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the nut-bearing groves of the woods, or a! or0, the numerous green trout streams that wind at the foot of i-among its tangled copses and thickets.
s and oaks, or
Sheet) and Logging Camps and Canning Factd-’
Out beyond the Bayou Bernard lie the p he^rdej^, and, still further northward, the > region, where the logmen's camps have replac
ures of the ^ha&p--a t SoutherB_lumb.gr
.gwams and villages, plain still remains in
the redf men's and where the wild gar.e of hummock and Its condition of colonial abundance.
Down the coast, near the center of the roa-front of the town, may be seen the extensive buildings and vhnrves of the Gulf Coast
where thousands o-and bushels of shrimps are annually herr^J t o Npr^tJ^ern^jmajrlceJt^.
Agricultural Activities
There are several large vineyards v* town, where a considerable quantity of r One of the largest of these, the "Oulfr Vicv 13 acres of prolific varieties of vine.
The fruit-growing capacity of the repi. Oranges, oJJxes, figs, p^ghes, p§afi5, mel: products of the tropic and temperate zones, skies and generous soil.
Less than one-half of Its gardening, and stock-raising area is utilized, the being cumbered with the second-grwj' clear and so useless where^tlv^yare.
The agricultural population, compar-has	as much land as	it can	tend.
Here thousands	of acres of	land can
prices, cleared at an actual profit to • the	wood, and converted to	some	of ...the r
and	pastures in the	South.	hese~thi
fin,?ntVv.«iEriPT" Ppar1 RlveE-lQ-EascflEOUla V
ji£.presentatives.of ehe
Considerable wool shipments from t Bayou Bernard, with its immense, yetv.P^ afe made at the stations of“T:Tie Louisvi'
Mackerel Fishing
Kississippi City has for many year*' the fine mackerel fishing to be had in before it.
■rels of oysters
v’“s e a l ed ana sold
.he limits of the ,’ine is manufactured, nevnrd," contains
is unlimited.
etc., mixed ill of its genial
nr, fruit-growing, r ..'the land :o ^, so easy to
sr?ll, already
h~rod for nominal s by selling fields, farms, rest s'-^veceawBiw**-the*“se»eoast a.cojiUaupus
ty
; • -j
yon d t he jd sheep ranges, l1le-Ra ilroa d.
urtlv famous for cf the Sound


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