The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-05-20
IN TINE OF WAR, PREPARE FOR
PEACE

I6AOL.
Editor DemocratStar
For fear some OF your thousands OF
readers may think AN dead, or have
left the country. | thought l had best
get my name in print again. Tic
people Of this county need not promise
themselves any such luck as to get rid
Of me, at least until have carried
out my LIES purpose, and secured
twenty-five feet Of water in through
Horn Island Pass. and up Pascagoula
and Dog River to points above our
mills, and as | can see no chance for
me to get Bro. Loves place 10 Con-
grcss, l will have to content myself
and ask our Jackson county people to
send me 10 Jackson in 1900.
But seriously, Bro. P. X, did you or
any OF your readers ever think what
the Lord had done on Pascagoula, and
especially Dog River, in making the
banks thereof an ideal place for great
commercial and manufacturing cities
and towns?
l have Travelled all over the United
States, and nthere is Il river in Amer.
lea that comes within five hundred
percent. OF The Ged.given advantages
tenee deep water into the river is SC.
cured that Dog River has, l have
never seen nor read Of II.
Dog River, unlike Pascagoula and
all other rivers, is narrow and deep.
| believe it will average thirty feet for
the first thirty miles, the deep water
usually coming direct up To the bank.
Now, | will cite a few OF the grand
places on tins beautiful, clear. water
stream, where cities as large as Boston
could be built, and to which points
the fleets OF the world could float, IL
M Qua pass and lower bars were dug
out.
The first place l mention is the old
Goode mill site, a mouth Of Franklin
Creek. There we have Dog River and
Choctaw Lake, each OF which Is sixty
feet deep.
The next place, coming on down the
river, is the Arnett's Bluff, where we
have over a mile OF bluff twenty feet
high right on the banks OF this clear
river, 10 which you can see fish ten
feet under the water.
The next place is Fish Hawk Bluff,
where we have two more miles Of high
bank and deep water.
Then comes Murray's Bluff, or Or
ange Grove. Here the river runs in a
half mile Of the great l.. & N. Rail-
road, and there is room enough for a
"Greater New York"
Then comes the Newton Place. or
Brick Yard. Here a 'ChIcago" could
be built. Reaching cast only two
miles we would cross the l.. & N.
Railroad and strike Bayou Casote,
wherethe wotld-rcnowncd oyster lives,
and from the salt waters Of old Gulf
OF Mexico VIC would be kept cool and
healthy by It's salt see brcezcs.
Then comes Escatawpa, or Elders
Here the city could spread
west t~e miles, to PascagOula River
and north to Jackson, Miss, il needed.
Next comes Moss Point, a place Of
several thousands Of people, aud the
largest milling place on the Gulf, and
where theretaN rivers, lakes aud bay
Gus for every purpose needed in build
Ing 4 great city-a place where the
business men arc the most industri-
Gus, but least cntcrprising than any
place under the sun. May the Lord,
or the S%panidrds, or some other power,
wake them HD, and make them see
that this world, like the Rev. Mr..
Jasper's sun, 'do move" / challenge
the Biographies Of the world to show
Il place better laid out by nature for
building a city than Moss Point.
Next comes the smart and wide
awake little city Of Scranton. This
town needs no description by me, for
their light is not hid under IA bushel
"a peck measure would hide some
lights, but their lights are
away up on poles, and have spread out
all over the nation.
When Bro, Mckinley gets ready Ia
end this war, II will soon be done, and
Cuba and sister isles will be a great
lumber market, and our people should
be ready for the boom sure to come.
But even when it comes, our people
will have to pay lighterage on lumber
because Of tlic sand bars at the mouth
Of the rivcfand In u pass. But let
us be rcady.to begin bonbarding Con.
gress for our promised appropriations
just as soon,as peace is declared.
Respectfully submitted,
3, tI",~ NJ. a. DEEs.
! Moss POINT, May II, 1893
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