{"1": {"fulltext": "#\u00e2\u0080\u00a21", "height": "3890", "width": "2293", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Glass __^\u00c2\u00a3jSu$_2__", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "V\\nTHE =;?5:5\\nmltm\\nn\\n,\u00c2\u00bb,l!t\\nmt\\nlit*\\njigifiiaiii\\nrrlfM^^\\nI N\\nWEBwmmM Mqmtm \u00e2\u0082\u00ac^M MMm,\\nSuperior Fruit, Farming and Grazing Lands-\\nGrand and Beautiful Scenery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pure\\nAir and Pure Water.\\nJ^V BETTER CLIMATE IjY THE WORLD\\nFOR\\nAND\\nm ClIMAK OR COUNTRY THAT ERDfGS SURER RETURNS!\\n1 O THE\\nnmi\\\\ FRUIT mm\\\\ or stock raiser\\nNo Grasshoppers, Chinch Bugs^ Can-\\nker Worms or Musquitoes\\nT O\\nDESTROY CROPS OR PERSONAL COMFORT.\\nGEEENVILLE, S. C.\\nDAILY NEWS, F..A3IPHLET AND LAW f^KESS\\n1876.", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "THE BL UE RIDGE HIGHLAJ^DS\\nIN\\nWe^tei^il }[on\\\\ Ciki olii^k.\\n^t\\nThe Blue Ridge Highlands,\\nAs Dr. Gatchell has aptly expressed it, projects like a promontory\\nVinto the planting region of the South, quite across the 35th parallel of\\nlatitude, below which it gradually sinks into the low country of South\\nCarolina and Georgia. Near the southwestern extremity of this\\nproniontory, in Macon and Jackson counties, North Carolina is the\\ncrteD.Hivo plateau, or high undulating country, described in this\\ncircuJar. It embraces an area of about 200,000 acres in the twocoun-\\nties named, having an elevation of about 4,000 feet above tide water.\\nThe Climate\\nis not exceUed, if, indeed, it is equaled, in the United States, for\\nH:ealth and comfort, while it is admirably adapted to general\\neral farming, fruit growing and stock raising. The atmosphere is light\\nand clear and pure. There is no fog except in cloudy weather the\\nsun always shining out as bright when it rises above the horizon as at\\n\u00c2\u00bbnoonday. Yet we have regular showers during the summer season,\\n-and a drouth to materially injure crops never occurs. The terapera-\\nUure is seldom above eighty in summer or below ten in winter, and has\\nnot been known to go above ninety or below zero. The snow fall is\\nvery light, only a few inches at most, and some winters none. The\\nground is rarely frozen more than two or three inches deep and but\\nfew days at a time. We have a remarkable absence of winds.\\nShowers usually come up with barely enough breeze to rustle the\\nleaves in the tree tops, and tall trees stand for years with trunks so\\nnearly burned or rotted off that they seem hardly able to sustain their\\nown weight. The elevation accounts for our cool summers and clear,\\npure atmosphere. Our mild winters are attributable to our southern\\nlatitude, nearness to the sea coast and to being generally surrounded\\nby a low warm country, while the main chain of the AUeghenies\\nbreaks the cold storms from the north and west of us, so that they do\\nnot reach us with the same force and intensity that they have in the\\nsame latitude west of the Allegheny range.\\nHealth.\\nOur pure light atmosphere, even temperature and pure water give\\nhealth and vigor, and produce a hardy, long-lived race of people, such\\nas can hardly be found elsewhere. Consumption, ague, yellow fever,", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS. 3\\nand other diseases common to low countries of the North or South\\nnever originate here, and persons who come here suffering from such\\ndiseases ai;e almost invariably restored to health and vigor We quote\\nthe following li-om a ^pamphlet written by H. P. Gatchell, M.D. late\\neditor of the Department of Climatology and Hygiene of the U. S\\nMedical and Surgical Journal\\nNo other range of long settled countries can show so small a ratio of\\nmortality as those that lie at the western base of the Blue Ridge from\\nhe Virginia line to the latitude of Atlanta, and it is remarkable that\\nthere is an appreciable diminution in the ratio of mortality as we pro-\\nceed south, due perhaps, to increasing uniformity of temperature\\nXT ,1 n T n^^^^^ T^ Qg^Y^ to pulmonary diseases that Western\\niSorth Carolina aflords the greatest immunity. While out of every\\nUiousand deaths, nearly two hundred and fifty in the northern New\\n\u00c2\u00b1.ng and fetates, one hundred and fifty in Minnesota and California\\nnearly one hundred in Kentucky and Tennessee, and fifty in Florida\\nand Louisiana arc from consumption, only about thirty in the thou-\\nsand are from that cause in Western North Carolina and the neighbor-\\ning portions ot South Carolina and Georgia.