The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-11-18
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| three sections, two Of which, parted by the
Chesapeake, are siniilar in formation, while
the third is marked by the ledge of prini-
tive rocks which runs from the left bank ot
Il thePetomaeain Montgomery county, north
east The Snagnehanna river.ar9y8.g ,af
The e Euslern SHORE embraces he coun
lies Of Worcester, Somerset, Dorchester,
Talbot, Caroline, Queen Aune's, Kent and
Cecil. The surface is Tow aud level except
in theoifortherni parf, where lit is somewhat
brokepard- -hiily. The sol!is generally of
sandy loan. The lands ON the Eastern
Shore, except the, sand plains, were ,origi,
pally among the most fertile ID the,country.
A long course Of improvident agriculture
sadly impaired their productive value. I'm
proved systems of, farming, However, restor
ed the fertility Of large portions of it, and
demonstrated, possibility of "a complete
restoration OF the .whoIe.,sI.et improved
farming Implements take the. place Of those
brought over by the early colonists. and
skill and care direct their use the land be
fed by scientific manuring instead of being
turned ou ITO falltw two years in fiVe and
nofonly will two blades OF grass grow where
one grew before, ,butit will create a neces-
sty for more and better craft to sail up its
r.rers, and bring the products of its wide
and teeming gardens to the markets CT all
the Atlantic cities.
The tide.water district Of the western
Shore includes the Countiesof st. Mary's,
Charles, Prince Georges, Calvert, Anne
Arundel, Montgomery, Howard. Baltimore
and Hartford. This district includes the
earliest settlements Of Lord Baltimore, and
the capital of the State, with all their his
toric associations and rich old memories
The col0niSt here made the same mistake
that settlers upon rich virgin soils have Of
ten made before and since. They believed
its richness inexhaustible, and tried it for
q century with the most exhausting system
of agriculture. The l.st few years have
seen many and great Improvements in this
region. Experiments have proven the soil
TO he most gratelalfor generous and proper
treatment good crops have been obtained
where ittwas absolutely desert, aud the pri-
cesr of lands have much adYanced.ass II ~
The Mountainous District" II is thus
styled merely for, convenience OF designa-
tion not in any invdious sense, nor because
the regionliS untraversable or uncultivable
On the contrary, it contains some Of the
finest roads and most desirable farms in the
State a9It embraces Carroll Ere derrick,
Washington and Allegheny counties, pro-
ducing excellentcrops Of wheat, and in some
places presents line grazing lands. ~
) The State has an area Of about $500
square miles Of land, while the Chesapeake
Bay covers more than A, 900 more; aud these
last are most important element in the re-
sources Of the,oState, for they are produc-
tive of food beyond much of the cultivated
land upon our continent; and at the same
time afford nnrivaled facilities of transpor-
tation for The thousands Of acres of market
gardens which deck the shores Of this hay,
and it's numerous ard proitic estuaries.-
So frequent are these estuaries and naviga-
Bile arms of thes bay, that there are large
counties bordering on the bay, no point OF
which is more than four miles froma good
landing, A sail upon the waters of the
Chesapeake is never tiresome. It's half
built forts, its Quaint white light houses on
the shore, interspersed with iron ones rising
from the midst Of the waves the continual
whirlingf and plunging Of the huge flocks Of
wild ducks which never desert its waters.
the constantly varying outline of its jagged
shores dotted by dark lines of forest, with
here and there bandsome homestead the
ulGLiUS WnII0-SdlIGu SCDUOUctSb Lu6 CIuobCiO .
Of oyster boats, the hurried dash ofithe min
aturestea,ners,l all these joined to- the baimy
airs that love tolinger'on the Chesapeake,
combine to make it ne Of the most beauti-
ful bodies, Of. water in the world. ~ aode,a
The time has passed when the people of
the State preferred that the tide Of migra-
tion should flow past them and now who
evercomes, bringing either capital or labor
to build his home amongus, receives a most
cordial ecelcomes = The immigrant comes not
to the loneliness and privatiops Of frontier
settlements. which make, the life Of the
9 back-woodsman always a life of hardship;
not to a land that has no pass, and but an
uncertain future; not toa land of unknown
resources, distant markets and onerous tax
es +; but to land at once old and new, pos
sessipg within herself as, many of the eler
ments Of wealth and material greatness as
can anywhere be found in the same extent
Of territory. She rejoices in the estimation
Of her future prosperity, and extends TO all
q hearty weleohe.-i'eport on the Resources
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