Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1925-03-12
$4,000 WOULD VISIT
MOUNTAIN REGION
Western North Carolina, Inc. Makes
Appeal to Farm Homes to Take
Care Of Surplus Summer Tourists.

for the statement that in addition to
the people who spend their vacation
period in western North Carolina now
at least $4,000 more will flock here
the first summer there are accommo-
datlons to care for them, and that
is only the beginning. If accommoda-
tons can be arranged for, and these
people are informed, and after spend
ing their vacation here, return to the
respective communities satisfied with
the accommodation and treatment
afforded them, each one can be coun
ted on to act as an advertiser for this
section of our state as vacation re-
sort. SO the number of regular wes-
tern North Carolina vacationists will
increase each year in proportion to
our ability and willingness to care
for them. The situation at present
may be likened to that of the farmer
who knows he has productive and
consequently valuable piece of land
and allows it to lie falow.
BY Ignoring the possibilities of pro
viding the right kind of vacation ac-
commodation for the thousands who
would come here from such cities as
Cincinnati New Orleans, Memphis,
etc. the citizens, and speaking more
particularly, the farmers of western
North Carolina, are practically re-
fuslng to accept the hundreds of
thousands of dollars these vacation
lists would leave here each season.
We speak specifically of the far
mer, because it is in large measures
his opportunity that is being lost.
Thousands of people in the cities
mentioned cannot afford to live in
high priced hotels Thousands, more
particularly those with children do
not care for the life of the summer
hotels, always crowded, but choose the
change to life on the farm with its
quiet simplicity and closeness to ma
tulr,+- -provaling-the farm house is
equipped with those simple conven.
fences to which the city dweller is
accustomed and considers fundamen-
tai and indispensable to his com-
fort, and that the food is wholesome
of variety, and we'll cooked.
Western North Carolina, Inc. with
headquarters in Asheville, was or
ganized to serve all the people of
this section of our state. It's Execu-
tive Committee and officers are con-
fident that in natural scenic beauty
and invigorating yet equable climate
it is unsurpassed in the United
States. One of its detectives is to
acquaint the people, particularly
those who are accustomed to take a
regular summer or fall vacation, with
the accessibility, charms and health
giving attributes of these western
counties of our state, then induce
them to come here and by so doing,
to provide an added source of in
come for the farmer who is pro-
gressive enough to realize what that
increase in income will add to his
well-being and that of his family.
There are thousands of such far
mers in western North Carolina men
of vision and capacity, who are will
ing, and what is more important, eq-
uipped and prepared to accept from
two oten paying guests this summer
But they have no means of adver-
tising the fact. They are, as it were
cut off from a source of supply that
means added comfort and increased
prospects. That is where Western
North Carolina, Inc. can and will
function for them. Western North
Carolina, Inc. is now engaged IA
preparing list Of farm houses in
this section, in which summer boar
ders can be accommodated with pro-
fit to the farmer and satisfaction to
the guest. In compiling this list, Wes-
tern North Carolina, Inc. must have
the assistance of the progressive far
mers in every one of the twenty five
counties. That assistance will cost
them exactly two cents-the price of
postage to mail letter informing
Western North Carolina, Inc. of their
desire to increase their income by
accepting summer boarders. Western
North Carolina, Inc. will in turn, an
swer the communication, setting forth
the minimum standard that has been
adopted for farm boarding houses,
inquirin gas to rates, location, etc.
and will then, if the reply be satis-
factory, list the farm home and rec
ommend it as a vacation home to
some of the twenty five thousand
people who seek to come here.
Sit down now and write your let.
ter directing it to Western Nortl