\\nBut the ratio of consumption generated in a country is not a test of\\nIts relative capacity for promoting recovery when the disease is estab-\\nished The lowlands ot the South generate a much less ratio than\\nthe colder region of the North, and yet as the statistics of mortality in\\nthe army clearly show, they tend quite as much, if not more to pro-\\nmote its progress when existing. Their hot, moist atmosphere by in-\\nducing debility and fever, hastens the progress of the disease. On the\\not lier hand, the extreme cold of higher northern latitudes proves fatal\\nby exhausting the small heat producing capacity of the consumptive\\nA moderately cool and invigorating atmosphere has been found to be\\noy lar the most f;ivorable.\\nAltitude has come to be recognized as indispensable to any consid-\\nerable proportion of recoveries. It is, perhaps, as important as any\\nother conaitioii. Evidence of influence of altitude is furnished by the\\nhighlaiKls ot Peru. A large body of antartic water coming to the sur-\\nface oft the coast of Peru, lowers the temperature ten degrees or more\\nand envelopes the land during six months of the year in a chillin-\\nmist, generating a ratio of consumption unknown elsewhere in the\\nsame latitude. It is the custom of the natives suffering from this for-\\nmidable disease to resort to the Andes, and of the government to send\\nthither soldiers similarly affected, and there is testimony of competent\\nphysicians to the fact that not only most of those who are in the first\\nstage of the disease recover, but that even those that have cavities in\\ntheir lungs may be restored to comfortable health\\nAll altitude of much less than 2,000 feet in our latitude is of little\\nseiwice, and as we approach the equator a still greater one is required\\nIhese conditions meet more fully in the section specified thaninanv\\nother portion of the United States. While as a general rule as we\\napproach the tropics, consumption diminishes, the inflamatorv affec\\ntions of the pulmonary apparatus, bronchitis, pleurisy and pneumonii\\nincrease. But in this respect AVestern North Carolina is an exception\\nIts exemption from bronchitis, pleurisy and pneumonia is as marked -i\\nIt IS from consumption, affording it a decided advantage over New\\nMexico, the only region in the United States, except that of the Blue\\nKidge so far as existing data determine, with so small a ratio of deatln\\nfrom the lattor disease. But the mortality from pleur isy in New Mex-", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "4 THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS.\\nico is great, thus rendering the aggregate mortality from pulmonary\\ndiseases appreciably greater than in Western North Carolina.\\nThe people of the South have long appreciated the healthfulness of\\nthe Blue Ridge regions, and hundreds of the wealthier classes from the\\nloM^ countries of North and South Carolina and Georgia annually re-\\nsort to this country to escape the malarias of the summer season.\\nThousands more will come when they can get accommodations.\\nThe Surface of the Country\\nIs varied from smooth level lands to rocky cliffs, steep hills and moun-\\ntain peaks. One half or more is smooth and level enough for good\\nfarm lands and beautiful farms. Probably half of the balance could\\nbe cultivated, and will make good orchard and pasture land;^. The\\nremainder is mostly too rough to be of much value for agricultural\\npurposes, though much of it will furnish valuable timber and make\\ngood sheej) range.\\nThe Rocks\\nAre of a granite formation mostly quartz, feldspar and mica. Near\\nthe surface they are usually in a state of disintegration and decompo-\\nsition. The greater portion of the land is free from stone to interfere\\nwith cultivation. There is, however, plenty of excellent rock in good\\nshape and easily obtained for building purposes. The rougher por-\\ntions of the country are often rocky, and some of the hill and moun-\\ntain sides are bold cliffs of bare rock.\\nWater.\\nStrong and unfailing Springs of pure, cold, aoft water are abundant,\\ni rom these Springs flow bright sparkling rills over clean pebbly beds,\\nand uniting with others soon form large creeks, which furnish excellent\\nand regular water powers, and an ample supply of the purest of water\\nfor all purposes. The speckled trout are very abundant in all these\\nstreams, and numbers of trout-ponds could be made at very little\\nexpense.