Milford chronicle., 1883-09-01
THE NEW OUTLOOK FOR DELA.
WARE

3 WARE
r The new railroad-the Sussex Mid
Q land, we believe it's to be called-from
Queenstown on the Chesapeake to
1 Lewes, will be one Of great value and
D Importance to the lower part Of Della.
ware. 10 brings Baltimore in direct
communication with Lewes and Reho-
both, from which places it will be less
f than one hundred miles distant, includ-
+ ing the water travel from Queenstown
: to Baltimore, saving at least five hours
time in iourneying from Baltimore to
Rehoboth over the present roundabout
route, by the way of Wilmington and
Harrington. It will also open up an
outlet to New York for one Of the finest
sections Of farming and fruit growing that
there is on the peninsula. It will nat
urally make Rehoboth as great a seaside
resort and watering place for Baltimore.
as Atlantic City and Cape May are for
Philadelphia. All this means increase
Of travel and of traffic, and with these
always comes increase of business, and
enhancement of the value of land com
ing within the favorable influences
brought about by the railroads. When
Rehoboth has summer population of
ten or more thousand people to feed,
and there is no reason why it should not
have them when more accessible. the
farmers will have a better market for
their eggs, poultry, milk, vegetables,
fruit and other produce, than they now
have; for all watering places have a pop
ulation of consumers without any pro-
ducers. They always leavea large amount
Of money behind them wherever they
go, which Of course inures to the ben
eft of the locality they visit.
We do not pretend to be a prophet or
the son of a prophet, but we think we
can forecast the future of the lower part
of Delaware, and that in from five to
ten years from now, Sussex county will
have double the population 1t now has.
The quadrangle lying between the
Delaware Railroad on the west, and Del
aware Bay and the ocean on the east;
and from Seaford and Indian Riveron the
south, to Harrington and the Mispillion
River on the north; is certainly destined
to be a large fruit and vegetable grow
ing section, with any number of canning
and fruit eyaporating establishments.
Milford is now a great centre of
these industries; nearly fifty Of them
being in operation this present season
in that town and its immediate neigh
oorhood. We have seen the city of
New York increase from a population of
about 125,OO0 in 1920 TO 1850, 900 in
1880. This amazing increase received
is first impulse in 1926, when the Erie
canal was first opened, showing the ef-
ects of the means of transportation in
population. Increase of
population also brings increase in the
-alue of land; there are lots up town in
Tew York city that thirty years ago
ould have been bought for $500 each,
hat have since been sold for $4,000
ach. Not that any such extreme in
rease in value can be expected in farm
ng lands or lots in country towns or
illages. We only quote it to prove our
that increase -of- popu.lIaatien.-
rings wealth, and increase Of value to
and.
There are hundreds of acres Of land in
ussex county to-day that can be bought
II $l5 Or 500 per acre, which, under
roper tillage, would be worth in ten
ears from $50 to $1OO per acre, and in
le meantime pay all current expenses,
nd literally repay the owner for his
1tlays and labor upon them. Henceit
that we SO often urge upon Northern
en ofenergy and intelligence, although
it'll comparatively small means, to set
e here, for we feel convinced that
thin few years they would be in easy
and possibly in affluence.
lch far-seeing corporations as the
Railroad and the Old
Steamship Company, of New
orb, would not have made the large in-
stments which they have done in
oviding means of transportation, did
ey not believe in a bright and pros
rous future for the Peninsula, in days
t far hence.