The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12

House, the finest country place in
America. Pisgah Forest, he called
this cherished possession and this
name has been adopted by the COM
mission. Conserved by the first sci
entiffc forestry practiced in America,
it is the finest and most extensive
hardwood forest in the eastern states
and it will be the largest area owned
by the United States east of the Mis-
sissippi.
A Princely Domain.
Pisgah Forest is princely domain
of mighty mountains and crystal
streams. Lacking the barren gran
deur of the Rockies, it is a great
green garden of wooded heights and
grassy glades, impenetrable thickets
of rhododendron and azalea, making
masses of bloom in spring and early
summer. In it's bounds are giant
peaks, some grassy "balds," other
balsam-clad domes and rock capped
SUBMITS with granite precipices shell
tering bear and wolves, eliminating
in the sharp spire of Pisgah's pyra
mid, 5,757 feet above sea level.
Abundant rainfall insures luxuriant
vegetation. Noble trees of poplar.
oak, spruce, hemlock, balsam, hick-
DRY, walnut, maple, birch cover the
slopes. A thousand high placed
springs send their waters through
ferny dells to form the fastening
streams. Cascading overy rocky bot
toms they foam against great boul-
ders, swirl in dark pools, spread like
silver curtain on rock tables and
plunge, as at Looking Glass, sheer
down for so feet. 1t is a land of sing
ing brooks and white crested streams.
Stocked With Game.
Game and fish abound in the for
est. 1t is estimated that there are
3 5000 deer, besides bear, wolves, rae
coons, opossums, squirrels, rabbits,
quail, wild turkey, native pheasants
and descendants Of Chinese and Eng
fish pheasants with which it was
stocked years ago. The clear, cool
water is the native habitat of the
speckled or mountain trout and in
the larger streams are the rainbow
or California variety. Wardened for
many years, the trout are as plentiful
as the most ardent fisherman could
desire.
One may reach the heart of this
Wilderness in a two hours ride from
Asheville and the greater part of it
may be overlooked by a scenic road
believed to be unequalled in Amer
lea, a road nearly mile in elevation
and an automobile road at that. 1t
was built by Mr.. Vanderbilt exclu-
sively for use by his automobile in
reaching his hunting lodge on one
of the ears" of that rat" which, as
seen from Asheville, the imagination
pictures as climbing to the sharp
summit of Pisgah.
Famous Automobile Road.
This road extends from the end of
the county macadam, 20 miles from
the city and ascends $500 feet by a
steady grade of 8 to Z per cent.
miles to the lodge, and then con-
tinues 10 miles along Pisgah ridge.
1t circles great peaks, hanging over
steep precipices and crest heights
over 5000 feet high and then be-
comes almost level for several miles
The speeding car unreels new scenic
marvels each moment. In front
above, below, an ocean of greenery
seems to rise and fall as far as thu
eye can see-to the dim blue of thu
Appalachian giants. the mass of thu
Great Smokes guarding the Tennes
see line, and northward the dark pin
nacle Of Mt. Mitchell-highest Ian,
east of the Rockies. Far beloy
CLEANS the water-mirrored face of