Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-08-21
ALEXANDER BUYS
800 MORE ACRES
MAYHEM Park Owner to Create a
Greater Resort. Green Park Golf
Course Park of Late Purchase
Now Owns Vast Tract.

Now Owns Vast Tract.
The following is taken from re-
cent special from Mayview Manor to
the Charlotte Observer:
Definite plans toward creating the
greatest summer resort and play
ground in the mountains of western
North Carolina were consummated
here last night when W. L. Alexan-
der owner of Mayview Park and the
Mayview Manor, purchased 300 acres
of land from the Blowing Rock De-
velopment company, including the
golf course at Green Park hotel.
| The announcement of the purchase
was made today by Mr.. Alexander.
The Mayview Park area consists of
3117 acres and with the addition of
800 acres near the Green Park hotel
Mr.. Alexander's holdings within the
immediate environs of Blowing Rock
will total GIT acres. Besides this pro
perty Mr.. Alexander owns 1900 acres
of land along The Johns River, thus
briniing his entire mountain inter-
ests hereabouts to 2,217 acres of
land.
The figures in the Green Park
property deal were not divulged. Mr..
Alexander has been negotiatin gfor
this property for some time. His
greatest ambition is to place wes-
tern North Carolina on the map
with one of the finest mountain play
grounds in America. The Green Park
links will be revamped and the
course will be converted into one of
the most desirable as well as the
most difficult courses anywhere. In
a few years he hopes to popularize
the links to the extent that state,
invitation and national tournaments
may be played there.
Whether he will erect a new hotel
on the property, he not ready to
announce. However other develop
ment work will go forward and i'm
| provements will be installed that will
make the 300 acres among the most
, attactive and desirable in the Blow
ing Rock region.
In addition to the land purchase
Mr. Alexander announced that the
Western Union will inaugurate i'm
mediately a 24-hour service out of
Blowing Rock with direct loop to-
| Charlotte. Such service will make
it possible for summer visitors and
residents here to be in constant COM
munication with the outside world
if desired.
; Blowing Rock has long been known
as one of the most picturesque noun
| tain communities in America, occu-
| pying a strategic position on the very
top of the Blue Ridge and on the
very rim of cloudland. With the new
activity in progress and new public
ity and advertising campaigns laun-
ched, Blowing Rock is destined to be
known from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc Ocean, if Mr. Alexander's plans
are consummated.
Mayview Manor, standing as it
does on the cliff of the world, nest
ling among the chestnut trees and
the clouds, a great cluster of strik-
ing architecture set in a greater
cluster of mountain laurel, rhodo-
dendrons and myriads of other noun
tain flowers, is one of the rare beau
ty spots in a rare and beautiful noun
tain community. The improvements
at this hotel already make it distinc-
tive, supreme in it's comfort and yet
also supreme in its picturesque set
ting.
Besides it's own golf links, its
! scores of mountain trails, automobile
4 roads, its gun club, it's tennis courts
lake and swimming facilities-there
is a theater, spacious ball room
| musical revues and concerts. If you
are looking for the mountains, you
will find them here. If you tire Of
the mountains, you can turn to the
more modern forms of entertainment
| Augmenting his present holdings,
Mr.. Alexander will not only popular
ize the same, but he intends to call
the worlds attention to the general
community of Blowing Rock. In the
course of time he believes the noun
tains of western North Carolina will
become as famous as those of Swift
zerland. Probably they cannot boast
of as much snow but they can pre-
sent a greater variety in scenic beau