MONTJMENT TO PROF. MiTCHELL. 

 THIS WAS ERECTED SOME YEARS AGO TO THE MAN WHO GAVE MUCH OF HIS TIME TO EXPLORING THE MOUNTAIN, WHO 

 FIRST ASCERTAINED ITS ALTITUDE AND WHO FINALLY LOST HIS LIFE ON THE MOUNTAIN DURING ONE OF THE 

 EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS. 



Prof. Mitchell Mo.nument Dyn.\.mited. 



THE monument WAS BLOWN I.NTO THREE SECTIONS BY THE EXPLOSION AND EACH WAS SO BADLY BATTERED AND CUT 

 THAT IT CAN NOT BE USED AGAIN. A NEW MONUMENT OF STONE IS TO BE ERECTED IN ITS PLACE BY THE STLTDENTS 

 AND FACULTY OF WE.WER COLLEGE, WEAVERVILLE, N. C. 



