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HARDWOOD RECORD 



West Virginia Scenes. 



LOOKING VV Tl.MliKIt COVE, LONG CKEEK VALLEY, W. VA. 



SOLID MOUNTAIN SIDE OF TIlIBEIt, UPPER DKY EOHK, W. VA. 



HOME AND FAMILY OF WEST VIRGINIA SQUATTER. 



odIv the floatable woods are taken from the 



forest. 



This great lower Blue Ridge timber hold- 

 ing; of the Moutvale Liiiiiber Company is not 

 designed by the Wood fonipanies for im- 

 mediate operation, but rather as a reserve 

 source of timber supply for some years hence. 

 Hovever, the opening up of the Jocassee Val- 

 ley appears to be imminent. The great trend 

 of visitors to the Toxaway and Sapphire coun- 

 try iif Transylvania county, Xorth Carolina, 

 which southerners from New Orleans" to 

 Charleston are making a sort of summer 

 Mecca, dcir.ands that a slioiter route from 

 the youth and Southwest shall be afforded 

 them to reach this n'.ouiitain fastness. At 

 the ] resent time visitors must go by way of 

 Aslievillc or llendersonville by a very circuit- 

 ous loute to get to Lake Toxaway. The South- 

 ern road has already surveyed a line on a very 

 good graile from Walhalla, Oconee county, a 

 terminus of one of the Southern's branch 

 liiii's. to Lake Toxaway, wliich will give it 

 a direct route only ^^() miks long from At- 

 lanta tlir(uigli the center of the Wood tim- 

 ber lioldings. This extension from Walhalla 

 to Lake Toxaway will be about thirty-live 

 miles long and will connect the terminus of 

 the Transylvania road at Lake Toxaway with 

 the main line of the Southern at Seneca. 

 The roail will also develop a large freight 

 f lunagi' from its very ince]ition in tiinlier, 

 hnuler, bark and tannic acid wooil. It is 

 .■stimated that the timber holdings of the 

 Wood comiianies in Transylvania, Oconee and 

 Piidcens counties will cut upwards of 315,000,- 

 111)11 fi'ct. 



Valuable Water Power. 



Piitured in this article are views of two 

 magnificent waterfalls on the Whitewater 

 river. The one inscribed "The Upper Falls" 

 is in Jackson county. North Carolina, and 

 is not located on the property of the Mont- 

 vale Lumber Company. The other and larger 

 one. sliowing a sheer descent of more thiiii 

 :5.'>n feet, is in Oconee county. South ('a:o- 

 lirm. and is owned by the Wood interests. 

 Keccntly Mr. Wood has had hydraulic en- 

 gineers make a survey and estimate of this 

 great water power and they place it at the 

 lowest water stage at upwards of 32,000 H. 

 P. The break in the mountains where these 

 falls are located is the only really "rough" 

 sjiot on the entire Wood timber holdings. 

 The parallel Toxaway river, a few miles <lis- 

 t.int from the Whitewater, shows no such 

 cascades in its entire course. It is figured 

 1 V the engineers passing on the water power 

 cf the lower Whitewater falls that it will 

 pro. luce an electric power delivered at At- 

 lanta, about 100 miles distant, of sufficient 

 c.ipacity to run the entire street car and elec- 

 tric light system of that city. Financial in- 

 terests are already at woik contemplating the 

 organization of a company to transfer this 

 splendid power to Atlanta. Mr. Wood has 

 thus far decdined to make any price on this 

 power, but it promises to become a valuable 

 asset. 



