Manchester
Manchester has a coast line so much exposed, and consequently so small a territory of tidal flats, that it is not surprising to find its clam industry of very insignificant proportions. Affairs are in much the same state of apathy as at Beverly, though Manchester does not possess the resources of the former town, and could not, in the nature of the case, carry on any extensive clam business. Its facilities, however, poor as they are, are very imperfectly utilized; hence the present state of depletion, verging on absolute exhaustion.
Summary of Industry.
| Number of men, | — |
| Capital invested, | — |
| Production, 1907:— | |
| Bushels, | 100 |
| Value, | $100 |
| Total area (acres):— | |
| Sand, | 10 |
| Mud, | 10 |
| Gravel, | — |
| Mussels and eel grass, | — |
| Total, | 20 |
| Productive area (acres):— | |
| Good clamming, | — |
| Scattering clams, | 5 |
| Barren area possibly productive (acres), | 10 |
| Waste barren area (acres), | 5 |
| Possible normal production, | $2,000 |