In my opinion we should have at least one thousand acres in the Mitchell's Peak Park. Your idea about the value of this land is what mine has been. We ought to get it as cheap as we can, and buy as much as we have the money to buy. I hope that we can get the land at a reasonable price without any litigation, but we cannot afford to pay too much for it. I am delighted to see that you are taking such interest in this thing, and I know that  you will do the best that can be done for the state. This park on Mitchell's Peak will be a great thing for Yancey County, for western North Carolina- in fact for the whole country. Undoubtedly hereafter it will be highly developed. I think that your commission ought to meet and organize as soon as possible.

I am reasonably well acquainted with the top of Mitchell's Peak. The ridge leading off north from the Peak towards Black Brothers certainly ought to be included in the park to a distance, I should say of at least a half a mile. That is a beautiful flat ridge, most picturesque in every way. The ridge from the south of the Peak towards Stepp Spring should be included in the park, to a further distance- say, a mile or a mile and a half. It has been my idea that the park should be a bout a mile wide east and west, and about two miles long north and south. That would be twelve hundred and eighty acres. But as I said above, we ought to get all the land that we can get with the appropriation. I make the above suggestion as to the location of the park for your consideration. You will know much more about it than I know, and will be a much better judge of the situation.

With the highest regards,