The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20
Official journal of the City of Bay ST. Louis.

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half 10 postofAce, two acres small timber, twelve
. acres under cultivation, five acres IN pT&tflc,
good box house, wood shed with ioIt, caicken
/ house and pig pen, scup5rnoDg aroor. picket anu
wire fence, four wells, twenty pear tresss hEc
peach trees. Warranty deed an aostraes q s3tes
$3.50 cash or $500 on time. 500 cash balance to
SDd three years. per cent. interest ta-2 ~
92-Ten aud three quarter acres on Jef
Davis avenue, Wsvelsnd. Five acres under cal-
Jivatioa, Ave acres timber, house four rooms and
kitchen, double chimney, barn, PIG pen, 'ptcset
fence, two pecan trees bearing, six not bearing,
ten pear, two peach and two plum trees, grape
lrb0r; half mile to pOstOdice, quarter OF mite
to Wayeland depot and school, one mile 10
! church Warranty deed. Price l&)1 cash or
$500 on time, 500 cash, balance, eight mouths,
per cent interest. @, l-2)
( al-Two hundred and ninety feet, three-qUar-
/ ters of q mile in depth, OF Dunbar avenue, Bay
/ -. Louis. Good truck land. Price 500, L4li
cash, balance one year, per cent, interest. o.
/ 95-Twenty acres, twelve acres in timber,
seven acres in grass, TWO room hoIse, lGx2l feet,
| seven acres cleared aud fenced, Watetet %
| Bayou Galare. Pears, 800 hg, twelve Mary Ann
I plum trees, scppernoHg arhor, one hundred teet
long, two miles TO depot two~ilItas OF q mlla %
/ post0fiee, one mile 70 churcn and school. Near
| est town, Bay 81. Louis. Warranty deed saeo.
96-Farm in cultivation, six room house and
I addition OF two rooms all under fence, WateFed
grapes, about 5oj trees] STOCK, poultry, WAGON,
| buggy and farming utens'.s - with psoe. S2tH9,
$500 cash, balance enc, two and three years,
! per cent. interest %, I-2.)
HARRISON COUNTY.
/ 4a-Two and one third acres, two acres in eui
! tiyatioa. cottage two rooms han, kitchen end
! galleries barn with stall for horse and COW.
/ plank and picket fence. scqp2rnongs and Other
/ grapes. ORe-quar.cr of mile TO depot one hai
mile TO church. one e-QuaTtcr mile 70 school Siboo
cash. 90
/ 4S-lG0 acres. l5s acres small timber, twelve
| acres under cultivation forty acres unit for cul
tiyation house four rooms. haE an3 gallery,
stable crib stock shed 3ux4p feet, well twelve
acres under fence, rail and board cost $50.
Z Saw ptEs-t -tfyr nj
hundred plum trees, twelve apple, Three ptaf.
/ twenty five peach thirty bearing pecan trees.
/ Three miles to depot and pOstoflce 80 NuCaDt,
one mile to church and school Government
/ title 500. half cash, balance one year, par
cent interest. (5)
/ s6.-l69 acres 40 timber twenty acres in cul-
! tivation Watered by springs five pecan and
| four fig trees Thirteen miles from depot seven
miles from postoffice at Amer, six miles 60
title 500 t25l
! 5l.--lB0 acres, one hundred acres in timber
sixty acres under cultivation. TWO room house
barn i5x20 feet eighteen foot shed on both sides
/ Fifty pecan a number OF apple and pear trees
! board and rail fence good well. One mile and a
half to depot two miles to postofllce at ,Nugeni3
| title; price 5000 one-half cash.
| 60.-l4s acres, two miles from Pass Christian
! on Bayou Portage. naygable. Land well
wooded, brick yard on tract with kiln sheds, etc
/ Top soil loan strick clay subsOu vein of potterv
clay good poultry, dairy or truck farm viii sell
| brick yard by itself. SioO UOO)
i7.-lG0 acres forty acres cleared, twenty
acres in cultivation. Five room house barn 2ox
80 feet all under fence, picket and rail. Watered
by well two hundred pear one hundred and fifty
peach, and twenty five apple trees. concord
miles from depot, sxifths of a mile from post
Office, three miles from school three-Quarters of
a mile to Village. Homestead title. $500, hall
cash, balance on desired terms, per cent in
tercst o.
