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THE PENINSULAR AND OCCIDENTAL STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Express, Passenger and Freight Service Between
PORT TAMPA, KEY WEST, HAVANA,
WEST INDIES
Palatial P. & 0. Steamers sail from Port Tampa 2.30
p. m. Sundays and Thursdays. Sail from Key West 8.30
a. m. daily, except Sundays and Wednesdays, for Ha
vana, Cuba. J. *
Havana is the “Paris’’ of the Western Hemisphere.
Plenty of amusements. Interesting sight-seeing trips.
Greatly reduced Summer hotel rates. The Island of Cuba
is cooled by ocean breezes, which make the Summer
climate ideal.
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Very low excursion fares from many Georgia points
during the Summer afford wonderful opportunity to
make this interesting trip to a foreign country at small
cost.
For further information as to excursion dates, tickets
and reservations, call on local railroad passenger and
ticket agents, or write The P. & 0. Steamship Cos., Jack
sonville, Fla.
A single ride will tell you
why today’s Chevrolet is
sending Chevrolet popular
ity to new and spectacular
heights! Into the field of
low-priced cars it brings
exactly the slow-speed
smoothness, exactly the vel
vet acceleration, exactly the
freedom from high-speed
vibration that have been the
paramount reasons for buy
ing multiple-cylinder cars.
Imagine loafing up a hill in
a loaded car —with the
motor turning so easily that
you are almost unconscious
cf its operation. You can in
the smooth CheirolctJ
Imagine rushing from 10 to
30 miles an hour in ten
seconds —with never a sem
blance of labor on the part
of the motor. You can in the
sinooth Chevrolet!
Imagine being able to drive
between 40 and 50 miles an
hour, for hour upon hour at
a stretch —in perfect comfort
entirely free from any sense
of excessive speed and un
conscious of the slightest
roughness in the road. You
can in the smooth Chevrolet .
No matter what type of car
you are accustomed to driv
ing, learn for yourself the
incrsdible smoothness that
is winning the world to
Chevrolet. Arrange to see
and drive the car today—and
come prepared for a ride the
like of which you never
dreamed possible in a car
that selta at anywhere near
Chevrolet’s low prices.
Hill Country Enjoys
Progress
Tourists Attracted to Blue Ridge in
Growing Numbers; New Day
Dawning as Isolation Passes.
Tallulah Falls, Ga., June 24.
One stands amazed at the great de
velopment now in progress in the
mountain section of north Georgia,!
which is bringing prosperity and hap- 1
piness to thousands who heretofore j
have been isolated in the mountain
fastness and who have had little or;
no contact with the outside world.
During very recent years there has
been a remarkable improvement in
general conditions throughout the
Blue Ridge area of the state and the
poverty, lack of opportunity and
drudgery, which have been the por
tion of large numbers of those who
lived and labored under the almost
hopeless limitations and restrictions
of their isolation, are being dispelled
and anew day is dawning in the lives
of these people in whose veins flows
the purest strain of Anglo-Saxon
blood.
Several factors are contributing to
the generally improved conditions,
principal among which are the con
struction and improvement of high
ways, the great hydro-electric de
velopments of the Georgia Railway
and Power company, more and bet
ter educational facilities, more diver
sified and more intensive agriculture,
and the increasing thousands who
c*me to the mountain resorts during
the summer months from the south
eastern states.
Road and bridge improvements re
cently completed or under construc
tion by the state highway depart
ment have been provided for at an ag
gregate cost of more than four mil
lion dollars, and in addition to the |
work being done on roads in the state •
system the several counties are doing j
considerable construction on countyj
roads. Mountain counties which have
recently issued highway bonds and
the amounts of these issues follow:
Clayton, $175,000; Stephens, $300,-
000; Jasper, $100,000; Gilmer, SIOO,-
000; and Habersham $200,000. Sev
eral other mountain counties have
issued bonds for highway purposes
in recent years.
Scenic Highway Big Help
One of the major highway accom
plishments in the mountains was the
■construction of the great Appalachian
Scenic highway from Gainesville over
the Blue Ridge Mountains to the
North Carolina line near Murphy,
where it connects with the paved high
way to Ashville and all other sec
tions of Carolina. This high
way, which for great distances had to
be blasted out of the rocky sides of
mountains, is surfaced with water
bound macadam from the North Car
olina line south via Blairsville to a
point near Cleveland. It opened up
another great north and south high
way through Georgia and gave to the
mountain counties it traverses as fine
primary highway facilities as are en
joyed by other sections of the state.
There are 13 fini concrete bridges on
this highway.
Some of the other important high
ways completed or under construc
tion are those from Gainesville to
Dahlonega, from Atlanta to Dahlon
ega, via Roswell, Alpharetta and
Cumming, from Canton to the Ten
nessee line via Jasper and Blue
Ridge; from Blue Ridge to Clayton
via Blairsville, Young Harris and
Hiav.assee; from Clayton to Frank
lin, N. C.; from Cornelia to Clayton,
via Clarkesville; Tallulah Falls, and
Lakemont; from Gainesville to Sene
ca, S. C., via Baldwin, Cornelia and
Toccba.
