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00411	HANCOCK Cr’-'JTY EXPECT D TO BECOME
LARGE SUBURB OF NEW ORLEANS VITH OPENING OF RAILROAD CREATING MARKET FOR LUMBER, VEGETABLES, HOME SITES, ORCHARDS, SHEEP PASTURES AND BERMUDA GRASS MEAD O1. VS August 19,
Daily Picayune - Friday. August 23, 1867 - P 2 c l+ quoting Bay St. Louis Gazette of August 19, 1867
A flattering	prospect	is opened to every inhabitant	of Hancock
County, and to	all who way	settle among us during this and the coming
year by the prospective early completion of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad, which will make of our County one vast suburb of New Orleans	—	faubourg	Baie-St. Louis -- and enhance	the value
of real estate	to	a degree	not easily estimated.
Our abundant lumber resources will be opened to a good market; our large tracks of hammock land will be converted into vegetable gardens; our live oak groves will become sites of beautiful suburban residences; and the main body of the pine land will be converted in the course of time into orchards, sheep pastures, and Bermuda grass meadows.