The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-09-21

! Linville mountain faces YOU while i'm
front of and below is spread out the
/ Catawba valley as Cyslorama paint
ed by the Father and Preceptor of all
art-nature. TO linger over Il scene
like this is to forget the transient.
trivial things DER which we groan
and sweat and to realize in some de
gree that this world is beautiful
/ garden made for man to wander i'm.
If we find it otherwise. the fault lies
in the creature and not with it's
/ Creator.
I The Clinchfeld has an open OBJ
servation car from which an mob-
structed view can be had. preferably
on the return trip. Going up the
cinders from the engine are best
guarded against by carrying with YOU
pair of automobile goggles.
Winds With River. ....
Starting down the northern face of
f, theBlue Ridge at Alta Pass the route
soon strikes the right bank of the
Toe river and winds and curves with
it for A miles. The grade in this dis
tance, following the bed of stream.
/ is much less. 2S feet to the mile. All
of this distance is virgin forest
mountain and cove, with cabin or a
small sawmill to be seen now and
/ then. Communication with the rest of
the world was infreQuent and diff
cult before the coming of this road
Stations have been located and named
( so far Before the State line of Ten
ncssee is reached the Toe has gath
cred volume and becomes Il river of
some size passing ont through mar
/ rows. eight miles in length. whose
walls. green and well-wooded. rise
l,200 feet. At the mouth of this
gorge and accessible from the valley
of east Tennessee is Il summer resort
| tnaka Springs, where the road cross
es the river. 1t is little higher than
Johnson City. The scenery all along
/ here is fine. At Erwin. Tenn, 16
miles this side Of Johnson City, are
/ located the Carolina, Clinchield &
7
velop large water power on the Mol
iChucky river, near by and this point
will likely become of importance in
the near future.
Johnson City is the largest town in
Washington county Tenn. and is we'll
situated in a broad and fertile val
/ ley. Population about 10000, cN-
elusive Of some 800 inmates of the
mountain branch of the national sol
diers' home. The late Senator Brown
low secured this home for his native
! town some two or three years ago. The
government purchased tract of some
80 acres on the outskirts of the city
and has spent two or three millions
for buildings and equipment. These
are OF the best as to quality and of
liberal proportions. Thirty miles Of
graded and macadam road, parks
7 conServatorcs, Il beautiful little thea
tire. ball park and other attractions
make it valuable asset to the people
OF Johnson City. The annual apprO-
priation for the maintenance of the
/ home is over 81 600 a day, and most
of this is spent there The inmates all
draw federal pensions besides This
section of Tennessee has always been
/ Republican in politics as few slaves
| were owned here before the war
From Johnson City to Dante is 50
miles of valley. hill or mountain
among which will be found some
| splendid farming country, some of it
in blue grass with beef cattle and
sheep, orchards and corn fields
Seams OF Coal.
At Dante, the Clinchield Coal cor
poration Called with the railroad cor
poration owns over 100000 acres of
coal lands. The coal outcrops in seams
or drifts varying in thickness from
four to ten feet. These layers lie i'm the
mountains at different heights and cX-
tend throughout the area. i'm a solid
seam that neither gets thicker nor
thinner. Sometimes the seam of coal
is overlain by seam of limestone
rock and when this is the case, no
roofing is necessary TO the tunnels
which the miners make in going into
the side of the hill for the coal,
There is no SHAFT mining here The
coal seems extending In horizontal
plane of Uniform thickness through
out so many acres, ii is an easy mat.
ter to calculate the number of tons
] a.,