Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-02

mailing Office located at Waynesyilie
THAT she might be put on the map and
introduced to the world.
Such a mail was created along with
the summer visitors that were pouring
in, that u emcient and public spirited
postmaster, Mr.. Thos. Green. wrote to
the Postmaster General because of this
heavy mail, Waynesville was entitled
to a post Office building. Immediatelg
the Postmaster General sent down 3
Government agent and he selected a
lot and it was purchased and paid for,
before the member from the tenth dis
trict heard about it.
Having had something to do with the
Government purchasing this lot, I feel
at liberty to make some suggestions
about that post Office building.
When MI. Gudger was emit to Con-
gress, he introduced a bill for the
erection of a post Office building and it
passed, but the appropriation has not
been made yet.
The greatest educational and people
drawing and instructive institution in
the South is going to be the Great
Southern Methodist Assembly at Way
%hesville, brought here by the untiring
energy and devotion of Bishop Atkins.
This institution represents millions
of Methodists throughout the nation
and the world. and they are going to
come from every State and country
during the summer season.
GAINESVILLE. Georgia has one of the
most beautiful and attractive little
p~ostof1ces in the South. 1t is built all
of Georgia marble.
There are some quarries of the finest
marble in the u. S. in the ten district
OF North Carolina. More people will
visit Waynesville as the years go by
than perhaps any other place in the
Southern Appalachian range. The
man who represents the tenth district
the next time in Congress, should ask
for SIPS 900 for the Waynesville post
office and provide that the Government
architect plans that building to use the
different kinds of marble and grantee
that can be had in the tenth district to
build it.
There is beautiful green seppentine,
that can be utilized, in Jackson coun-
ty. There is a mountain of ruby gar
net solid as granite that is a noun
tain of R%hodelite, solid as granite, that
will take a glistening polish, that can
be gound in Jackson county, used for
column caps, window caps, and sills
along with white marble, the blue
marble and the pink marble, along in
Cherokee and Swain counties. There
is a formation Of granite in Haywood
county, the like unknown to mineralo-
gist, already notified, to make MOSAIC
floors. ThereAi is a mountain of mate
rial in jackson county, similar to the
rock that white Rock Texas is built of,
that is fire proof, that can be sawed
into slabs, dressed with a plane and
when exposed to the weather gets
white and becomes as hard as yitriied
Trick.
Every one of these materials can be
had within easy access of the Murphy
branch of railroad, in the tenth district.
And it can be a great artistic piece of
work, for every county in the tenth
district, should contribute a few blocks
of stone to its construction. A column
or a shaft can be erected in that build
ing, by utilizing stones from every
county in the district. as monument to
the Democracy and the purity of the
character of the late w. T. Crawford,
with his name chiselled under the
name of each county from which the
block of stone may come.
In this way the world can see a
building as beautiful as some of the
aIabasta temples constructed in India.
Asheville has the most unique hotel
building in the world, but it simply
shows a unique architectural struc-
ture, and what can be done with
crude material, but reveals no exhibit
of beautiful building material that
North Carolina, should today be ship
ping throughout the world, and will,
when the world knows it is here.
This mountain section and the tenth
district can send millions of tons of
beautiful granite and stones laden
with gems and Jewels, to beautify
buildings all over the world.
Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon,
Jackson, Haywood, TRANSATLANTIC coun-
ties, all have building stones that are
being sought throughout the world.