Daily Republican., 1880-11-09
PEAgIa RETURNB.
The OmciaI Count OF the Delaware
PFOuuct.

RFOduct.
Full returns are in from the peaot
crop OF the Delaware PeninSuls, show
ing this year to be slightly above thu
average OF the last fourtsen years. The
figures are furnished by the Philade!
phis, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road, over which about all the peaches
exported from the Peninsula for Outside
markets are shipped. The figures giver
are baskets holding 80 pounds each
From Philadelphia only 364 baskets
were shipped, from Chester 30, ffou
Wilmington SO, and from HAvTs dc
Grace l34-thess figures of course In
dicatipg only peaches raised in the
vicinities mentioned. Comparatively
few peaches are raised along the main
line, and Newark with 1862 baskets,
Magnolia with 1874, and Blk.
ton with 1883, ara the prIn'
cipa, peach stations. Toward the Bal
timore end the figures look upa little,
StemmsE's Run showing $50, and Bal
timore coming in with 67,974
But TO form an adequate idea Of the
peach business Of tIe P, W. h B
Railroad, the figures from the Delaware
division and branches are necessary.
Kirkwood, the fret important station
below New Castle, shipped 1854 baskets
this year; Mount Pleasant, SO, 432;
MiddlstoWn, 339, ,376; Townsend, 50,
s6S; Blackird, 1892; Green Spring,
40, 1861; Clayton, 2l7, 700; Smyrna, TO-.
4l5; Brentord, 92,5lS; Morton, 80, ,3O3
and Dover, l42, 044.
Continuing down the Delaware divi.
sion's main stem, wa find Wyoming
with s9,2l4; Woodside, l4,7ll Can
terbury, l39 ,0s; Felton,, IT, ,429 Har.
rington, 1875; Pennington, 6,0l5 ;
Greenwood, 1854; Brldgeville, l0,5l0;
Canuon's, 1853; Ross, BAL; SeafOrd, ls =
1877 Broad Creek, s55 Laurel, 1858;
Delmar, 1872; (where the road leaves
southern Delawsra for Marylaud) Sal
isbury, 9l3, and Pruitland goes back
on its name with ouly %; Eden is q
little more faithful with 2,077.
Loretto has 1885, Princess Anne,
1884, aud Nswtown function, 81. Here
enc branch OF the railroad runs off 10
NeWtown, and the main Delaware line
continues to Cris6sld, passing by West
over, which furnished l04 baskets,
Kingston lat; Marion, ITO, and Hope
we'll, which only ships 8 baskets.
From Townsend, q few miles below
Middletown, branches of the Queen
Anne'S and Kent County Railroad,
crossing the Kent County aud Smyrna
Railroad. On this branch Vandyke's
ships 9254 baskets; then the road cross
es into Kent county, Maryland, and
Msssy's ships 1904 baskets; Milling.
ton, 40, ,694, and Sudlerville, Kent
Co., II. .S39; ;Cox's, 1920; Price's, IL ,4Os;
Carville, 2425, and Csntsfville, 33oS.
Going back to tho Kent County and
the Smyrna branch after 1t has
crossed the Queen Anne branch at
Aassey's, the stations are Lsmbson's,
1921 baskets Blacks, 63, ls9 Kenus-
dyvills. l03,4l3; stil.pond, 4,54o;
Lynch's, 1891; Worto1, 1882, AID
SuesterLO"ni ioi.
Then going down the main Delaware
line again to Salisbury and the sta.
items on Wicomico and Pocomoke Rail.
road, Nicholson shipped 29,999 bas.
ksts, Flatland, 1867, Pittsville 142,
Whaleyvills III, St. Martins 654,
Berlin 1888, Coster's, on the Newton
branch Ga. and Newton 2"1,
Six hundred aud aixty baskets were
shipped by the Canton line OF steamers
and II, 594 baskets by the Delaware
and Chesapeake Railroad. Thus the TO-
tai shipments for the year were I s22,.
239 baskets. Of which 2l2 720 were de-
livcred at Philadelphia is, S04st Ches-
tor, 26,7s5 at Wilmington, SS51 at
local B. W. and B. R. r. points, 56,
AIS at local Delaware points, 1859, ,142
for shipment over the New Jersey di-
visions Of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
9067 over the main lius Of the Pepnsyl- |
vania, 1919 to points east OF jersey
City and As, l04 baskets on the Phils.
ielphia and Reading Railroad.
The total shipments for fourteen
years past have been 90. 3G5, ,427 bssk.
ats, showing an average Of 1868 959
baskets per annum. The worst ye.r
,: the lot WAS 1868, when only 5227
baskets were left by the frost, and the
biggest year was 1875, when $780,
)36 baskets we're shipped. The order
If the years for extent Of the peach |
'rop was as follows: 1875, 1871, 1879,
IS77, 1869, 1880, 1873, 1870, 1876, 1867,