The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1880-09-24
Pascagoula Industries.
Interesting Letter from Col. Dam
iel bennett Soil, Lumber Ship
ping, Etc

ping, Etc
In letter to the New Orleans
Picayune, writing from PascagoHAa,
Col. Daniel Denuett has the follow
ing to say of this portion ct our
coast:
This morning, in company With
Col. w. X. Stuart, of merino sheep
fame, | took the cars at Ocean
Springs tor Pascdgoula, to return
this evening. This place is one hun.
died miles from New Orleans aud
forty. one miles from Mobile. The
people of this place call their town
Pascagoula, not East Pascagoula
nor Scrauton, though their post
office is called Scranton, which
fastens the name np0n the own to
someexient. West Pascagoula,has
no postoilice, aud is located three
miles TO the west OF this place,
the other side OF the river, on the
railroad. Ii contains ~ very lew
houses, and the creosote works.
THE LUMBER TRADE.
Last mouth (August) Pascagoula
shipped 4,625,l97 feet of lumber.
In Que year, ending September i,
1850, the lumber shipped tIon this
port amounted to 2S,540,l75 feet,
all but 5,s0S,O35 feet to ioreign
ports--the latter, coastwlse. They
have done better lumber business
in the last three months than for
three years previous. The United
States marshal damaged the lum-
ber business on this coast material.
~ Tor nearly three years liy SELF
: urcs and damaging delays IN SET
ting the difficulty.
THE SHIPPING.
This is lively shipping point
when the lumber business is IN fnl
operation. AT one time last sum
mcr there were tbirty.two balk'
? lying at anchor near this place
2 waiting for carg0es or receiving
. freights, chiefly for foreign ports
THE MEXICAN GULF CANNING COM
PANY.
Messrs. john Foster, j. L. Ma
4 bury u Co, are about completing
!. building 10 by 50 feet, twostories
!. for the Mexican Gulf Canning
h Company The company Will worl
" over hundred hands, besides fish
/ ermen aud oystermen employed Il
lis interests.
N They will be prepared to put a
!, he amount Of three hundred bal
/" rels daily, and viii pay out froI
<, $4,000 to $1,000 monthly. They wi
Al put up oysters, shrimp, fish, yeg'
1. tables aud fruits. The oysters ueS
:, here. few miles distant, are III
: commonly large aud fine, aud the
u are SO numerous that tue snI
ply seems almost inexhanstibl'
ma Shlimps in their season, large an
g fine, fill these waters in untold M
' lions. aud even come up 10 th
u, wharf of the Canning compan,
in and are caught in cast.nets. Al
OF fish abound OH this coast.
b. ORANGES, FIGS, GRAPES AND OH
tv ER FRUITS.
lv Capt.J b. Delmas, au old citlz'
- - of this place, who has an excellcl
y steam grist mill just below t|
IL canning establishment, has orani
jb. trees that have grown up wltho
!, much attention, in twenty ii
;" years, from the seed to pretty
'"' spectacle sizes. A pocket Ia
iet line showed the body Of ene to
OF forty-three inches, another tor
ara eight inches in circumference, "A
-, there were many others like the
''o On the same place there are lar
TIL bearing pecan trees .about twel
years old.
!, :. There are large fig trees, grs
u.s. vines, black walnut, perslinin'
on pomegranate and other fruits, Il
was appear to have grown up here,
hat Pascagoula, in spite Of neglect a
ion bad culture. With be best OF
~. tention and culture most any XII
gu. , of fruits, or vegetables, or d
sea crops would grow here IN gl
'rse perfection.
Ddy THE PORT OF PAsCAG0ULA.
all; The surface of Pascagoula is
late waited enough to be above all d
i, or ger of tidal waves and overtio
aud rolling enough to drain
a'e' and porous enough to need but
re- tie ditehiug. 1t ought not t
muddy, even in heavy rains.
!, Like most of these towns on
"or' gulf shore, it may be made
'eai- beautiful at very moderate
own peuse. Theappearanceo OF the
hich tleps, vines aud forest trees W
rson | saw with ny own eyes, aud
through rose colored glasses, y
= OF ties me that a thousand dwell
lace, may be planted in aud around
per- goula, and surrounded with
,ere. richest and most gorgeous u
saca vines, fruit trees aud lowers
e'oo grow on Southern soil. The
may food for the productions oil
s1O soil, Which is much like the so
tand Ocean Springs, Biloxi end Z
sua coast towns vest OF it. IL lime
mus and ashes. Muck, or 4
= use leaves, well compcsted, aud