Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1912-05-24
Highland Is a County
of Fine Prospects

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Monterey, Va, May 16.-High-
land County is indeed rightly
named for ali of her land is high
even in price; and rightly So tor
now here are fields so green or
cattle so fat, or sheep so numerous;
The constant tinkle of bells is heard
from every hillside and IN every
vale. In a days ride one is scarce
out of hearing of. the bell music;
They say 1.-The mountains are noisy
at this season, but to the visitor 1t
is an interesting experience that
illustrates the great number Oh
flocks and herds that annually roam
over highlands great blue grass
pastures. ro
Nowhere do people seem to live so
we'll and so easily-even .Whlle
they sleep" as the saying goes
their cattle grow into money
Wheat is not raised as a money
! crop anywhere in the county, only
1 here and there a small field of it
sod land is too precious and the
! hills too numerous for suitable
wheat culture. | was shown one
great grazing farm in Crabbottom
| that numbered many hundred
acres-the William Hevener place l
believe it was that reports saY.ean
not be had for 100000. Ii is a
II.vast expanse of thickly growing
! green, about shoe high and a beau
4 tiful sight. On it was a 100 acre
pasture field that was told would
bring $500 per acre.
If these are big figures, I can MOI
help it am giving them as they
wer given to me = in good faith |
| elifve. At any rate Crabbottom
alley is surprisingly beautiful at
| this season of the year and the
| lands in it look as if they might
bring any price.
From a scenic point of view
highland is unique and unequel IN
! the estimation of many we'll travel
ed persons. geographically tits a
series of mountain ranges and green
Evalleys-the mountains parrallellng
keach other in range after range,
hike great sea waves, from the crest
fof which may be seen on either side
1.-The most beautiful valley. Like a
great green carpet the grass covers
the country from mountain to
mountain and through the vale runs
stream of crystal water that SHIN
mers in the sun like silver thread.
/ Here and there on the landscape
are clumps of maple trees, pretty
farm houses. with white fences
about them, and over the fair
scene roam the finest and sleekest
of cattle. Such is the scene from
the slopes of Monterey mountain as
one looks out over the famous Crab
bottom country. | can not recall a
scene more fair anywhere - and
what is true of Crabbotrom is also
true to a more or less extent of the
other valleys that 60 to make up
highland county.
The cross-mountain roads Of
highland are mostly good of slate,
they are easily kept up and are we'll
graded. From Mountain House the
road over Shenandoah Mountain to
Headwaters is a splendid piece of
engineering. The grade is so dis
tributed that one scarcely realizes
the heights to which he climbs, or
the depths to which he decends.
But a stones throw from the top
would land in the road mile be-
low indeed the winding of the
way is so peaplcxing that strangers
looking low, often can tell whether
their fellow traveller is going or
coming.
Looping the loops, is fine on the
west side and when it is done in an
auto, the experience is quite exhila-
rating. A. S. M. in Staunto n
Daily Leader.