\\nTimber\\nOf the most valuable kinds for building, manufacturing, fencing and\\nfuel is plentiful. The trees are usually of moderate size, but large\\nenough for good sawing timber. They are mostly of good straight\\ngrowth, and the grain is straight, free and easily Avorked. In some\\nlocalities protected from the annual fires, which are put out to burn\\noff the undergrowth for the benefit of the stock range\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the trees grow\\nto an immense size. The following varieties of trees are found upon\\nthe Highlands. Those placed first in the list are most abundant. Oak\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u0094several varieties, Chesnut, Hickory, Tulip Tree or Poplar, White\\nPine, Sassafras, Black Gum, Black Locust, Hemlock Spruce Pine of\\nthe South Red Maple, Service tree. Magnolia, Table Mountain Pine,\\nYellow Pine, Flowering Dogwood, Black Cherry, Bird Cherry, Black\\nBirch, Yellow Birch, Mountain xYsh, Crabtree, Willow, Silver Bell,\\nPersimmon, Holley, Beech, Linn or Baswood, Red Cedar, White\\nAsh, Buckeye. The most common\\nShrubs\\nAre Rhododendrons, Kalmias, Azaleas, Clethra, Huckleberry, Haw\\nAlder, Sumac, Witch Hazel, Calycanthus, Flowering Locust,", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS. 5\\nThe Soil\\nIs generally fertile, fully as good as the average farm mih of tlie mid-\\ndle aijd eastern States. It varies from sandy to clay loam, is mellow,\\nusually Iree from stone and easily worked. There are extensive beds\\nof muck and other fertilizmg material to enricli the boil when wanted.\\nProductions.\\nThe crops best suited to our soil and climate are such as are adapted\\nto the northern States. Fair crops of corn are raised of the northern\\nvarieties. Wheat is not mucli grown, but generally produces well\\nRye and Oats do well. All kinds of vegetables that grow in the North\\nproduce large crops of excellen t quality. For Irish Potatoes Cab-\\nbages and Turnips no country can beat it in quantity or quality The\\ngrasses grow well, produce good ciops of hav and furnish good qreen\\npasturage nearl)^ the whole year.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2For Fruit Growing,\\nEspecially for Apples, this country has no superior. Apples from the\\nmountain districts of Western North Carolina are highly prized in the\\nsouthern markets, and for size, flavor, beauty and keeping qualities are\\nsuperior to those brought from the north. The trees are healthy, long\\nlived and rarely fail to produce heavy crops of fruit annually\\nThere are apple trees on the Sugar Fork river, a few^ miles from us*\\nthat are said to be fifty years old, with stems 7 to 8 feet in circumfer-\\nence and still vigorous and bearing heavy annual crops of tine, fair\\nfruit. Pears have not been much grown, but have usually produced\\nwell wherever they have had a chance. Plums, Cherries and small\\nfruits all grow well. Peaches and Grapes produce good and regular\\ncrops, but upon our highest table lands the quality is not as good as\\nupon the southern slope of the Blue Ridge, where they grow in their\\ngrow in their greatest perfection, and there are orchards and vineyards\\nthat have not failed to produce a good crop every year for twenty to\\nthirty years. The late Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, once said\\nWere I young again, on the slopes of tlie Blue Ridge, I would plant\\nthe vine and make my fortune.\\nFor Stock Raising\\nThis section of country is not excelled by any portion of tlie United\\nStates. The Summers are so cool that the gra s never burns or dries\\nup in the Summer season, and the Winters are so mild that vdth the\\ntime grasses we may have green pastures that will keep stock almost\\nthe entire Winter. It will cost but little to provide hay and other\\nfeed to take them through any cold spells or light snows that would\\nhinder grazing. Stock need no warm stable.^ here as in the north, but\\nshould have access to open sheds for falling weather.\\nSheep Raising\\nIs much more pleasant and protitable here than at the north. Sheep\\nare remarkably healthy and prolific, and with care in providing pas-\\ntures, will usually do well the entire year without other feed, though\\nit would be best always to have a supply of hay, turnips, etc., to feed\\nduring cold spell? and to fatten for market.\\nDairying.\\nOur cheap and excellent grazing, cool summers and mild winters\\nand lountiful supply of pure, cold, soft, Spring water, offer unsurpassed", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6 THE BLUE KIDGE HIGHLANIiRi.\\nif not unequaled facilities for butter and cheese making. Butter made\\nhere by those who understand it, is not excelled by the famous Orange\\ncounty butter of New York.\\nBees\\nDo well and store a large amount of hone} of tlie yer} best quality.\\nWhite clover comes in whenever the land is opened to tlie sun, so it\\nis not likely that the destruction of the wild llowers by clearing will\\nmaterially lessen the honey-making capacity of tlie country.\\nMarkets.\\nThe facilities for n^arketing our produce are good. We are in the\\nlieart of the great cotton country of the south, about 250 miles from\\nthe sea coast at Charleston, Port Poyal or Savannah, and within easy\\nreach of all the great cities and populous districts of the southern\\nstates. But a limited .portion of the south grows successfully the crops\\nthat are produced here. For the balance of their supplies they depend\\nlargely upon the north. And having the advantage tof freights in our\\nfavor, we find ready cash sale for our surplus at remunerative prices.