Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1886-09-04
[For the Observer.
HILLSBORO AND ASHEVILLE
ASISEE AND YOU DON'T.

ASIsEE AND YOU DON'T
Leaving Hill-boro the amer o.:
Asheyllle a, 7 o'clock, p. M, you ar
rive at Greensboro at 9, p. IN. Arm
ed with season tlcket-SS.70-you
make Old Fort by s, a. N. Taking
an observation car-plate glass
maple fnlsh-ra,tan iurni,ure-no
extra charge. All the noted points
are pointed out by Fred"
AT Round Knob you will take off
your la, TO nature aud Major James
Wilson. Here a t"nntain plays 1875
ieei--,he greatest height OF any in
the void. Twenty minutes Tor
breakfast and you are Oft ascending
The mountains On grade 100 feet 10
tie mile. So winding is the track
that you pass a point | 4 Of mile toy
land, ) miles by rail-periec, horse
shoe bend-through 5 tunnel--one
1900 feet long. Viewing mountains
the highest east OF the Rocky, as.
cen,llng until You are able with a
feather TO carry y wafer fall TO the
Cult OF Mexico or the Atlantic at
will.
Here you see moun;ai,s covered
with perfect foliage and dream OF
The Leanty OF the grand imagery OF
the Bible. are taught the beauty OF
a full head of hai,. Here aud there
you see a mount top scaIped by the
wuodman's AK, making 40 hoTrid o
sight As a roman scaIped hy an In.
dlan. (Bald heads Iou't 90 to the
MOUNTAINS J Arriving at AshesIIie
al III, Il. IN, owing TO It, peculiar
situation YOU w.il have To look tor
1t, very htilc y"u Will zee at one
view, keel from nature 8 nbServa
torres. Here mlill"taIres, rail road
kings, e'chanl princes, from North,
south, Eat aud West. pass in Eu
gIlsh, Spanish aud French equipayes,
the Tobacco "a9"iis CARTS aud drays
OF otter OWLS.
Ten years ago the population le>s
than 1000 10 day over 1000, with
thousands OF VISITORS daily. Values
OF property in some Cases nave al
vanced 1000 per cent.
Less than five years ago 100000
pounds vi tobacco were handled per
u /; to-day at the rate OF 1000,
OUU. Her principal holels-S"ar an
naunoa-'h. battery lark-,he la
s.e and Grand Central, with her ~
private boarding houses would swal,
low ll!llsboio; with her l4O stores
would mike IN Eastern Moth Car
"llra CITY.
Taxauie property in corporate
limits over $1,000, 600 special and
license tax less than S3O,UUU. Her
annual business s3,OOO,OOO ; has 5
. banks; III churches s.; 7 livery sta
i"e, Ii factories and furnaces.
Outside Of corporate limits, rail.
road klugs and mil!ionaires have
laid off cities that III less than Tel,
Years will be valued at millions
The combination Will give New
North Carolina q clly-~hat Old
North Carolina never had, except
by charter. A>hevl!le cannot allow
knoxville TO do What Virginia has
pluck her.
Stand OH Beau Nounl-ride owe
Richmond lllII-trom Col. j. X
Connaliy's view the mountain range,
Tor 90 ml.es-sce the sun rlse auc
sci OH the grand old hills, the fines
landscape Of the world. Kings no
queens have never opened, mncl
lees no" open TO the public, tn
!. equal. Looking around you upol
" hat God has loaned-what men O
moderate II "a the Connally' i
J"hns,ons, Peas's, Smiths Double
day = aud others have here accom
l,l>hed, perfected, II, III years in an'
around 'A~he. lie, aud tell ne no
she will not be a big city-it ,o-da.
some cannot tild her hid away il
the hills.
RADICAL Y. ORANGE.