The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-18
0AN|EL BOONE
BUILT HIS CABIN
In the Beautiful Valley
Overlooking Boone
RICH WATAUGA LAND

III Ill w 6lbtu0
spon the Occasion Of the Recent Wis
il of the Editors to Boone and the
Appalachian Training School, Soil
citr Linney Made an Eloquent Adj
dress, Containing Interesting and
valuable Historical and Industrial
Information.
The visit of the North Carolina edi-
tors in a body to Boone, the county
seat Of Watauga, gave them the OPP
portunity Of seeing that beautiful
country and visiting the Appalachian
Training School which is doing q great
work for that section Of the State.
Upon the occasion of that Visit Soil
citor Frank Linney delivered an ad-
dress of welcome to the editors which
made a fine impression. Mr.. Lin
ney's address has interest for others
beside editors. His speech was as
follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen. Visiting
members of the North Carolina
Press Association:
j do not know why I have been
selected to address you on this occa-
sion unless it is to promise the visit
Ing members of your association a mol.
pros. for all their miSdemeanorS while
in the mountains. Every solicitor in
the State could easily make that prom
Use to the editors of North Carolina
without the least danger Of having to
blot his docket. We welcome you
high up in our mountains, close to the
sun in His burning, where the alu-
tude ChangeS the heat Of the noon a
sun into the soft mellow light OF the
twilight; where the tempered light
Of the forest is like a perpetual morn
ing, where the pressure from with
cut is the least and the pressure from
within the greatest ana the soul be-
comes self-expreSsive.
May your visit be a pleasure and
profit to you and to us. The dWellerS
in this cave country" ave been cut
off and isolated from the other parts
OF our State until we have become
strangers. Our people know more or
Nashville than they do Of Raleigh;
Chattanooga than they do Of Green's
boro. and We did know more of Bris-
dOl than We did of Salisbury even
before Prohibition went into effect.
Get me tell o something about this
great cave country of ours. 1t is
rich in mythology, rich in history, in
citizenship and in her great natural
resources.
At the time of the Revolution this
section of the State was in the bOun-
Diary of the Cherokee country. It is
true in all history that where Nature
over-abounds, where Nature excels
mythology is richest. Cherokee tradl-
ton is filled with it. they were the
M ~, g 80 - W.
find among their many myths that
when the C~herokees first came to these
mountains, they found them inhabited
by a ace OF small men, White men,
and these We're moon eyed; could
only see at night. / can believe that
these mountains were once inhabited
10y an earlier White race but canno
The God of Mercy would never create
q race of white men and place them
in these mountains and close THEN
eyes to the glory of a day
II they were created mOOn-eyed they
were not deprived of the power tc
See by day, but We're SO made thai
they might behold the splendor OF
these grand mountains by night anC
by day.
In the earlier days of our history
the Blue Ridge marked the boundary
line of the Cherokee country and the
advance line of settlement. The IN
settled condition of Indian title:
made this the border OF Norman:
Land and this was the Indian battle
sround both with themselves and thu
advance guard Of Western settlement
When Daniel Boone left his home or
the Yadkin and followed this stream
to its head, he came to the crest o
the Blue Ridge n up this beautiful
valley. and here to our right unde,
that old oak, built his cabin. TIL
fact that Roosevelt does not mention
this is not proof positive that he wa!
not here. From here this restless
rowing. wandering spirit. whose neigh
bors were always agreeable becaus'
ne had none. pushed his way through
the hostile Indians. by knowing then
better thar they knew themselves. tt
the banks of the beautiful Watauga