\\nRailroads.\\nOur nearest Eailroad point is Walhalla, South Carolina, tlie present\\nterminus of the Blue Ridge Railroad, thirty miles south of the High-\\nlands. The Blue Ridge Railroad is soon to be completed via Rabun\\nGap and Franklin to Knoxville, Tennessee, and we shall then be but\\nten to fourteen miles from a Railroad station. This road via Rabun\\nGap will connect with the whole Railroad system of the south and\\nthe north-west, thus offering good railroad facilities.\\nWagon Roads.\\nAVe have passable wagon roads to Walhalla, Franklin and various\\npoints on the Highlands. Good roads can be easily and cheaply made\\nto all points on the Highlands and to the valley of the Tennessee at\\nRabun Gap or Franklin to reach the Railroad.\\nGood carriage roads of easy grade can be made at little expense to\\nthe summit of all the highest mountain penks.\\nScenery.\\nWhile Ave have here so large an area of line fertile firm lands, we\\nyet have mountain scenery that for variety, grandeur and beauty has\\nfew rivals. There are a dozen mountain peaks within a radius of as\\ninany miles, to the very summit of which one can easily and safely\\nride on horseback. From each of these peaks one gets a different view\\nof a vast extent of country from the Smoky mountains on the north to\\nthe far off low lands of South Carolina and Georgia to the southward.\\nA country clothed mostly with luxuriant forests, dotted with fertile\\nclearings, diversified with lofty peaks and beautiful valleys, steep,\\nrocky cliffs and gentle slopes. To the northward the mountains are\\nhigh, bold and picturesque, but receding in more regular and gentle\\nundulations to the southward until they finally sink into the level\\nplains of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.\\nOn the sides and almost to the very tops of these highest mountain\\npeaks are beautiful coves and dells where gigantic forest trees stand\\nguard over perrennial springs of purest, softest waters, which send their\\ncooling rills down the mountain s side. Hundreds of these brooklets", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THK BLUK RUXii: HrOHLANDS. 7\\nuniting form large creeks and even rivers on the Highlands almost\\n4,000 feet above the sea. Leaping over precipices in their course to\\nthe valley below, these mountain rivers form grand waterfalls that are\\nhardly surpassed by anything this side of Niagara or Yosemite.\\nIn these clear, cool waters the speckled trout\u00e2\u0080\u0094 so tempting to the\\nangler and the epicure\u00e2\u0080\u0094 are found in great abundance.\\nDuring the spring and summer the Khododendrons, Kalmias, Aza-\\nleas, Dogwoods, Clethra, Silver Bell, and hundreds of other varieties\\nof flowering trees, shrubs and plants of greatest beauty and fragrance,\\nare an attractive feature of the landscape.\\nAltogether, we believe there are few localities in the United States\\nwith scenery combining so many attractive features as the Blue Ridge\\nHighlands.\\nGame.\\nThere are still some deer and wild turkeys. Rabbits and squirrels\\nare plentiful. The ruffed grouse\u00e2\u0080\u0094 called here pheasant\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and the bob\\nwhite called here partridge are abundant.\\nWild Animals.\\nThere is an occasional bear and a few wolves in the wildest moun-\\ntain districts, but they seldom come near the settlements. There are\\nsome Wild Cats, but they seldom trouble domestic animals, and are\\neasily trapped or poisoned.\\nSnakes.\\nAVe have seen no poisonous snakes here, except the rattle snake, and\\nthey are not so numerous as we find them on the western prairies and\\nin some of the thickly settled districts of New York and Pennsylvania.\\nInsects\\nAre very scarce here, owing largely, as we suppose, to the great num-\\nber and variety of our birds. Musquitoes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that great pest of wooded\\ncountries generally, and low countries, everywhere are never\\nfound on these highlands. There are few flies to harm man or beast.\\nXo grasshoppers to injure the crops. No Chinch bugs, potato bugs or\\ncanker worms. There are some of the round-headed borers in neglected\\norchards, but we have examined dozens of neglected orcliards and\\nfailed to find the work of a single flat-headed borer.\\nSettlements.\\nThe country is sparsely settled by a hardy, intelligent, kind and\\nhospitable people. Their clearings are mostly small, but they usually\\nraise a supply of corn and vegetables for their families. A few farm-\\ners are clearing up good farms, starting fine orchards, raising hay and\\nstock, and making money.