Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30
MOUNTAIN GLORIES
IN FALL MONTHS
Wild Riot of Color No Conservatory
Would be Able to Duplicate. Fogs
Chill on west coast. In Adiron-
dacks Lakes Already Frozen Over
(By R, p, Harris


tray the scenes of the mountains of
western North Carolina for the past
month. Victor Hugo's description
of the battle Of Waterloo is said to
be the best piece Of description ever
penned, yet his power would be to-
tally inadequate to convey to rea-
der the beauty Of this section in the
fall of the year.
Of the thousands of tourists who
travel these mountains in the sum-
mer months, there is not one of them
who has an idea Of their beauty un-
less they have seen the foliage in the
fall.
Now that the automobile is the
popular mode of travel the time is
approaching when the people through
out North and South Carolina will
begin to spend their week-ends dur
ing the fall in this part of the state.
Hotels are beginning this year to
remain open later in the season and
once the people realize the Won
derful fall weather here, they will
remain later, and the tourist season
will be heightened from the first of
September to the first of November.
Wild Riot of Colors
For the past two months in this
section there has been floral exhib-
it of wild nature that cannot be dup
licated in any conservatory in the
world. There is not picture ex-
hibited in any saloon that has the
flaming reds of the oaks nor the bril-
liant yellows Of the dozens of varie-
ties of giant trees dotting the noun
tains. To stand on mountain peak
here and look at the vast panorama
of rioting colors is, scene unequal
led in any spot. The cedars, spruce
and pines, rhododendrons and noun
tain laurels, are the same brilliant
green of the summer with the reds
and purple of the shumacks, oaks,
naples and sourwoods, lying with the
browns of the chestnuts and the yell
lows of the hickory-nut, poplar sea-
ley-bark and other giants present a
vast pallet of color that cannot be
described by man.
, For two months the weather has
been ideal and there have been only
four days of rain in that time, and
| two of those days the sun was out
= part of the time. There have been
only three light frosts and the days
are like ideal summer weather. 1t
5 has not been cold enough for an ov-
ercoat this fall and very few of the
r houses have had fire in the day
time. The nights hover around 40
S which calls for an evening fire and
/. blankets are drawn up for comfort
: Incompatible Climate
!, The writer has been in practically
: every state of the United States yet
+ nowhere has he discovered such 6
: climate as this section Of North Car
+ olina. California boasts always OF
it's unrivalled climate, yet it cannot
S compare with this. Colorado which
S is the mecca for those stricken will
e tuberculosis, falls too far short fo
: comparison. The Adirondacks of up
1t per New York come the nearest t.
p approaching this for scenery in tn,
IS fall months. Yet that is only al
p imitation of what we have here, ant
e California has its chilling fogs fo
y weeks. Colorado has been snowe'
l. under blizzard of sleet and ice an
ir the Adrondacks have already ha
e zero weather, with some of the lake
p, frozen over. Yet here in the noun
y tains of North Carolina there ar
n hundreds of children running aroun
r in their bare feet and too warm t
wear coat over their shirt durin
ot the days.
es There will be a time when tn
is people of the South realize that the
to are committing a crime against thei
tubercular patients by sending thel
Mt to the vaunted sections of Arizon;
:" New Mexico, Colorado and Adiror
a dacks. Right there within day
a travel they have a sanitorium pre-
a pared for them by nature that Cal
u not be equalled anywhere in tn
ke world, including the famed section
ms of Switzerland. Climate is the mai
u consideration in the treatment of tt
rt berculosis and the most wonderfl
ty climate to be found is right at tn
at door of the southern people. Thel
are doctors in this section that al
equal to specialists anywhere. Wit
rs this climate patient can remain OF
a. of doors at all times of the year ar
IT. never encounter the fogs Of Califo
no mia, the shrivelling heat Of Arizor
New Mexico with their dust storm
the terrific changes of temperatu
and the high altitude Of Colorado n
're the artic weather of the Adirondac
in the winter Charlotte News.
ao Canada is succeeding we'll in h