| Show R real boom town towne rises in wasteland I 1 HOLLY RIDGE N C four months ago you could have bought all the land you wanted around here for three or four dollars an acre unless you happened to be dealing with a native whose conscience would not allow him to accept such an price today this same land is being sold in 20 foot lots and for serious money too no nobody has discovered oil in these parts this just happens to be the place the federal government picked for the ardys new anti air craft training camp now under construction st there is good farm land both to the north and south of holly ridge but the real estate in this immediate vicinity is little more than a scrub timbered waste but the U S ideas the section ar army my had other is not only easily a accessible by highway and railroad but offers an ideal and railroad an way spot over which to shoot anti air craft guns without danger of hitting anyone on land or sea the shape of the coast and the lay of the land is well suited to the ardys purpose guns will fire out into onslow bay wide coastal indenture many miles from the lanes of coastwise shipping naturally the governa government ent suffer from holly ridges new land boom in the first place the price rise until the army had a acted and in the second the government h has a S the right of condemnation so its two mile frontage e on U S highway no 17 and all the territory between biere here and the ocean camel came cheap enough its the land adjacent to the reservation suddenly become so valuable |