Wherever one goes in the moun
tains these days his ears are assailed
by the detonations of dynamite em
ployed in blasting away stone ob
structions on the new highway pro
jects.
One can now drive his automobile (
from Atlanta to Lakemont, via
Gainesville, Cornelia, Clarkesville,'
and Tallulah Fall;, in from four to
five hours where a few years ago it j
required the greater part of a day
and left the traveler's nerves all shot
to pieces and his car in need of a me
chanic’s attention.
Many Fine Roads Completed
But forty minutes are required
from Tallulah Falls to Clayton, a
journey that several years ago took
hours. The same is true of many
highways. There are few if any bet
ter roads in the state than the At
lanta-Dahlonega highway, the Gaines
ville-Dahlonega highway, the Pied
mont highway, from Gainesville to
the South Carolina line, the Appa
lachian Scenic highway from Gaines
ville to the North Carolina line; the
highway from Cornelia to Franklin,
N. C., which connects at the latter
city with main pavad roads to Ash-
ville and other sections of western
North Carolina, the Canton-Blue
Ridge highway, the Blue Ridge-Clay
ton highway.
One does not wonder that the
mountain people are grateful to the
present state highway administration
for opening up their section to the
balance of the state and the coun
try.
Of major importance in the prog
ress of the mountain section has been
! the great hydro-electric developments
of the Georgia Railway and Power
j company, which has expended many
millions of dollars in concrete dams,
power generating stations, transform
ing stations and transmission lines,
and which has given employment to
thousands of mountain people.
These developments have not only
served to open up hitherto inaccessible
territory but they have created a se
ries of six wonderful lakes which
have added to the beauty of the
mountain scenery and made the
mountains vastly more attractive to
the great army of summer visitors,
many of whom have erected splendid
homes on the shores of the lakes.
These lakes also have proven the
magnet which has drawn to the moun
tains the numerous modern boys’
and girls’ camps that afford health
and recreation to many hundreds of
young people from all sections of
the south.
New Power Project,
At present the power company is
engaged in completing the great con
crete dam at Seed, known as the Na
coochee development, and construc
tion of three new power generating
stations at Yonah, the Nachoochee
and the Burton developments.
The company has six mammoth
concrete dams and will have a power
generating station at each. The six
big hydro-electric developments are
known as Burton, Nachoochee, Ter
rors, Tallulah Falls, Tugalo and Yon
ah. These, with the smaller generat-
I ing stations at Morgan Falls, Wafford
j Shoals, Gregg Shoals, Dunlap and
| Chestatee, supply the electric cur
-1 rent for power and lights in practi
-1 cally three-fifth3 of the cities and
(towns of Georgia and at time furn-
I ish current to cities and towns in Ala
| bama, South Carolina, Tennessee and
j North Carolina.
! The “Big Six” developments of the
Georgia Railway and Power company
arc located on the Tallulah and Tug
alo rivers. They serve more than
750,000 people in more than 90 dif
ferent communities. Of the 5,500
employees of power company around
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2,000 of them are engaged on the
Tallulah-Tugalo river developments.
Total storage capacity of the six
lakes in the mountains is 7,472,000,-
000 cubic feet; the total generating
capacity of the six power stations,
when all are complete, will be 181,-
000 kilowats with an average annual
output of 531,000 kilowatt hours or
790,000,000 horsepower hours.
Upon the theory that it requires
three pounds of coal to generate one
kilowatt hour the amount of coal nec
essary to generate the amount of elec
tricity annually, produced by the Tal
lulah-Tugalo hydro-electric develop
ments alone would be 796,500 tons.
Strides In Education
Contrary to the impression held by
some, •great strides are being made in
education. Aside from the far-reach
ing work which ts being done by Pied-
mont college, at Demorest, Young
Harris college at Young Harris; Hi
awassee institute, at Hiavvassee; Na
coochee institute, at Sautee; Rein
hardt college at Waleska, and Martha
Berry schools, near Rome and similar
denominational and philanthropic in
stitutions, there ha.s been a marked
improvement in the elementary
'schools.
State Supervisor J. 0. Martin, who
has jurisdiction over the public
schools in north Georgia, says there
has been “a 100 per cent improve
ment during the past ten years and
that this improvement applies to
teachers as well as schools.”
