The sea coast echo., 1900-02-03
HARRISON COUNTY.

grGpe-, {sb9ut 800 troeSl stOCk, poultry wa.roo
buggy and farming utensils 40 with pace SnNN,
500 cash, balance cno two and tarae years. 3
per cent. Interest. IS, I-2)
HARRISON COUNTY.
i2-Two and one third acres, Two sores IN oui
/ tyaEop cottage two rooms. hail kitchen a9t
galleries Darn with stall for horse and COW
( FllhN aao PleNet fence s"upernonGS and other
! grapes. Once quarter OF mile to depot one .ha(r
mic 70 church, one-quarter mile 10 school 5000
/ 4s.-l50 acres I5S acres small t.r9r,r tvslvs
sores under cultivation forty acres urat for cui.
ty2uou, house foar rooms hall ana gallery.
stable, erib, stock shed, alxio feet ven twelve
acres under fence, rail and beard, cost $40
] seventy five pecan trees two years old two
hundred plam trees twelve apple. three pear
/ twenty five p ,ach, thirty bearing pecan trees
/ Three miles to depot and postoflce Al Nn.-c1t
/ one mite to church and school Government
ute. Stul half cash, balance one year. s per
cent interest, o. ''
! 46.-tG0 acres, 14o timber. twenty acres IN cpl-
/ tvauon. Watered by springs, i've pecan and
! four ug trees, Thirteen miles from depot seven
/ miles from postoflce at Amer s.x miles to
church one mile from school Government
title $50 t25)
| 5l.-l6o acres one hundred acres In timber
sixty acres under cultivation, Two room house
| barn i5x20 feet eighteen foot she'd on both siIr4
tlftF pecan, number OF apple and pc ar trees
ooarc anc rAIl fence good well. One mile and a
haltto depot two miles to postolice at Nurent
! title; price 5000, half cash
to-liS acres two miles from Pass Christian
on ,Bayoa Portage, navIgabe. Land well
wooded, brick yard on tract with kiln sheds etc
Top soil loan strick clay subson vein OF potter's
Siay; good poultry dairy or truck farm VIII sell
E-l60 acres, forty acres cleared tu,ant,,
acres In cultivation. Five room house har,, nv
GO feet all under fence, picket and rail- Watered
| oy wen, two hundred pear, one hundred and hfty
peach, and twenty five apple trees coneori
grapes, scupernong arber, eighty feet long six
miles from depot six ffths or mile from post
once, three miles from school three-ouartars nf
q HDDastaot
cash balance on desired terms S per cent in
terest (5)
TIMBER LANDS.
ioo.-Eighty thousand acres pine fairly good
timber some \ No. /, in Hancock Pearl RIVER
and Marion Counties: Can be sold i'm smaller
tracts at different prices This tract of land lies
along Pearl River, in the three counties named
except few thousand acres which are on Jnrdar
river and tributaries in Hancock county All Of
the timber is tributary to Ship Island harhor hy
water that lying above Nicholson on Pearl river
can be shipped North and to New Orleans bv The
n o, & y. +. r. r. The timber has never 6een
: accurately estimated; portion OF the lands in
Marion county is virgin timber a great deal or
the remainder mas been cut % years OF more ago
and will average probably 5000 feet b M per
acre nowi thick growth of young trees cover
the tract that Will cut in H. 70 years ~ 900 feet
b. M. per acre or more. None OF the timber has
| been turpentincd. In the river bottoms ryrress
white oak, sweet and black gum some i,intner
ana hickory grows and is not included in the es-
innate, that being only pine. Some OF the cypress
| Is OF immense size, while the sweet gum or satin
walnut is valuable for an aromatic ,-um suitable
| for chewing, and for furniture the wood holding
good polish. The entire tract is good grazing
! lands wei Watered and having rank growth OF
! native grass that will keep cattle and sheen faf
! months each year. The bottom lands when
PiL35pefiE dTalhed are extremely rich, being alu-
Fiai soIi anu IN many places covered with leaf
! mold foot thick All sorts OF succulent plants
corn rice, sugar cane celery, mushrooms etc
/ nave luXur1ant growth. The ridge lands on
which the yellow pine grows will produce good
yields or corn, potatoes sweet and Irish cotton
caobage, tomatoes, pepper, water melons pecans
] rFsVt.. III
/ Is sand or sandy loan surface generally with
| clay suosoi and is known fertilizer soil owing
! to lack OF humus caused by the persistent
/ requirements or the pine forests, for many years
/ and to a sourness OF the ground occasloncd by
the continued shade of the forest, the abundant
/ ram ran ana the leYelness of the country. But
when properly drained and mulched with the
/ addltlon or humus, phosphate, lime and some
amOnia the production of the soil IL phenomenal
anu can be actually in crops for 9 months Of tho
| year. by proper arrangements four crops or en-
ureiy different character can be raised each year
with good results. The fats or as they are local
" auooea 'crawfish lands, whore the
snort snort lear pine and highland cypress
/ level land, surrounded by ridges, or thg
/ head OF branch, bayou or BAY flooded by each
/ rain OF any duration and covered by a wild sue
ulent grass that obtains a height OF six or seven
! rect; IS the strongest and richest soil in this
tract or in this country. None OF it is so fiat but
II can be easily drained, and with the water off Of
| IL, Jhe ground well broken, with a crop Of COW
PHEas pea tqIhca under each year, with little lime,
! all or the cereals, vegetables and fruits mention
ed VIII do wells and in addition, low land rice,
! CdIIioThla grapes peanuts, scuppernOngs, herbs,
ornamental shruberry and various other produc-
tons OF semi-tropical country. lEl
lQl-Four hundred acres short leaf pine
! tributary TO Jordan River In Hancock County.
