Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-29
WARTIME PROSPERITY
CAN BECOME PERMANENT
Elizabeth City County will Keep
Full Hand Drawn In tho War
Shuflling and Dealing.
MANY ADVANTAGES IN COUNTY
Government Took Advantage of Lo-
cation ami Established Plants That
May BE Converted Into Peace
Time Industries.

Elizabeth City County is mex, to the
smallest county IN Nirsinia rs FORM
each side and 1t has an area. all told.
of but Il fraction over nifty square
miles. Every square foot OF the land
:our,hs OF the area outside Of lamp
ton used to be in cultivation, but that
cannot hc said to be tho fact since
down there and scattered his aviation
camps and training grounds his hos
pitnls. his marine reservations and his
soldier camps. to say nothing of his
storage warehouses and ammunition
depots. over so much of the little
county rs TO make 1t doubtful II one,
TO the usual crops.
SOME ADVANTAGES
OF THE COUNTY
The usual crops are corn. wheat. oats
and potatoes. Much trucking is done.
or used TO be done, in the county, and
TIC fruits there. especially the smaller
fruits and berries. are plentiful and
the growing o: the same is profitable.
given 10 poultry raj ing, but the peo-
pie do not take much interest in stock
raising. coniining their work in this
dairy'ng purposes and that for home
supply.
The Bay. Hampton Roads and all Of
the creeks and other streams empty
in.; into the Same. being filled with
fish. crabs and oysters. and all Of the
very finest quality the leading indus
Try or the county including Hampton.
OF these. y great deal OF money is in
vested in this industry and 1t affords
profitable employment to large num-
her of the county's inhabitants.
GOOD CLIMATE: AND SUPERIOR
TRANSFORMATION FACILITIES
The climate is excellent and the
health of the people of the county is
above the average, The transportation
tfEN al sl,.,. Il
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
gives an outlet to Richmond and to
the West, and the electric railways
furnish quick transportation pretty
much al over the lower peninsula,
while. the county being almost SUR
rounded by naviGable waters. the pco-
point in the known world and no trou-
bic in getting anywhere they want
TO go.
Because Of this most favorable To-
steamers with Norfolk, Richmond.
Washington, baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York, while the big boats of
the New York. Philadelphia and Nor
folk Railway keep them in double
daily touch with that line of railway.
Thus it happens that Elizabeth City
trucking interests have all the mar
kets of the world right at their door,
rs IL We're.
WAL, TIME PROSPERITY
TO BE MADE PERMANENT
No county in Virginia or anywhere
else has orotited more by the war than
Elizabeth City County. This war, like
al the others this country was ever
involved in. drew 4 great many pcoplc
from all quarters OF the globe TO the
county. and they have sounded its fame
al over creation. The war has also
started numerous industries within tho
county. not ali Of them being confined
TO hampton. and but few If any OF
them expecting TO be permanent. but
however the newcomers, who arc.
or were, interested in these war time
eSted in Elizabeth CITY County and
hampton, and the proba bility is that