The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05
MATERIAL.
PROGRESS.
Northern, Neck Has Developed.
Greatly In a Decade.
PINE BUSHES DISAPPEAR.
6loodsd Q attle Craze Where Once Only
7ulleys Broke the Dreary Monotony
Of u Broom Straw and Hen
I Grass Horizon.
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4 \, Especial to Tho Times. Dispatch.)
S{ COMORN, Il VA, April 4.-The material
progress made by the Northern Neck in
the last few years Is n subject OF ear
i nest comment III business circles through
out this section and In tho cities. Whole
! sale merchant, commission men and
$drummers, whose business relations are
confined to no one section or State say
h that no section OF the country remote
n from the great manufacturing centors
\ has made more rapid strides towards
y GENERAL prosperity than has the Northern
Neck In the past dozen years. a great
deal iof the long neglected and worn-out
land .Shas been improved and is Under
an excellent system OF cultivation-yield-
8inK fine crops Of corn. wheat. oats and
hay. SSi II IL 5.i5
Es There are scores Of farms in this Neck
that would sell for twice as much to-
day as they would have brought eight
4 or n ten years ago. IIuxuriant crops OF
grain and hay, and many hne orchards
have taken the place Of pine bushes ana
the proverbial broom-straw, and large
4 herds OF blooded cattle and sheep are
now grazing and fattening in fertile helds,
where ga ping gullies and the native men
grass held sway less than two decades
ago 81 a. 4b1 r 4, !, . !,
and. agriculture is not the only and most
convincing proof OF prosperity and pro
4 1ress An the counties between the Poto-
/ mac and Rappahannock.
& h Hundreds Of tho class Of people VINO
have been tenants for many generations
= = h buyinE and paying for homes Of
their own, and are among the most
CON com Portable and contented folks 10 oe
found outside of paradise.
s82g OF course, there are some very poor
Y a h some 1rr,e very improvident people here
Is NAV he found evcrywhere but as O
Srn1ess every branch and department OF
business us succeeding we'll, and the Neck
"a & forging ahead as rapidly as Is any
thar rural section south OF Mason's anu
SDixon's line. =, $50,
az some 5of the largest sh-guano factories
M the word arc situated IN the Nor.n-
lernI Neck. and the product OF these lao1
tories Is said to be fully equal 70 th l' o.
any factories In existen nee. 4. !.
It Is said on good authority tnae =.
yeck has a larger number OF cann ~
s Establishments In successful operation n.
SSNan7 any other section of51'like size.
! IA that the goods canned by these es' es'
"a hi}ahments are the best on the MAJ,
4 ,,ats1as Is evidenced by the tact ttl !.
NAV command top prices wherever Of
go. 8 - r Rapid DEvEL oPMENtr. g
glance at the enormous quantltles
q mail matter that comes 70 anu soes
from the Neck every day N the "e ,a,,
would 8 convince the man OF cohse'i.s,..
3nessimisuo propensities that the peop1o
IRE Intensely alive and en.erp, ,.s'.,
) s9It "a conceded that the Neck, nlthoush
III >out railroad is rapidly DEVELOPING
S5intoSo one OF the most desirable residential
\ Z nd business sections Of tho Old Domis-
IN and that the time Is not far distant
A,vhen lis Importance will be recognized
4 II; everywhere. Several entirely new enter
3nr,seg Will be inaugurated Mt points ne
A tween IAN tho Rnppahannock and Potomac IN
n ~ Tnear future. and these will bring peo'
ole and capital from other States
The Weems Steamboat Company OF
Ss paltimore @ has caused something OF
4 ,ensation here by putting an extra poat
E8pn the Rappahannock River TO ply Pc
v tween Fredericksburg and Urpanna, IN
Opposition to the steamer TOURIST, o. 81 Wy '''
~. Peoples Line.
nv the Business Mems Association OF
8rrederi cksburg to supply a want OF many
years standing. and 80 well has this
sl.neople's line'' served tho people along
1 The riycr3that the Tourist has become I'M
u nnensely popular here and throughout the
SRappahannock Valley. a4.
PERSONALS.
\, M. william Rose. OF Westmoreland,
# came to King George several days ago
and took charge OF the store and post
Il once at Chatterton, which no recently
purchased OF Mr., F. p. Tayloe,
ssSSSis Mr.. A u. Pemberton,~ Jr.. and Mr.. Nat
81 staples OF King George Courthouse.
have gone to Washington. D. c.. to re-
side.
IA Miss Ernestine South, OF Lothian. this
: county left few days ago for King
4 William county. where she Will attend
N school,
Miss Nora Allen, OF upper King George.
land.
Messrs. John Gutridge and ". ID,
Baker. Jr., OF the Dague neighborhood,
VI who have been very Ill with pneumonia,
: are 20 much improved as to be consd-
cred out OF danger.
Mr. N orman Weeden. OF Colonial Beach,
several days ago presented the Baptist
{ Church OF that little town with very
handsome silver collection plate.
Ss f Mr., and Mrs, Harvey Rogers, OF Wash
ington, spent several days OF this week
" 1T Osso, near here.
Mr., IL A. Mason, OF La Grange, Ga.
was here this week looking over his farm.
Hs Mr. Ben Newton, young man residing
IN the upper part Of this county, was
handling a small pistol q few days ago,
when 1t discharged. Tho bullet lodged In
4 his left hand. Young Newton came to
this place to procure the services OF
physician.
Miss Lou Walker of the Igo neghbor-
& hood Ia on a visit to relatives In Fred