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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTKATED.
industry might embrace vegetables, as peas, beaus; tomatoes, eorn, okra, and mauy other articles.
into pickets, laths, sash and blinds, and other products which always have, a commercial value.
There are a number of other promising openings for new enterprises that are hardly less feasible: An oyster cannery—one or more—a fertilizer factory, an oil mill, etc., all of which could be made profitable.
The City of Biloxi, like nearly all of the pleasant seaside resorts on the Gulf between Mobile bay and Pearl river, is located on a peninsula. On the south the boundary line is the Gulf of Mexico, whose lapping waves ebb and flow on a sloping beach of white sand. The eastern point of the peninsula, on which the main portion of Biloxi stands, juts out into Biloxi bay —which gives a water frontage on the entire sunrise side of the town ; while the northern shore of this tongue of land—from one to two miles wide, is mirrored in the placid surface of the Back Bay of Biloxi, a land-locked body of water, than which there are none more beautiful in the world. Spreading live oaks, some of them gigantic in proportions; symmetrical magnolias, with their dark green shining foliage; stately pines; white hollies, with their crimson berries ; cedars, and other evergreen trees, furnish abundant shade and the lawns and grounds display a wealth of luxuriant ornamental shrubbery and beautiful flowers. Pleasure boats, yachts and schoon-’ erp lie at anchorage at the piers or dot the waters of sound or bays. A
sels, located at the deep anchorage off Ship Island.
Little wonder, is there, that for half a century and more Biloxi has been a popular Summer resort for New Orleans people and also for mauy persons from a distance seeking recreation, rest or health. Its fame went abroad in the land when people now past the age allotted to man by the Psalmist were children, whose lives had .scarcely reached their first decade.
Biloxi, as has been seen, was the first permanent colony established by the French in their vast Louisiana possessions. It is true that they essayed at first to plant the colony on the eastern shore of Biloxi bay in 1699, with Iberville at the head of affairs, but subsequently removed the settlement to the Biloxi of to-day, which became, and for mauy years re-
*	In English “Broken Jar.”	^
A large quantity of refuse wood at the saw mill might be converted
BILOXI.*
dozen miles seaward are seen iu clear weather the spars of sea-going ves-