Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-04-03
A MODEL MOUNTAIN RESORT.
The Toxaway Company improving and EnIarg.
Ing It's Hotels and Stocking tho Lakes.

inc Ioxaway Company Improving and Enlarg.
Ing It's Hotels and Stocking tho Lakes.
Sapphire, N. O., March 20.-Editors
Courier: The Appalachian Park is dead
for one year. was surprised at Uncle
Ben Tillman dousing it with cold water
In the Senate, as this is the very first bit
Of pic that has ever started our way.
Things are blooming here-new hotels
going up and one being enlarged. Good
workmen are in demand. see new faces
here daily, yet some are old faces to me.
Will West, of Oconeo, son-in-law Of my
old friond Billy Welch, is hore now. He
Is in the carpenter gang and is keeping
boarding house.
Hundreds have engaged their rooms at
the hotels for tho summer; others have
takon cottages and got their meals at the
hotels.
The first doctor have seen since last
fall came in last week with his family
from Chattanooga, Tenn, and has hung
out his shingle. 1t looks lonesome in
deed.
The Toxaway Company owns and ope-
rates fish hatchery-gets tho eggs from
the government and matches thom out
here. It's big show to the natives.
They now have some $4,000 young brook
and rainbow trout ready for tho lakes.
Their general stores, schools, ice plant
laundrics and livery stables will compare
with those found in pretentious city.
would like to see few resorts like
this In Oconee, and there could bo if the
people would wake up and do little
advertising and then encourage the
stranger when he comes among them,
But know from experience years ago,
when somo of the owners of mountain
lands were approached by the tourist
and health seeker, they got Whit of
cash in the air and ran their land and
rock piles up the tloom SO high it knocked
the stranger out in tho first round, and
ho left in disgust. Yet this land was
only used to pay taxes on at ten cents
pcr acre by them, and old mother earth
used it just to keep herself together.
Put few good men in among your hills,
men from tho North, East or West, and
once they build nice home and learn
the people, climate, etc., and they will
do the rest. have never known one to
leave, and he will encourage others to
come
am told tho present general manager
of tho Toxaway Company came here to
die, but he changed his mind, built a
home in Toxaway Valley, went to advor-
tising this country among his friends up
in Pennsylvania, and soon many others
from that and other States came nocking
in here, and to-day this spot is MS we'll
known as any in tho South, and tho gen
cral manager is as fine picture of health
as can be found in North Carolina. And
let me tell you ono thing the editor pos
sibly has not heard: Just little too
much lust after the almighty dollar was
the cause of this company not locating
IN Oconee county, some ten miles south
of here. This is n we'll known fact
Mr.. Calvin Cantrell, a former citizen of
Oconee, (and good one, too,) and a
number of others about here, take The
Courier, and all swear by it as the best
county paper in tho South. We enioy
Uncle Bill Arp's letters, yet l think in
his last he could have gone just a step
further and told us about the girls names
as well as the boys. Hero are few
favoritc names and their meaning: Anna
(rom the Hcbrow) means ga prophecies" :;
Anette (French), sweet, but sorrowful' ;
Caroline Nlatiu), "noblc-spirited" Dor
othy (Ccltic), fruitful; Edith and Edna
(Saxon), happiness; Frances Germany
free; Grace Natin), favor; Helen
(Greck), "lofty minded; Joseph n G
(Frcnch), "a savor Of lifo"; Lucy (Latin)
shining; Louisa (Frcnch), "dcfender
of her people,; Lcnora (Polish) "victo-
rious"; Margaret Germany, "a pearl''
Madeline (French), "favored"; Maris and
Maria (French and Spanish), and Mary
(Icbrcw), ga salt tear or "a drop of
water"
| wish for Walhalla and Oconce county
all life has to give and n safe passage
across the great divide. Como up, Mr.
Editor live high-somc $500 feet ND
and you will find some as happy and
prosperous and clever and contcntcd
people as live under Gods sun. With
best wishes, yours truly, J.Q.C