Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-12-09
Fish AND oYsrSp NOTES.

New rope may be- made pliable with
oit impairing its strength by boiling i,
To- an hour or two in water.
The man even a disgruntled one
who says oy. ters in Virginia are mol
more plentiful than formerly is either
designing, ignorant or poor catcher.
Police boat James River which wa
cut in two and heightened twelve fee
at Messick's railway left yesterda,
morning for duty on the Potomac.
Reports from over on Saxis Island in
dictate that the oysterrnen are cstchins
more oysters and doing better than TO
fifteen years. They are good an,
bringing fairly good prices. = Easter
Shore Herald.
Says the Hampton Monitor: 9TH,
week just closed found the oyster indus
try IN Hampton booming. About l .5Ol
bushels are handled daily" That,
pretty good-for Hampton. Here thre,
to four thousand bushels per day d,
not giut our market.
A New York crab pick ar, doing bust,
ness in Hampton-old ..crab-town''-
is importing his New York catch anc
having them picked along with the
Virginia product. Two reasons TO,
this: labor is cheaper here, and, too,
the Virginia labeled crab, like our oys
ter, is better seller-a confidence re-
storer.
The largest fiat backs" ever caught.
as well as some of the biggest catches
known here, were to be seen along
Beaufort's waterfront during the past
week. The air that is breathed here
about is evidence that all the fish oil
and scrap factories are busy-disgust-
ingly busy. Beaufort, N. c., Look
Out.
A charter has been granted the Men
baden Fisheries Corporation, Harveys
Wharf, Northumberland county. In
corporators: M. S. Stringfellow, pres
ident, Brandy Station, Va: H. St.
George Tucker, vice-president, licking
ton. Va; A. Brooke Taylor, treasurer.
Norfolk, Va; Ro. w. Shultice. secre-
tary, Norfolk, Va. Capital stock:
Maximum, 500, 900, minimum, $50. 900.
Objects and purposes: Fish and fer
tilizer business.
BIG MONEY ON POTOMAC.
With a revival of good market the
dredge boats on the upper Potomac last
week did better than for years. Boats
with crews If eight or ten men report
having sold their catch for $500 and
over.
NEW DEAL FOR JAMES RIVER oYsTERMEN.
Tired of longing and to gather the
shekels while the opportunity lasts.
scores of tongers around Isle of Wight
have gone into the haul-seine business.
Mud shad are showing up in the small
tributaries of the James in greater
abundance than before. Three tons of
these fish were landed and shipped in
one day last week from Battery Park.
JAMES RIVER is YET QUIET.
Through misrepresentation and over
hearing careless threat, a newspaper
reporter announced last week that oys-
ter unions on the James were condemn
ing Commissioner Lee for calling off
the survey during bad weather. A
visit 70 the union proved that no such
talk or action had been taken by any
OF them, as went the rounds of the
press.
EXTRA EARLY RUN OF FISH.
The Ridgely (Md.) Sun reports: "a
few behring's were caught this week in
the Broadkiln river at Milton, Del.
something unusual for this time of
year"
thousands Of shad are at the head of
the Great Wicomico river, in Northum-
beriand county, and the resident fisher
men are catching large quantities of
them. Over four thousand were ca..ght
at one hauling of a seine by two men
one day this week. The shad are in
search Of fresh water at the head of the
river.
"vARMINT" OF THE DEEP.
suppose Virginia watermen were to
land such creature as this, would they
know 1t to be lobster mot of the two
legged lobster" variety we find walk
ing the streets)? This deep sea fellow
was caught off Nova Scotia and shipped
to New York. From the tip of one
claw to the tip Of another the measure
ment was forty-five inches. and from
the tail to the tip of the claws the dis
lance was thirty-three inches. The
blg fellew weighed twenty-one and
lhree-qusrter pounds, and, according
TO an expert, the lobster must have
been at least one hundred years of age