The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-04
ITS INDUSTRIAL ADVANTAGES.
Opportunities for the Establishment
of Manufactures.


Chatham county offers a great many
advantages for commercial and industrial
enterprise of which advantage has not
been taken. Many opportunities are open.
offering a livelihood where they do not
give promise of a competence. That such
opportunities are open and neglected is
clear enough when evidence is afforded
now and again of some man engaging IN
pursuit that had appealed only to him
as offering a possibility of the success
that he has won from it.
Among the small industries that are
successfully pursued is that Of picking
cucumbers. In this some are engaged in
dividually, doing their own work, and they
have found a ready sale for their prod
uct. Not with the preservation of that
vegetable in brine however, does the
profit from excessive products of the
truck farms cease, for corn, tomatoes,
okra and other vegetables are canned In
quantities at Thunderbolt during the
summer. So successful has been this In
dustry. that it is urged that great oppor-
tunity IN the same field is open to any
who may care to avail themselves of IL.
OF okra, especially, il is claimed advan-
tage can be derived, for in the North,
where IL is principally canned, 1t is raised
with extreme difficulty, and in meager
quantities. In this section, however, It
will grow iuxuriantly and yield abund-
antly, with but little care and attention.
In canning okra and tomatoes, canneries
would be able to correct the unpopular
practice of many Northern cannerfes and
make the okra exceed the tomatoes In the
har he
From the extensive truck farms and
lands that might be devoted to their cul-
tivation, vegetables in quantities that
would never grow short could be obtained
by the canneries. Every year the truck
farms have products left over from North
ern shipments, and local consumption that
could be canned with profit, all that IS
needed 10 add this resource for the far
mers being the factories.
Vegeta bles are not the only products
that are canned in Chatham county. The
sea is called upon for contributions to
the Industrial enterprise, and many oye-
tiers are gathered and canned in
the three canneries that are
conducted. Employment for great
numbers of fishermen and for workmen
in the canneries is afforded by the in
dustry. 1t is by no means overcrowded
and those venturing into the field would
doubtless experience the same success as
have the pioneers.
The Coast Fisheries.
From the city and the suburban places
of Savannah. sailing craft go forth to
search the waters of the neishboring
coast for a delcacy that is esteemed
above 'oll others by epicures all over the
country who are able to indulge a fond
ness that has grown to be celebrated 1t
Is the diamond-back terrapin that is
sought Several terrapin "crawls" are
maintained In the county. and orders for
the creatures are received in greater num-
Der than can be supplied. Something
like &2i "A dozen Is brought by the terra
pin. and there Is money In the business
at that figure.
More straw berries are consumed IN sa-
yannah than the truck farms in ;he vi
entity supply. Many planters raise
Ftrawberries in this vicinity, but not near
~ 10 many as could md the business
profitable Those engaged in u have ioai-
lied handsome prohtf when they have
conducted ~ carefully and intcliigeutly
Biackbcrrlef are cultivated 90 bot "a very
slight eNfent ~ this vicinity Were the
time ana attention bestowed upon them
that the results to be- obtained would
uHrrluf. Tiaufffr would be surprised -
ina tIf great addiflon f0 fhelr inr0mf r.
fhaf fhrY Woui1 bring 49, ruluynn %
fho small sonnet ImHf fafff|rsH berry fhat
la ngW onrrfd fnf falr Woul1 hc Hupuianf.
30 by onf large nn1 1lIOY 300 ~ very
pIsasaui iBtfr Better prices snd reader
sales Woul1 he found for fhH cuiuFafof
article. nuJ u it q matter ~ npn4fr ~