A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=51082 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Philadelphia Inqiuirer Article Date: April 28 1907 Article Description: Arguments in Favor of Waterway from Lewes to Rehoboth Article Text: Lewes, Del., April 27, 1907: The public mass meeting called by the War Department of the United States and conducted by MAJOR C. A. F. FLAGLER, of the Engineer Corps yesterday, brought out these facts of commerce in support of the campaign for the proposed waterway from Lewes River to Rehoboth Bay: Shipments from this secton inclueddddddddde; Eggs, 10,000 crates; oears, 25 carloads; lunber, 7,000,000 feet; canned goods, fifty carloads; peaches, 100,000 baskets; tomatoes, 100 car loads; Wheat, 20,000 bushells; potatoes 30,00 bushels; wood and piling, 100 car loads; merchandise, 15,000 tons. The micellaneous fruits and vegetables could not be correctly estimated. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com