The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-08

/. known are the advantages Of the Pasca.
gou'a region for tho lumber trade that
since the war, withstauding the gem
era depression Of business all over the
country, more than twenty Ava mills
have been erected in this locality. They
are mostly OF large sizs. and capable
of furnishinga million feet of lumber a
week. During the past few years a
large and lucrative trade with foreign
ports has sprung up, and the port of
Pascsgoula has become of soma noto.
riety. Where vessels of five and six
hundred tons burden can come within
four miles of the shore, in a rsrfectly
sheltered roadstead, and where the
finest description of logs can be fur.
nished to the mills at S. per thousand
feet, it is evident that there must exist
the best possible facilities for the lum-
ber business-facilities and advantages
possessed by no other port on the Gulf
or atlantic coast, and which have en-.
gagged The attention of many capitalists
and business men. Three-fourths of
the pine lumber now shipped TO New
| Orleans comes out OF Pascagoula river,
and immense quantities are shipped to
Northern ports, England, the West
Indies, Mexico and South America. 1t
is we'll known that the best lumber re.
gions of the North are fast being de-
prived of their forests; the lumber sup
ply from Maine is in rapid process OF
exhaus tion; New York has to get much
of her lumber from remote regions of
Canada; and Wisconsin and Minnesota
cannot long sustain the drain upon
them for the enormous demands for
lumber in the great West.
We have on the Pascagoula aud its
tributaries an inexhaustible supply of
timber, enough to FL all demands for
century to come, not onlg OF heart pine
lumber but also Of cypress, oak Of vari-
oaa kinds, aah, gum, hickory, poplar,
walnut and cedar; moreover the heart
pine lumber is ut least a hundred per
cent more valuable for many purposes
than the soft pine and spruce OF North
ern forests, Spars have been shipped
for be last thirty-hy5 years from the
Pascagyula region TO England, France
and Spain. a single piece ninety-two
feet long aud foot sq7are Mt the up.
pr end is said To- hag8 been shipped
from here. These enormous tracts Of
pine woods. which caa NOW be bought
vers low, viii soon be sought for as
prcfblbla iayastmant. There are ad-
mirable loestioBs for at least hundred
saw mills within twenty miles OF the
mouth of Pascagoula river, which eau
now be had for few dollars, but which |
in a short time will command high fig
ures, and they are sure to come into de-
mand. There are also admirable local-
ties for shingle making, for portable
house and sash and blind factories; in
fact for factories of any and every arti-
Gle made out of wood. There is no
finer locality for ship building in the
country, there being plenty Of live oak
along the rivers. Tho few yards where
small class vessels are now built ought to
be enlarged into scare of important
establishments, and no doubt will be so
soon as we can secure an appropriation
to have the channel over the bar cleaned
out, which will undoubtedly be done at
an early day.
In ad ition to the lumber interest the
resources OF Jackson county in turpen-
tine, resin, tar, charcoal and fuel, are
immense, and yet scarcely developed.
In no other part OF the South can naval
stores of every description be produced
more economically or in greater sbund-
snce; and from no other county in the
State are there such excellent opportun-
ties for shipment TO other ports, either
oreign or domestic, for Pascagoula ard
,ther rivers run through it from north
o south, and the New Orleans aud Mo- >
,ile railroad runs through it from east
o west Easy and profitable employ 7
nent can be given to large population,
nd an i'm nense impetus is sure to be
iveu to this healthful and lucrative
usiness.
AGRIoULTURE AND STOCK RAISING. !;
Along all the rivers in the county r
here are cane bottoms OF rich soil, s.
asily protected from overflow, reclaim p
BILE with little labor, and which would Fl
roiuce large crops OF rice, sugar cane, a
orn, etc. There are. also heavily tim n
cred bottom lands and alluvial tracts Il
nat are very productive. Bat by far &
40 greatest part of the country Is occu-
led by the "piney woods" than which v
0 part of the country has been less g
more abused. or viii In the g
nd prove more valuable. These pine a
nds are called poor, but an All-wise ,
restor mas placed ready at hand the
Ieans Fer reelaiming and fertilizing n
lem in the vast alluvial. deposits along o
he Pascagoula aud its tributaries, com (,
osed entirely OF vegetable matter
ashed down from the hills, or also the o
lillions of cubic yards OF shells in the n
onderful shell banks along the Gulf G