The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-08-21
FOREMOST RESORT STATE IN AMERICA.
That Is What North Carolina Is Capable
of Being Hade-IdeaIIy Located for
the Business of Entertaining Pleas
ure and Health Seekers

North Carolina is ideally located
to make the industry of entertain ing
pleasure and health seekers it's best
paying business. 1t is, indeed, capa-
BILE of being made the foremost re-
sort State in America. North Caro-
lima has climate that makes it an
almost all-the-year-round resort. 1t
has millions invested, entertains
thousands every year, and it is al
ready an industry OF large proper
tiOns, but with the investment OF
more money and systematic adver-
tising, this business could be made
to yield millions of dollars every year
where now it yields thousands. Mr..
Tufts, the successful Boston man of
business, has invested a million dol
lars in his magnificent winter resort,
Pinehurst. 1t is crowded every sea-
son by Northerners who do not stop
to ask the price What he has done
there could be duplicated in a dozen
places in the health-giving pine lands
between Raleigh and the South Car
DINA line. Much has been done at
Southern Pines. A new Boston syn
dicate will build another resort after
the style of Pinehurst. There is no
climate in the world SO good for per-
sons having tendency to pulmo-
nary troubles. 1t is within twenty
four and forty-eigh hours of the
Middle and New England States,
where the rigorous climate numbers
many victims OF lung trouble They
have been going to South California
and Colorado, enduring the fatigue
of a long trip, and now they find
far finer climate within little more
than a days journey. In the East
ern part OF the State, North Carolina
has the finest fishing, sailing and
surf-bathing on the Atlantic coast,
and is an ideal summer resort. With
modern hotels and the comforts of
the Northern places that attract the
people, thousands would be glad to
spend their summer at MoOrehead,
Wrightsville, Nag's Head, Ocracoke,
and other seaside resorts. In the
winter the waters of Eastern North
Carolina afford the finest duck hunt
ing in the world. Already number
OF rich men from the North have
their club houses and come annually
to enjoy the sport of duck hunting.
A thousand would come where now
one is entertained if the world knew
of the fine sport and hotels were
built to accommodate them. In the
Piedmont country many come for
the fine shooting Many more could
be induced to come.
In Western North CarOlina-"the
Switzerland of America ALREADY
thousands of visitors come every
year. There is no place like the
North Carolina mountains in all the
world, and those who come once are
sure to return. The magnitude O
the summer people industry il
the mountains is not appreciated by
North Carolinians, but it is small
compared to what it should be. l
New Hampshire receives S6,0OO,OO(
yearly from its summer visitors
Western North Carolina ought to re
ceive ten times that sum from it:
summer and winter tourists. The es
tablishment of the Appalachian
, Park, would, OF course, increase tn
, travel through that charming cOun
, try an hundred fold and make thi
= industry the greatest i'll the Who'll
: country. But, without depending
upon that, this State should leay
no stone unturned to develop tina
: profitable business.
/ We are going forward in manufaC
turing, commerce and agriculture
e Let not North Carolina fail to utiliz
' the wealth. in its ocean, its mour
D tains, its springs, its climate, it
b. waters, and its pine lands. TheI
are millions in them if we are wis
b enough to improve our opportun
= ties and utilize our resources {
e wealth, health and pleasure.