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jPAGE Jg THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK 1 1 NEVER FAILING SEA FISHING Korth Carolina's Fifteen Hundred Miles of Shore Line Famishes It Averag-e Vlfty Million Pounds Caleb Include! JHoit Everything- From Shrinip to .Porpoises AMONG the most in teresting of recent vis itors was a guest from Chowan County who discussed the States Fisheries interestingly the other evening. "It seems to be a surprise to many," he said,"to learn that North Carolina has fifteen hundred miles of shore line, and that every mile of it is never failing fishing ground. These coast fisheries give constant em ployment to more than ten thousand per sons and the annual marketed fish catch averages more than fifty million pounds and includes fifty varieties of fresh and salt water fishes besides oysters, scallops, clams, crabs and terrapin. We run the whole range of almost every kind of fish you can think of, from shrimps to por poises; and with the exception of the menhaden fishermen none of our fishers go down to the sea in ships, and even the 'menhaden boats don't go far away. Besides salt water fishes, some of these sounds contain many varieties of fresh water fishes, a remarkable circumstance ; among them black bass, white perch, bullheads, pike, strawberry bass and others. Albermarle Sound, owing to its uniform depth, which is 20 feet, its re markably level bottom and entire absence of currents and tides, is the ideal water for seine fisheries, and no body of water of the same size in the world has more extensive fisheries or yields more fish. And yet no fish that has its constant home in salt water ever comes into Albermarle or Currituck Sound to tarry. The waters of those sounds are fresh. It's curious how that came about. "In fact Albermarle Sound is the larg est body of coastal fresh water in the world. But it was not always fresh. Years ago it was as salt as the ocean, as salt as Roanoke and Croatan sounds, which join it at its eastern end, and Pam lico Sound, into which they drain its waters, are to-day. It became a fresh water body because Curritick Sound, which empties into it on the north and had been salt water until then, one time long ago turned fresh. All the sea fish that had swarmed in these sounds aban doned them bluefish, squeteague, sheepshead, menhaden, Spanish macker el and the rest and now come no nearer them to tarry than into the adjoining waters of Roanoke and Croatan sounds. Iut their places were taken by innumer able varieties of fresh water fishes, in cluding the game black bass, and by anadromous fishes, those that come from salt water into fresh water to spawn, chief among them the shad, which by and by sought those waters by the million n their annual journeys northward and for a hundred years the supply of which seems not to have diminished. There are no dams to stop the shad on their way or refuse from sewers and factories to destroy them as they journey, such as they encounter nowadays in the North ern waters they enter. "Albemarle Sound is the greatest shad fishing water in this country, and that of course means the world. From its main body and its tributary rivers more than 2,000,000 shad are taken every spring before the Northern fisheries have as yet hauled a seine. Besides seines three miles long, put out by means of steam launches and hauled in by steam station ary engines, hundreds of gill, pound and skim nets are in constant service taking the shad from the water. As many as 100,000 fish have been brought in at a single haul of a seine in the sound. Her ring in vast schools run with the shad and are taken along with them by thou sands of tons. Between 1,500 and 2,000 persons are employed in the shad fisheries of Albemarle Sound. In the two months or so that our shad fisheries last they bring to the fisherman of the Albermarle dis trict something over half a million dol lars. Chowan and Bertie counties get the most of it. The salt water fisheries in Pamlico, Croatan, Roanoke, Core and Bogue sounds keep things lively all the year round and the miscellaneous catch of the choicest food fishes that swim that comes annually to their nets and lines foots up in financial results close on to a couple of millions a year. "So you see there is mighty good rea son for us people along the North Caro lina coast country to be taken up mostly in talking about fish, of which Pinehurst sees its share during the season." .MMSMMMI Mr. and Mrs. Spring: Iteturn Mr. and Mrs. John C. Spring of Boston opened their log cabin bungalow early in the week. Get the Habit: Send The Outlook to Friends. Telling, as it does, the full story of the week "It saves Letter Writing." flT A V;' ' 1 "pull!" HOTEL RALBIGH RALEIGH, N. C. New and Modern. Sixty Rooms with Baths, Run ning Water in every room, Steam Heat, Electric Lights, a number of Suites with I ggg Private Parlors and Open : Fires. COMPLETE "INSTANTANEOUS" SYSTEM OF TELEPHONES and ELECTRIC ELEVATOR SERVICE. SOUTH-WESTERN EXPOSURE, OVERLOOKING PARK and APART FROM ALL OTHER BUILDINGS. Howell Cot) lb, Proprietor Q'. 0 "A HE glory of win ning the Cup is transitorv : but the quality and the art value of th e trophy are per petual, and eloquently ex pressive of the sentiment involved if made by Reed & Barton Co. Two New York Stores 320 Fifth Ave., at 32nd St. 4 Maiden Lane Many designs for many events and at moderate prices Pinehurst Pharmacy A COMPLETE LINE OF Orugs, Sundries, Toilet Articles. Confections, Stationery, Cigars, Etc., Hot and Cold Soda, Mineral Waters Prescriptions Compounded by a Registered Pharmacist Department Store Building Holiday Novelties Sffrta and grafts Shop General Office Bldg LIFT-THE LATCH TEA ROOM Plnebluff, N. C The Misses Little. PINEHURST DEPARTMENT STORE Complete and Modern Equipment in Every Department, and Prices on Par with Northern Markets Plain and Fancy Groceries Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Notions, Men's Furnishings, Etc. Complete Equipment for Men and Women for All Out Door Sports. Field, Trap and Pistol Ammunition. THE KIRKWOOD CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA Renewed Golf Course Best Saddle Horses and Live T. Edmund Krumbholz
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