The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-03-17
ASK FOR LARGER OYSTER
APPROPRIATION.
s35. 600 NEEDED FOR OYSTER IN
DUSTRY- BILOXI COMMERCIAL
CLUB, IN ACCORD WITH VIEWS
OF OYSTER COMMISSION, ASK
FOR ADDITIONAL MONEY.
Biloxi Herald. Wednesday.

Biloxi Herald, Wednesday.
The attendance was not large at the
meeting Of the Commercial Club last
night, but there was an earnestness
that pervaded the assembled members
that showed plainly the feelings Of those
present to take action on matters under
consideration in a decisive way.
AS stated in The Herald of yesterday,
the object Of the meeting was to prepare
resolutions to be forwarded to the legis-
lature, seeking the appropriation Of
500, 900 additional money for the deyel-
opment of the oyster beds.
The meeting was called to order by
President Dr. H. NJ. Folkes, and l.
Heidenheim was called upon to state the
obi ;ct Of the meeting.
Mr. Heidenhein took the floor and
presented the oyster situation from the
standpoint of a man who knows the
business from start to finish. He showed
clearly what the State owes to the oys-
ter industry, and was heartily IN accord
with the resolutions which had been
adopted by the Board of Oyster Com
missioner5 at their meeting IN Gulfport,
last Saturday. He pointed out the vast
area of water that is adapted to the pro-
duction of oysters, which is now prac-
tically barren, because of lack Of funds
to plant the shells, and that the reve-
nues derived by the State from the oys-
ter industry was far in excess of all ex-
penditures. "We have the ground, }"
said Mr.. Heidenheim, in conclusion,
sail we need is the money to develop it
and plant the shells"
J. B. Chinn, member of the oyster
commission, being present, explained
that if the additional appropriation was
made, the State would be out very little
money. He gave figures from the reye-
nues turned in by the industry, and of
the expenses Of maintaining the COM
mission, and said that since the open
ing of the season last September to the
close in May, there would be turned in
to the treasury fcom the oyster industry
alone the sum of $4,000, and that the
appropriation of $4,000 would only re-
quire an additional $1,000, which the
State could we'll afford to invest.
Remarks on the subject were made by
several members of the Social Club,
and motion was carried to appoint
committee to draft resolutions to be
printed and distributed in Jackson, urg-
ing the Legislature to make the appro-
priation.
The committee presented the follow
ing resolutions which were unanimously
adopted by the club:
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, it IS the sense of the Biloxi
Commercial Club that an additional ap-
preparation of $50, 900 is needed to prop
erly develop and maintain the oyster
industry of the State of Mississippi, and
Whereas, the board of oyster commits
sioners haye demonstrated that the
State can make no better investment in
the way of revenues than developing
this industry, and
Whereas. this additional appropria
ton of $40, 900, together with the appro
priation now pending in the legislature,
exceeds by only s., 900 the amount Of
revenue now paid into the State treas
ury from the oyster industry, and that
in one years time this amount will be
more than paid back. Therefore be it
Resolved, that the legislature is re-
spectfully and earnestly requested to
appropriate the additional 500, 900, to be
made Immediately available, for the
planting of new oyster beds to the end
that this important industry may be
properly developed.
A committee from the Commercial
Club will probably go to Jack son to
upon the legislature the necessity of
appropriating funds, and will work in
conjunction with committees flom Yari-
Gus other coast cities whose Commerci
Clubs have adopted similar resolutions.
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