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TOURISTS GIVE TESTIMONY OF PARK POPULARITY Clifty Falls Reservation Attracts Visitors From All States. No better testimonial of the general popularity of Clifty Falls State Park could be effered than by referring the prospective vacationist to the register book at Clifty Inn. Not only do Hoosiers appreciate to the utmost this down-State resort, but its fame has spread to every corner of the country where tourists originate. With its marvelous gorges, rocky canyons, steep hillsides and luxuriant growth of magnificent timber -—all in the valley of the Ohio— Clifty Falls State Park offers pleasures that few spots in the Middle West can match. Civic Spirit Represented Clifty Falls Park represents the civic spirit of Madison and Jefferson County, because it was purely a gift to the State. These same public spirited citizens built the Clifty Hotel, which eventually will become the property of the State. Clifty is situated one mile from Madison and consists of 570 acres. It adjoins the grounds of Southeastern Hospital and its acquisition gave the State something like 1,800 acres in one continuous tract. More than 360 Jefferson County people subscribed to the fund raised to provide this park. This State reservation portrays, probably better than any other local'ty, pioneer Indiana with its former ■vealth of hardwood forests. . Many Waterfalls The park is a great trough cut Sack into the plateau for two miles. Along this trough are numerous waterfalls converging at the head of the valley in Clifty Falls, a majestic drop of ninety-four feet. There are thirty distinct wateralls in the park, and just before the water plunges Clifty Falls, it rushes over a series of ten or twelve beautiful cascades. This park is situated in a section of the State which has much historical atmosphere. It is easily accessible by automobile or steam road. The hotel is modern in every respect, and rests on the brink of a huge cliff some 400 feet above the river. From the spacious verandas one can see miles in either direction. Madison, nestles at the foot of this great bluff, and at night the lights in the city present a startling contrast to the silent, dark and brooding hills beyond. SCRAP 1,500,000 CARS More than 1,500,000 motor vehicles were scrapped last year. Many dealers find that it is better to scrap old models rather than try 4o sell them.

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Carolina Range Attracts Visitors

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.Ml. Mitchell, highest peak in the East, overlooks a piue-belecked range of lower mountains from its 6,711-foot iieight.

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Map showing main roads through. North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

Out of the flat lands of the South, the West and the North are expected thousands of tourists who will revel in the mountains and velVys of western North Carolina. Here is one of America's finest beauty spots. It rivals the scenic wonders of the lioeky Mountain range and the other well-frequented sections of the West, in its natural crags and crannies, its forests and its rolling country. In this district lies the highest mountain in the East. Here are tall cliffs, rocky springs, shimmering waterfalls and all the nooks and caves that go with rocky, mountainous country. Set aside in this territory are sections of national forest land kept intact by the Government xer the de-

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velopment of future timber resources and for the maintenance of the natural beauties of the country. In addition there's a movement to provide a great national park in the Smoky Mountain range, along the North Carolina and Tennessee State line, that would open up another tre-

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mendous scenic area to tourists. The Smoky Mountain project covers an area of 450,000 acres, and includes many new wonders of nature in its environs. Tennessee and North Carolina are busy collecting a $1 ,- 000,000 found toward purchase of this tract by the Government, and its conversion into what is expected to be the greatest national park in flie East, if not In the entire country. Unlike a national forest, this park

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will be a natural preserve for the rest, recreation and education of the people. Roads will he built through it, leading to its scenic wonders, and for this both North Carolina and Tennessee are ready to participate in the construction. Meanwhile the mountains and valleys o< the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina —the tail end of the long Appalachian range—offer Innumerable joys to the visitor. There isn’t a level stretch of land in the entire area, yet there's hardly a section where a car need climb in second. Care has to be taken in going down th elong winding roods, but the climbs are easy and safe. North Carolina has some ofc the finest roads in the country, and the wide, winding highways up the mountainsides reveal the marvelous engineering work that had to be done to build them. Wide concrete roads, well marked, greet tourists in almost every county, and where they’re not concrete, they’re well graded macadam and asphalt. Few stretches of dirt road will he encountered, and where these turn up. the tourist will find little difficulty in traversing them. Fer the heavy red clay of this district packs down well and offers 'trouble only immediately after a heavy rainfoll. It Is only within the past three years that the State has built the wide concrete roads that will make enjoyable touring for years to come. The State's $65,000,00<T bend issue, supplemented with Federal and county aid, has enabled an expenditure of $150,000,000 for gobd roads. Asa result many more thousands of tourists are expected to visit the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina than have been here before. Yet the highways, the mountains and valleys aren’t the only attractions for tourists in this territory. Western North Carolina is famous as a tourist and health resort.