The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-01
BEAUFORT is UNIQUE
lis the Most Delightful of
Coast Resorts.
A Paradise For The Fisherman. The Fat Back
Industry. Some Of its Business
Enterprises.

Beaufort. N. e., Aug. 30.-The very
name of Beaufort to those who have
visited the place brings up delightful
memories. It's location, quantness and
hospitality cannot be duplicated by that
of any other town on the Atlantic sea
board The old Atlantic Hotel, decided
ly the most popular Southern seaside
resort of it's time, was located here. and
when 1T was washed away by the big
storm in 1879, carried With it the heart
joyed it's hospitality and innumerable
delights. Efforts have been made in O.
feeble way to rebuild the hotel. Local
capital is ready and willing to put at
least $4,000 in the enterprise, and this
means much to citizenship not
wealthy. The site where the old "At-
lantic' stood is an ideal one, having an
open sea front, from whence passing
ships on the ocean can plainly be seen.
The ocean is only few miles distant
through the inlet. The destruction of
/ this hotel was caused soley by its ex-
ceedngly poor construction and still
few seaside-resorters that have visited
the North Carolina coast who do not
know Miss Sarah Davis and her hotel
Her table service is without any doubt
the best in the State. To taste her
finely prepared fish, SO freshly caught
that they can almost turn themselves
over in the pan, is a privilege which
once enjoyed is never forgotten. Time
haC II ir11f xxyifI I,
her mile as bright and welcome as
warm as when she first opened her
popular hotel years ago.
OUTLOOK FOR oYsTERMEN.
These waters are the most beautiful
on the American coast, and are the fish
ermen's delight, whether considered
from the standpoint of pleasure or fin
ance. Oystermen are busy preparing
for the taking of the luscious bivalves
as the season begins on September LIST,
and lasts until May 1st following. The
outlook is good, they say, for an average
supply. The food fish caught here COM
prise every variety found in the sounds
of the State, the supply being most
abundant.
FISH FOR FERTILIZER AND OIL
One of the great industries which has
rapidly grown up within the last few
years on the North Carolina coast is the
catching of Menhaden or fat-backs (fish)
for the manufacture of agricultural fer
tilizer. The catch of these fish the
present season up to this writing is es-
timated at 25,000,000, which is UMPIRE
cedented. The Menhaden are caught in
large purse seins which run from 400 to
700 meshes and from 100 to 140 fathoms
long. The catch at one setting is some
times as much as 500 pounds. These
fish are first put into large wooden
tanks within which iron pipes run,
steam is then turned en- and the fish
I thoroughly steamed or boiled; they are
then transferred into iron cribs and
subjected to a heavy hydraulic pressure
which completely presses the oil and
water from them. The oil which floats
on the water is then separated and run
into cooling tanks, and afterwards put
in barrels and shipped mostly to the
New York and Baltimore markets. The
fish after being pressed as above are
dumped from the tanks or cribs through
the false bottoms into pummy carts ana
carried to the scrap boards and there
spread and dried. After being thor
oughly dried this fish scrap is taken to
the scrap houses and there prepared for
shipment to fertilizer factories. This fish
scrap contains from 10 to Is percent Oh
scrap contains from 10 to 10 percent of
phosphoric acid or bone phosphate
CONGRESS SHOULD STOP IT.