The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-01
HORSES ARE
in DEMAND /.
Electricity Has Not Had Bad
Effect on the Market.
.WEEMs LINE u OF {, STEAMERS f:
Electricity Has Not Had Bad
WEEMS LINE OF STEAMERS.
/ Has Benin Operation For Nearly y
Century and Is Owned by Same
Family That Started it-Naws
Of King George County.
1000 :
Especial 10 Tho Times Dispatch

CONFORM, KING GEORGE COUNTY,
va. Feb. GA few years ago when tho
noble horse had to "step down and OUT
and give place 10 electricity as n means
Of operating street-cars In tho large
cities. 1t was feared and predicted by
many that tho decreased demand for
horses In cities would result In SO re-
ducing the market price OF these animals
as TO operate very seriously against tha
interests OF farmers who had long found
II, profitable to raise horses for market.
But the result Is entirely the opposite,
and horses and mules are commanding
higher prices In this SECTION Of Virginia
now than atnny time In the past two de-
cades. When thousands and thousands
OF horses were In the street-car service,
dealers and 'traders'' In the rural dis
trtcts made n business Of Waiting tho
largo cities and buying, at public auc-5
ton, &C., droves OF brokcn-down, worm
out animals, which were brought to the
country and sold at prices ranging from
$40 to $50 apiece While these worn
out and city horses were of but little
value, they answered present purpos es---
they could do ordinary farm work Tor
ono or two years. and as long us they
could DO bought at such low prices, there
was little or no demand for hlgn class
Of animals at higher prices. In othsr
words. as long as these city horses could
be bought at $40 to $50 apiece, 1t was
rarely possible for a farmer to sell one
of his own raisinE--no matter how vnlu-
able-for SO or 500.
HORSES IN DEMAND.
| This state OF things forced turner's 10
abandon horsc-raising. The few who con.
tinued tho business dld so "it,,ou. Ia
! 10 themselves As late as 1899 good
| sound. young horse could be bought here
| FOR anywhere from $50 to $50 But con-
| dltions are changed now. proves "a o.
| broken -down street-car horses are no
| longer brought to the country, ana nearly
all OF those brought here In former years
have ''passed away 80 that there IS q
stoadi,v increasing demand for good
horses at respectable prices.
The GLASS OF horses that sold at so
arIeco n few years ago. Is selling To-Day
| at 500 to $40; and the farmers are re-
| Stunning tho raising OF colts on quite q
| large scale.
vear-old colts have sold here at $40 TO
s1O0 each-the same class OF colts thnt
sold five or six years ago Ut S3O TO soV
I apiece. s /. s5s t
| a few years ngo pair Of good mules ,!a
| could be bought here for $l2a !" y sioV,
| The Same cannot be bought now 1of 3
less than $3.50, y, -
| lines of steamboats,. which have serSea
| tbc rcopIe7 along tho Potomac ana RaptM-
/ hammock rivers for SO many years, ie ,,a =,
| thc fact that the Weens line on me h..p
pahannocls is one OF the oldest y. ma VIZ. .hs
been in operation conllllu ..,,e ,ant ahont
;,his iinnts this !: It has never oeen ous
.'e'sa hands Of the family that cstap-3
,ncornorated n short time ago
IT ia said on good authority thal lie
"yyashngton and Potomac fiver. o.ea..s'
r, ~, ICON - c,ompany'' will begin to operate
. hoa. honts on tho Potomac about tho
~, ~, !, March instead Of tho 1st OF June
80 - 1vn Intended when the company was
~ ted q sehort time ago.
N.Y. ~ 4 announced that tho steamer Wake
! fieid will resume Its regular schedule on
/ tha Potomac tomorrow, after being
! reated to some repairs and u coat Of
paint. M ,.,e,>yc Az
| number of the Northern Neck farm
ers are preparing their plant-beds and
| sewing tomato seed, preparatory to rais-
Ling tomatoes for canning purposes, me
growing of tomatoes FOR TINS purpos,u.
last year proved SO satisfactory that "
Will be engaged in more extensively TINS
| season than over before
| The mal-carricr reports that recehL
wash-out in Muddy Creek on the Toau
between fredericksburg and this place,
| makes the fording or that stream very
dincult and dangerous.
mssioners, sometime ago appointed ~
Judge Chichester, have viewed tho Mua-
dy Creek ford for the purpose Of ascet7
tanning tho ACCESSIBILITY and cost OF erect
| ing n bridge there 1T ~ reported wv
officially that tho commissioners VIII I ~,
ommend that Stafford defray ono thliu
and King George two-thirds Of the ON o,
penses of such a/bridge, Muddy Creek d.,
ing the dividing line between tho wy
| countless Al
| Mr.. II. p. Tayloe Is arranging to pe ,e.,
next week the work Of repairing stlilA
Wharf on the Potomac, near this pla .sa
Which was taken down and removes
| from the river In order to save " from
the ravages of Ice. At present the pas.
sengers and freight at that shipping POM
are conveyed to and from the steamb oats
Inv means of a lighter,
| Mr.. Lewis Rogers, OF Washington, -
C.. visited his parents at osso. this couA'
| ty this week @
ME-, I. n, Miffleton, who has been on 9
brief visit to his brother In the lower
part of this county has returned TO h1s
| home in Washington, D. g.
MIR. n. j.. largest and daughter, M U.s.
Lille largest, who have been In Raltls
more for several weeks, have returneSN
/ a. rolaa /, Hill their homo near her q. 3tfs&b