French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02

ply along the. mountain crest on. the
northside ofMthe district back to Ashe-
vile would create the greatest and
most interesting scenic highway, and
a self-sustaining one on the North
American continent, to preserve the
watersheds that will maintain several
million horsepower for h~ydro-electric
development for manufacturing plants.
People from all over the world would
come to ride over it. It would open
up roads through billions of feet of
timber, the finest on earth, to create
perpetual income. 1t would open up
lands for fruit-growing and farming,
ard every 20 miles of it would be
worth more than the whole million
acres for which the government has
taxed the people $780, 600, 600 to secure
in wild barren regions of Arizona,
Montana and Nevada. 1t would IN
ten years add over $1O0, OOO, 900 value
to the tax books of the Tenth for
thousands of summer homes and sum-
mer hotels and woodworking and
mining and cotton plants would build
UP along the line. All Congress wants
is to understand these things are
facts to carry it out Do the people
of the Tenth want these things?
Third Issue:r In the Tenth, broad
side to railroads are marble quarries
of many colors of the finest in the
world, and granite quarries second to
none. Not one effort has been made
even to have a government building
in the Tenth trimmed with these beau
tiful building materials Every gov
eminent building and postofice in the
Tenth should be built from the marble
and granite from these quarries
When they are seen by the people
visiting this state, they viii be want
ed all over the world, especially when
they e them in government struc-
turai work. This is permanent mon
umental advertising that would soor
have 1000 men working in the granite
and marble quar1ies in the Tenth
One of the most beautiful postofice
buildings in the u S., is a white mar
bic one, built at Gainesville, Ga, Who'll
~ built of Georgia marble. Is this
not an issue to appeal to the pride OF
every citizen in the Tenth.
Fourth Issue: Congress appropri-
Fated millions of dellars to buy Alaska
and has mineral surveys made, cost
ing piles of money IN that country, in
which plant life can grow but three
months in the year, and has published
showing the minerals, where it is
| worth a mans life to go after them
congress appropriates the money fol
mineral surveys up in New York
Massachusetts, Maine and New Hamp,
shire, giving government reports or
private Yankee corporate owned prop
critics, describing to the last inch OF
ere, that it might be possible fol
them to have and even to the min
utest details of the size of the pulIeys
in the mills, all printed as official al
cost of the people of this country tc
help these New England people tc
induce capital to join them, (these
people Who) put southern minerals
ON the free list so that with high
railroad rates they could not get to
their markets, and what they needed
that had been produced in the south,
they preferred to get as free ship bal
last from foreign lands. An honest,
careful mineral survey of the Tenth
will reveal it to be the richest min
eralized territory of the same size
carrying thirty different kinds of min
eral of domestic value, and in daily
demand. A man in Congress able to
show these facts ear ecure a>miner-
al survey for the Tenth. Do the peo-
pie want it?
Fifth Issue: The soil of the Tenth
is varied in character, and suscepta-
bic under a right treatment after be-
ing analysed, and it is known what
it needs will produce crops equal in
value per acre almost of any section