The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1962-01-19
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS SPENT
BY NPS. STABILIZING FORCE in
ECONOMY OF OUTER BANKS
Dare Coast People Have Enjoyed Large Payroll
with Coming Of Cape Hatteras National Sea-
shore; Muti-MiIIion Dollar Tourist Business Gre
a+ed Where Area was Whitening From De-
pleted Income Sources

Comparable with the old days
along the Dare County Coast, the
Government continues to be the
chief source of income, and pro-
vides employment more than any
other factor. Through the National
Park Services activities, the eco
nomic stability of the Outer Banks
is maintained, and the annual pay
roll is more than a third of a mil
lion dollars a year. In fact in 1861,
the Cape Hatteras National Sea-
shore project paid its employees
$346, 002.54, recent N.P.S. figures
reveal.
In its dune sterilization program,
it carried 112 persons on the pay
roll. It has paid out nearly five
and a half million dollars for labor
and construction in the years 1866
through 1861, the actual total be-
ing S., 440, O02. Nothing in this part
of the state has yielded as much
income in any previous years.
During this period it has spent
for roads and trails in the area,
which includes Ocracoke Island, the
total sum of $1,368,131; it has also
invested $2,169, 800 in buildings and
utilities designed to serve the tour
ing public as well as the admins
trative needs of the area. It has
spent 81 ,010,968 in its dune stabili-
cation work, and to save the area
from further erosion by wind and
tide.
Salaries and other expenses for
management and protection have
totaled 1858 ,831. The total expendi-
ture for soil and moisture control,
and for forestry and fire control is
$50,0S6. Cost Of dune surveys is
$54,00
Prediction of travel experts is
that on completion of Oregon Inlet
bridge the area viii enjoy the BEN
efts from a million visitors year.
Travel figures show tourist expendi-
lures average $40 a day, and if all
visitors spend only one day, the
gross business would easily be ten
million dollars. But most of them
spend far more money, and their
business has proved a bonanza for
motels, and other businesses that
heretofore did not exist on the
coast.
Nothing now is more essential
than the NPS activity on our coast.
Nothing can be anticipated that
might take its place toward provid-
ing a livelihood. Those who pro-
jected this great Improvement were
looking well ahead of their times,
and with true vision and courage,
stuck to their course, against the
opposition of many who were unin-
formed, and led astray by the
| greedy.
Through the widespread NPS or
ganization, the Dare County area
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