\\nCost of Living.\\nPeople who wish to live economically can live well on less money\\nliere tlian in any other country we have ever been in. Good plain\\nboard can be had in families at S2 00 to $3 00 per week.\\nLabor.\\nThere are no colored people here. Good white laborers can be\\nhired for fifty cents per day and board, or seventy-five cents without", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 THE BUTE RTDGE RIGHLANDS.\\nboard. Carpenters, and meclianics generally, SI .50 per day. Good\\ndome?tic help can be had for $1.00 per week.\\nBuilding Material\\nFor log houses can be had lor the cutting. Good while pine and\\npoplar lumber can be had at the mills for $1.00 per hundred feet.\\nGood stone for foundations, cellars, fireplaces, etc., are easily obtained.\\nA brick kihi has been burned for chimney s, etc,\\nPricG of Land.\\nThe price of good, unimproved liirm land is fri)m $1.50 to $3,00 per\\nacre, some few choice pieces, well located, are lield higher, and some\\nfair pieces can be bought for $1.00 per acre. Rougher lands, suitable\\nfor pasture, orcliard and wood lots, can be bouglit for 50 cents to $1.00\\nper acre. The land is mostly owned by individuals, in tracts of fifty\\nto two thousand acres, but most of it is for sale at the above named\\nprices, except the small portion already occupied by settlers, and some\\nof that will be sold with improvements at an additional price, suffi-\\ncient to pay cost of improvements. The titles have mostly been ob-\\ntained from the State and are perfect.\\nFencing.\\nThe price for splitting rails is fifty cents per 100, for hauling and\\nlaying fifty cents more, or $1,00 per 100 for rails laid up in fence. It\\ntakes about twenty rails to the rod for a good fence, making a cost of\\ntwenty cents per rod for a good rail fence. A good four-board fence\\ncan be built, with oak or chestnut posts, for fifty to sixty cents per rod.\\nClearing.\\nTo clear all the timber ofi the land would cost SC.OO to $12.00 per\\nacre, but the undergrowth can be cleared off and the large trees dead-\\nened for $1,50 to $3.00 per acre. The undergrowth can be grubbed,\\nthe large trees deadened, and the ground prepared for the plow for\\n$3.00 to $6.00 per acre. With the small growth thus cleared out and\\nthe large trees deadened, one, two or three annual crops may be grown,\\nand the ground can then be seeded in grass and used for meadows and\\npasture until the roots are well rotted out, when it will cost but little\\nto clear off the balance of the timber.\\nWill People from the North be Well Received\\nOr will it be safe for them to come South, We are often asked the\\nabove questions, and would say in reply, it depends entirely upon\\nyourself, what you come for and how you behave after you get here.\\nSince the war the South has been over-run by a lot of political .shy-\\nsters from the North, whose sole business was to get office and steal\\nthemselves rich. Unfortunately, too many have been successful, and\\ntlie people of the South have contracted a righteous hatred for that\\nclass of immigrants, and do not strive to make their sojourn in the\\ncountry pleasant or comfortable. But people coming here to engage in\\nany honest, respectable pursuit, for pleasure or profit, it matters not\\nwhat their opinion or previous condition, or where they are from\\nNorth or South, Europe, Asia or Africa if they behave themselves as\\ngood citizens should in any country, they will be as well received, as\\nkindly treated, and as safe from harm as in any spot in the wide\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2world.", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS. 9\\n**Why Has not the Blue Ridge Highlands been\\nSettled Before?\\nThis question is asked by our friends from the North. The reason\\nwhy is easily explained. The people of the South have heretofore\\ndevoted themselves, almost exclusively, to producin^^ the trrcat southern\\nstaples, cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco. Land has been plenty, and\\nthat best suited to the growth of the above named staples was, of course,\\ntaken first. And not only the Blue Ridge Highlands, but millions of\\nacres more of the best lands in the South for stock, fruit, grain and\\nvegetables, with a climate that has no superior, are to-day unoccupied.\\nThe best of these lands lie along the Blue Ridge in Western Nortli\\nCarolina, and the northern portion of South Carolina and Georgia.