The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-08
A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS.
Editor anderson mtclHgcncer:


On the morning of the 22d ult. I lcf
Anderson, in company with few others
for the mountains. We were we'll equip
ped for the trip, and went prepared tc
camp out, preferring this style of living
for the time to that o. depending upon
country hotels and boarding houses. We
took precaution to lay in full supply
of provisions, cooking utensils, bedding
firearms, ammunition, ETC., and with q
good team of mules, stout wagon with
good frame and cover, flattered ourselves
with the thought thai few had ever gone
better fitted up than we. Our objective
point was the Highlands in North Caro-
lima, and our route thither lay BY By Esr!s's
Bridge, Seneca City and Walhalla. The
route we adopted to Walhalla is not the
most direct, but certainly the most de-
sirable, on account of the good roads.
SENECA CRY.
We reached this point about 81 o'clock
in the afternoon of our first days jour.
ney. 1t was my first visit to this place,
and l WIS very favorably impressed with
its general appearance. l did not ex-
pect to find it quite SO well improved and
settled. The place is gradually filling
up with good and reliable citizens from
all sections Of the country, North as well
as South. Business is also increasing
with each successive season, and Seneca
City bids fair some day to be a place Of
considerable magnitude. When the Blue
Railroad is completed land every man,
woman and child south of the Blue
Ridge mountains pray that it may be in
few years more) Seneca City will be-
come the general distributing point for
all this vast section of country living
south OF this mountain range, which
will naturally give it prominence and
attract to it business men of the best
qualifications. have but one objection
to make against tho place: the build
ings, dwellings as we'll as business houses,
hs' temporary rather than permanent
appearance. Th;- ;= general, Will. :.
few exceptions.
WALHALLA
was reached about o'clock p. M, where
we stopped for the night. From all ap.
pearances land this is one portion of nv
letter that gives me pain rather than
pleasure to write,) Walhalla is on u stand
still, if not on tho decline. noticed
several business houses with doors closed
and windows barred for the want, l pre-
sumo, of business men to occupy them.
The people of Walhalla, however, are
not to be blamed for this state of affairs
Walhalla, like Anderson, has been i'm
posed upon by the Greenville & Colum-
bia Railroad by high charges in freights
Consequently, the trade that Walhalla
once enjoyed hae gone to other end cheap
er markets. There are at least two re-
deeming attractions in this up-country
town, however: an excellent educational
institute and good society. l believe !
am saie in saying that there is not more
hospitable people within the limits OF
South Carolina than those of Walhalla.
Among the enterprising merchants ol
the place are Messrs. s. l.. Dendy and
Q. l.. Reid g. Co. Mr. Reid Ia a native
off Anderson County, and son of Sfr.
7. L. Reid, of Pendleton township, but
has made Walhalla his home since the
wa-. Mr.. John Kaufman,s brewery at
tracts considerable atteatioa of visitors,
as well as citizens OF the place, IT Is a.
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