Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1908-09-04
SOUTHERN MARYLAND AWAKEN
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1t is with inexpressible delight we
note the interest that is now being
manifested in the welfare Of South
ern Maryland from quarters that can
do much toward helping to build up
this section of our State. 1t is no
vain fancy of Imagination, or I'M
founded inspiration growing out Of
an insane love Of home, that induces
us to say that there is no section Of
this grand Union offering the advant-
ages Of Southern Maryland to the
farmer and home-seeker, but it is an
assumption based upon incontrovert-
IDLE facts. Think of it: Here we
are within a days drive, from the
central section, to the Nations CAPT
tai, quite, an ! bidding to be the seal
of the social wealth of the United
States, with a market mainly for such
products as the farmers alone can
supply; in far less than a hundred
miles Of Baltimore City, a leading
market for all products the farmers
can grow with a character OF
soil suitable for the growth of every
vegetables and all the staple
crops for which the world fur
nishes market, and a climate sa-
luxurious and healthful. What more
can the farmer want? Where can a
home more desirable be obtained
Before the late unfortunate strife be-
tween the States it was a common
saying that Southern Maryland was
the sgarden spot of the world" The
assertion was true then; it is trus
now. We cling to the truism as a
priceless herit9ge, and time will dem
onstrate the correctness of our posi-.
ton. That unfortunate circumstan-
ces clouded the interim between that
occurrence and the present. is true
but the dawn Of a brighter day, as
we see it, is at hand. Influences
heretofore dormant are at WORK
and conditions have at last
come to pass that must bring ou
country into notice. In the first
place, the Immigration Bureau, fash.
ioned by the State, is doing good
work in the second place the good
public road proposition, for which
Governor Crothers is entitled to full
some credit, will have a tendency tt
cheaper the cost of production anC
lessen the expense Of transit to tn,
shipping points, and the daily pres
has awakened to the advantages o
Southern Maryland as feeder to tn,
prospective wealth of the State, anC
are telling of it. The Baltimore Sur
of Monday says this:
GAN that Southern Maryland need,
to make it a garden spot is energetic
settlers and proper transportation
facilities. The land is varied il
character, great quantity of it being
of Norfolk sand, Norfolk loan, Sass
afras sandy loan and Windsor sand
all Of which make splendid truekin,
lands, being easily titled, and, wheI
! properly drained, warm and early
There are heavier lands particularly
adapted to grains and grasses, whit,
some of the swamp lands particu
larly in Charles County, if draine'
would be as rich as the delta of th
Nile. Under most of these lands ar
subterranean streams, easily tappe,
at no great depth, flowing artesial
wells being readily secured, the wa
ter being of excellent quality.
"All this land cut up into small
farms and intelligently cultivated
would produce wonderfully ant
would take into that section probably
as much money as gets into the grea
trucking region tributary to Norfolk
in which it is estimated the truck
crops are worth from $5,OOO,OOO t.
s7,OOO,OOO a year