With the letting last Friday of the contract for the municipal dam and power house, Franklin and Macon County are one step nearer to the goal toward which we have been dreaming and working for many years. The expenditure on the dam on the Georgia road and the Dillsboro road will approximate three-quarters of a million dollars within the year. This, however, is only of temporary interest. The permanent benefit to Macon county can hardly be estimated. When we once let the outside world know of our unexcelled climate, rugged mountains with peaks that pierce the sky, abundant hydro-electric power, plentiful supply of labor, concrete roads, immense quantities of timber supplies, the fertility of our soil, the upstanding character of our citizens, then we can begin to realize the importance and far-reaching effects of the work that is now under way in the county.
We hardly dare predict what the future five years hence holds for our people. Suffice it to say that there will stand in our valleys mighty industrial plants employing hundreds of men and women, magnificent hotels will crown the hilltops above the lake and beautiful summer homes will nestle along the shores, the highways will be crowded with thousands of cars filled with people who are anxious for a breath of our mountain air, trucks and wagons from cove and mountain cottage will bring the produce of the farms to a populous town, civilization will smile in all its glory and God’s mighty paradise of the mountains will have come into its own.
From the editorial page of the Franklin Press, Macon County, N.C., March 3, 1925, S.A. Harris, editor. Do you know happened October 29, 1929, preventing the editor's vision of a glorious future?
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