The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-19
ROCKIES ARE
MERE BABIES
BY CONTRAST
National Staff Planning
l0-Year Program for
Development

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National Park contains - peaks
and gaps more than nile high,
according. to list compiled from
records of the L. s. Geological
Survey.
According to the list, there are
% mountain peaks in the park
area with an altitude of 5000 feet
or more. Twenty-tmee peaks have
an altitude Of over $3.50 feet but
less than 5000 feet, while eight
mountain gaps are over $3.50 feet
high.
The highest peak in the park is
Clingman's Dome, which rises g.
642 feet above sea level. Next in
size is Mt. Guyot, which is 6,62l
feet high.
All of the peaks are located
within the park area, which con-
sists of approximately +2S,oOo
acres. The Newfound gap, over
which runs the main highway to
the Great Smoky Mountains Ma.
tional Park, is only few hundred
feet less than a mile high, its a!ti-
tude being 5.045 feet.
Mountain peaks 5000 or more
high are:
BalSam Corner, G,00O feet; Big
Cataloochce, Clip feet; Blazed
BalSam, G,243 feet; Mt. Buckley,
6,5S2 feet; Cams Knox, GAO
feet; Mt. Chapman, 6,43O feet;
Clingman's Dome, 6,G42 feet; Mt.
Collins, 6,lSS feet; Mt. Guyot,
6,62l feet; Nj. HardiSon, GLIB
feet; Mt. Kcphart $500 feet; Mt.
Love, 6.lOO feet; Luftee KNOB,
6,216 feet; Old Black Mountains,
$3.50 - feet; Mt. Amber, 5000
feet; Mt. Sequoyah. 5000 feet;
Thermo Knob. 6,l2O feet; Tlicoy.
ncr Knob. 6,1O0 feet; Mt. Yona-
guska. 6,lS3 feet and Mt. Le-
conte, 6,593 feet.
Peaks more than $3.50 feet
high are:
Andrews Bald, 5.S6O'feet; Bal.
sam High Top, 5,6SS feet; Black.
horn Mountain, 5,425 feet; Buck
Knob, 5,64O feet; Cataloochee
Balsam $40 feet; Charities Bun.
ion, 5,4OO feet; Chiltoes Moun-
tain, 5.SSS feet; Eagle Rock; s.
500 feet; Hemphill Bald 5,573
feet; Laurel Top, $3.50 feet; Lit
tie Bald Knob. 5,677 feet; Little
Thunder Head, $500 feet; Mt.
MinguS. $500 feet; Peck's Cor
ner, $500 feet; Rocky Top. 5,44G
feet; Sheepback Knob, $500 feet;
Siler Bald, $500 feet; Soco Bald,
5,462 feet; Spruce Mountain, s.
$50 feet; Mt. Sterling 1886 feet:
Strawberry Knob, $40 feet;
Thunderhead, $3.50 feet; Anakes-
ia Knob, $500 feet.
Mountain gaps over a mile high
are:
Indian Gap, 6,265 feet; Deep
Greek Gap, 5000 feet; Collins
Gap, 5,72O feet; Double Spring
Gap, $500 feet; Dry Sluice Gap,
1915 feet; Horse Greek Gap, 81
575 feet; Laurel Gap, 5,400 feet;
Porter Gap. $500 feet.
From the standpoint Of geolog-
ic history. this is the oldest land
on the American continent. Conn
pared With The Great Smoky
Mountains in point of age, the
Rocky Mountains are in their
swaddling clothes. The Smokes
were old when the great forces of
nature pushed upward the gigan-
tic ridges and towering cones of
the Rockies.
Through countless geologic
ages the great Architect Of the
Universe carved and nodded and
chiseled the great canyons and
domes and peaks Of the Smokes
and nodded them as we find them
today. Through other countless
ages the same great Architect has
woven and fashioned for them a
magnificent garment of verdure,
an llimitable forest of spruce and
hemlocli, poplar and chestnut
beech and maple, with every spa
cies Of shrub and plant and flow
err. In fact, this is the last of the
great gprimeval forests of the Ap-
palachians! Only its remoteness
has preserved it. The SUBMITS of
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