The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-02-01
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
STATE LAND SALES FOR SEVEN
noNTHs--LowRy ISLAND.
Capt. Hardy's PiatforEa- candi-
dates for State Offices More
Pay for soIdiers--coIonei
Goyan
Penitentiary Appraisement- Big Case
in Circuit Court -Jackson's Pres
entand Future--Death of Judge
Bailey Attractions in yicks-
burg Next Week.
Special correspondence

Special correspondence
Jackson, Miss, Jan. 80, '99.
On July 2, 1898, Mr.. E. H.
Nall was appointed state land
commissioner, to fill the vacancy
created by the death Of Colonel
j. Nj. Simonton. He had been
Sc -eral years in the office OF
secretary of state, and district
tax conlmissionersunder Governor
Stone. Since heentered upon his
present position, he has certainly
been doing ''a land office BUSH
ness, Z and if he keeps on at'the
present pace, the lands will all be
sold and his occupation will be
gone. The total sales from July
2 to December 30, 1898, foot up
the handsome sum OF S2i. COO.
From January 1st TO 9th inclu-
sive, here is the record:
Chickasaw school lands .S1575 90
Forfeited tax..--................... 1887 al
Swamp .s............,................... 1878. 90
Lowry Island --................... 1920. 90
Total l........-.....,.............-- 6F60. Al
Totalto January 27.......S27, $50. AZ
Lowry Island was surveyed un-
der the administration Of Cover
nor Lowry, in 1884, by j. M. I.
Hamilton, whose report to "P. M.
Doherty, swamp land commits
sioner and surveyor general !" is
on file in the office of land COM
missioner. Surveyor Hamilton
named the island. His survey
embraced about twenty thousand
acres, and is valued at from fifty
cents to fifteen dollars an acre.
AT the time the government sur
veys were made in 1911 to 1922.
the lands between the two prongs
OF the Pascagoula river were
salt marsh. covered by tide water,
and was therefore notincluded in
the United States survey. Since
the closing Of the survey by the
United States government the
soil deposited by the tide water
has made land of the marsh, and
hence the state survey in 1884.
The cost of the survey was 12
cents an acre. Mr.. Hamilton, in
closing his report, said: s'In all
OF this coast country there are
many thousand acres of this marsh
and accreted land to be owned by
the state only at the cost OF a
survey. This would be only a
few cents an acre, not exceeding
eight cents. Z" AS there is q grow
ing demand for Lowry Island
lands, the following paragraphs
from Mr.. Hamilton S report will
be of interest:
"The only timber on the island
is in the northern tier of sections,
while there is narrow strip along
the banks of Eos river and Creole
bayou.
All of the soil has the appear
ance of unusual fertility and if
protected from high water by
proper means would doubtless
produce fine crops of rice and
hay. =
The present value of this island
is in its fine location for saw mills
and other manufactures of wood.
Situated in the arms OF a stream
which flows through some of the
finest timbered country in the
south, and connected with the
markets by rail and water, this
is destined to become one OF the
greatest manufacturing centres
on the Gulf coast. Off the mouths
of these rivers, and directly be-
tween them and the Gulf, lies
Horn Island, in the shape of a
great crescent, giving perfect
protection from the Gulf. Within
this harbor. as the ssstar within
the crescent" lies Round Island.
Or all the islands of the southern
coast, this is, perhaps. the most
beautiful, and can be made a |
summer resort second to none on
tho Atlantic or Gulf coast. I'm
fortunately it is a government
reservation
Senator w. H. Hardy's outline
OF a Democratic state platform is |