Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-01-24
STATUE Fob MITCHELL
General Carr Discusses His Plans For
Carrying Out Weighty Task As
signed Him.

Durham.-Gen. Julian 5. Carr, VINO
was commissioned by Governor Locke
Craig as agent for the people of North
Carolina to have erected a suitable
monument on the summit of Blue
Ridge Mountains in memory of DIR.
Elisha Mitchell, has preached his pre-
tentious plans for the inception OF this
national movement. The monument OF
granite-to be a replica of the Wash
ington memorial-will necessitate the
expenditure of $151, OO0. The multiple
agencies and institutions which the
life of the scientist, minister and edu'
Gator touched will be solicited to sub
scribe SOL, 900 and the state and ma
tional governments jointly $4,000.
Opportunities for contributions will
be extended to every individual and
institution but the campaign at once
takes on a systematic appeal. Ter
grouped organizations will be solicited
in the aggregate with definite sums
named:
The University of North Carolina
and the twelve colleges of the state.
$4,000; the boys and girls of the
state through the agencies OF public
and private schools, $4,000; colored
children of North Carolina will donate
$1,000; alumni of Yale University (Dr.
Mitchells alma mater), $4,000; the
American Association of Scientists
10000 in number-$l0, 900; churches
North and South-especially the Pres
byterian church in which DR.. Mitchell
was elder and minister, $4,000; West
ern North Carolina through the offices
Of public spirited citizens, counties and
itors and tourists, $4,000; other pa
triotic and generous citizens, $40, 1000.
The total aggregates $101,000.
The nationwide appeal of General
Carr, with particular reference to the
people of North Carolina, emphasizes
the magnitude Of the undertaking and
the worthiness of the cause. The let
ter says in part:
"Impelled by a sense of duty and
deep feeling of pride in everything that
concerns the honor and prosperity of
our state, l have accepted from Gov
ernor Craig a commission to act as
agent for the people of North Carolina
in erecting on the summit of the Blue
Ridge Mountains a suitable monument
in memory of DR.. Elisha Mitchell.
ut is proposed to protect the grave
by a handsome covering of granite or
marble; and to erect nearby, on land
belonging to the state, a replica of the
Washington monument. Nothing short
of this would be worthy of the state,
the mountain, and the great man who
gave his life to its exploration and
measurement.
can unlimited supply of granite, al
ready at hand on the summit of the
mountain. will reduce the cost to half
what 1t otherwise would be. Still, the
enterprise is gigantic; and it will re-
quire at least $3.50, 000-possibly more.
"The people of North Carolina are
equal to this great achievement. DR..
Mitchell gave them forty years of his
life in active, unremitting educational
and scientific work. His name is en-
rolled high in the list of American
,cientists, teachers and discoveries. He
was also a minister of the Presbyterian
church and his whole life was marked
by philanthropic public service, as well
as by countless good deeds in private.
The erecting of a great monument to
his memory will appeal to thousands
of hearts throughout the United
States.
Let us all unite and erect on the
highest mountain in America, east of
the Mississippi river, a monument
worthy of Mitchell, worthy of the
mountain and worthy of the Old
North State"