\\nAnd while there is probably no other section with so nuich good land\\nfor sale, lying contiguous, and so many advantages combined for a\\nfirst class settlement, yet much of what we have said of this particular\\nsection Avill apply to a large portion of the country within the above\\nnamed range. The writer is a native of Western Kew York, has lived\\nfive years in Illinois and ten yesrs in Kansas, engaged in agricultural\\nand horticultural pursuits, has traveled over most of the Northern and\\na considerable portion of the Southern States, has studied as carefully\\nas possible the advantages of the different sections, and has located\\nhere for a home, satisfied that no other section of the United States\\nnow offers so many advantages for settlement, for the ftirmer, the fruit\\ngrower, the stock raiser, and others seeking rural homes for health,\\ncomfort and prosperity, as these beautiful table lands and sunny slopes\\nof the Blue Ridge.\\nThe Town of Highlands.\\nWe are laying out the town of Highlands as a convenience for our\\nsettlement. It is not the intention to try to make it a commercial toiv!\\nbut a center for the surrounding country, where Avill be located our\\nPost Office, Stores, Shops, School House, Churches, Hotels, c. It is\\nsituated on a beautiful undulating sits on the main Franklin and Wal-\\nhalla road, 20 miles south east of Franklin and 30 miles north of\\nWalhalla. It occupies a central position on the Highlands, and a point\\nfrom which good carriage roads can easily be made to reach all point?\\non the Highlands, and all of the grandest scenery of the surrounding\\ncountry. It is near the base of Stuley mountain, one of the grandest\\npeaks of the Blue Ridge range From the center of the town site, it is\\nabout 1^ miles south-east to the top cf Stuley, 2;r miles south-east to\\nFodderstack, 2 miles east to Black Rock, U miles north-east to\\nWhiteside, 3 miles north to Short Off 6 miles north to Ycllow\\nMountain, 4 miles north-west to the Dry Fall on the Sugar Fork.\\nThere are on the town site a goodly number of unfailing springs and\\nstreams of pure cold Avater. The largest stream Mill Creek has a\\nfall which furnishes a good water poAver for mills and machinery.\\nSmall lots will be laid out in the centre of town for business pur-\\nposes, the balance in 2 j acre and larger lots for residences for those who\\nmay wish to spend their summers here, or live near the school, church,\\npost office, c. These lots Avill be sold to actual settlers at very low\\nrates, as we desire to have it occupied by good citizens.\\nThere are two small saw and grist mills near town, and we expect\\nto have one built on the town site the coming season. We have a\\ncountry store and post office, and will soon have a hotel and other con-\\nveniences. It is our purpose to build up a first-class school, and have\\nall the facilities for improvement, and social and religious privilege.?,\\nthat are found in the best neighborhoods of the North or South.", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS.\\nHow to Come.\\nPersons coming from the Northwest, West, or Southwest, should\\ncome to Atlanta, Georgia, thence via Atlanta Richmond Air Line\\nRailroad to Seneca City. From the East and Northeast come to Rich-\\nmond, and thence via A. R. A. L. R R. to Seneca City, or come by\\nfiteamer to Charleston, and thence by the South Carolina Railroad to\\nWalhalla. Persons arriving at Seneca City can call on A. W. Thomp-\\nson, livery stable, and get conveyance to the Highlands at the follow-\\ning rates One person, $8.00 two, $10.00; three or more, $4.00 each.\\nFifty pounds of baggage alio \u00c2\u00bbved with each passenger. Or take the\\ncars to Walhalla, nine miles nearer, and there call on W. A. Adding-\\nton Co., livery stable, where they will get conveyance to the High-\\nlands at the following rates One person, $7.00 two persons, 68.00\\nthre or more, $3.00 each.\\nMost of the people who arc locating here are from tlie North, but\\ngood citizens are welcomed from any part of the country.\\nFor further information, address,\\nS. T. KELSEY,\\nHighlands, Macon County, N. C.\\nf\u00c2\u00bb i\\nLetter from General Clingman.\\nNew York, .Tune 12, 1867.\\nTo Wr,i. Frazier, Esq., President of the Aincriean Agricultural and Miner-\\nal Land Company, New York\\nDear Sir The short period during which I expect to remain in\\nthis city, and the pressure of business engagements, will prevent my\\nreplying at length to your inquires in relation to the wes tern part of\\nNorth Carolina.\\nFor a great many years I have resided on the west side of the Blue\\nRidge, the range of mountains which divides the waters falling into\\nthe Atlantic from those descending to the Missisippi River, Having\\nfor more tlian sixteen years been a Representative or Senator in Con-\\ngress from that region, I used in my canvasses to visit every part of it.\\nI have also ascended the principal mountains for the purpose of meas-\\nuring or observing them, while my fondness for geology and mineralogy\\nhas carried me into almost every valley. My general acquaintance,\\ntherefore, with this entire region, probably exceeds that of any other\\nperson.