The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-01
A DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE
Great Wealth in Timber and Minerals
Franchise Granted for Water
Works and Electric Lights
--Morganton AsYlums--
Schools, Hotels
and Banks.
(Staff Correspondcncc.)

Morganton, N. c.. June ga COM
munity of fertile fields, congenial citizens.
beautiful scenery, thermal tempered eli
mate. abundant mineral wealth, great wa
tcrpower, virgin forests of pine, oak, pop
lar, hickory, maple. ash and chestnut,
with excellent transportation facilities is
an ideal one for home and for profitable
investment of capital.
Such community is Morganton and
Burke county. whose valleys and noun
tain gorges. waterfalls and winding. rush
ing streams and rivulets, present an at
tractiye picture.
HAIL TO THE HIGHLANDS!
Hail to the Highlands of North Caro-
iinai
Grandest Of States. let them ring with
her name.
Where now the willing who dares to
malign her?
Where now the country that knows not
her fame2
dail to the Highlands! The land OF bright
waters.
Land of the mountain, the cliG. and the
dell
Health to their sons. and long life to their
daughters!
Peace to the homes where the mountain
GERS dwell.
Hail to the Highlands! How beautiful
their valleys.
Boundless their forests, and priceless
their ores.
Healthful the zephyr that over them
dallies.
Swept from the glen when the cataract
roars.
~iEn~Hs
Hail to the Highlands Upon them is
Light that will fill them with wealth and
with power.
What of the noontide. if this be the morn
ing?
What will the fruit be, if this be the
fiower?"
Morganton is three hundred miles from
the seacoast and an hundred and fifty
niles east of the westernmost boundary of
the State. 1t is an old borough on the
,anks OF the Catawba, being Incorporate
ed in 177S. The State having located
here two of its greatest and costlest in
stitutions prompted one of the old presi-
dents of its University to refer to Nor
canton as the Western capital of North
Carolina.
4 H., sI..f.
Japan, and Teheran in Persia, and of Da-
mascus. and the islands of Cyprus, and
of Tunis and Algiers, and longitudinally
it is in line with the centre of Hudson's
Bay. and Cleveland, Ohio and the
Florida Keys, and the City of Matanzas,
in Cuba. and is rs miles further west
wardsthan Point Parma and Cape Blanco,
the most western projections of the great
South American Continent" It is within
IL hours of New York and is referred to
as the most healthy spot in the State
On the health maps of the United
States Census Department, prepared in
1870, Burke and portions of three adj
joining counties are marked in white to
indicate absolute freedom from lung and
throat diseases. When the reports were
HIsI SSnJ III w the DepdTbmeUl the HedlJn
condition was so nearly perfect the re-
port was returned for verificaton and
would not be accepted till every physi-
clan srtified to its correctness. The State
of North Carolina approaching this fact
bought seven hundred acres of land just
outside of the corporate limits of Nor
canton and has erected here magnifi-
cent hospital for the insane. It's main
building has a frontage 200 feet greater
than the Capitol at Washington, and it
accommodates 700 patients. 1t stands in
a beautiful park of 100 acres and fronts
another great building on an opposite hill
just completed by the State as school
Tor the Deaf and Dumb, where the little