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country. Others estates, while kept in
tact as far as ownership is concerned.
are being farmed under the supervision
OF scientific farming. and as carefully ad-
ministered as in the early days of the
nineteenth century, when the owner of
a large Southern estate spent most of
his time supervising the work on his
property.
Just as New York has its Long Island,
with farms. magnificent country estates
and beautiful sea AMI river advantages,
Washington is beginning to look to the
country bordering the south shore of the
historic Potomac.
If the new propagation continues to
bear fruit for the next two years. Wash
ington housewives and Washington bust
ness men will have at their command.
and within 100 miles OF the city, the
nucleus of a practically limitless source
OF supply for the table and produce
market Ribboned with navigable creeks
and washed by the already wharf-studded
Potomac, the country is now ready to
open its gates to the influx of agricul-
turists able and anxious to make idle
ground bear rich fruit Heretofore-and
this attitude still is maintained by many
to live and even to accumulate modest
fortunes by the cultivation OF only por-
tions of their estates has bred an indif
ference to the latent possibilities of the
soil in that section.
Discovered by FinancIers.
Local financiers saw the possibilities in
! the soil OF that part of Virginia several
years ago and have prepared to reap
VI or,ic . hA fDt haN
taken in the exploitation of that country.
These rewards they feel assured will
prove handsome. With the development
of the South in which the Virginia
country bordering on the Potomac is
prepared to play a large part, a new
commercial center is expected to result
from rehabilitated agricultural interests.
Colin H. Livingston. president Of the
Potomac and Chesapeake Steamboat
Company, and one of the best known
of local financiers, expects to see that
section transformed into a Long Island,
as far as its truck gardening activities
are concerned.
"Only a few years ago." said Mr.
Livingston, "all this country was with
out adequate transportation facilities.
Now at any point on the river man can
he wishes. During the last year freight
rates have been put into effect quoting
tariffs from any wharf on the Potomac
to any point in the United States.
Large Investments Made.
Northern people arc beginning to make
large Investments OF land along the
Gently made by ]. P. Morgan, and his
A.
Maryland side, goes to show the trend.
Then, John R Dos Passos, of New York,
has a big 5000 acre estate on the Vir-
ginia side, which he is engaged in beauti-
flying Lots of old farms and plantations
are being bought at low prices by North
ern men who take an old house and re-
build il, pick up a lot of real old furniture
here and there, and settle down
1--WE exchange passengers and freight
for Baltimore at two points on the Vir-
ginla side At Colonial Beach, seventy
miles from Baltimore, is our main ex-
change point, and there we hope to have
fine ceep harbor. A survey has been
ordered by Congress. Here is the old
home Of Richard Henry Lee, of Revolu-
tionary fame, and three miles away is
Wakefield, the birthplace of George
Washington
The bill now before Congress, which, II
is hoped, viii provide for the deepening
of the harbor at Colonial Beach to permit
all the Norfolk and Baltimore boats to
touch there. will mean the transformation
of Colonial Beach into a city.
It will throw thousands OF dollars worth
OF transhipment for Washington, Old
Point, Norfolk and Baltimore annually
on the wharves of Colonial Beach, and
will open that country up to rapid trans
portation facilities as no practicable num-
Der of light draft river craft could.
At present the shallowness Of the
various wharf berths along the river,
necessitates the employment OF circuit
tous routes in shipments between inter
mediate points.
Bond Issue Voted.
Ideally located to command considers
tion as a center for the country dis
tricts of westmoreland County. already
Colonial Beach is preparing for the dis
tinction which WIN fall TO her when the
country districts have been awakened.
A bond issue has been voted to the
amount OF S0.0o0 70 improve sewers and
give the town first-class water system
A $500 dock VIII be built In addition
to the present docks. to accommodate the
increased traffic when the channel has
been deepened TO permit the docking of
deeper draft vessels
In addition to its excellent facilities for