The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-09-26


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ton u tli0's who dcgirs n eazags IN
agricultural purmiis. Corn, sweet
potatoes. peanuts. Geld pea.. wheat.
oats, and rys afe rsiscd 10 the great.
eat pirIeclion. while a. q fruit grow.
ing region. the whole State is unsur.
passed.
There are two grand trunk lines Of
railroad that pass through the State
from South to North, tho Now
Orleans, ST. Louis, and Chicago, and
the Mobile and Ohio. and over them
garden vegetables and early fruits
can be sent to the markets OF Louis
vile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago
and Detroit, at minimum cost for
freight, and q maximum of profit, |
with market gardening, when crop |
can be placed early on the market.
Within the past two years, labor
has become, to a great extent. settled
in the State, and skilled laborers in
the field and garden can be secured
at lIom ten 10 fifteen dollars per
month and board. The central
portion Of the State is best adapted
10 both garden and field products
Lhe lands in the great prairie belt of
Eastern Mississippi, and those COM
,risiug the. c.bottom lands of the Mis-
issippi on the west. being more par
icularly adapted to coin and cotton:
ylile the lighter soils, contiguous to
10Th these sections, produce every
ariety of fruit AMI vegetables, and
n the greatest perfection.
The commercial affairs of the State
re iu most satisfactory condition,
he effect Of the panic OF 1873, having
lmost entirely passed away. 1t is a |
aren't remark that the present crop I
ill be raised at the least expense of
ny since the war, for the merchants,
armed by the experience of the past
ears, and the disasters of 1873, 9
'ould not advance" on this years r
rop. save to a very limited extent. !,
he beneficial effect of this refusal to
low the planters TO run no bills to
. paid for when the corn is market
/, is already manifest in the air of
,nidence which now every where
companies the formerly depressed
,riculturist.
There is no political disturbance, Y
We local trouble at Vicksburg in a
gard to the city election, and even
at has nearly died out, for people
g too busy in their agricultural and I
matters to pile any fuel
! the flame. | find Northern men 6
and they are all prosper .
is those who are engaged y
business. a
An interest that is destined to add pi
Intensely to the wealth of the State, b
ID one that is that attracting much u
pital, both from the North, and :
DIM foreign countries, is the lumber 10
ade. The whole southern portion in
the State, some 10000 square al
les in extent, is an almost unbroken ~
rest Of splendid yellow pine on the : :
lands, while on the streams, are ~
und oak, hickory and cypress. At &C
.scagoula. near the Gulf Of Mexico, in
d in the southeast portion of the 81
ate, are some of the largest saw af
lis in the South. The lumber pre- :.
red here, amounts in value to over 81
10 and one.half millions OF dollars re
nually, and it is largely shipped to yc
Q West Indies, and even to Europe, 81
nth America and Mexico. ef