The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-04
A PAYING INDUSTRY.

North Carolinians are of late taxi
ing just pride in the agricultural and
manufacturing development that are
seen in every section. They are add
ing to the States wealth. bringing
more comforts to the people, and
opening doors to education and travel
not hitherto accessible. But there is
one industry that is only in the in
fancy of development except in few
counties-we refer to the industry of
for delightful resorts in summer and
winter Hundreds of people from the
North spend the winters in the Ella
CANT and pleasant hotels in Moore
county Properly developed, Central
and Eastern North Carolina could
draw thousands instead of hundreds.
Many Northern people go to Asheville
for the winter, but more could be at
tracted throughout the entire noun
tain country.
But it is the summer tourists who
can be attracted to this State in lar
N
the mountains. This has been a
splendid season at the ocean and in
land of the skies. mot in my rec
objection have there been as many
people in Asheville and Western Caro-
lima; as now said District Passenger
Agent j. II. Wood, of the Southern.
yesterday to the Asheville Citizen
Every year the number increases and
the enterprising people of Asheville,
Waynesville, Hendersonville and a few
other places, prepare for their enter
tainment. but not even in those live
and people generally appreciated that
entertaining summer visitors is the
most profitable industry to which the
people can devote themselves OF
course these towns are going to grow
as manufacturing and commercial
ciate their advantages they will expend
most of their efforts in securing
steadily increasing number of visitors.
There is no land so healthy. so beau
tiful, so attractive as Western North
Carolina. Asheville and Waynesville
and Hendersonville will naturally at
tract the largest company, but If the
Western people continue to provide
entertainment and make it known, the
day is not far distant when all the
mountain country from Elkin to Muir,
ply will be as full of summer WISH
tors as Asheville is now.
The prompt action of the authorities
in inviting the people from the fever
stricken sections of the South has
brought hundreds to our mountain
cities. 1t will bring thousands in the
future There is need only that the
State shall take a deeper interest in
making known what we have to Sc
cure most of the people from Texas
to North Carolina who spend their
summers in higher attitudes. The La.
Dor Department is now taking interest
in this important industry and wealth.
producer, showing how much it is
worth as compared with the States
other wealth-producers This is well,
for it Will encourage others to aban-
don Improbable lines and embark in
the summer hotels and boarding house
business,
Not a few of the more progressive
farmers in Haywood and other coun-
ties. without opening boarding house,
are adding to their income by taking
summer boarders. If it were known
generally that people of moderate
means could live comfortably in the
mountains in the homes of farmers
at a moderate expense, every good
farm house in the mountain country
would have APPLICATION for boarders.
The expense AT the fashionable hotels
and boarding houses in Asheville is
so great that many people stay at
home, who would be delighted to get
a few weeks rest and recreation in
a well-ordered farmers home, where
they could fish and swim and read
and climb mountains, removed from
the hustle of a city and the exac-
tions of fashionable resorts.
Let North Carolina wake up to this
great wealth producing industry and
develop it as rapidly as it. has devel-
oped the cotton mill industry. If we
could get The Appalachian Forest Re-
serve, it would turn every mountain
peak into a go'd mine for those WHO
cater to the tourist, but we need not
wait for that By proper effort the
summer tourists can be doubled and
trebled and every mountain county
can make more money in two months
taking bearders than can be made in
twelve months at farming and other
old-time occupations.