\\nIt may be regarded as an elevated table-land of more than two hun-\\ndred miles in length, with an average breadth of fift}^ miles, and is\\ncrossed in different directions bj manj mountain chains. The height\\nof the lower valleys may be stated as ranging from two thousand to\\ntwenty-five hundred feet above the level of the sea, while the principal\\nmountain chains rise four thousand feet higher. This elevation, not-\\nwithstanding its southern latitude, gives it a delightful summer cli-\\nmate.\\nMr. Wm, McDowell, who made observations for the Smithsonian\\nInstitute, at Asheville, for several years, informed me that the ther-\\nmometer during the warmest summer weather did not rise above eighty-\\ntwo degrees Fahrenheit. Even the climate of Switzerland is not equal\\nto that of this region not only at Geneva, but in the high valley of\\nChamouny, I once found hotter weather than I ever experienced in\\nthis section while there, one is occasionally chilled in mid-summer by", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS. 11\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cold blasts from the masses of snow on the higher Alp?. In western\\nNorth Carolina, none of the mountains are high enough to bear snow\\nin summer, yet the region is sufficiently elevated to afford a climate\\nwhich is cool, dry, bracing and exceedingly exhilerating. No country\\nis more healthy, being alike free from the diseases of miasmatic regions,\\nas well as those common in rigorous or damp climates.\\nWhat especially distinguishes this section from all other mountain\\nregions that I have seen, is the general fertility of its soil. This is true\\nnot only with reference to its valleys, but also of its mountains. Their\\naides and even tops aro generally covered with a thick vegetable mould,\\non which the largest trees and grasses grow luxuriantly. At an eleva-\\ntion of five thousand feet above the ocean, the grasses and weeds are so\\nrank as to remind one of the swampy lands of the lower regions. On\\nthe tops, and for a considerable distance down the aides of the higher\\nchains, there are several varieties of evergreen or winter grass, a\u00c2\u00ab\\nthey are generally called there. These are so nutritious that cattle are\\nkept in good condition on them all the winter. A friend of mine before\\nthe war kept four or five hundred horned cattle on one of these moun-\\ntains, and with the exception that they were supplied with salt occa-\\nsionally, they subsisted entirely, both in summer and winter, on those\\ngrasses. The older cattle, he assured me, soon learned to understand\\nthe effect of the seasons, and without being driven, they led the herds,\\nin the spring, down sides of the mountains to obtain the young grasses\\nthat came up with the warm weather, and when these were destroyed\\nby the autumn frosts they returned to the tops to get the evergreen veg-\\netation, and found shelter under the spreading branches of the balsam\\nfir trees in stormy weather. I have seen in Play wood county a five\\nyear old horse that was said to have been foaled and reared entirely on\\nthe top of Balsam Mountain, and was then for the first time brought\\ndown to see cultivated land and eat food grown by the hand of man.\\nWhere the lands in this part of the State are placed under proper\\ncultivation, they produce abundantly. On choice spots, more than one\\nhundred bushels to the acre of Indian corn has frequently been obtain-\\ned, and this valuable grain is everywhere produced in sufficient quan-\\ntity. Wheat, also, does well, while oats, rye and barley are particular-\\nly good. It is especially suited to the production of grasses, timothy,\\norchard and herds grass, or red top being usually preferred. Clover and\\nblue grass grow well, but are not so good as in some counties having\\nmore lime in the soil. Last summer I went with Mr N W Woodfin over a\\nmountain farm of his the land of which had originally cost him less\\nthan one dollar per acre. It had been cleared by cutting out the under-\\ngrowth, and girdling the large timber so as to deaden it, and then put\\nin grass, nearly t^venty years previously. It was covered over with\\na thick growth of timothy and orchard grass, much of which appeared\\nas thick and as tall as a fair wheat field. In someplaces we found both\\nof these grasses rising high enough, as we sat on our horses, for us to\\ntake the top of the stalks growing on each side, and cause them to meet\\nabove the withers of our horses. I never, in fact, saw better grass any-\\nwhere than grew generally over this entire tract of twelve hundred\\nacres.