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—	-	^	BILOXI A SKA PTDE RESORT
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2,000	or 3,000 in VINTER
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•+,000 or 6,000 IN SUM'ER	'
BATHE, SAIL, FISH, DRIVE 190^
"Facts About the Gulf Coast - the Book of Harrison County, Kiss. -GULFPORT, BILOXI, PASS CHRISTIAN and Other of the Thriving Cities V. A. Cox & E. F. Martin, Publishers, Gulfoort, Miss. - 1905 Mississint)! Archives P. 72
Biloxi has long teen a	favorite sea side resort.
Tvo or three thousand	visitors spend the vinters	and as	many more
the summers here.
To the visitor varied sport is offered; he can bathe, sail or drive; he can cross the bay and shoot quail; but best of all is the fishing.
^ere the gamest of all fish, the kingly "Tarpon" is to be found, often measuring seven feet in length.
Biloxi has many miles	of smooth shelled streets and	the	enterprising
city council has paved the	main street for a distance	of	six	blocks,
vhich adds greatly to the appearance as veil as traffic of the tovn.
Biloxi has the city conveniences of the larger cities:	among them
the Electric Railvay, a modern Opera House, large and palatial hotels, churches of many denominations and a splendid system of city schools.
The beach drivevay is a great attraction, and sight vorth seeing.
In the summer months large taroon can frequently be seen in the channel in front of Eiloxi leaping from the vater and shoving their slender bodies and the curving dorsal fin shining in the sunlight like bars of silver. The strength of the tarpon is prodigious; coast fishermen tell of seeing them leap from the vater, eI'kz clear the deck of a sloop or schooner, passing in the leap clear through the mainsail, and leaving a clean cut round hole in the canvas.