The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1885-11-01
As OTHERS SAW Us.

:. AS OTHERS SAW Us.
The Editor of the Shelby aurora thu
speaks of what he saw at our Fair: .
''The second annual exhibition of the
Western North Carolina Fair was held
at Asheviile last week, being Tuesday
and closing on Friday. representative
Of the AURORA spent day on the Fair
grounds ia! 'ug in observations that
would in :e est every citiZe of the State
Those who think that the section OF
the State west of the Blue Ridge is a
Small part of North Carolina and unin-
portant in it's products, ought to make
one visit to its annual exhibition. The
count les er 1raced within the Fair AS
/ sociation we e.not all fully represented.
s 1me had only a fmeagre representation;
and yet the display was such as to awak-
en- admiration from those who were most
familiar with the resources of the coun-
try. The horticultural and agricultural
displaysWere wholly tInSurpasSable The
exhibit of f.felI crops, such as corn. wheat
oa's, tobacco, &c, was large and splendid.
9th cr produces of the soil. such as pota-
toes, turnips, beets, car o s, pumpkins,
&c. were UNSURPASSED by any similar ex-
hibft that has been or conld be made in
the South. Beets two and half feet
long and eight to ten inches in diameter
are hard to bea'. There was pumpkin
on exhibition that weighed $50 pounds
and another that weighed $50 pounds.
Ears of corn were as fine as can be grown
OH the river lands of the West.
The. splendid reputation which that
section Is making in tobacco was fully
sustained by the exhibit of this weed.
1t came in bright golden cotc sfrom some
OF the extreme western counties where
the growth oft was unknown until the
last year or two.
That class of products which perhaps
attracted the greatest attention was the
display of fruits. The apples, peaches,
pears and grapes were magnificent. fhe
apples took the palm. One county
(Yancy) had forty varieties on exll Oh
ton and they we've as luscious as ever
tickles the palate ofnan. The mineral
exhibit wss not adequate to express the
riches OF the country and yet the miner
erals were there in great val ETY.. Moth
ing could be more i'll .erestiug in the
lovers of beautiful displays or to the
citizen concerned in tbe,resources of his
State than the exhibit of Western North
Carolina timbers. Forty varieties wele
prepared with special care and they
were simply superb in hearty and value.
No section of comfy in the world can
show more valuable timber and in great
er variety and abundance. For hard
woods and wood for elegant furniture
this part of the country cannot be sur
passed. The timbers, the minerals, the
hort: ti:ultural and the agricultural pro-
duCts-these were the leading features of
the Fair, ana in these Western North
Carolina can Challenges the world"
And Mr. Hoskins reports. to the Green
boro North State ,,,:.
"The w. N. G. Fair which has been
held here this week WAS in all respects a
great success. The Attendance was very
large, and the exhibits numerous and
well selected The inhabitants west of
the Ridge are certainly, full of life. and
push things with vim and intelligence
Asheville itself will 'nbE fall short for
want of jutliciods cycloning The noun
tain people in the codnt,es outside of
Buncombe have no notion however of
hiding their light underfa bushel. They
are net of the kind to stand back and re-
main silent about the good qualities of
tleir own .ctions.
The Fairgave good eviaence of what
great country can be made here. /
think the people are little too much
carried away by the tobacco fever.
glDr. Harwicke Of t'le fifm:of Hard icke
q WeIIes had on exhibitiona a Heat Reg
ulater for curing tobacco, which is the
best have seen anywhere. BY an inge-
nious method OF distributing hot air
through the Larn. it obyiates the three
principal difficulties in curing fine tobac-
CO viz: the tendency at certain stages to
spungp, splot and sweat. Many farmers
fTom Madison county With whom talk
ed said they had used it, and prononnc-
ed it decided success.