That North Carolina now has an excellent chance to secure one of the great National Parks proposed for the Southern Appalachians, is the opinion expressed by Horace Kephart, who is at the Kenilworth Inn.
Sixty thousand acres of virgin forest lying along the crest of the Great Smoky Mountains, which form the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee, containing 14 peaks of more than 6,000 feet, several of which are within a few feet of the height of Mt. Mitchell, has been finally agreed upon, to the exclusion of other proposed sites, Mr. Kephart declared.
A fund of $5 million will be raised for the purchase of the lands required in a campaign that will, according to present plans, be placed in the hands of a financing corporation in New York.
North Carolina’s share in the money required to finance the earlier stages of such a campaign has already been made available, and a tentative program adopted at a meeting of the Commission in Asheville.
Mr. Kephart gave a very vivid description of the site of the proposed park In it are the remaining acres of the virgin forests that once clothed the entire highland. There are hundreds of trees in diameter, and seven peaks of more than 6,000 feet that have never been named. The country is exceedingly wild and sparsely inhabited. The lands hava a wider variety of flora than any other place in the world, he says.
--Asheville Citizen
From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Wednesday, September 23, 1925
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