The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-10-02

The Coast of Mississippi, bordering
some seventy odd miles on the azure
waters of the Gulf of Mexico, locally
known as the Mississippi Sound, is the
crowning diadem of the State and a
gem in the galaxy of Southern States
What wealth of resources! What
double wealth of possibilities!
Here abound the products of both the
earth and the sea, the fruits OF the two
component parts of the earth-land and
water.
Located in the far South, in tenn =
perate zone, here is the land OF per-
petual sunshine and flowers the poet
would sing Of, and the climate OF the
Coast, noted for its salubriousness, has
well and frequently been termed the
"Riviera of America, and the Riviera
of the Mediterranean might we'll be
termed the mississippi Gulf Coast OF
Europe", for the exchange would in
deed be fitting, and there would be no
room for an apology to the original
Riviera.
"A VALUABLE ASSET"
The "asset" of the Mississippi Gulf
Coast, is composed of multitude OF va
rious assets. Here the natural products
are varied and of such commercial i'm
Dort and value as to have already at
tracted the eye of the manufacturer and
the capitalist ere this, but the possibili-
ties are so great, the resources so fruit
full that it must necessarily appear, and
is fact in reality, that the field for in
dustrial endeavor is young - undevel-
oped, as it were.
Here the virgin forest is almost i'm
penetrable, and thus the timber product
renresents millions of dollars of the un-
manufactured material. Timber is a
chief asset, lumber greater asset.
The lumber exports here are the great
est in the world. yet comparatively few
Mississippians know this. The ports
of Pascagoula and Gulfport, the gate
ways through which South Mississippi
ships much of the product to foreign
markets, have the official statistics to
support this assertion. These figures
are accessible and can be had OF the
Commercial Club at Pascagoula, of a
similar body at Gulfport or Biloxi, or OF
the Department of Customs locally or
at Washington.
A SUB ASSET FROM A CHIEF ASSET.
Another asset and one that has come
into nraminence of late years only is
the manu- faeture of turpentine and rosin
from the yellow pine tree. This by
nroduct today has become chief in
dustry of manufacture, and SO great and
extensive is the work that we find nu-
merous companies organized, with lib
eral capitalization, for the manufacture
of the product into merchantable and
useful commodity. Thousands OF labor
,ers are imported from the Carolinas
and Georgia, the "turpentine nlgger",
as he is locally termed. And this army
of laborers are put to the work OF
..bleeding" the tree, collecting the gum
and then carrying it to the still, Wnere
the expert extracts the spirits OF turpen-
time and the body rosin as well.
yrrRpENT1NE IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
and on the Gulf Coast was an industry
in unknown quantity some few years
- 80, oh asset.
.abont become exhausted in the Carroll
mas and Georgia; on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast it is as yet in its infancy.
In passing, and since turpentine and
rrsin are by-products of the yellow pine
tree, it might be interesting to learn
that twenty-one by-products are the
fruits of the pine tree. What are these
Init assets of the Mississippi Gulf Coast!
In addition to the timber from the
yellow pine, the forests of South Mis-
s;ss;npi contain many hardwood vari-
ties. and in no part of the State is there
wealth and diversified growth OF tim-
ber as on the coast.
Numberless sail vessels ply between
New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf
a.. st. These go up the different river
.na other tributaries that empty into
the Sound, and are engaged in the
somewhat humble calling of
The CHARCOAL INDUSTRY.
New Orleans, the metropolis OF
60. at any time; go to the New
'n0 So, ,, sin and view the fleet OF
oi .ne wv - - ersD there. See the
thousands of sacks 'isi sasa;,as sl''a ,o.a,
being deposited there a. snv wbere
throughout the city from ,s,,ond;no
from As to 80 cents per sack, "a -.~son
upon the size of the sack and the b -,
of the year, and ask where this produ>
comes from. The answer will be, the
Gulf Coast of Mississippi. These
schooners ply up such streams and riv-
ers as the Jordan and Wolf, where the
charcoal industry hourishes and places
in active commission fleet that possi-
bly without this trade would not exist.
Not long since Congressman E. j.
Bowers, of this district, introduced in
Congress bill for the dredging of sand
bars at the mouth of Wolf and Jordan