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JX- 00404	AGRICULTURAL AND TIMBER PRODUCTS
PROSPECTS AT GAINESVILLE AND/OR HANCOCK COUNTY EXPLAINED BY "GAINESVILLE ADVOCATE"
16^5 -	181+6
"Gainesville (Kiss.) Advocate" - Mississippi Archives microfilm
October 25, I8W5 -
<50'to 60 barrels’vof Oranges will be gathered for sale in Hancock County.
May 9, 18*4-6 -
Hancock County in^l8*+5 claimed the credit of having produced the finest specimen of Sea Island Cotton exhibited in the Liverpool market (England). It was grown on the plantation of Judge^Daniells. (approximate present site of.Port Bienville, Hancock County MJS),
.J°hn Williams is growing orchards of fig;'peach,* orange* lemon.
"Expect^ 20,000^bushel s1' ofwpeaches -inrtime.-j^;-
Nov. 29, 181+5 -
Hancock County produce reported -
Tobacco. ' John Williams, located two and a half miles from Gainesville, olsnted two acres this I8U5 'seasonjr and raised 2500 pounds of Tobacco.* He was offered 28 cents per pound in New Orleans but preferred to make cigars out of his crop.
• Sugar Cane. Within a few miles of.Gainesville a Sugar Cane yield included some stalks with 21'joints and they were large and full.
Sweet Potatoes. A farmer near Bay StFLouis exhibited three Sweet Potatoes he had raised weighing 18 1/2 pounds.
May 9, 1BU6 -
Hancock County in I8U5 claimed the credit of having produced the finest specimen of Sea Island Cotton exhibited in the Liverpool (England) Market. It was grown on the plantation of Judge Daniells (now site of Port Bienville).
John WilUams, failing 2 1/2 miles from Gainesville was growing orchards of Fig, Peach, Orange, Lemon trees. He expected 20,000 bushels of Peaches in time. Grapes were also being cultivated.