The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-12-27


+ successful. Skilled workmen earn fro
e 50 90 to So 90 per day; journeymt
{ from 81 80 to So 90 Ordinary Lahore
i from 81 90 to 81 so \ steady far
i hand may always fad employment, an
t board and lodging, at So 90 to S15 {
q per month the year round. Our hume
/ Gus sawmills employ many hands an
? Taftsmen and axemen at high wage;
; The shipyards require many workmei
Many hands are wanted to man tn
schooners and barges plying to aud iron
New Orleans. Much of the sea boar'
front Is owned by wealthy residents anC
: absentees, who have extensive gardens
orchards and ornamental grounds, ant
these give profitable employment anC
comfortable berths to many men ant
women. Manufactures, it is presumed
will soon spring up here, with the influx
Of immigration and capital, and this viii
create a new demand for labor
L L NJ b E R-FoREIGN AND DOMESTIC
TRADE-PoRT OF PAscAGoULA AND
SHIP ISLAND HARBoR
The great industry of this section OF
| the State is its trade in sawed and square
Timber, Shingles and Laths; a business
commenced only few years since, sus-
pended and broken up by the war, and
conducted since under many drawbacks.
What it will be, when our mighty forest,
covering some fifteen counties, is tapped
and traversed by railroads, it would be
difficult, from its magnitude, to estimate.
What it is now, may be seen from the
following statement, which has been kind
ly made up for me by w. NJ. Gillespie,
Esq, the efficient Deputy Collector for
the District of Shieldsborough, at his
office at Paselgoula, the principal ship
ping point on this coast:
STATEMENT OF VESSELS ENTERED AND
CLEARED AT PAscAAoULA. Miss, FROM
JAN. TO DEC. 81, 1876.
No. Vessels Entered, coast
wise -... ......-. 90
No Vessels Cleared, coast
wise, ..-..-...-...- rs
Lumber Shipped, 49, ...-.. COOS 339 feet.
Singles shipped, ...--...... 1,l79,250
To the above statement % per cent. should
be added for Lumber shipped in yes els
under eoasting license, not clearing at the
Custom House
No. Vessels Entered, foreign los
Tonnage, SO 1913 0S
No Vessels Cleared, foreign 81
Tonnage, -......- 33,3l6.43
Lumber Shipped, .....--... ,l3,679,57I feet
Timber ............ SS5,346
............ 974 500
NOTE Square Timber to Europe Lum-
Der to Europe, South America, Mexico and
the West Indies.
Respectfully Submitted,
Some of these vessels load directly
alongside the Mills; others outside the
bar OF Pascagoula river by lighters. The
largest size timber ships lie in Ship
Island Harbor, near by.
Until this enterprise was started by a
few of our energetic citizens, about the /
same time, and in the same spirit that .
the patriotic Wesson when he
put UP his pioneer cotton mill, it might I
De said that Mississippi had no seaport,
md no commerce. Every article con-
,umed by her, from the most necessary
o the most superfuous, was the produc
ion of foreign or a distant industry
)ut the value of our great staple is
greater in proportion 10 population than
he average of production in other
states. Add TO the great staple our ca
,acity for lumber supply, and the fig
Tres would be amazing.
Nature has given US the most salu
,rious and charming coast in the world
by noble rivers-indented
With capacious bays and estuaries-a
eep channel running along its whole
angth, forming a capacious harbor, pro
ected by a chain Of islands making an
fectual breakwater against the winds
nd waves Soundings of these waters
re accurately noted on the old French
nd Spanish charts. As far back as
$50, an accurate survey was made by
n engineer under the authority of the
tate, and by order of the Brandon
'ank & Railroad Company. Reconnoi-
lnces were made by engineers in the in
crest of companies chartered by the
legislature Of Louisiana. The u. S.
cast Survey has since made Il thorough
xploration, and it must be conceded =
lat we have harbor equal to all the
aquirements of commerce. We pay
uties on imports to the amount of mill !
ons of dollars annually; and of all our =
lst exports and imports scarcely frac Z
on is shipped OF received through our :
yn ports VIII posterity believe it? :
ne of the greatest communities on the ;
fertile in lands, in staples,
nd in commercial facilities an intelii-
ent population; over one hundred
lies of coast, and noble harbor at our .
voluntarily importing all they =
,nsume and shipping all they produce, ;,
rough the ports of other States ! ;,
Without any encouragement from the !
tate or National Government with no :
ilwav communication with the interior =
lralyzed by the ravages and exactions /
war; a few of our citizens have :
augurated direct trade in timber with =
urope, the West Indies, Mexico, and n
II own Northern cities. They likewise :
pply much of the lumber used by y
lilders in New Orleans, besides sending =
illions of feet, sawed to order, up the =
ississippi and Missouri rivers,
Had our State been wise, this great q
rbor would long since have been con- =
cted with the interior by rail, and the al
fps that come for cargoes, would dis
arge their freight at our own wharves.
great commercial emporium would
We grown up, under our own jurisdic II
IN, supplying our planters with foreign d
d domestic merchandise, and home ia
arket for their cotton. cI
During the war of 1914, the British n
ct, before the invasion of Louisiana, Ell
Y securely at anchor in these waters. h
lips drawing twenty three feet lie ii
thin a few miles of shore, inside of NJ
Zip Island, in three and half to four m
thoms of water Over the bars of the j.
there are generally but II to n,
feet, and towage to the city, 100 miles, v,
90 per ton. 1t often costs a ship hi
900 to $4,000 to go up and return, ty
elusive of levee duties Discussing re