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Jay Ward to George Masa, December 5, 1929, page 3

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Jay Ward to George Masa, December 5, 1929, page 1

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Jay Ward to George Masa, December 5, 1929, page 2

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Jay Ward to George Masa, December 5, 1929, page 3

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  • with the best springs and mattresses, to make our friends comfortable. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hamlett are in charge and will welcome you. An overnight or week-end trip can be arranged through the Atlanta office in the Candler Building. Boys' and Girls' Camps: Several propositions are under consideration for the provision of a Boys' Camp and also a Girls' Camp on the property. It is entirely possible that one of these camps will be available for the summer of 1930. It is the purpose of those interested as well as the management of your company to provide and guarantee only the very best in equipment and personnel for each of these camps. No more ideal location is to be found anywhere in the South than certain selected areas on the property, designated for camp purposes by our engineers. It is an undoubted fact that such high class camps add great interest in and value to a summer mountain colony. Appalachian Trail: Few people know or appreciate the significance of the Appalachian Trail, which extends from Maine to Georgia, a distance of more than 2,000 miles. One of the representatives of the Board of Managers for the Southern District, Mr. Horace Kephart, nationally known writer on woodcraft and mountain lore, will visit Tate Estates in a few days for the purpose of locating Mt. Oglethorpe as a Southern terminus of this important trail. "The Trail" is sponsored by an organization composed of mountain clubs all the way from Maine to Georgia and the supervisors of the State and National Parks on the route, and follows the backbone of the Appalachians "where the motors cannot follow, into the peace and solitude of the high places." Plans are being formulated for a continuous '"hike" on the part of Boy Scouts, covering the entire 2,000 miles, during next summer's vacation period. This hike is to be followed by press service representatives and newspaper photographers, and will terminate at Mt. Oglethorpe with a celebration that ought to attract national interest and attention. Topographic Survey and Lot Layout: Our landscape engineers have just completed and submitted to your Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, a topographic survey and lot layout of the property which is to be subdivided. Please note carefully the enclosed key plan of the area of the property under development. A study of this plan will indicate to you that the sections subdivided afford every possible variety of property to be found in such a development; for example, lake front "and golf course lots, ridge lots overlooking the lake and golf course, and lots in the beautiful grove designated for the hotel area. It will require more than fourteen miles of additional roadways to create the approximately 400 lots provided for in this layout. At the present time and with the handicap to construction in the approaching winter weather, it has seemed best to your Executive Committee after a careful study of the situation with the landscape architects, to lay out about five miles which will give us the choicest of the residential lots in each of the several suggested areas. This program will give us 163 lots, being 67 lots in the hotel area, 53 lots on the ridges overlooking the lake and golf course, 16 lake front lots, and 27 golf course lots. By limiting our efforts to this program, it appears to be entirely possible to give our members an opportunity for a first selection of lots early in the new year, and to assure them of the necessary utilities to such lots, i. e., water and electricity, to enable those who desire to do so, to build this spring and enjoy the delights of a summer residence in the coming year. With the golf course ready for play, lake filled, roads complete, water supply, telephone and electric current provided, we feel that there are many who will desire to begin construction on their summer cottage in time for occupancy when the hot weather arrives in June. With a lodge on the top of Burrell ready, other members will prefer to supervise construction of their summer homes while enjoying the delights of excellent accommodations provided at Connahaynee. Of the 163 lots which will be available for the first selection, our membership subscriptions will absorb about 112. Many interested persons have indicated their desire to be among those in the first selection. Perhaps you have friends who would like to make their selection when you make yours. There are probably those whom you would especially like to have as neighbors. We would be very glad to have you indicate to us the names of such persons to whom we may extend our invitation to join in this enterprise. We are especially anxious to have you visit the property so as to become acquainted with our progress to date, and that you may know more intimatefy how the project is taking shape ^^u-^^IjI December, 1929. President,
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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