The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-03
BION III. BUTLER.

BUN III. bUll1Eh.
Black Mountain, July 31.-I was
starting down from the summit Of Mt.
Mitchell and along the trail l met a
little group Of pilgrims laboriousiy
struggling up the steep climb To en-
courage them l made the crags echo
with that heartSome assurance, Its
a long way to co." and then explained
that the summit was just around the
next ledge Of rocks.
Presently came a bunch in which
was tall young fellow who extended
his hand and gave the showdown
sign. Your name is Butler" he in
formed me.
Guilty. as charged 1 confessed.
prom Pennsylva MIA" he contin-
ued. Give me the limit" I said. Il
admit everything"
"From Pittsburgh" this man went
on
Il have you now" I said. Your
name is Sherlock Holmes, but what
Is the occaSion?
My name is not Sherlock Holmes,
nor Hawkshaw the detective, but
Dickey, from BrOokville." And there
we mutually forgave everything, for
Brookville Is the town in which
spent the first eight years OF my boy
hood life, and we at once commenced
to talk about the old folks, and the
swimming hole, and the ancient his
tory of the little mountain village
back in Pennsylvania
1t transpired that Dickey was one
of the concern that operates the
railroad from Black Mountain up tt
Mt Mitchell, and the big lumber
mills and the big business here a
Black Mountain. So I went back VI
the mountain with him and told tn
newspaper fellows whom l had dis
~A tn1 thoYN IN holm them
selves to anything q Pennsylvania maj
had laying around loose il they want
ed It. And we were photographed Il
the movies with Jim COwan an
Clarence Poe and Don St Clair and
hundred other well known people, an
as the New York Sun would say,
lovely time was had
In the course Of time had to wor
around to Black Mountain and I'm
Dckey and ask what brought th
Pennsylvania bunch into the Mort
Carolina mountains, and the investi
cation brought out lot OF informa
ton that is interesting.
North Carolina Is filling up wit
men from Pennsylvania, and lot {
them are of high value. They AZ
dropping in everywhere from th
coast to the extreme west, and the
are doing things. They have bee
moving this way since before the re'
olu60nary days, and the Pennsyiva
mia settlements in North Carolina al
among the original communities
So numerous and large are the oi<
er Pensnyivanta colonies that Mort
Carolina to the Pennsylvania OF II
present generation seems like gettlT
out to the aunts and uncles and COZ
sins, and a Pennsylvania man can fe
at home In a great many sections
the State. 1t looks as if this situs
ton would continue, for Mr.. Dickt
informed mo that the mountai
country Of North Carolina is full
Pennsylvania folks.
The lumber creation on the Blat
mountain Is one Of the most lnteres
ing in the United States. 1t has dea
with lot Of original problems
numbering, and it is unique in
mountain peculiarities. The locom
tives Of the lumber Company climb
the highest point reached by ra
road east Of the Rocky mountain
They haul logs from some of T.
steepest declivities attacked by M
anywhere. The entire proposition
this Pennsylvania concern is almost
mile above sea level, the mill alo
excepted, which is territorially t
small factor. The mill is down at I
southern railroad near the Bla
Mountain station. The rest OF t
operation is high in the mountai rs.
few years ago A G. Dtckey.
Bri' k',le, Pa, and J G. Campbe
oi Maritnville, in the same sta
came Into the North Carolina mot
tains to look over soL tir'bec pre-
poets. They we're shown tie ;Sla
Goun,a,n property, which Dickey Sc
was as fine timber proposition