Year: 1879

great prospect beyond. The region is
asurely one Of promise and the future
full Of hope." l4 81


The country through which we rode,
ohile Il was IN q fine state 0fcultivAtiop,
md was greatly advanced ahead Of lis
condition Of half score Of years ago, did
not show the new epoch in Sussex as
well as other sections do. Down along
the Breakwater and Frankford Railroad
1t seems different county from what it
was before the iron horse began to snort
through the pines. There is not town
upon the whole line that has not doubled
in size, and Selbyville and some others
have quadrupled their population. Steam
saw mills have been thickiy established
along the line and q vast amount Of
freight comes up from the lower points on
the Penin.ula. From all this but one
conclusion could be drawn and that is
that the day is rapidly approaching " hen
Sussex county will in intelligence, enter
prise, wealth aud cial standing, equal
her neighbors Kent and New Castle.


One thing that people inive not gener-
ally thought about Is that Sussex county
Is destined to become the great peach re-
gion Of the state. You can see evidences
IF it all through the county, and they all
CONE with sustaining force. The land is
better adapted to the growing OF peaches
venture to say than any other on the


Maryland and Delaware Peninsula. The
1t grows withcare aid culture elsewhere.
And as general thing the growers have
q crop when this branches Of the trees in
Kent and New Cxs tie are without bud.
Now, last year, for instance, every one
knows how It was In the upper part Of
the State, but down here the farmers had
enough to keep them contented and the
Old Dominion Steamship Company did
a fair business carrying TO New York.
At that time the most of the Delaware


Railroad shipments came up from Sea-
ford, Laurel and places like that in Slls-
sex. One who has been watching the


peach business for some time cannot but


adm t this is true, and 1t is gradually


getting to be an ack nowledged fact among
the growers of peaches. No moie is the
great peach region across from Middle
town In New Castle county and in Kent
Of Maryland. The scene has shifted,


and the great peach belt has lost its fame
for producing more peaches than any


other equal extent OF territory.


About the time that the falling of
commences in that quarter tens Of thou


sands of young trees had been planted In
the lower part Of the State, came into


bearing and produced abundantly and


the Sussex county farmers began to real
ize that theirs was the peach county af er
all. In proof of the assertion that the
peach region has left the upper counties


and shifted here, would mention the
fact that both this and last season Sea
ford, Laurel and Bridgeville have been


the heaviest shipping points on the Della


ware Railroad. The Junction and Break
water road. the great feeder of the Old
Dominion Steamship Co.'s line between
Lewes and New York, and the medium
| through which all the produce of eastern
I Sussex goes 20 market has carried al


average of twenty car loads day.
i more than in any preceding year, by far
But the advantages of Sussex county


as great place in the future are tOt


many to be specified or dwelt upon
Time will see it, one day, on an equa


footing with the rest of the State. Ant


that day is not far of, either.


f-D H. H. B.