The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-13

A FINE COUNTY
JOHN Randolpt's Estimate Con-
3. tradicted BY Modern Day
Development.
SPLENDID TIMBER LANDS
Farm Property Has Greatly
Advanced i'll
Value.
fsnocin, 10 rho Times Dispatch.)

(Spccial to The Times Dlspatoh.)
5 CHESTER, VA, May 12.--Traditon says
tint eccentric John Randolph, seated at
I the breakfast table Of Richmond Hotel
ordered eggs. and added bring me Ches-
terrified eggs, for the people of that coun-
XIV are SO poor that they hive to sell
eggs every day and that fact assures
me that they are always fresh
x do not vouch for the verify OF TINS,
but If that rare man did make sucf
rc,nark in days gone he would not re-
Y r,cat 1t IL he knew the Chesterfield OF the
4 pit sent day. / know Of no county III VIZ
g,ria SO rich in fine timber lands anu
none in which real estate values nave 81
Increased in the recent past. Ai,o ,,,
of one farm that cost Si,Uu0 a lew years
ego ana now the owner is asking Soo,oV0
FOR the timber on It and confidently says
that It will be worth $1,000 belofo an
other year has come and gone.
IA / saw a small tract Of land sell the other
day for $500 which could nave neeil
bought two years ago for one-thru that
sn.mint 7 know Of another Which sold
& for $1,000 less than three years ago, ana
Trough the owner has sold $1,000 from
/. ne can get that amount for 1t now
and refuses to sell.
But Chesterfield is not only rich IN
timber lands, but In farming lands as
:
OF human industry is sadly neglected ~
those sections OF the county where the
s timber interests absorb the energies "
mules and OF men, but in other portions
At is commanding thoughtful ana curl
est attention and on many OF tneso VIZ
worked farms the labor propienl nus
been satisfactorily settled and nowhere
,1ore satisfactorily than on the iarnl
a; Mr.. Walter Burgess, located IN INC
lev err end OF the county, some lhree
miles west OF Bermuda
Here found full crops of wheat, onts,
grass and admirable preparation TOT tlle
corn and peanut crops, ana oiilg w
,Snrl,ers on the farm, Mr. Burgess and
isn,, still In his teens. When looked over
Tho broad acres, giving evidence OIL nav
irg been thoroughly cultivated, muir
nlly asked .How many regular ilanuS
do you employ. and what does your u'lS
labor cost you?" To this the owner re-
piled, II employ neither me one one, no ~:
Ire other, but all of the work VIII DC
done Nv nv son and T. We were seated
II his front porch while this conversation
l1yns going on, and overlooking llllit!-E
RrIre Geld TO be planted In corn ana III
which the son was then NJ WORK. luiloW
Ing a pair o splendid horses ana dliect-
ms the movements Of a mamll'o.il o,"s.
Hhn land was In such perfect order that
" wondered why he was not plah.ll,s
rather than narrowing, and SO remark arr.
a., but Mr. Burgess said, I'VE are hot
Trough With preparing the land yet as
nv habit is to work the corn pc,
( fore It is planted and the rest is easy.
THAT reminded me that years : a. AZ e M hS
ERInhard Snmpson, in his day, one or the
most noted and successful or Iiie 1nllae S
River farmers, and owner Of Elk Island,
what time he began to work corn, ana
he replied, Always before plant y.
4 p,,t r mentioned the Burgess farm to en-
K MIA sIze1 the fact that on it the labor prob
lem has been solved Instead Of waiting
4 FOR labor to turn up" the owner ana ms
manly boy are turning the sod Tor an
other crop. The Ansio-SuNon IS not a
4 .,a1,a,aart rocn r. =. b.