The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-08-09
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
BEAUTIFUL REGION
UNCUT isY = RAILROAD.
description OF Il LOrdiy Home that
,n- Might Envy = Fruit. Cattle,
crain and all that Man can Desire.

;in- Might Envy = Fruit, Cattle,
Grain, and all that Man can Desire.
g,ecpt Correspondence Of The Chronicle.
BREvARD, TRANsYLvANIA Co, Aug. s.
The traveller in going westward from
Ashcvile finds himself in a land strangely
interesting and beautiful. The country
i very different from that east of Ashe
Vile. He has passed alk the highest
mountain peaks and is up on a plateau or
tabe-land which has gently rolling sur
face. The whole country between Ashe-
Vile and Brevard-a distance Of 30 miles
is exceedingly well watered by the
French Broad, Davidson, Mills, and Lit
tle rivers: and along these river bottoms
is where you see such fine crops growing
There being no railroad through Tran
svIvania county, the country is not SO
well known as other parts of our Western
country, but experienced travellers, who
have gone through the country in private
conveyances, declare it to be g the garden
spot Of North Carolina" ;"
Here the people do not merely exist.
They Hoe-live like industrious, intelli
gent North Carolinians ought to live.
You do not see the rickety log cabin by
the roadside, with tattered urchins peep
INC through the crevices, or the prOverbial
stump-tailed OK blowing out the weedy
ing and he was fat and plump. He looked
as if he was being plowed rather to keep
him properly exercised than from any
necessity. You see the cOmmOdlOuS
dwelling, often handsomely painted,
standing back in a grove Of white pines.
You see the walks nicely and tastefully
laid off and flowers Of every tint enliven-
ing and beautifying the home. Should
YOU look out over the fields, you would
see the ripening crops and the orchards
laden with fruits. In the barn-yard are
the fat cattle and fine horses and i'm
proved farming implements. Everything
betokens thrift and plenty. The negroes,
even, thatyo meet (and they are few do
not have that -the-country look about
them. They are fat and sleek and greasy.
They look as if they worked enough and
were well cared for.
You hear no screeching of steam en-
gines and you are, in fact, far away from
the hustle and hurry of the world. The
mail comes by stage line from Asheville
and Hendersonvile 1t seems to be a
second Sleepy Hollow. The air is bracing
but quiet and soothing and makes you
feel dreamy and meditative. The noun
tains in the distance even seem to be
droWziiy nOLding at each other. But
YOU must not think by this that the peo-
pie are lazy AS rule, the best farmers
are men Of means who have come here
from distant places, and who are farm
ing scientifically and successfully Ma
ture has been lavish III her blessings
and man has but to tickle mother earth
and she yields bountiful harvest.
But the people need railroad facilities.
They raise ii great deal of grain and
fruit and find comparatively no mark
et or markets 50 distant that the
cost of transportation eats up the profits.
Brevard is a small town of about 200 in
habitants. 1t is the only town in the
large and productive county of Tran
sylvania Its trade is small! and non
progressive. 1t has, however a good
many summer visitors who bring mon
ey. The people say that this is
almost the only way they get any money
by boarding summer visitors and sell
ling them grain to feed their fine saddle
and carria - horses. This is really quite
an item, d, great numbers Of health and
pleasure seekers from al parts OF the
South ;,n,i notably from South Carolina
spend the summer up here. Some have
even bought fine farms which they have
managed for them i'll the winter, and IN
the summer they come here and spend
their time and money amusing themselves
by farming.
Mr. G. T. Lowndes, of Charleston, owns
the prettiest farm | have seen 1t is
about miles from Brevard and includes
several thousand acres. His handsome
residence is situated on an elevated point
overlooking the valley of the French
Broad. His residence is surrounded by
beautiful park of several acres, dotted
here and there with groups of white
pines. Tame deer gambol over the lawn
in playful sport. The view from Mr..
LOwndess front piazza is one of sur
passing lovelincss. The valley Of the
French Broad can be seen stretching
away for miles. The varied crOps-fields
of Wheat and corn and rye and clover
and timothy, with the fat cattle grazing
on the slopes, and the whole scene sup
ported in the background by a large
mountan-make the picture complete.
Who knows what is coming? 1t may
be-and | confidently expect that it will
that this country southwest of Ashe-
willie. including Pennsylvania, Henderson,
Macon ana part of Buncombe, will one
day become truly the garden spot Of the
State When the fine bottoms shall have
been cut up into small trucking and fruit
farms and vineyards; when summer
tourists, for its pure dry air, its unex-
celled accommodation, shall make this
their chosen resort; when railroad facll-
ties shall have opened up good markets
for its produce, and education and culture
Shall have continued to a greater degree
TO make its home among this people, who
can forecast its future A. w. l..