The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-12

am more likely to walk to the
this room to steal a watch
would be to steal 1t from vi
owners nose. AT present In TIL
River the policeman and the q
always around the corner fro
other"
Oystermnn Talks.
Mr.. Conklin presented at tn
meeting the resolutions OF tn
meeting of oystermen. THE VI
Land lies now, which Mr.. Lee !
to throw out" he said. ut Is
good in the world. There is
there but old dead shells an
and the best thing to do is to s
en- the lines. If we don't get
ton for the rocks. they are q
was dead opposed to this chang
l came here. but when I saw
was convinced 1t was right.
been a planter and longer fol
three years"
Give me these new lines
Commissioner Lee, and what
1000 acres Of rock I will ma
5000. Some Of this land wh
propose to throw out is valuab
was unavoidable in making
which was straight. l don't I
ought to be rented to the
bidder. for a syndicate would sc
But the commission will get al
out of this rock, giving the lit
low a. chance. 1t ought to be d
squares of from ten to 100 ac1
Don't Want Inv.
The upper or shore line
Baylor Survey, from the .corne
Deep Water Shoal Light to II
Shoal Rocks, off Newport News,
teen miles long. and the lower
err line is twenty miles long, wi
| ty corners, There remains n,
cation of these forty corners.
are gone. Why. at Jail Islam,
the very rocks. oysters and al
| carried away by thieves. w,
i tried buoys. have put them
river and they have disappear
A fore the next morning. The
is that the majority of the mem
James River don't want any Id
any buoys.
1 THE planter has encroached
4 on the Baylor lines than the
number of acres we propose to
out of 1t. We can't keep him
You might as we'll expect us to
a ranch of prairie land of 10000
and require us TO keep within
ed bounds 1000 cattle without
us g. mark or tree or stakI
we ask is a mark to go by. q
all this change is for.
The oyster men come here al
| the commission that 1t has dc
lfwork we'll; that conditions have
~ improved. But they say. M
don't break the Baylor Survey!
can You break what does not
Ihere is no Baylor line. The
al gone. 1t is a myth. The p
nave ~. | want to put them on
or course. can police the
INES II We can find them. But
take 10000 to establish the
corners. and 1t will take $4,000
to maintain them, whereas the
only gets $4,000 year out of {,
tire river. Now. If you viii, g
these new lines. and six watch
| We VIII police the river for s4.
Stead of $4,000, which we ar
spending, and we will soon be
ing $4,000 a year instead or 81.
Asked why he could not make ii
lines larger. he said there !
ground shallow enough on. wh
put the watch houses.
In Interest Of TonEcrs
Appealing to the tongers. II
hat he had been protecting tn
terests for twenty two years. i;
poses now to re-establish, not to
the Baylor lines. The plante
holding 5000 acres for which I'll
paying nothing. Not one aero
thrown out by the new lines viii
tonger is to-day privileged to
upon.
Mr.. Lee was asked repeatedly
his recent article in The Time
patch. He stood by. his argul
that there Is but the one alter
: for the State. to establish thes
lines or to abandon the river.
commission has done it's best,
; spite of all it has lost 1000 tc
acres TO the entertainments OF
ers. TO do more would be a pl
impossibility without eNpendng
tune TO get a small amount in 1
and no Governor and no Legi.
could or would ask the connmiss
hlmself to do more than their
lie was willing, he said, In {
: SION, If 1t We're legal. and he
, get the new lines Established
4 in the law that there should
further change for hundred We
Opposition Talks.
h. c, Rowley, of York count,
he had fifty acres of mud flats i
ton District of York county, on
/ he had lost 500 to $1,000 In {
IN the past five years. He said
could tell him that the Moor,
Nsylng party had run its chain
1900 acres OF the bottoms. BE
| that the Fish Commission was
ana Jealous, he said that official
4 had carried him beyond his iud
only about dozen planters Il
state, he declared, want the
changed. and of these nine are
ers. Now. he commended. they
70 raise the seed. too. He aske
there. be no legislation as to 4
az this session of the Legfslatll
that COMMITTEES be appointed
\ Vestlgate the whole question
every Standpoint and 10 report
next General Assembly.
/ q, w. Fitchett remarked that
stakes and buoys have Il way .of
/ ing around.
The opposition to the bills had
got started when ii WAS detertni
/ end the meeting. The next
| Will be held Wednesdays Eight.
! fight has Just begun. uniess the
mittee should decide to limit I.
Mr.. Lee said just before the com
rose that he was willing TO re
case.