Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-26
CAPE MAY RICH COUNTY
Stands Third In Taxable Values
of South Jersey Counties-0n
Her Shores are the Coming
Resorts

Resorts
From the Sea Isle City Review
Cape May County Is destined to lie
one of the wealthiest counties in South
Jersey. Her taxable values have ia
creased almost one and one-halfmilHen
dollars in the past year. Of the niae
counties in South Jerzey, only two, At
lantic and Camden, make a better
showing than Cape May in the recent
ly issued report. Atlantic heads the
list with an increase of a little over
eight and one half million dollars.
Camden stands second with an increase
of a few thousand over two million dol
lars, and Cape May is third with
assured improvements under way
which will give her second place in 1910.
After 1910 it will be a race for lead be-
tween Atlantic and Cape May. with
every natural advantage in favor of
the latter. The wealth of Atlantic
County is centered in Atlantic City
which is now in the full sweep of its
glory, while the numerous resorts of
Cape May County are just beginning to
attract deserved attention.
Cape May County is shaped like an
Indian moccosin with the toe and in
step pushed out into the Atlantic Ocean,
and East, West and South its shore
line is washed by the c~easeless rolling
tide. The Gulf-stream which flows up
the coast, coming out OF the Gulf If
Mexico between Florida aud Cuba,
gives the Cape May shore a most de-
lightful temperature during the fall
and winter months and the summer is
made particularly delightful by a o
slant salt laden breeze, either from the
east OF west, which sweeps across the
fifty mile, average breadth ofthe Coun-
ty. Wealthy persons, seeking seaside
homes, are learning that Cape May
County offers the most desirable sites
along the coast, aud from Cape May
Point to Ocean City, palatial homes dot
the shore line, and the time will be that
from a passing vessel a continuous and
unbroken line of hotels and cottages
may be observed along Cape Mays
miles of ocean front.
Eighty years ago the counties of
South Jersey were described by writers
rs four-fifths waste and barren land;
now, the larger portion of this desert
() is under the highest and most
profitable culture, and the land in farms
is worth an average ofseventy-five dol
lars an acre. AS the price of farm
lard depends upon productivity, ac-
feasibility to market, and ag~riculturists
engaged, 1t is readily seen that Cape
Mays future is Of the brightest. For
good roads New Jersey stands foufthfn
all the states of the Union, and Cape
May County now has miles of the best
automobile roads in the state, and with
the advent of the Ocean Boulevard she
will top the heap. Every dollars worth
of the product of the farmer and truck
er of Cape May County finds a ready
and eager market. The demand of the
resorts at certain seasons cannot be
supplied now by the county farmers
who are waking up to the fact and in
creasing their acreage.
The rapid growth of Cape Mays re-
sorts is resulting in a corresponding in
crease in the settlement and cultivation
of unused acres throughout the county.
The opening and building of new roads,
which our energetic and far-sighted
Freeholders are rapidly dong, will en-
courage and make profitable the inte-
rior settlements.
Despite the attractions held forth by
lake and mountain resorts, the sea will
forever draw its millions. There is no
place a man may throw off the cares OF
business SO easily as within sound of
the singing surf and there Is no place
where health comes quicker to the in
valid than rolling on the sand and
basking in the sun at an ocean resort.
New Jersey has the finest bt aches in
the world, aud Of these beaches Care
May County without doubt has the
finest.
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