-\\nmencement of the most popular retail shopping district in the city, and directly on the car lines.\\nIllustration No. i gives a view of the spacious front windows of H. Redwood Co. s Dry Goods Store.\\nThis is one of Asheville s oldest and most reliable business houses. They carry a full Hue of Dress Goods to\\nsuit the season, all articles of Ladies Wear, Gloves, Hosiery, Corsets, Small Wares, also Men s and Boy s\\nClothing,\\nIllustration No. 2 gives a view of the window of B. H. Cosby s Jewelr3- Store. This business was estab-\\nlished in 1S55. At Cosby s you can get the finest class of watch and jewelry repair work done, and will always\\nfind an elegant assortment of souvenirs and jewelry of all kinds. Agent Eastman s Kodaks and supplies.\\nIllustration No. 4 gives a view of the front of Allen s Fruit and Confectionery Store opposite Postoffice. All\\nthe leading papers, periodicals, and the best fruits can be obtaineil here by visitors.\\nIllustration No. 5 gives an excellent view of the interior of the Paragon Pharmacy of .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\sheville, said to be\\nthe handsomest iJrui: .Store in the South.\\nASHEVILLE PRINTING COMPANY.\\nThe Souvenir of the Land of the Sky was printed by the .\\\\slieville Printing Company, 4 North Court\\nSquare, and is a fair sample of the kind of work they are prepared to turn out. Mr. Geo. L. Hackney is the\\nManager of this company and will be glad to confer with any one desiring high class work.\\n2^", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "POST OFFICE AND STOKES ADJACENT. ,Pli\u00e2\u0080\u009el,, b Tarbell.]", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Leading Officials.\\nThe group on the opposite page gives the likenesses of some of the leading officials of the Lanrl of the Sky.\\nIn the left hand upper corner is the best picture ever taken of the late Senator Z. 15. Vance. lu the right hand\\nupper corner his successor, Senator J. C. Pritchard. Between them Clerk C. B. Moore, of the U. S. Court. The\\nsmall picture is Congressman Richmond Pearson-, uncle of Richmond Pearson Hobson. Then conies Postmaster\\nW. W. Rollins of Asheville, in the lower left hand corner Judge H. G. Ewart, of U. S. District Court, in the\\nright hand corner, and the Chief of the .\\\\sheville Police force, J. A. Lyerly, between tliem iu full uniform.\\nCANDY KITCHEN.\\nThe Candy-Kitchen, of L. M. Theobold, at 28 Patton Avenue, is the most attractively arranged and best\\nconducted establishment of the kind in North Carolina. The originality and taste displayed in dressing the\\nhandsome windows is carried out in the preparation of all the confections manufactured. Down to the smallest\\ndetail of bon-bon boxes, oyster pails, and ice cream shapes, everything i.s of the very best design. Mr. Theo-\\nbold conducts his business in a manner that has brought him the very best class of custom in Asheville, and\\nthe transient tourist always remembers with pleasure that exquisite bazaar where we bought the bon-bons. A\\nhandsome soda fountain is of course a feature of the bon-bon store, where soft beverages are served to suit the\\nseason. In the rear of the confection department there is a daintily appointed ice cream parlor, where one can\\nalso obtain oysters in any style, and a light lunch during the midday shopping hours. This is a favorite meet-\\ning place for ladies winter and summer. And is growing in popularity year by year. During the winter season\\na hot cup of chocolate takes the social position occupied by the effervescent soda during the heated term, and a\\nhalf dozen oysters that of the dish of ice cream. Mr. Theobold is a native of Richmond, Ind., and has b-en\\nengaged in business at Asheville for a little over three years with gratifying success. He manufactures his own\\ncandies and is truly artistic in the cieation of bon-bons, chocolates and nut candies. Personally he is a pleasant\\nbusiness man, who makes friends readily and keeps them. He has won the good will of the public during his\\nthree years stay at Asheville. And is personally known to a vast army of distinguished globe trotters, and\\nlocal American tourists.\\n28", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "LEAlUXi; OFFICIALS i)F LAND OF THE SKY. il liol,. l.y TaibtU.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "Forest Hill\\nFoRKST Hil.l,. (Photo by Tarbell.)\\nanil Victoria Lodge (one mile\\nfrom Court House Scjuare) are\\nbeautifully eituated in an oak and\\npine grove containing 2S acres.\\nExtensive view are obtained of\\nthe Swatiuanoa and Hickory Nut\\nGaps, Kenilworth Park and Bill-\\nmore.\\nPoorest Hill is CoUonial in arch-\\nitecture, with long galleries, large\\nrooms opening on liroaii halls, fire\\nplaces (or furnace heat in winter)\\nand fine sanitary conditions.\\nMalvern Terrace is located ou a\\ncommanding eminence at the\\nsouthern limit of tlu city of Ashe-\\nville, overlooking the entire west-\\nern range of the .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\lleghanies.