TIMBER LANDS.
| lOO-Eighty thousand acres pine fairly good
! timber some 4 No. |, in Hancock Pearl River
and Marion Counties: Can be sold in 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 JORDAN
! river and tributaries in Hancock county, Aliof
| the timber is tributary To Ship Island harbor Y
water; that lying above Nicholson on Pearl river
can tie shipped North and to New Orleans by tho
/ n. O. &c y. e r. r. The timber has never pe.h
; accurately estimated; portion of the lands In
! Marion county is virgin timber great zeal OF
| the remainder has been cut - years or more ago
and will average probably 5000 feet 3. VI. per
! acre now; a thick growth OF young trees cover
the tract that will cut in Is or 20 years 10000 les.
| b. NJ. per acre or more None OF the timber has
been turpentned. In the river bottoms cypress.
white oak, sweet and black gum, some juniper
and hickory grows, and Is not included In TIE es-
innate, that being only pine. Some OF the cypress
is OF immense size while the sweet gum or Satln
| walnut is valuable for an aromatic gum suitable
for chewing and for furniture the wood holding
| a good polish. The entire tract is good grazing
lands, well watered and having rank growth or
native grass that Will Keep cattle ana sheep Idt
| 8 months each year. The bottom lands, when
properly drained, are extremely rich being allu.
| vial soil and in many places covered Wlhlt
! mold foot thick All sorts of suCculent plants,
corn, rice. sugar cane, celery, mushrooms. etc.
have a luxuriant growth. The ridge lands on
| which the yellow pine grows will produce good
yields of corn, potatoes, sweet and Irish) cotton
cabbage. tomatoes pepper, water melons, pecans,
pears, strawberries, raspberTes, &c. This SOL
Is SAND or sandy ioan surface, Eth'FdllA "ila
clay subsOil and IS known as fertilizer SOIL OWING
to a lack of humus caused by the persistent
/ requirements OF the pine forests, for many years
and q OCcdSDut0
the continued shade of the forest, the abundant
rain fall and the leyelness of the country. Bui
when properly drained and mulched, with the
addition of humus, phosphate, lime and some
amona the production of the soil Is phenomena
and can be actually in crops for months Of tha
year. BY proper arrangements four crops OF on
tirely different character can be raised each year
with good results. The flats or as tney are local
, ~ dubbed 'craWi'sh lands; WGaic 'he
short leaf pine and highland cypress
level land snrroundsd by ridges, or the
head OF a branch, bayou or bay, flooded by each
rain OF any duration and covered by a Wild sue
ulent grass that obtains height of siN or seven
tract or in this country. None Of II is so nat but
it can be easily drained, and with tt" Water on o.
: II, Ii" EFplItu wen oIphri "lel q N5.Pt ~
! peas turned under each year, with a httle lih"'
! all OF the cereals, vegetables and fruits mention
ed will do WELL and In addition. low land race,
3 | California grapes peanuts, scIpp-rnOngs. herbs
ornamental shrubeTty and various other prOdug-
| tions of a semi-troplcal country. lE)
1ol.-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
. County; price SO per acre for tract, - per acre
e smaller pieces. o.
t 1o3-2889 acres in jones County: 35io acres in
Covington County; price - per acre Estimate l
to cut eight thousand feet to an acre. Tributary
. to n. o. &c n. E. r. r. e l2)
10l.-I6.5 500 acres above Nicholson, in Hancock
and Pearl Rivers Counties; price - 80 per acre
, 81 per VI feet stumpage Estimated to cut 125 r.
!. 0U,g00 feet. Estimate twelve incnas at stump
ten inches, at top. Fine mill site at Niaaai
son forty five miles from New Orleans Iflbu
. tary To Snip Island by Pearl River. The rt-ra
! mites OF this tract are bus miles f~Cr Pearl
Q River while logging streams rnu through r.
+ | From Nicholson - miles Of railroad VIII roach
the most remote portion of it, ~ Pearl ilre~
o this entire tract is tributary ~ ship Island har
= would be on the \. Q. g y t. X T.. aHt ne ea'i
! / t. New Orleans but 30 miles Tne LmJer ta ia q
l. solid body, and an ylrgih e1re2, f'E'ut 4f. to
! | which has been turpcnuued. The quGhy Or the
= ! timber IS good being long bodied. with no punk
The estimate includes the cypress on the and
when is fairly good and free from hollow
heart. In the bottom land there is some gum and
0 white, oak has never been estimated. For aGri-
?, culture, horticulture etc. the same conditions
. 100 hereof The ridges here ara higher tnan la
0 the southern portion Of the cOunty. tE}
1GG-I3o0J acres yellow pine, in Lawrence and
Covington Counties; price slt1.z, estimated
TO cut lU $50 feet TO the acre Exceptional timber
+: Tributary 10 snip Island by the q. & =. l. r. T.
or Pearl River. Twelve miles Of logging road
from Columbia VIII reach land G35o34
ICz-l6.59) acres in Harrison and Jackson
Counties Tributary to BECK BAY of Biloxi;
price SIUa pgJ.. Fine umber, CTact contains fresh
water, lake for storeIng logs. 15J335
10s.-3.5Q1 acres yellow pine on Black and
! Bluff Creek Harrison County price % per acre,
I good timber. 81
I24--(a) 500 acres, estimated to cut 5@0 10 coo
feet to acre, price $3.50 per acre. easy r1's. on
1 Bluff Creek. u
) (b)--348o acres on Bogue Ch.rt3 River, cst|hat-
ed 70 cut 500 feet to acre price SD per acre.
{B XXX
/ (cl--7oy0 acres Marion county, estimated e cus
1000 feet to acre, price per acre. "a q = n
? 7qf--F3t aoras r,arob Nth acres high