Accomack News, October 24, 1908

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Sand and gravel

The Silax Sand Company at Ware Point have suspended operations for the present.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Trollies

The trolley movement received fresh impetus last Saturday on the arrival of contractor to look over the ground.

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Forests -- Barrel factories Lumbermen -- Personal injury

Bullbegger.

Mr. A. J. Taylor got his hand cut and torn up by an engine that cuts barrel heads this week.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Packing

Chincoteague.

L. U. Buttle, of Seaford, Del., has opened his shucking-house here for the season.

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Transportation -- Water - Power boatsSea -- Shellfish - Clamming : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Clamming : Prices

Sinnickson.

Alfred Harrington's launch is giving good satisfaction. His Oriole engine is an up-to-date article, and will speed against anything in these waters of the same dimensions.

R. S. Stant has launched his gasoline boat, the Mabel, and has installed a 4 1-2 H.P. Oriole engine which is working satisfactory, and anyone wanting a good engine will do well to correspond with Mr. Stant before buying.

Clams are high and scarce -- bringing $4.50 to $5.00 per thousand.

A Land of Prosperity.

reprinted from Baltimore Sun.fields -- Crops - White potatoes : Yieldfields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : YieldSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : PlantingFields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices

Prosperity seems to have fixed one of its chief stations down on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. A gentleman from Baltimore, who recently visited that favored section ascertained that the Irish potato crop of the two counties of Accomack and Northampton this year for shipment, besides those retained for use at home, would amount to 750,000 barrels and the sweet potato is as large. He also told The Sun that the farmers would receive $2.50 a barrel for their crop. The population of the two counties is less than 50,000 -- about 46,000 by the census of 1900. The money received for the potato crop would be, according to the estimate given, $3,750,000. According to the census, the value of the fisheries of the two counties is about $1,500,000. Therefore, for these two crops -- that is to say, potatoes and fisheries -- the receipts of the two counties were $5,250,000 or nearly $600 for each family residing in them. But it must be remembered that these are only two crops among a number of others. We are justified in calling the fisheries a crop from the fact that more than a third of that industry, to wit, $600,000, comes from planted oysters.