Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1925-07-16
TELLSOF PROGRESS
AROUND BOONE
L. J, Hampton in Winston-Salem
Journal Speaks Well of
Local Activities

for out of the 100000 issue of
bonds recently sold by the city
commissioners, will be opened on
July % next, and it is understood
that work on this particular muri-
cipal improvement will begin at
once.
II Out of the bond issue will be
FUSED enough money to pave the
shoulders on abutting property
through the main street of Boone,
the cenetr, of regulation width ac-
cordng to state highway specifica-
tions, to be built by the state. The
streets are now being marked out
to obtain a uniform width and grade
Concrete paving will be used within
the limits of the town of Boone and
the state and municipal governments
will push forward the work stimuli
taneously.
Experts were today looking over
the available water supply upon a
nearby mountain watershed nigh up
above human habitation and it is said
that rough estimates already in hand
give evidence of a plentiful source
of spring water, pure enough in it's
natural state to obviate the expense
of mechanical scientific or other de-
vices for purification.
Tourists are Here
The torrid weather of the first
few days of. the month of July has
driven hundreds of people from the
lowlands and Piedmont sections to
these mountains where the mercury
always registers delightful tempe
rature in the day and where nights
are cool enough for a blanket
Boone hotels have been enjoy
ing an unusually thriving patron
age for the past two weeks and
additional reservations continue to
q come in from all parts of North
Carolina and from adjacent terri
tory in Tennessee and other states.
Numerous prospectors from as far
away as Winston-Salem and Char
lotte have recently been here to
look over poperty for building
summer homes. Real estate men
in Boone have already leased or
sold practically all available residen-
ces and many new ones are going up
to take care of the future demand.
Two land sales of property in
the northern and southern sections
of Boone scheduled for this week
and next are expected to bring hum
dreds of people here who have in
mind either the purchase of vacant
property for investment purposes or
the building of summer place of
residence.
Come Here to Fish
A party of five people from Pike
vile, KY, who had heard of the
splendid trout fishing in the
streams of Watauga county, ar
rived here last night for stay of a
week or ten days. Followers of this
sport have recently reported catches
of the limit allowed by law for one
day within period of two hours
angling. AS result the streams Of
Watauga have become the recrea-
tional center of this mountain count
tor everyone from far and near and
visitors who having their first ex-
periences with the game rainbow and
speckled beauties are enthusiastic
about it.
Boone is one town in the noun
tains of North Caroina that has
not yet been hit by the wave of
business depression that appears pre-
valent not only in the majority of
the sections of North Carolina but
all over the nation.
Local merchants are enjoying the
usual summer patronage, the vol
ume showing even slight increase
over that of the same period of last
year. The town has the unique dis
tinction of not having single va
cant business building and those now
in course of erection have already
been leased for occupancy as soon
as they are finished.
A portion of the whole business
block recently completed by Dis.
trict Attorney Frank A. Linney was
leased before completion and stores
a theater and offices are now occu.
pied. One of the new mercantile fEms
to open here within the last month
is branch store of the Spainhour-
Sydnor Dry Goods Company of N
Wilkesboro. This firm occupies big
store room in the Jones block ir
which is also located the Farmer: