The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-09-15

decided success and thus movement mas
been started that should accomplish much
toward the further development and bet
terment of this favored section.
COLONEL TlLGlnAN'S ADVICE.
Col Oswald 1iIghman, of Easton, presi-
dent Of the board said:
'When their varied and wondrous re-
sources are, in time, properly and thor
oughly developed the lands and waters OF
our nine Eastern Shore counties of Mary
land will be capable of making not only
the present Inhabitants, but population
ten times as great more prosperous and
happy than any people or the globe who
occupy such small corner Of it. If this
board of development is strongly repre-
sented in each county, it would command
an influence in our legislative halls which,
il wisely directed, would tend to shape
legislation irrespective of politics or poll
tical affiliations, for the general welfare of
this section. l appeal to each member here
present to use his best efforts to largely in
crease the membership of this board. If
the earnest cooperation of considerable
number Of the most epterprising citizens in
each county can be secured, then the first
step in the path of our material progress
will have been accomplished. Although
the actual labor may be confined to COM
paratiyely few in each locality, the advan
will IN 10 WI tv
and as the objects in view are not narrowly
selfish, but broadly generous we can with
more assurance invoke the attention OF our
most intelligent and practical people to the
proposed scheme of developing the many,
though latent, resources of our Eastern
Shore counties, and can confidently count
on their assistance in its accomplishment.
"This board will endeavor to attract to
our sparsely settled agricultural sections
sturdy class of settlers such as those VINO
are now being driven eastward from the
northwest by long and vigorous winters,
and where their farm work for the year
must all be done in few summer months.
Such population would speedily build up
our waste places, and by dividing up our
large unproductive tracts into small ones
would soon make one acre produce more
than five acres ever did before. Oar large
cities are fast becoming over populated by
poor class Of people who could readily be
induced to work in factories ii established
in our country towns"
Colonel Tilghman referred to the recent
publication in the Baltimore sun OF Pro.
fessor ,Iohnson's report of the profits OF
peach and celery culture as practiced Oh
the eastern shore Of Lake Michigan, and
drove the lesson home TO his hearers on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland. He added
that ''if refrigerator cars could have been
secured to transport our big peach crop to
the interior cities of Pennsylvania and as
far east as Maine they could have been
properly distributed, and every peach or
chard, in spite Of the big peach crop, would
have brought handsome returns to the
grower
In regard to the celery fields of Kala-
mazoo, Mich, where these crops are taken
from the same land annually and the yield
is ., 0O0 dozen per acre, Colonel Iilghman
said "This Eastern Shore peninsula con
tains thousands OF ceres Of just such land
adapted to the growth CT celery, and the
asparagus crop would prove equally rs
remuneratiyc here.