Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-05

r%oiners' wives use electric irons anu
| toasters, and the smooth streets ap,,
GEAR strangely exotic in this part Oh
the world. 1t is eleven miles across
the mountain to Big stone Gap va
the home OF the late John FOX u,
| writer of Kentucky n
! stories-only eleven miles across
inc wilderness of Pine Mountain, yet
laLeut two days by rail via Middles-
boro. and through Cumberland Gap
and back up the Virginia side OF
the range!
Lynch is a new camp spic and
span, the highest town in Kentucky,
at the end of a branch of the LOUIS
vile & Nashville up Cumberlana
River and the tiny a%ffluent OF the
Cumberland, Looney Greek. which
rises on Black Mountain.
McRoberts, at the terminus OF
another branch, running up one OF
The forks of Kentucky River, IL
Jenkins, across the divide from NC
Roberts at the head of the valley
o. Elkhorn, a tributary or Big
| Sandy River, are older camps less
IN to date, less conspicuous as
models, less interesting to students
o. welfare work as it is done by
mining companies. But in some re-
spects these camps have been I'M
proved by time.
J Jenkins lies in a narrow valley
of Alpine appearance, not without
its blue lake to carry out the re-
scmblance to Swiss scenery, Z
plentifully supplied with vine COW
vered cottages and flower gardens
~bespeaking long occupancy. The
lake, some twenty acres Of the
80. - raO,tfain ctraaf m inn
pounded by a dam which provides
power, is surrounded by homes OF
company officers, and upon II size
OF it is the company club house
which serves as a home for unmar-
ried miners and office employees.
Canadian canoes and a sail boat,
cat rugged, give the lake the ap-
pearance of a similar body of water
thanked by cottages occupied by a
summer colony for pleasure.
The Famous Trail
Above it where blue sky and dark
pine tops meet, rum the Trail OF
the Lonesome Pine described by
John Fox, Jr., in a novel of that
! title which has been seen in drama-
tized form or both the stage n
screen. If Mr.. Fox drew upon his
| lItldSllldllOA lOl TIC lofNtNNSS - -
heroine he did not have to depart
from reality in describing the rare
beauty OF the scenery.
And almost within sight OF the
club house and the lake the priini-
tive life of the mountains which FOX
depicts still survives. A June Toll
| liver of the heights might stand at
the Lonesome Pine at n1ghttall
looking down upon a dark valley
starred with electric lights, and re-
turn home to a nearby log cabin
lighted by a log fire in the evening
CZechs, Lithuanians, Greeks, Mag
vars, Italians, men of many races
occupy the cottages OF jenkins en-
powered in vines and flowers, which
cling to precipitous mountainsides
resembling in their surroundings
not in architecture, chalets IN
Switzerland.
When Jenkins was founded by
men some OF whom remain III
charge as company officers, the ma
chinery and building material were
brought in by OK teams to trans
form a forested gorge into a nina,
ture city with wide lawns of blue
grass and streets as smooth as these
OF Washington.
erts and Lynch is maintained fol
the purpose of the coal mine oper
ators by means of a tunnel undel
the divide through which mine car
alone are run. Passengers eros
the divide in light automobiles whel
tho weather is dry. 1t is roughe'
work than riding a mule~but some
what faster going.
), Such coal camps as Lynch arr
! Jenkins and many smaller ones les
, handsomely equipped, surroundet
by the old mountain life. draw a
: latorers. by the lure of high wages
some of the native m~ountaineers
, Others more conservative remail
: steadfastly by their cabins, cultivat
2 ing crops in fields so slanting tina
corn cannot be gathered in a wagoi
4 bu. only in a slide.
: mo wages would tempt the tel
a low who lives up there" said a min
ing man pointing upward to
mountaineer's home perched wher
e an eagle might have made its mes
THE foreigners indicating a grou
" of miners-"can earn more In
week than the native ever had a
q lens time, but his tyre prefers pcy
: ierty and ths frsedom pf the nils