Recently there have been three
large consolidations of rural schools
in Cherokee county, a $30,000 joint
city and county high school erected
ir. Trenton, Dade county; ne*
| building for the consolidated School
'at Ringgold; Catoosa county, and
four other consolidations in this
county; new buildings at Summer
ville, Gore, Lyerly and Menlo, in
Chattooga county, with a projected
consolidation at Trion; new cpnsoli-
dated high school at Morganton, Fan
nin county, with 11 grades; new ac
credited county high school building
at Cumming in Forsyth county, with
three large rural school consolida
tions; consolidation of 1G schools in
Franklin county, involving three new
building costing $300,000 and ac
commodating 1,200 children and em
ploying 21 trucks for transportation
of children; new auditorium to school
at Ellijay, Gilmer county; new build
ing at Calhoun, Gordon county, and
improvements to building at Fair
mount, a Gordon county high school
with 11 grades, large consolidated
' schools with brick buildings at So
noraville and Liberty and another
with wooden building in same
county;four large consolidation*
in Habersham county, erection
of new building at Baldwin, and a
bond issue voted for anew building
at Clarkesville; new high school at
Gainesville, Hall county, new bui’d
ing at Flowery Branch, and five large
rural consolidations with new build*
ings in Hall county, new 11-grade
high school building at Alpharetta,
in Milton county, where consolida
tions of schools are being effected
and rapid progress made; new build
ings at Chatsworth, and Springplace,
in Murray county, with new build-
ings for several large rural consoli
dations; new county high school at
Jasper, in Pickens county, and new
buildings at Ball ground, Nelson,
Tate, Marble. Hill in the same county
along with one large rural consoli
dation and new building; new build
ings at Ciayton and Dillard in Rabun
county; new holding at Hiawassee
and three new rural schools in Towns
county; reconstructed building at
Blairsville and improved conditions
fn a number of rural school in Union
County; new buildings at LaFayette,
Cedar Grove, West Armuchee and
Rossville, in Walker county, the last
being consolidations; new building at
Cleveland, in White county, and also
several large rural consolidations in
this county; new high school build
ing at Dalton, in Whitfield county
and greatly improved conditions in
rural schools.
Farmers Reap Benefits
The foregoing list of improvements
does not, by any means, include all
of the improvements in the counties
named nor does it include all of the
counties in which improved • school
conditions are found. ,
As fast as roads and the
army of touristsTreate a demand and
a market for agricultural and poultry
products the farmers are giving more
attention to their farms with the re
sult that .splendid crops are grown
and va3t quantities of eggss and
chickens are raised.
Thousands of acres of hill lands
are planted in apple anu peach orch-
ards.
It is safe to predict that the present
improved conditions in the mountains
are not a marker to what one will
find there at the end of another de
cade.
A QUAINT BILL OF SALE
S. S. Haynes, a Pathfinder reader
at Wheatland, N. D., sends us a copy
of a bill of sale of seventy-years ago,
clipped from the Cynthia (Kan.)
Log Cabin. It reads:
“Having sold my farm I am leav
ing for Oregon Territory by ox team,
and will offer on March 1, 1849, all
of my personal property, to-wit—
“ All of ox team* except two, Back
and Ben and Tom and Jerry; two
milch cows; one gray mare and colt;
one pair of oxen and yoke; one
baby yoke; two ox carts; plow, with
wood mole board; 800 to 1,000
three-foot clapboards; 1,500 ten-foot
fence rails; one GO-gailon soap ket-
tle; 85 sugar troughs made of white
ash timber; ten gallons of maple
syrup; two spinning wheels; 30
pounds cf mutton tallow; one large
loom, made by Jerry Wilson; 300
.poles; 100 slip hoops; 100 empty
barrels; one 32-gallon keg of John
son Miller whisky, 7 years old; 20
gallons of apple brandy; one 40-gal
lon copper still; tv/o handle hooks;
three scythes and cradles; one dozen
wooden pitchforks; one half interest
in tan yard; one 32 calibre rifle,
(bullet mould and powder horn; 50
gallons of soft soap; ham3, bacon
and lard; 40 gallons of sorghum mo
lasses; six head of fox hounds, all
southmouthed except one.
“At the same time I will sell my
six negro slaves —two men, 35 and
50 years old; two boys, 12 and 18
years old; 2 mulatto wenches, 30 and
40 years old. Will sell altogether
to same party, as I will not separ
ate them.
“Terms of sale, cash in hand, or
note to draw interest, with Bob
McConnell as surety. My home is
2 miles south of Versailles, Ky., on
the McCouns Ferry pike. Sale be
gins at 8 o’clock a. m. Plenty to
drink and eat. J. L. MOSS.”
TALKING IT OVER
(In Thomasville Times-Enterprise.)
Ten congressmen are listed as not
having missed a roll-call during the
recent session, and not a one of them
is known outside of his own district,
mavbe.
Taking a vacation abroad usually
means a one-horse cottage by the sea,
with all sorts of inconveniences and
a lot of mosquitoes and things.
Garters are seen occasionally, ac
cording to the fashion experts, and
knees quite frequently, although there
were times when the display of eith
er was a little beyond the pale.