\\nWyckoff Hall, a modern house,\\nwith all conveniences, is located iu\\nthe city. It is surrounded by large\\nshade trees and beautiful lawns,\\nand accessible to Postoflice, Opera\\nHouse, Battery Park Hotel, all\\ncar lines and the golf links of the\\nCountry Club. For further partic-\\nulars address Miss V.m Ghn,\\nBox 683, Asheville, N. C.\\n30", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "ASHEVILLE Cow.ECE FOR YouNG WOMEN. (Photo by Tarbell.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Asheville College for Young Women.\\nAnioug the prominent insliUitions in North Carolina is the Asheville Collej;e (or Young Women, the out-\\ngrowth of the Dickenson Seminary and the AsherHle Female College. A. A. Jones pui chased the properly a\\nyear go aud has had it remodeled and considerably improved. It has, under his management, taken a position\\nin the very first rank of the educational institutions of the State, aud has attracted students from tv^-enty-three\\nslates and three foreign countries. The ample college gronnds are picturesque and beautiful. CSee illustra-\\ntion.) The buildings and etiuipments are valued at $So,ood, and furnish a comfortable home for the students.\\nThe College faculty of sixteen members have been drawn from leading colleges and iinversities in all parts of\\nthe United States, thus insuring breadth of thought as well as thorough scholarship. The students in botauy\\nand biology, through the kindness of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt, will have access to the Biltmore Botanical\\nGardens and Vrboretum of 10,000 acres, situated two miles from the College. The College offers a preparatory\\ncourse to the best colleges; a course leading to degrees Seminary courses, aud thorough courses in music,\\nart and elocution.\\nBingham School.\\nEstablished in 1793, located near Asheville since 1S91, is the oldest institution of learning of any grade in the\\nSouth. The T. S. Government s Bureau of Education iu Washington, the highest possible authority on such a\\nsubject, saj-s TheBiugham School stands pre-eminent anu^ng South schools for boys, aud ranks with the\\nbest in the Union. It is the oldest and the most successful male boarding school (or secondary instruction in\\nthe South. It has reached the greatest efficiency under the present Superiuteudent, Major Robert\\nBingham., Bingham School has the highest testimonial fioui the Uniteil States government and its oflicials\\nfrom the executive, judicial and military departments of the State o( North Carolina Irom presidents of uni-\\nversities from prominent physicians and from other distinguished men. Seventeen States of the Union, aud\\nMexico were represented la~t year. Thirty-five States and Cmmtries in the Western and six in the Eastern\\nHemisphere have been represented in twenty years. Its buildings have been pronounced by more than seven-\\nty. five medical experts the most sanitary iu the I nited States, and they are the safest against tire. The organ-\\nization is militar)-. T/uited States Army officer is detailed. The military work of this school has received the\\nhighest endorsement from the War Department. The courses of study are Ivnglish, Mathematical, Classical,\\nScientific, Commercial and Military. The school has accommoilatians for 120 pupils. It had 119 during the\\npast year. Asheville is the mo.st famous all-the-year-round health resort in the United States. For catalogue,\\ngiving very full particulars, address Maj. R. Binc,h.\\\\m, Superintendent, .Xsheville, N. C.\\n32", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Bingham School View from Parade Ground. (Photo by Tarbell.)", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "The Land of the Sky, The Charms of Asheville, Biltmore and Hot Springs.\\nThere are no more beautiful or delectable resorts in America, all times of the year, than AsheviUe and Bilt-\\nmcre situated upon the lofty crests of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Western North Carolina, in the fabled\\nLand of the Sky Ever since the charms of this wonderful and most facinating region became known to\\nthe traveling public, it has been the Mecca of all who love to dwell in the choice abodes of nature. And nature\\nhas indeed been exceedingly generous in the bestowal of her gifts in respect to the Land of the Sky Never\\nwas a country blessed with a more salubrous or equable climate never was a country invested with such lovely,\\nromantic and chaste scenerv, as this marvelous region of the Southland. Sweeping with the eyes the vast ex-\\npanse of nature on every hand, the grandeur of the creation-of the growth and embel.shment of cosmic life,\\nup and unfolds before the enraptured vision with imperial splendor, displaying scenes of the rarest virtue\\nrises\\nand enchantment. The coast people have long been devoted to AsheviUe, Flat Rock, Waynesville and all this\\np^rt of the country. There is a tonic in the air and water which puts new life into them because it puts new\\nblood in their yeins, a brighter color in their eyes, a ruddy glow or healthy brown on their cheeks. They are\\ninvariably the first to come and the last to leave.