Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02
TIPS ON THE LAND.
Nye Gives Points to People Who Look
Toward South Carolina
WITH AN EYE TO SPECULATION.
Remarks About Agriculture, Pomology and
the Culture Of Bees.
SEASONS ARE GENERALLY UNUSUAL

'P. o. Box 1712. J
"BooMvILLE, July 5, 1891. I

+. ~. BOX 1I12 !
| ROCKVILLE, July 8, 1891.
'DEAR BILL-It has been long time
since wrote You, but you seem to be get
ting on about as well as usual. write YOU
now not only to inform you that am we'll
hoping these few lines will find you the
same-but to seek some information about
the location of your North Carolina
Thought Works.''
~ have the North Carolina fever myself.
and it is getting less and less oontrollable
You see I have been In this State long
enough to find out that its glorious climate
is fraud. don't know whether you were
here long enough to come to the same con-
| clusion, but it's a climate that you don't
want to put more confidence in than you
would in New York bunko man. We
have just got through a six days spell of
mean temperature with a daily range
from SO to 1O5 or thereabouts, with 'reia-
tive humidity Of so. I don't know what
this Is, but don't like it I have five
bushels of roasted apples under one tree,
and no demand for roasted apples either.
OF course this is only exceptional weather,
since 1 came here that am blamed tired
of it.
"Do you intend to live permanently in
North Carolina, and, if so, would you OBJ
ject to having me live in the same county?
OF course I have entirely reformed: besides,
have never been in the Legislature of this
State, and, therefore, still look my friends
in the eye without quailing.
WANTS REAL GRASS AND BIG TREES.
ri am in search of a good, reliable, kindly
disposed, all round climate, and like to
live among people who don't put on too
many frills. want to live where I can
have some real grass (not the alleged sort)
without squirting water on it for eight or
nine months in the year. I want some big
trees and some singing brooks with real fish
in them. Is Buncombe county that sort of
place, and about what does it cost an acre7
II come to you with these questions be-
cause feel that I can believe you, while I
would look on the information of a real
estate agent with great allowance.
"What sort of fruit do they grow around
Asheville? am q sort Of Horticultural
crank, and always grow fruit, though it
costs me S25 a bushel. I succeeded last
winter in growing Is oranges here The
hoodlums got ten of them one night. The
other three we're nice looking oranges, but
they had no juice in them. shall be very
glad to hear from you when you have time
to write. Sincerely, as ever. --"
WHY THE NAME Is SUPPRESSED.
have eradicated the name of the town
at which the above letter is dated, also the
name of the writer, because did not wish
to publish an unkind allusion to the State,
which is generally regarded as very at
tractive one would hate to build up any
locality of my common country at the ex-
pense of another
The inquirer is anxious to know of the
horticultural and piscatorial merits of Bun
combe county, also regarding prices, POM
ology, etc., etc. Several of these questions
have never answered publicly, and so a
few moments may be pleasantly spent in
their discussion, if may be allowed to do
the heft of it myself with the reader at
safe distance.
came here early In the spring of the
present year, partly because Mr.. Wander
bilt, who is building q place near by, was
not much acquainted and desired bright |
young person, whom he knew and in whom |
he felt an interest, to drop in Of an eveaing |
and play Pedro with him. I also desired |
to benefit my lungs, one of whom had begun |
to droop little, making me walk one-sided. |
1 thought. had, besides, some symptoms |
of collapse from grip, gout and so forth. |
The physician, therefore, recommended |
that 1 try dry, bracing air of $500 or |
8 600 feet elevation, but in a mild, isother- |
NAL belt
HAD 10 LOOK UP THE TERM.
As soon as I had, after some trouble, as