The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-21

4 Il camp-life. even carried along three
II four bags of the staff of life Our
river (w1o knew Informed us that in
he adjoining county we could get all the
life Itself (nlade of peaches, too,l that
we wanted. Think of it. boy. old peach
1T 81 per gallon. QIendersonville is a
Try town. OF course. guns, dogs. am
ynuaition and all hunting accoutrements
were stored away in abundance, for we
were sure of squirrels and late of eve
Rings we did shoot as many as we want
eel from the wagon.
I went alone one morning and killed
siXtN-three. At night wild-ca tS-with ono
to five hounds we would tree them Gas
rights were moonlight>. and shoot them
out like squirrels. but with mitch larger
shot. Three bear also fell victims to OUR
inerring aim.
At one time we We're fifty-eight miles
from & railroad and nno miles from a
human habitation, and the solitude was
SO dense that We stood off and shot holes
n it Oft early at morn at report of gun
the reverberations would last for five min
utes. Such g!oriously transcendent sun
rises and sunsets. over such an awful
exranse of nature, would cause me to
hold my breath for admiration. But I
started. in TO write up Sugar Loaf Noun
tain Salola and it's views.
WONDERLAND.
Postoffice Ottanola. Undian name by
Big Hungry Creek) must have an ele-
walton of trirty-eight hundred feet,
thence the rise to Ottano!a Gap. where
TIE Fool Creek Road winds down to the
French Broad Essedawl and Chimney
Rock must be four or five more hundred
feet and near this some very fine views.
From the Worlds Edge" of the under
hills Or wales OF Tarkoe (Catawba Land,
Tryon. Kings Mountains: if atmosphere
is clear, of the bold crests that wall in
the Louvlie Gorge, and glimpse of Mt
Mitchell. between Salola Sugar Loaf
Mountains. and Sokassa pinnacle Of Old
Bald as you look northward from Jude,s
Ridge Road are among these splendid
sights
This O.tanola CAP is about fifteen
miles from Hendersonville: FIVE miles
from Chimney Rock postofcc via Pool
Creek road: one and one-quarter from
the Sa'ola Inn. near summit of Sugar
Loaf Mountain. vistas are now being
opened from this winding highway. which
afford 4 succession Of picturesque views
in all directions except northward
As the elevation here must be 1000 feet
or over. it would be an ideal site for. q
summer resort hotel within seven miles
of the famous Chimney Rock and less
than two miles below the crest of Sugar
Loaf. Visitors can now make the drive
from HendersonviHA 10 the Salola Inn.
thence q drive Of EIGHT miles to Chimney
Rock, thence by bot Cave" and Ed
news Hotel. back to HendersonviIe. thus
including in one trip the grand PIANO
rama from Sugar I.on,s and a drive
through the famous Hickory MT Cap
OTssedaw Eorgel and hac1s BIZ the cas-
cades of Ahtanaweeta fEeedv Fatchl
a COY RESORT
t.
dersonvile a beautiful and coy little
hotel, with IN excellent table, where, at
an elevation OF i,2oo feet. they can enjoy
a climate that is at midsummer, not only
always cool in shade, but so hracing that
long walk is really luxury at mid
day: i'll the woods no red bugs and in
the ho,aa ro flies. even the dining room
is exempt xr.~ .hem. Nor is the fine
panorama rom the summit the only