Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-15
!ra OF COMMERCE.

9 ry.at Is Rigger in Mary rhan Anywhere Else. ; wbo was the first man tt s ovster would be astoundec \ s.sad part of a recent bulle ] % %TTnited States fish comnis \ what an important indus d all by himself This bull s ss ss sbont the oyster business in s,,,t. as Maryland produces f the worlds oyster product, o inc industry in that state shont all that is necessary tc sanding of the importance oi ss.sr eommeree.
 sss d oOo, 900 bushels of oysters n a inc world each year nearly ss ,sa Bushels are natives of the
 Y' ss.4es. and more than II, ,oo0,.O COG
 .saae from Maryland waters.
 ,.s of Marylasd's product is
 \ oeo. 900, that of the tnited
 I'M SIG, 009, GOO, and that sf the
 tbs worlds little more than
 Jt will be noted that q
 sslaation per bushel is put upon
 15an upon United States oys-
 ma Id because good oysters are
 Es,s while poor oysters are dear
 When a lover of this deli
 zs1ls for oysters in d London eat a..,,sa he is asked if he will have
 ,sef And when he says that he
 hs gets sample of Hol-
 nroduct. The oyster beds
 Ef.jIand yield about TO, GOO zIaa rear, and they are valued in
 zs.,,,,tatiou at $40, GOO. or more
 s $ bushel Maryland oysters t;,t down at a shade over 50 cents a zs|1 MI there can be no comparison 7s, fhe succulent morsel of Nary |@S1d the rugged old mollusk of !; The latter, as eaten in s| Iooks and tastes somewhat 2x sute-bellum copper cent spat- <zI6I{h acid and sprinkled with Sz| nd when the partalker tackles zo.called delicacy from Holland it 2 to lim that the chief difference |eon the oyster and the seasoned would be that the cent might kill md the oyster might not.
 as to his purpose of treating the E from 6 purely industrial point .W. the author of the treatise in ;ion has not turned aside to give casual attention to the faseinat-. uestion as to the identity of the man that swallowed an oyster; e sets forth facts which suggest nouiry whether at least two in- rators working independently in eld of gastronomy, did not arrive of the edibleness of lnollusk of forbidding aspect.
 mentions an Italian oysterman name of Sergius Orata who culti-
 beds in Lake Lacrinus about years ago. and says as much as to la6the Lucrinuses were the sad, eks of that day. The prehistoric of this country show that adians were large consumers of, s before any white man came. we find that the noble American 10 noble Roman were eating oys- probably simultaneously, at a Anterior to any known associa- the white and red races. That rly white corners to these shores t bring with them the art of eat. sters and were slow to learn it he Indians seems evident from a 6 of John Smith, published in in which he says substan tially' he colonists got nothing in the f food from the waters of the oeake. Half d century later it ritten of the Kent islanders that their grievous hardships was to eat oysters to keep from ag, A hundred years later began ster war that has ragged up to ne between Maryland and Vir- and it is probable that the out of hostilities marks the begin ( the importance of the oyster ~ in the United States. The 
 snders and the Virginians dis < that a good eyster was wsrrs !g for. It is imp6ssible to speak present aspect of the contest, for, 6 revolutions in Central America, aleidoscopic. Nothing but the stelegrams from the troubled 9san afford a view of the situa- p to date. Meanwhile, despite i, the development of the indus nt on until, through the magni- aiefy of the operations in Mary be oyster business took first rank the fishery industries of the States.
 zter years the utilizing of the has been an important part of ster business. Nobody has yet led the question that the fool nded to King Lear-how tho makes it's shell-though it is
 that the shell is three -fourths ate of lime, and carbonate of valuable. Because of this sub- the shells are used in the mannu- of certain grades of iron, for food (to be converted from shells into egg shells), and for , lime to be used in producing as and in other industries. Be- lese uses oyster shells are util- restocking oyster beds, making 7 roads, and ballasting rail-
 Instances of the latter use may
 on three or four railroads in nd and in the Southern Pacific, organ City, La.
 boats employed by the Maryland aen are an interesting feature Industry. They began with the
 canoe, and some of the largest used in the business are still m shape, though not dugouts. st canoes were made of single Id were small affairs. Then, hve, or seven logs were joined T With wooden pegs or iron one way of making Chesa- lugout is to fashion the outside
 thn lorr -.. =,