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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.
thriving place and claims some four thousand inhabitants. It is about five miles from Scranton.- It has about five miles of river frontage on the Escatavvpa river, beginning where that stream empties into the Pascagoula. The mouth of the latter river is eight miles southward in proximity to the two deep-water harbors at Horn and’Ship Islands, where sea-going vessels receive their cargoes of lumber from tug-boats. Twelve of these carriers are employed in the trade, namely, the Eva, Louis Pennoyer, Pic, Victor, Native, Leo, Fox. Wm. Orton, Isabelle, Capt. Fritz, Sorrento, and Eliza Ann. Twenty barges of large capacity are used in the trade. There are six saw mills at Moss Point, owned by the following firms: L. N. Dant-zler Lumber Co., with two mills and two planers; W. Dennj- & Co., two mills and one planer; Moss Point Lumber Co., one mill and one planer; Pascagoula Lumber Co., one mill. The annual output of these six mills in lumber and sawn timber is given at about 120,000,000 feet. In addition to the sea-going vessels which receive their cargoes in the deep harbors at the islands, there are many two and three-masted schooners, and lighter craft engaged in the trade which load for domestic ports and the West Indies.
An idea of the importance of the commerce of this portion of the Gulf (aside from shipments by rail), is furnished by the following statements of shipments from the Port of Pascagoula:
From Nov. 1, 1889 to Oct. 31,1890—Cleared from Custom House, 163 vessels; timber and lumber shipped, 119,255,695 feet valued at $134,-757.31; shingles, 2,778,750 value $6,600.26; 194,548 pickets, $2,332.00; 96 piles, $188.10; merchandise, $2,707.00. Total, $1,359,396.57.
Spirits turpentine shipped, 6,530 bbls., $21,630.43; 4,537 bbls. rosin, $8,863.38; charcoal, 350,000 bbls., $53,500; fish, $9,450.34; oysters, $20,938!00; canned fruit, $1,000.00. Total, $114,382.15.
The items of turpentine, rosin, charcoal, fish, oysters and fruits were shipped to New Orleans, Mobile and interior points.
From Nov. 1, 1890, to Oct. 31, 1891.—Cleared from Custom House, 262 vessels; timber and lumber shipped, 122,645,785 feet, valued at $1,-292,963.40; 4,030,275 shingles, $9,487.95. Total. $1,392,451.35.
Spirits turpentine, 7,680 bbls. valued at $37,225.00 ; 11*011 bbls. rosin, $15,620.00; 474,000 bbls. charcoal, $50,490.00; fish and oysters, $28,000.00. Total, $131,335.00.
From Nov. 1, 1891, to Oct. 31, 1892.—Cleared from Custom House 306 vessels; timber and lumber shipped, 123,898,350 feet, valued at$l,-410,829.23; 4,993,250 shingles, $10,233.12. Total, $1,421,062.35.
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