In November, 1849, a brigantine named Mary Jane set sail for California and going around the Horn arrived in San Francisco Bay six months later bearing its crew of Yarmouth gold-seekers.
About 20,000,000 feet of lumber is loaded annually at Yarmouth's docks for South American ports. Of lobsters there were exported from Yarmouth County nearly 2,000,000 pounds during the season 1913-1914, and 14,000 cases of canned lobster. A thousand men are engaged on this immediate coast fishing for lobster and cod, their fleet consisting of over half a hundred motor-boats. A great cotton factory employs 18,000 spindles making sail duck, the output amounting to 3,000,000 pounds a year.
At Benjamin Doane's shop a little south of the busiest part of the main street, autumn visitors will discover a characteristic industry. Here are moose heads in every state of disarray fresh from the hands of their slayers. It is interesting to observe the different processes of taxidermy by which an antlered trophy is evolved from the natural state.
The drives through outlying country, as well as in Yarmouth town, are especially delightful because of the superior roads and the changing views of marsh, river, bay and crags, fishing hamlets, farms, lakes, hills and the open sea. "The Churn" on the far side of Bay View Park is a fascinating demonstration of the rage of waves