! price $1,000, near Bay St Louis, o.
| lo2-Three thousand acres pine in Harrison
| Couny' price - per acre for tract, - per acre
! smaller pieces. o.
1o3.-288o acres in Jones County; 25io acres in
Coyington County; price 80 per acre. Estimated
TO cut eight thousand feet to an acre. Trbuta..-
| to n. .. e n, E. r r. (212)
l9t.-l6 so acres above Nicholson, in Hancock
81 per VI feet stumpage. Estimated H. Gut ~
l""Wo feet Estimate twelve inches at stuup
son sen i3G4g9 sorfg ea at t2P Fine min ste at Noa6
eaTy TO snip Island by Pearl River. Tne rxtr,.
mites OF this tract are but miles from Pearl
| RIVER, while logging streams run through ~
| FROM Nicholson 70 miles OF railroad Will reach
| the most remote portion Of ~ Ry Pearl river
this entire tract Is tributary to Snip Island bar.
Dor, and mill situated on the slt- at Nicholson
would be on the n. 0. & n. T. r. r.. and the haul
10 sew orleans but - miles. The timber is ir
SOHO o2dy and all virgin, "xccpt about te'" acres
"Hich mas oeeA turI rIenlned. The quality QT rhn
timber - good, being long bodied, with no punk
The estimate includes the cypress on the land
which Is fairly good and free from hollow
heart. In the bottom land there is some gum ana
white, oak has never been estimated. For agri-
and products apply to this tract Or land as 10 Nr
100 hereof The ridges here are higher than !u
the southern portion Of the county. *
iub.-l3 ~ acres yellow pine. in Lawrence and
| Covington Counties; price $4,000 Estimated
10 cut 1000 feet TO the acre Exceptional tinbs-
I Tributary to Ship Island by the G. q s. / r R
| or Pearl River Twelve miles of logging ROAD
/ from Columbia will reach land. 1I5Dl]
/ n7-l6,500 acres in Harrison and Jackson
! Counties Tributary 70 Back Bay o. Bloy.
! price 300. Fine timber tract e9nta'uo .rasb
! water lake for storeing logs. l3oH)
! lOs.-3-5oo acres yellow pine on Black and
Bluff Creek, Harrison County; prsca 50 r.r sers.
/ good timber o.
I24--(a) 500 acres estimated 20 cut-0gC t. e0saj
feet to acre, price $50 per acre, easy terms. On
/ Bluff Creek. ~
4 CbJ--34s0 acres on Bogue Chitto River. estIrqat-
/ ed to cut 5000 feet to acre, price So per acre
| (c)--7Ooo acres Marion county, estimated tocat
| 1000 feet TO acre, price S5.25 per acre "A y EEJ
/ 134--62s acres marsh with - or 20 acres blvh
/ land, covered with oak and ma gnolias: bounded
I south by Lake BoTgne, north by Point Clear Bav-
! ou, admirable location for stock or hog rancn o..
! hunting grounds, price 500, SlGO cash and S1,u
per year at ! per cent. 20 e.
1910 acres on Main street, part under cu,+fv.- -
| ton, and fence 4-roOm house, SlOUU; 500 rasr
( $40 per month; 10 interest. (E)
Beauvoir.
1910 acres, liz miles east Of Beauvoir -,il,.
west OF Biloxi, 80 acres in cultivation 81 raran
trees, grape vines, 300 young pear trees 1ta7rh
plums, etc, fine ScuppernCng aFbOr 80 7sot lone
Yields Is TO 100 bushels yearly. Al nlac- fr
ket gardening, good for poultry, or dairy 20 acres
woods pasture fenced with wire. DvSlIfry CT ,
, rooms and all Necessary OutbuldnEs good vel
, I all necessary farming implements: ! carr va
/ gon, buggy, horses, poultry and I eron5 60
price S2lO0. 40 acres timber all suitable for "a r,
2 Ing. "A XIX
i HarteaSe Park.
Near Sea shore Camp Grounds