The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-09-05
From Far Off California
12l N. Broadway
Los Angeles, CAL, Aug. %.

Los Angeles, CAL, Aug. %.
Editor Hustler.
Dear Sir:-Although the writer has
been away from your county and city
for more than 20 years, 1 still take an
interest in my native county-Hender-
son-and the state of North Carolina,
read the Hustler with much interest,
and thereby try to keep in touch with
your city and county. After having
travelled over every state and territory
in this country and having spent some
time in hawaii, Mexico, and In the city
of Mexico, and Cubs, will state that do
not know of a better place for summer
resort than Hepdersonville. North Car
olina, and there is no reason why 1t
should not be made popular winter
resort for people from the northern
states.
The proposed lake would be a great
thing for your city and county and would
be the means of bringing hundreds of
people to your city who now go to the
other places. Your enterprisiDg peo-
pie, and you seem to have many. should
work untiringly until they get the lake.
Another thing of importance is good
roads. This will be of great assistance
not only to your farmers but will do
much to draw the pleasure seeker. Per-
manent improvements in road building
should be the watchWord. I hope you
will not consider the writer ''buttlng
in" in mentioning these matters, but I
wish to show the many advantages Of
your city and county over other eastern
and southern resorts, and other places I
have visited.
do not know of city in any part of
the east that has better hotel accommo-
dations than Hendersonville, population
considered.
With your beautiful streams; your
timbered hills and mountains; your
many scenic drives; your pure mountain
water; your ideal summer climate, you
have much to offer the tourist or pleas
ure seeker.
Another statement wish to make is:
Residents Of your city and county who
have not Travelled throughout the United
States, ETC., do not realize what they
have at home-right In Henderson
county. [ have visited well known re-
sorts of the east having hotels worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars-and
that is about all. There was not q tree
in sight; No hills or mountains, and 40
streams. Yet such places are called
resorts and they actually attract hun
dreds Of visitors annually.
There Is another matter I wish to
speak of, although it is on another SUBJ
iect. 1t is your water power. The wa
ter falls in your county, and in fact
throughout Western North Carolina,
are today not valued at one tenth what
they will bring ten years. from now.
Wait and see. You have sufficient pow
er there in henderson county alone to
operate half dozen large street car
systems and many factories. Water
power power or falls in your part of the
state that could be purchased today for
a few thousand dollars will be worth
hundreds of thousands in few years.
Ny home town of Fullerton, Cal, is
lighted all night by electricity gener-
ated by water power in the mountains
100 miles away from Fullerton. Most
of the cities of Southern California and
the principal street car systems are
operated by electricity generated in the
and hills by water power.
In my home city my presses and print
ing machinery are operated by this sys-
tenn and we have "juice'' "a hours day.
I venture the assertion that there are
water falls in this state that could not
be purchased for one million dollars.
My advice would be: Hold on to the
water falls of Henderson county and
w estern North Carolina.
Your people should be careful not to
destroy too much timber on your hills