The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
THE GEM OF THE MOUNTAIN
Is the Pretty Little City Of Ashe.
vile. N. {.

vile, n. c.
DR.. Hawthorne is Enjoying the Win
ter There
And sends Greetings to his Friends
at Home---A Famous Summer and
Winter Resort where Northern and
Southern People Most do Congre-
gate.
AsHEvILLE, n. c., Feby 1S.-Think-
| ing perhaps that the readers of the New
DOMINION might enjoy few lines from
this corner of the Sunny South. | will
try and tell you something of Asheyille
and vicinity. If you will look at map
Of North Carolina you will see that the
! Allegheny mountains extend across the
western portion OF the state, and right
in the midst OF these mountains is nest
led the beautiful little city Of Asheville
Its elevation is about 2,400 feet above
the sea level. 1t is built in a beautiful
valley near the junction OF the Salamanca
and French Broad rivers. 1t is impos-
sible to imagine anything more charm
ing than the surrounding scenery. I'm
mense mountain peaks loom up in every
direction, whose submits are often OBJ
secured by the clouds and whose sides
are covered with rhododendron, azaleas.
laurel and ivy, with here and there
glittering stream dancing down their
side to join the many rivulets that feed
the Suananoa and French Broad. ques-
ton ii there is city east OF the Rockies
that has as picturesque surroundings as
Asheville
Its southern latitude and elevation
make ii a safe retreat from the bleak
northern winters and the sultry miasmic
summers OF the low country. The pre-
vailing winds from the mountains are
always cool and refreshing. Even during
the heat of summer these winds make
the evenings and nights delightfully."-
pleasant. Asheville stands to day at the
head of southern health resorts and the
testimony of nearly every one who visit
this mountain city is unanimous in its
praise. Many physicians who make
climatology study, name Asheyille as
pre-emminent in possessing the cool,
dry, bracing atmosphere necessary to
health. Asheville is an all the year re-
sort. Southern people discovered long
comfortably in the southern mountains
as in New England and Asheville is
each summer filed with boarders from
the low countries, aud Immediately after
the southern people leave, the northern
guests arrive for the winter Thus YOU
see the city has large transient popu-
lation, estimated by good authority to
be about $4,000 annually. But the real
estate agent does not hesitate to say it
is upwards OF 100000 BY means of
these thousands of visitors and the ludi-
crous letters of Bill Nye it is one of the
best advertised towns in the country.
Previous TO the building of the Richmond
& Danville railroad here in 1881, it was
mere village and was little known to
the outside world as health resort.
Since then it has grown into quite lit
| tie city OF $4,000 people. The first i'm
preston got of Asheville was that it
seemed more like northern town than
any town | had seen since / left Wash
ington, ID. e.. This is to be accounted
for from the reason that almost one-third
OF the population is northern people.
The business portion of the city is SOL
| idly built but the residence section ex-
tends for miles in every direction, in the
valley, along the mountain side and,
over the hill. 1t is presented to the eve
in detached sections here a group of
elegant country seats on crest or ridge,
half concealed in the surrounding trees
There the eye sweeps down a long val
| ley with house after house whose archi-
tectural beauty would do honor to the
most fashionable suburbs of Boston or
Philadelphia.
The delightful climate has attracted
many wealthy people here from all parts
of the country, who have built beautiful
homes and surrounded them with every
luxury
You must not expect to find the trop-
ical climate here that exists along the
Gulf coast or in Florida. The atmosphere
is entirely different. There it is warmer,
more sultry and damp. Here it is cool
err, dryer and more invigorating and
with almost constant sunshine. In the
six weeks | have been here there has
been one day only that we did not see
the sun-Sometimes in the early morn
ings the sky is cloudy or there may be
frost on the ground-but by 10 o'clock it
is bright and clear and the invalid is
basking in the sunshine
This mountain region Of which Ashe-
vile is the centre is great sanitarium
for pulmonary and nervous sufferers.
Catarrh cannot long exist In this climate.
A large proportion of the residents of
the Rocky mountain regions suffer from
catarrh on account of the extreme dry
ness of the atmosphere, also people liv-
ing along the coast or in damp humid
regions suffer from wet catarrh. This
region seems to be the mean between
the two extremes and either class of this
disease seems to readily yield to the in
fluence of this climate, 1t is pre-emi-
nently a suitable one in the incipient
stages of consumption especially those
who can get out in the air and are deter
mined to take the benefit of its dry, tom
ic, bracing properties.
] almost daily meet men who came
here believing themselves to be victims
to this dread disease who are now APP
parently well and actively engaged in
business here. OF course there are many
deaths from consumption, but they are
in its advanced stages when they come.
Also the unfortunate sufferer from in
somnia finds haven of rest in the piny
odors that blow from the mountains and
he soon INDUCES in the blessing OF re-
freshing sleep. In the future will Write
you more about Asheville climate, the
surrounding country and Biltmore Cas-
tie.
Ernest Hayes OF your town spent sew
eral days in this city few weeks ago.
Ernest is very popular with the business
men here and does good business here.
am glad to see that Judge Hagans is
gradually improving and hope he will
soon be well again.
We are very glad to receive the New
DOMINION every Saturday morning, as it
seems like letter from home.