Instead eyes turned for wealth to the kingdom of the plant and tree, and to fur trade and fisheries.
* Hitherto there had been no trading or landholding by individuals.

All the colonists contributed the products of their toil to the common store and received their supplies from the Company.

The adventurers (stockholders) contributed money to the enterprise; the colonists, themselves and their labor.
Those ships that brought colonists were in every instance expected to return to England laden with the commodities of Virginia.

At first cargoes of precious ores were looked for.

These failing, the Company must take from Virginia what lay at hand and what might be suited to English needs.