Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-03-23
GARDEN SPOT"
OF VIRGINIA.
Country Which the Chesapeake Ba,
Road Will Open to Richmond.

O~soi~o Va q POsttiOu Ou tue mdp
but very little is known or heard of
the Northern Neck of Virginia aud
the lower Rappahannock Valley,
justly, called the "Garden Spot of
Virginia" embracing within its
confines the counties of King Will
liam, King and Queen. Essex, Glou.
|cester, Mathews, Westmoreland,
Richmond, Lancaster. Middlesex and
Northumberland, containing 2,300
square miles of fertile land and
prosperous. people. Total number
of farms, $4,000; population, y5, 900
churches, 80; postoffices, 325;
schools, 400.
The lower Rappahannock Valley
and the Northern Neck have doubled
their trucking area in ten years.
The pol tions of Tidewater Virginia
blessed with railway facilities show
gains of 3l5 per cent, and with
rapid transit this community now
cut off from Richmond, would
show greater gains in the next few
years.
Thirty years ago canned goods
were considered luxury. To day
tomato canning shows an increase of
nearly 96 z per cent; 100000 cans
are annuity shipped by the Weems
Line, necessitating the bringing in
of 100000 empty cans. The "Gar-
den Spot of Virginia" produces each
year:
Sweet potatoes, $4,000 bushels.
Irish potatoes, 554, 900 bushels.
Very few reach Richmond.
Miscellaneous vegetables of a
valuation of $621,o 900 are shipped
beyond the State, gain of 240.6
per cent-, and all without rapid
transit.
Onions, SO, 100 bushels.
One hundred and sixty-fse thous-
and quarts small berries.
Gloucester Point alone ships in
the. early spring 1000 boxes of
peas, $4,000 boxes of other vege-
tables-and not a pound reaches
Richmond.
Hogs, $4,000.
Sheep, $4,000.
Cows, $4,000.
Steers, $4,000.
Veal, 10000.
Lambs, $4,000, and large ship
ments of beef cattle.
All go to Baltimore aud Eastern
markets.
Richmond is completely cut out
for a want of railway connections.
Butter, 100000 pounds.
Wool, $4,000 pounds.
Honey, $4,000. pounds.
Turkey, geese and ducks, $1,000.
Chickens, 4S2 900.
Twenty one thousand gallons of
milk are sold in other markets.
Tobacco, 1864, 900 pounds.
( Corn, 2,617,000 bushels.
Oats, $4,000 bushels.
| Wheat, $685. bushels.
Rye, 1900 bushels.
! Beans, $4,000 bushels.
Peanuts. 600 bushels.
Hay and clover, Sc, 400 tons.
Syrup, 4S,20o gallons.
! Apples, 100000 bushels.
Nectarines. 80, 900 bushels.
Peaches, 2S2 900 bushels.
Grapes, 114.O0O pounds.
+ Pears, 192, 200 bushels. -
Plums, 900 bushels.
Wine, 5000 gallons.
Cider, 1900 barrels.
| Vinegar, 600 barrels.
Dried fuit,' $4,000 pounds. :
! Fertilizers to the value of $l55,
900 are brought in from Baltimore
Northumberland county ship
T.
1000 barrels of eggs annually.
: is estimated that the $4,000 farm
! produce on an average two crates O
I, leggs for shipment Ia low estimated)
making the total number of crate
t shipped to other places Of 10000.
The "Northern Neck"- might a
; well be turned over to Maryland
: Virginia being benefited in only
i very small way.
I'll 1t is estimated that the oyste
: industry exceeds a valuation G
y $S,O00,O00. 965,000 bushels wei
shucked in small area near Vi
n banna; immense quantities ar
e shipped to Eastern markets; crab.
and clans to the value of $3.50, ,0O'
Shad and other fish aud wild fow
/, no figures.
ri In Middlesex the whole county
:. underlaid with beds of miocene mar