Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07

THE CITY OF SNOW HILL.
Mayor William d. Corddry Tells the READERS of the Baltimore
Sun o4bout It's o4doantages.---H is Thrifty and


have read with great deal of pleas
ure recent publications i'll The Sun of
descriptive letters written by mayors
of other important towns in the State,
and especially those coming from the
Eastern Shore, and while to the unin-
formed some of these will seem TO be
pitched in pretty high key. yet it is a
fact that it is easier to underestimate g
than to overvalue the favored conditions
under which the people of the Eastern
Shore live; aud while am ready to ad-
NIT that other towns have been equally
favored by men, none has been endow-
ed with greater natural resources than
Snow Hill
| PROSPEROUS SURROUNDINGS.
Snow Hill is situated at the head of
navigation on the Pocomoke river. 1t
is about six miles from the Sinepux-
ent bay and l3 miles from the Atlantic
ocean. 1t is surrounded by the richest
and best farming land in the county,
which is equal to any in the State (or
any other State for that matter, in that
the soil is adapted to a diversity of crops.
from wheat and corn to trucks and
fruit. and it is a fact worthy of mention
that on five farms alone. which are
within radius of two and half
miles of Snow Hill, there were harvested
in the year of 1902, j. 900 bushels Of
wheat. aud II, 900 bushels of corn to say
nothing of correspondingly large crops
of tomatoes, potatoes and other truck.
Worcester farmers are as rule in.
telligent, prosperous and happy people
and TO the manner born. They have
provided themselves with comfortable
dwellings and large and substantial out
buildings for the protection of their
stock and crops. They have procured
all kinds of improved machinery and
are farming ON business principles, and
l make the assertion that the agricul-
ture of Worcester county has improved
in the past 10 years more than that of
any other part of Maryland and that
Snow Hill has been benefited by these
improvements more than any other
town in the country; and while this Is
true, she has contributed to it in ND
small degree, for the farmers have been
greatly helped by having banks. build
ing and loan associations and other in
stitutions conducted by "a band of live
business men. to whose energy and ca
pacity the present era of prosperity is
largely due.
There are in Worcester county two
of the largest and best nurseries in the
United States William NJ. Peters Sons
with offices at Snow Hill, Maryland,
and j G. Harrison & Sons. with
offices at Berlin, Maryland These enter.
prising firms are shipping large quaint
ties of trees and plants to all parts of the
country and TO foreign lands, aud each
enjoys the enviable reputation for grow
ing fine, true. to-name varieties of both.
The oyster industry is one that is
putting large sums of money annually
into the tills of the several merchants
of the town, and. while it is fact that
our natural rocks are not so productive
as heretofore. the BUSINESS. fostered by
a good planting law. has grown until it
it is one of the largest industries on
the peninsula.
SHIPPING FACILITIES.
Snow Hill is on the Delaware. Mary
land and Virginia division of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad. and is the terminus
of the Baltimore. Chesapeake and Attain
tic Railway Company's Pocomoke river