The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-14
have desired. and now prefer to trade
WITH Richmond

i have desired and now prefer to trade
| with Richmond.
Notwithstanding the drawbacks in
| the matter OF transportation the town
has always been. and is now. Q splen-
| did trading point, and has also be-
come manufacturing point of consid-
| cradle Importance and Is now offering
special inducements to new enterprises
and various manufactures.
Urbanna has for many, many years
done large business in oysters. fish
and hard and soft-shell crabs. That
| was In years agone Its principal bust
| ness with the outside world, but in
Halter years 1t has become the centre
| OF an immense trucking business. The
lands of Middlesex county for ten
| miles back bring English peas. sweet
| and Irish potatoes. asparagus, lettuce,
| beet corn and all manner of truck,
together with strawberries. raspberries.
blackberries etc.
| These vegetables and furits come
early and in the shipping season for
| them there are no buster places in
! Virginia than the wharves of this
town-and with the execution of a
few lots that go to Norfolk, every
/ thing Is shipped to Baltimore.
| Lumber and Mercantile Busincss.
Within the past few years the lum-
1 pSI udS peCOUle immense.
there being within ten miles of the
town not less than twenty sawmiIls,
| which prepare lumber for the outer
markets, and bring 1t here for ship
ment by sail vessels to Baltimore, Of
course.
The lumber trade Of Urbanna may
be summed up in a few figures. Five
million feet of sawed lumber go from
this harbor annually, and in addition,
a. I rail It.a m
of wood. Ten sail vessels of a hun
dred tons and over capacity. owned
by people on Urbanna Bay, are regu-
larry employed transporting lumber,
hay and other products Of the soil,
besides numbers of vessels that make
special trips from other points to load
with the same. The Urbanna- owned
| vessels ply between here and Nor
folk. Baltimore and Philadelphia DC
caslonally one goes up the James River
to City Point and Richmond.
The ten mercantile establishments
here do business of from SIS 900 to
100000 per year. their trade being
confined to space of ten or dozen
miles around.
One That Trades With Richmond.
The manufacturing enterprises tina.
arc doing we'll here are Of course,
such as find the raw material right q:
hand and cheap. The large cannery OF
]. w. Hurley does a tremendous busi-
ness. and is the one establishment OF
the town that trades with Richmond.
the Cannery Is one of the best equipp-
ed in the State. During the three
months of the canning season the fac
tory works seventy-five to 100 hands,
and all kinds of Vegetables are canned.
although the larger product Is Of to-
nlatoes. The factory has capacity
of $4,000 cans per season, and when
crop conditions permit, it is worked 10
it's fullest capacity. These tomatoes
are raised within ten miles Of the town
and the farmers find their cultivation
very profitable Mr.. Hurley disposes
os the output of his cannery in Rich
mond and ships by sail vessels to City
Point. from which place tugs take
his vessels to the Richmond wharves.
When the canning season is over the
plant is used In the oyster business,
and from October to April thousands
of bushels are shocked therein aud
shipped in ice to Western and North-
ern markets via Baltimore While
Mr.. Hurley has his own profitable oys-l
ter beds, he does not con Sine his ship
mcnts to them. He buys the product
OF ten or q dozen oyster planters, who
take the biyales from the waters OF the
Rappahannock River and Urbanna Bay
near the town.
Money In Oysters ana Crabs.
Other planters make large shipments
from here, mostly to Philadelphia and
other Pennsylvania markets. The
oyster business brings to Urbanna
about sl5O,OOO annually Of good North
ern and Western money. III addition,
nearly Or quito as much business Is
dope firm here in the catching and
shipment of fish and the hard and
softshell crabs. The hardshell crabs
go almost altogether to Baltimore
while the softs go mainly to the pack
ting houses at Crlsfield Md, from
which point they are distributed
throughout the West,
The urbanna Packing Company, of
which George, w. Wagner is the sole
proprietor, isSalso a vegetable cannery,
empl Dying SIXTY hands In the canning
season. Mr. Wagncn started this can-
merry here n few years ago In q small
way. and has built up large business,
working the factory to its fullest ca
pacity, Being asked why he does not
enlarge the factorysand double its ca
paclty, he simply said: Lack of3cap-
ital, find me asnoneyed partner and I,
Will offer him Inducements to come