Badly Washed Mountain Valley Lands, Bakersville, N. C. The Lower Slopes Bordering This Valley Are Largely Cleared 



wood and lumber. From this point of source of one of the most important 



view it is of inestimable local value a rivers in the world, its history will go 



value to which the Government and the down on another page in the annals of 



people should awaken. And as the time. 



SONG OF THE OAK 



O, sing of the oak, the brave old oak. 



Who hath ruled in the greenwood long; 

 Here's health and renown to his broad green crown, 



And his fifty arms so strong. 

 There is fear in his frown when the sun goes down. 



And the fire in the West fades out ; 

 And he showeth his might on a wild midnight, 



When the storms through his branches shout. 



//. F. Charley 



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