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A TRIP IN THE PISGAH NATIONAL 

 FOREST 



'T' ELLING of an interesting trip taken 

 with his two children, on horse back, 

 in the Pisgah National Forest, in North 

 Carolina, Clarence Lightner writes : "We 

 were rather roughing it, and appreciated 

 very much the maps, placed at such reason- 

 able prices at the disposition of the public, 

 issued by the Geological Survey. These 

 were well and carefully made, but I am 

 wondering whether up-to-date editions 

 should not be made now? This with 

 special reference to the Pisgah Quadrangle 

 and the adjoining Saluda Quadrangle, 

 where many changes in the roads have 

 been made. In Pisgah Forest, I was 

 impressed with the marvelous beauty and 

 health giving properties of this reserva- 



tion. Likely this is true also of Mt. 

 Mitchell and other reservations. 



"The usual approach to Pisgah For- 

 est is from Candler, on the Murphy Rail- 

 road, from which a well-graded road 

 climbs up the site of the new inn, which 

 adjoins the lodge built there by Mr. George 

 W. Vanderbilt during his lifetime. This 

 inn first opened before entire completion 

 in the latter part of July of this year, de- 

 serves special mention. Mr. Weston, who 

 has the concession, and is managing the 

 inn, has undoubtedly the right idea. The 

 location of the inn, the equipment, and the 

 treatment of guests, reminded me of El 

 Tovar, at the Grand Canyon. Of course 

 Mr. Weston is only beginning. The view 

 from his location along the mountains, and 

 across the Pink Beds, is certainly as de- 



lightful, though not perhaps as astonisHiug, 

 as the view from El Tovar. I hope that 

 Mr. Weston will not be discouraged in 

 the work. I am confident that his returns 

 this season will seem pretty poor in view 

 of his expenses. But his inn is such an ex- 

 ception in the Carolina Mountains that I 

 fear it will not be adequately appreciated. 



"We were on horses, and under the in- 

 telligent leadership of Mrs. W. E. Ludlum 

 (the fourth member of our party), we got 

 next to the forest as well as the people 

 and animals therein. I was disappointed, 

 before leaving Tryon (our starting point) 

 to learn that Pisgah Forest was being 

 lumbered, and feared that the government 

 had bought what nobody wanted. How- 

 ever, our visit in and through the forest 

 changed my views decidedly. While Mr. 

 Vanderbilt did make a contract, with a total 

 of twenty years to run, the benefits of 

 which are now being exercised by the Carr 

 Lumber Company at Pisgah Forest, near 

 Brevard, North Carolina, I believe that the 

 removal of the large timber, as provided in 

 this contract, will not ruin the forest area. 

 It is true that, for the time being, the 

 activities of the Carr Lumber Company 

 seriously mar the pleasures of a visit to 

 the forest, especially when one enters from 

 the Brevard side of the forest, and finds 

 the old trails injured, if not obliterated, 

 in many cases, so that even for horse back 

 riding things are not as good as they 

 might be. 



"I wonder whether the lumber com- 

 pany might not be induced to be a little 

 more gentle in what they do with the 

 forests. Perhaps we have to submit to the 

 use of soft coal on the curious little 

 logging roads, but when they are through 

 with the roads they should at least take up 

 the ties as well as the old rails, and level 

 things off a little bit, removing perhaps 

 the evidence of the sluices, or whatever 

 they call the conduits for getting the logs 

 down the mountains, so that nature can 

 reassert itself without too much delay and 

 agony. It was a pleasure to find that the 

 forest ranger and his assistants I think 

 some fifteen in all, of whom we perhaps 

 met five were so generously disposed to 

 aid visitors, as well as to protect the 

 forests." 



1V/HEN the forest lookout on Tahquitz 

 Peak, in the San Jacinto district, Cali 

 fornia, was incapacitated this fall Mrs. 

 Reindorp, wife of the district ranger, 

 donned khaki, loaded blankets and grub 

 on a horse, and took over his duties, hold- 

 ing the lookout post for more than a week. 

 This is one of the incidents reported to t' ,r 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 through the Forest Service. 



CHADE trees and ornamental shrubs in 

 the United States represent a value of 

 one billion dollars, according to the esti- 

 mate of the United States Department of 

 Agriculrture. Ten million dollars damage 

 is done annually by shade-tree insects. 