\\nThrough the mountain ranges of the Land of the Sky, the devious course of the beautiful iMenc-h Broad\\nriver marks a succession of glorious vistas of cosmic life. The high-walled canons, or the treeclad peaks\\nstanding sentinel on either hand, form a wonderful setting to this sparkling river as it flows onward toward\\nt Vl f^ carl\\nA.sheville is an enterpising citv, nestling amid the imperial ranges that mark the Land of the Sky, and\\nhas all the inlicia of a live and progressive municipality. It is distinctly a resort city, and is graced with nu-\\nmerous palatial villas, tasteful cottages, and grand hotels. Its streets are romantic, tree-shaded drives wind-\\ning about in the most picturesque fashion, and in the pretty parks adjacent are the handsome homes of the fay-\\nored inhabitants.\\nThe climate is singularly pure, dry and bracing, and possesses to a remarkable degree the qualities which\\ntend to promote health and pleasure. The number of clear days is very high for the average year. In winter\\nthe climate is very mild, yet extremely bracing. In summer the charm of out-door life is inexpressible. Tue\\n34", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "air is warm and genial, yet not oppressive, on account of dryness, and the nights are delightfully cool and con-\\nducive to restfuluess and sweet repose.\\nThe great resort hotel at Asheville is the Battery Park a magnificent home which exemplifies the highest\\ndegree of luxury and good taste. No words of commendation are needed for this tamous house, standing\\nproudly upon a noble eminence, of its sumptuous furnishings, or of its peerless cuisine or service. The fame\\nof the house is world wide.\\nA great factor in Asheville s growth is the Southern Railway s excellent train service and convenient\\nschedules.\\nHot Springs is a charming plane in the midst of a vast wilderness, not far from Asheville, and surrounded\\nby the most beautiful peaks, is the little city of Hot Springs. There is the Mountain Park hotel, a charming\\nhome for the health or pleasure seeker, and a most excellent sanitarium, where the waters of the wonderful\\nthermal springs are administered with the most excellent results.\\nThe route is by the Southern Railway, with splendidly arranged, magnificently appointed through car\\nservice. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between New York, Washington and Nashville, through the\\nLand of the Sky, Knoxville and Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, the scene of The Battle above the\\nClouds. Also between Salisbury (^with connection from New York, Washington and Virginia) and Memphis,\\nthrough Asheville, Hot Springs, Knoxville and Chattanooga. This train carries Pullmau s finest drawing-\\nroom buffet sleeping cars and elegant vestibuled day coaches between Salisbury and Memphis. Pullmau\\ndrawing-room sleeping cars are also operated between Jacksonville and Cincinnati through Savannah, Colum-\\nbia, Spartanburg, Asheville, Knoxville and Harriman Junction.\\nAdvertising matter ol the Southern Railway, the great scenic route of the South, can be had upon applica-\\ntiou to the General Passenger Agent, or any agent of this company, or representative of the Passenger Depart-\\nment.\\n35", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "SR\\nSOUTHERN RAILWAY,\\njt THE STANDARD RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH -M\\nTHE DIRECT IJNK TO ALL POINTS\\nTHE LAND OF THE SKY,\\nTEXAS,\\nCALIFORNIA,\\nFLORIDA,\\nMEXICO, CUBA. PORTO RICO.\\nstrictly First Class Kqiiipinent on all Tlir^Mi.: I liii-\\ntuaii Pakico Sleepiiif, Cars on all nigrht trains; Fast .1,,., -v u.,^. i j .im*i hy\\ntilt Southern and yon .iro assured a safe, comfortable atul expeditious journey.\\nApply to ticket atrents for time tables, rates and {general information, or address\\nK. I.. VKKNON. T. I A., F. K. UAKI5Y. C. I\u00c2\u00bb. T. A.,\\nCharlotte. N. C.\\nFK.ANK S. IIAN NOX,\\n3d V. 1 A: Cen. Man.\\n36-\\nJ. M. CULP,\\nTraf. Man.\\nWA.SHINtlTON, U. C.\\nAsheyille. N. C.\\nW. A. TURK.\\nG. P. A.", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HOTEL BERKELEY,\\nPatton Avenue, Corner of Lexington,\\nASHEVILLE, N, C,\\nI EQUALLY DESIRABLE FOR TOURIST AND COMMERCIAL TRADE.\\nr ^^HE BERKELEY is located in the business cen- /T HOTEL is up to date in atlits appointments.\\nwj ire, tvithin one block of the Post Office and WJ The house has been remodeted and. re furnished\\nJ0 Court House, and cotFoenient to all the lead- throughout; has steam heat and electric lights\\ning stores, churches, etc. Electric cars pass in e oery room. The Berkeley has all the com-\\nthe door. forts of a modem home.\\nCUISINE AND APPOINTHENTS UNSURPASSED,\\nRATES: FRANK LOUQHRAN,\\n$2.00 TO $3.00 PER Day. Proprietor.", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Engravings from Photos by\\nJOHN H. TARBELL,\\n95 College Street.", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1583", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "1}\\n7f\u00c2\u00abT\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab\\nrr^)^\\nS\\n#-Ski,;\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 423 550 2\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0K -A\\n..-.ML..", "height": "1594", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "souvenirdirector00bark_0046.jp2"}}