The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-06
Ashevillc Lying Amid the Mountain Peaks, Is
Lure to the Happy Vacation Tourist - BY y: RgekzEE

The mountains up IN western North
| Carolina around Asheville form one
| of the pig assets Of the state. ~
least the folks up in the Land Of
! the ky are Growing Justify over the
big bunch of real mountain peaks
| that have been grown within ore
! hundred miles of Ashville, which in
| cludes the tallest east of the Rockies,
Mount Mitchell GIL feet altitude,
! whose topmost spot is made easy OF
access to the tourist and mountain
climber over a wonderful mountain
railroad. And the folks over there
are quick to tell that "in the same
magic circle of a hundred miles about
| Asheville" we've got twenty two
peaks higher than Mount Washing
ton which the folks of New England
used to say was the tallest east of
| the Rockies" and these figures of
! mountain peaks were furnished by
| an official representative of the For
estry Department of the United
| States government. Before you have
chance to say anything about your
| country and home, these same inhab-
| itants continue the monologue with
! the added information that inside
| that self-same circle are sixty-four
| peaks 5000 feet and over, or any
way that was the last count, and
that a closer search by the keen eye
| of government counters might FIND
number more, or some of the pres
ent number a few feet higher than
present figures.
Buncombe county, of which Ashe-
vile is the rapidly growing capital,
! -, h. e L. E
Western North Carolina, got its
name, and good one too, from Cal.
Edward Buncombe, of st. kits, West
India Islands, who came to North
Carolina and liked it so much better
} than any other part of the world that
he became an early permanent resi-
dent and booster He made folks
welcome, made EN- feel at home, anc
! that's why Asheville grows so rapidly
over 5000 permanent population
since June LIST, 1917 Over the ole
colonel's door of his sracious man.
sion were the words "Welcome all
Buncombe Hall"
Buncombe! The country's all RICH
and going some. Buncombe hat
over 1900 miles of public roads, III
miles of concrete, asphalt, sand-cla,
and sand gravel roads from sixteel
to forty feet wide A program O.
road building covering a two-yeaI
period has been laid out, calling for
concrete road to adjoining count,
, lines over the main arteries of trave
is entailing an expenditure of a mil
! lion dollars and the work is nov
progressing at a rapid rate. There
an asphalt-macadam road from Ashe
vile to Weaverville, ten miles, or tn
, Aeheville. Knoxville, Chattanoog;
highway tap the Dixie Highway mali
. line: from Asheville to points be
: yond Sulphur Springs, seven mile
toward the great Pisgah Nationa
, Forest and Game Preserve, and bi.
forces are working on the concret
/ from Asheville to the Henderson
/ county line, y miles, between Ashe
vile and Spartanburg, and Ashevill
and Greenville, left hand road twr
miles southg of Hendersonville t
, Spartanburg, right hand road t
Greenville on National Highway
4 Big force at work on 18-mile stretcl
5 of Central (also Southern Nationa
? h=He-'1le TO Ridoecrest
Mcdowell county line, where tn
I IL. ..a.e Just opened Vi
the road from old fort at foot OF m
? Blue Ridge, great Eastern Divide, t.
, the top at Ridgecrest, mouth Of tn
three-mile Swannanoa tunnel of tn
{ Southern Railway which plerces IN
mountain at that point Scenery
This is indeed the scenic wonderland