\\nIrish potatoes, cabbages and turnips are grown in the greatest quan-\\ntities, while no country excels this for fruits. Its apples, both in size\\nand flavor, excel those that I have seen in any other part of the world;,\\nwhile peaches, pears and grapes grow^abundantly. Besides the Catawba\\nthere are a great many other native grapes. One gentleman thinlcs he\\nhas obtained a hundred varieties of native grapes, some of which he\\nconsiders superior to the Catawba. That this country is admirably\\nadapted to the production of grapes and wine there can be no question.", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 THE BLUE RIDGE HH^IILAXDS.\\nThe fact that varieties oi grapes can be Kclected, iiiat ripen at dilierent\\nperiods of the autumn, will make the vintage longer tiian it is in Eu-\\nrope, and tluis increase the amount of wine made. All kinds of live\\nstock thrive in the country, though horses and liorned cattle have been\\nmore generally raised, because tliey require less care from the farmer.\\nSheep are very healthy, and grow Avell everywhere. As large sheep\\nas I ever saw were some that were suliered to run in the woods, both in\\nsummer and winter, without being fed. Mr. \\\\Voodfin also stated to me,\\nihii} lie could, from the stock of his farm above alluded to, at all peri-\\nods of the winter obtain good mutton and beef from the animals that\\nwere subsisted on the grass. P^ven when sheep are to be kept in large\\nnumbers, it is certain that they would do with half the feeding they re-\\nquire during the long winters in New England, Snow seldom remains\\nmany days at a time, even on the mountain tops in North Carolina\\nand when the grass is good, little is required in the form of hay or\\nother food for the stock.\\nThe minerals of this region have hitherto been turned to very little\\naccount. There are some narrow belts of marble and lime-stone which\\nfurnish a sufficiency of lime for use, and from which good marble can\\nbe procured at certain points. The different ores of iron, of the best\\nqualities, exist in great abundance in many places, and from them su-\\nperior iron can be made. Large and promising veins of copper have\\nbeen cut in several localities in Jackson county, and surface indications\\nleave little doubt but that similar deposits will be found in other countieK.\\nGold has been profitably mined in the counties of Jackson, Macon and\\nCherokee, but less extensively than in the section east of the Blue\\nRidge. It is quite probable that good veins of this metal will, in time,\\nbe opened, and there is encouragement to search for lead and silver at\\nseveral points. The barytes and clirome ores can be brought into use\\nwhen tlie railroads are finished that have been provided for by the\\nState. Though coal does not exist, its want will not be experienced for\\na long period, as the immense forests will supply fuel for a great num-\\nber of years, a,nd long before they can become exhausted, railroads\\nwill permeate all parts of the district, and will bring in supplies of this\\nvaluable mineral from localities not far distant.\\nThe country is everywhere intersected by bold and rapid streams,,\\nand the supply therefore, of water power, is beyond Jiny demand that\\ncan ever exi-t for it. These streams, from the elevated valleys in which\\nthey are fii i collected, has a descent of not less than one thousand feet\\nbefore the} i-scape into the State of Tennessee, and present at various\\npoints ther* iore, rapids and falls where the water can be conveniently\\nused for manufacturing purposes.\\nThough this region lacks the boldness and grandeur of the Alps, this\\ndeficiency is more than balanced by tlie fact that every part of it is\\nsusceptible of settlement and cultivation. The fact that the mountains\\nas well as the valleys are covered by a luxuriant vegetation, gives to\\nthem a green and inviting appearance which renders many of the scenes\\npeculiarly attractive to the beholder. The present population, though\\nsparse, is quiet, industrious, intelligent and moral the negroes there not\\nbeing numerous enough to constitute an important element in the whole\\nsociety. I know of no country more inviting to industrious emigrants,\\nwhen one considers its excellent climate, Avater and soil, its mining and\\nmanufacturing resources, and its cheap lands and good population.\\nVery truly yours, T. L. CLINGMAN.\\nWe have arrangements by which parties from the Northeast can get\\ntickets at reduced rates to Seneca Citv, by calling at the office of\\nTILLMAN R. GAINES, 29 Broadway N. Y., 3d fioor, room E, and\\nstating that they wish to come to the Highlands.", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3797", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": ".^f^\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 417 898 1\\n,^vi\\n11:21\\nfit fl^C\\nC\\nm\\nr^\\nI Df-E- **u", "height": "3843", "width": "2278", "jp2-path": "blueridgehighlan00kels_0020.jp2"}}