Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-05-21
DISCOVERED At LAST.

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The natural rsources and ad-
of Allegheny, Ashe and
Watauga counties, the finest SEC
ton OF the North Carolina noun
tains, are being discovered a t
last, in spite OF all We could do to
remain hidden from the rest OF the
world. We are literally, b e in G
"caught in the act" as it We're,
of having more and betterthings
here than anywhere else in the
world, though we have done our
very best to hide our light under
q bushel ever since Daniel Boone
passed through on his way to
Kentucky.
What is all that rigamarole q.
bout? This:
Messrs. A. j. Reed Of Raleigh,
and C. F. Doane OF Washington,
D. G., two very handsome and
prepossessing lookingyoungmen
of good moral character, appar-
emily, and both apparently mar
ried hard and fast, thank good
ness, arrived at the Blair hotel,
Boone, last Thursday zig h t.
They are making a tour of the
three obscure and hidden counties
named above for the purpose OF
investigating their adaptability
for cheese making. After even a
most cursory examination they
are convinced-and they know all
about the subject-that this sec.
tion can produce cheese Of as fine
quality as the finest produced in
the states Of New York, Wiscon-
sin or Ohio. How they everfound
it out, is as much of a mystery
as how Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
last summerdiscovered that Mrs.
Finley Mast of Vale Crucis can
make the very finest sort OF jean,
coverlids, rugs and. carpets on an
old-fashioned hand loom thathas
been in he family over one hun
dred years. Butshe did find out,
and Mrs. Mast made for Mrs.
President Wilson last September
a beautiful rug, IA by 18 it., so
thick that the heaviest football
cannot be heard thereon. 1t is OF
a beautiful shade of green, and
already adorns one of the rooms
of the nations White House. Mrs.
Mast also makes towels for dress.
ers, tides for chairs, curtains for
for windows, portiers etc. from
the same loom, and in her pos
session is a aswallow.tailed suit oI
blue linen, with large silver but
tons, fase pocket flaps etc., which
was worn by her great grand
father at many a country dance
in the days "When life was new
and all was bright as morning
dew" And mark this prediction
"One of these days, believer
one of these days." some wide a
wake hotel man. with a pocke
full of scads is coming along here
and is going to discover that thf
Almighty Architect planned ane
adapted this section for the play
ground of Dixie land; there are nj
fogs in Boone, and that here
the spot favored of the gods 10
a hotel that will surpass the gle
ries of the Ponce de Leon or tn
|
Ponciana of Florida; that Cook
gap, on thecrestof the Blue Ridgt
is more favored than Rome, tina
"sat on her seven hills and frol
her throne OF beauty ruled tn
world" or words to that effect
that Vale Crucis, the romatic Va
lev of the Cross, in which the sol
racked Ives dreamed OF foundin
an abbey monastery, and who's
memory still "tinges the sobe
twilight OF the present with colo
of romance" is as lovely as tn
=, Eden from which the snow.limbe
!. Eve was driven in the day-daw
Of fine world; that Jefferson, Spa
ia, Creston, Banner Elk, Alta
, mont, Pinola, Beaver Creek, So
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