The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01

ton, which under q system of vigor.
Gus drumming will be eventually OBJ
tanned, aud with greater demands
Will come greater production. For
| tunately there is no overstocking
and but little loss IN transit. So
long as the waters OF the Chesapeake
shall ebb aud flow, just SO long will
the oysters Of Virginia meet all
competition.
WILD FOWL AND GAME.
Norfolk has for many years been
an extensive market for The sale of
| wild fowl. The waters of Virginia
and the Carolinas are frequented by
tho best species of game birds, SWIM,
geese and ducks. The fresh water
lakes which find an outlet through
Albemarle sound are especially the
feeding ground Of the canvas back
duck. During tue last ten years
deer aud bear have been driven from
their haunts in the Blue Ridge
| mountains by railroad extensions
and mine developments, and now in
great numbers find shelter in the
woodlands and swamps of Easter IL
Virginia. During the shooting
season, which begins about the 18th
Of September and continues till
April, thousands of birds and larger
game fall from tho shot of the pot
hunter" as well as the sportsmen.
Albemarle sound and It's tributar Y
lakes and bays id verituble hunts.
mans paradise. and is the headquar.
tiers OF eight shooting clubs, brought
into prominence OF late by the visits
OF two Presidents.
FISH MARKET.
The rivers of Virginia, especially
those tributary to Chesapeake bay,
are we'll stocked with salt and fires
water fish, aud tho traffic in choice
species of the inDy tribe is large
and remunernlive the year round.
1t Is hard to get exact figures, as
many of the owners Of sleeps and
schuoners who cast their nets into
| the waters OF the Chesapeake dis
| charge their cargoes at the whnrves
OF the etenmehip lines, where they
are frolghted to Northern commits.
sion merchants. The season opens
about the lst of April auo continues
till November. There are no better
fishing grounds along the Atlantic
coast than the banks of Virginia.
Fishing Is an independent, mex
pensive industry, requiring but II
small outlay of capital. No land
tenure is needed; the rivers and bays
are free to all, and the humblest ne
gro who plies his vocation in Il
diminutive fiat Doat has oil rights
enjoyed by the Opulent owner oil
Including the billions of fish caught
Annually for fertillZinR purposes,
employing numerous steamers, the
business is estimated to be wortl
81, 900, 0O0 annually.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
The merchants of Norfolk repor
that 1894 has been IN exceptionally
hard yenr, and that they have beef
careful to sell only gilt edged Gus
tom. The competition has beer
most persistent and goods sold upo;
the slightest margin. There are five
Wholesale boot and shoe dealers il
Norfolk and q number cf large retail
dealers whose business,a at very low
estimate, carefully compiled, am omit
ed to 81 800, 600 this year, ngains
$3.50. 600 in 1894, gain in volume O
5000, 000 in ten years. These good!
were sold III Virginia, the Carolina
and Tennessee.
There have been no extensions o
trade into new territory, but til,
merchants feel that they are to b,
congratulated that they have beer
able TO hold customers who hnv,
beeu buying hero for ten yeara O
more.
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
Norfolk has an extensive .jobbinl
trade III tobacco and cigars, aud tn,
business shows great gains over TIL
estimates of 1881. There arc il
Norfolk and vicinity thirty mann
factories of cigars, but no mannfao
tories Of tobacco. The retail trad,
is supplied by jobbers whose drum
mers travel III all the counties aut
towns of Eastern Virginia, Norii
and South Carolina. The VIRGIN
IAN Is assured that the outlook fol
1873 is very promising.
The PsAHUT TRADE.
Norfolk enjoys the distinction O
being the largest peanut market il
the United states. For some year,
pnst tho dealers claimed that they
had made no money, aud conso
lquentiy an association was formed,
III which ali OF the large dealers il
othcr Virginia cities became mem
bers. for the purpose OF controlling
output and regulating prices. This
association has done much TO i'm.
prove tho condition Of tho trade.
There are SIX firms ia Norfolk,
whose business last year footed up
Sl,0SO.G0O. They occupy handsome
brick warehouses from three to six
stories high aud lifted with the