The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1898-01-07
DEEP I WATER N HARBoR.

we neuTtliy cuuuToc buc ioliOWius,
from the New Orleans TImes-Demo-
crat, on Mississippi's seaport. The
writer is certainly well posted In re-
gard to where the deep water harbor
should be.
Read it carefully:
kISSlSSlPPI'S SEAPORT.
Hsttlesburs. MISS, Dsc. n, 1907.
/ was born IN the pine woods, and
Am uOw an old man. As long ago as
can. remember l have heard talk OF
the Gulf and Ship Island railroad,
deep-water on our coast at Or near
where the small town of Mississippi
City now Is, and the proposed big
commercial city t0sbe built there. !
visited the place Of the proposed city
nearly half u century ago and could
wade Tor nearly = nile out intG the
Mississippi sound. The proposed city,
by some scheme OE Coils. Hardy and
Hamilton, was been moved about four
miles westward to what Is now called
GulflDrt. have often visited this
latter place and fnd the distance out
tn deep wxtet even Rfeater than at
Mississippi City. l QGss brought up
in'the belief that the people of the
State Of Mississippi. would sumo day
have a railroad from seaport on our
coast up ccntrally through our State
about midway between the Mobile and
Ohio and the Illinois Central, with
branches leading of west ward tn
Jackson CitSyaud to Vicksburg, Nat.
chez and the Great West. ! have
lived 10 see Col. Faulkner. huild some
sixty miles NJ this central road, in the
nortiipfn part Of our State, and to sec
a good road running from here seventy
miles south TO Gulfport, but it makes
ME sad To think that At the southern
terminus 0f this road we come to the
Gulf" but t0 no port" :.
Until ttis road Is built fully up
Through the State and good connect.
ions made @et the roads to the West,
a large majority Of the tonnage or
commerce over It must necessarily he
lumber and timber. 1t fact this win
he practically all its business. Com
mercc as a rule moves from north TO
south, and south tn north as frOM
climate to climate, but this Is not the
case with the movement OF lumber.
now see It stated that until the
people OG Mississippi settle among
themselves which one land only one
of the many places on. our coast for
which we viii ask aid Of the United
States government, VIC will never get
any help for any place, and that we
must ask, and even demand, this
aid in the name OF the State, and not
10 the name of the many locations
claiming tn be the best.
Being now an old man. and having
hoped for the cOnsummatiUNs of our.
dreams so long, and as l own no prop.
erty at anyl place on the Gulf, l ven.
ture to make some suggestions, hoping
they may at least help to keep our
people together for one place, and then
see all our Representatives and Sen.
atOrs in Congress begin to do their
duty, now SO long neglected by all Of
them. Ts
Being fairly we'll acquainted In Mo.
bile, l ti1d that owing to the dccp
water there, secured by the late Con.
gresham Clarke, Mobile merchants
dealing in lumber have at least 81 per
thousand feet advantage over the mills
and merchahtA OfOur coast on account
Of The fact that II c0sAs from 81 to
Sl.50 per Thousand feet to barge or
lighter our lumber from the railroad
wharf or our river mills. vut to The
ships In Ship or Horn island harb0rs.
Now, while my education and bring
ing up. as we'll as my Interest, Will not
alloy me to in any way reinQuish one
iotAdf our old Gufsand Ship Island
RalirOad scheme, still after mature
Thought ! see tllata change must be
made, and our people ought and must
cnme together and settle on only one
place for our seaport, and then bend
[all our energies and force our Repre-.
sentativcs 10 Congress to get means
and secure TO US at least as much
water as Mobile has. So far as | have
learned, Pearl River, Bay st.. LouiAl
aud as far east as Pass Christian all |
admit that they are not available for
this one place.
We then find contesting for this
United State Aid, Gulfport, Biloxi and
the Pascag0ula river people. There
are no saw mills anywhere near the
Cuffs waters at GulfpOrt or at Biloxi,
yet when l was at Scranton last there
were at Scranton and Moss Point Il !
great many large mills Immediately
over the banks Of very deep rivers, but /
owing to the bars at ard near the t
mouth OF Pascagoula river, they had .
TO pay 81 per thousand feet to yet G
their lumber out 10 ships at Horn
Island and $l25 toget IL out to Ship
Island. learned that the mills on
that river cut over 100000 feet Der
day. Now this at even 81 per thous.
and amounts to $500 per day, or over
$3.50, 900 each year.
When articles OF trade and com. L
merce are scarce and in great demand y
lhe value or price thereof is figured /
rom the manufacturers end. But
his is not SO with our lumber. The 8
'alue or price Is set at the consumers
md of the dealings, and ali losses, ex. !
lenses and even mismahagemcnt are
llarged up and taken out and the1
urdcn finally falls on the Original
imber owner and log man. 10 fact.
t finally comes out OF and cuts down
he value OF, the pine trees standlngl
n our land, and, as q matter OF qn. 1
leasant fact, the timber gettoE Tor
M coast mills nays the 81 liHhterage
rom those mtils ~ the SHIPS, any @ arc
lst that much ~ 2 d!saqyantaee s,aIs -y
ared tb lsn6A tributary 20 tne nna. m,,s
( Mobile. Llnm no sclvn eunE.sJ nIussJ
'ut l naye nSyer nsSra. .. sn' ~ S,u "'svH SUt