The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-30

drives, surrounding lakes and beau
tiful Yadkin River Valley, with its
gorgeous sunsets, its glorious dawns
and its thousand other charms, offers
its hospitality to the city tired tour
ist, and the number of those tourists
who year after year accept that hos
pltality and after a pleasant sojourn
among these green mountains return
to their accustomed haunts with
stronger nerves and steadier steps,
attests to the well earned popularity
of Lenoir. If you are an artist, ma
ture offers you here grand and pic
turesque scenery that will defy your
! skill to reproduce in all it's beauty,
and with a prodigal hand the Mighty
Architect, with moving lights and
shadows and cloud effects, constantly
changes the picture and adds new
beauties to the scene. If you are
not an artist, but can nevertheless
appreciate the beauties of nature,
you will certainly enjoy a sojourn at
Lenoir, where scenes of quiet beauty
or startling grandeur await you at
every turn.
TO reach Lenoir from the North
and East take the Seaboard Air Line
to Lincolnton, at which point the
popular Carolina and Northwestern
railway formerly Chester and Lenoir
railroad) makes convenient connec-
ton, and will quickly and comfort
ably convey you to Lenoir, the ter
minus of the road-47 miles from
Lincolnton.
BEAUTIFUL BLOWING ROCK.
Blowing Rock, noted precipice in
Caldwell. county, on the crest of the
Blue Ridge, towering over 1000 feet
above tidewater, gives the name to
the surrounding country-the village
anu post office of that name being
about two miles distant from Green
Park Blowing Rock is but five min
utes' walk distant from Green Park
Hotel. This spot is so called, not
because it is given to blowing of any
kind, but for the reason that the
grand funnel shaped chasm or gorge
OF which it is the apex, congresses
the westerly winds in sort of noz-
zie' and at times rushing them over
the Crock" with great force when
the air is not greatly disturbed else
where.
The glory of this lofty plateau, the
Grandfather, with it's towering pro-
file, makes the background of the
landscape on the west. The Pilot
Mountain, one hundred miles to the
east; Kings Mountain of Revolution
ary fame, far away to the south; the
Table Rock and the Black Mountain,
with its Mitchell's Peak, the highest
point in the Atlantic States, together
with billowy outline of lofty peaks
in every direction, lend enchant-
ments to the view.
The western slope of the Blue
Ridge at Blowing Rock is so gentle
that the descent is scarcely percep-
tible for miles and good roads and
pleasant drives, which are rarely
found at this elevation, abound.
A visit to the Grandfather, long
considered the highest point of the
chain, will repay the
lover of nature for the ten miles ex-
cnrsion. The Watauga Falls, Vale
Crucis Falls and the Valley of the
Watauga are accessible over good
road, which skirts for some distance
the beautiful river of that name
The drive to Boone, the county seat,
in the New River Valley, offers a sue
cession of charming views The
Falls of Linville, and Linville, the
new resort on that river, are reached
over an excellent road Just COM
pleted along the side of the Grand
father, which opens to tourists some
of the grandest scenery in the State.
LINCOLNTON, n. c.
Lincolnton. N. c.. is noted for its
mineral springs, lithia, arsenic and
alum. Within a short distance of the
town are found the Catawba river
and a beautiful lake, from which are
caught many kinds of game fish,
trout, pickerel, bass, etc. As sum-
mer resort this vicinity is unsur-
passed. The town occupies a high
elevation-about 800 feet above sea
leyel-in that beautiful, fertile, roll
ing country on the eastern slope of
the Blue Ridge Mountains. known as
the Piedmont section, and has been
celebrated for many years throughout
the States of North Carolina, South
Carolina and parts of Virginia,
Georgia and Tennessee for its ideal
climate and it's famous mineral
springs. attracting many visitors
each year to drink it's waters, who,
feeling the curative powers of those
wonderful waters, carried it with
them to drink at their rhomes-always
the most wonderful re-
suits from its USE
The springs were purchased by
some gentlemen in Philadelphia and
Raleigh, who determined to place
this wonderful water before the pub
lie. The water was analyzed and
found to be of the greatest value
About mile from the town Of Lin
colnton is the famous Lincoln Lithia
Springs, whose waters are celebrated
for their healing qualities in diseases
of the kidneys and bladder; also for
gout, rheumatism and the varied
forms of dyspepsia. !
STATELY CHIMNEY ROCK.