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Eli OXI DESCRIBED
00014	1896
N.O. Daily Picayune - Monday, July 6, I896 - o. 18 by H. S. kvans
BILOXI
This town is rightfully termed the metropolis of the coast and is the largest town between New Orleans and Mobile. It is situated on the eastern border of Harrison County on a beautiful peninsula that extends about nine miles to the westward.
It is a favorite summer and winter resort and has a beautiful beach front of about four miles.
As a fish, oyster, shrimp and crab mart, it has no competition on the coast and ranks next to Baltimore in‘the oyster trade.
It is already a manufacturing point of no mean repute, and the outlook for a large increase In that line is most favorable.
An aporoximation of the census enumeration just about completed for city purposes vill shov the population to be near 5,000.
The educational facilities and religious advantages are not surpassed by any city in the south of	a like	population	and by	many
vith tvice the number of inhabitants.
The saloon license here is ^>1800 a year, the city receiving $600 of that amount and the state >1200.
There is nothing that indicates the healthfulness of a place better than in mortuary statistics. The records of the 5oard of Health shov the number of deaths in this city during the year 1895 to have been 82. This for a population of near 6,000 is Indeed a lov death rate and goes to prove beyond doubt that the"'coast is an exceedingly healthy section.
In the industrial line Biloxi is	in the	lead.	The	Biloxi	Kanufactur
Company's sash, door and blind factory Is the only	manufactory	of this
kind"in south Mississippi and esk is not able to keep up vith its orders. This is due to gfeat construction of business houses and residences.
The output vill be increased as fsst as skilled mechanics can be secured.
The Biloxi Killing Company has a fine roller flouring mill vith a capacity of 80 barrels a day. Coast consumption utilizes the product of this mill vhich is placed upon the market at as lov prices as the largest of northern mills can meet. The wheat used by this company comes by rail from Indiana and Kentucky, the bran and shipstuff covering the freights. Their flour is alvays fresh and the quality good. There is no mill of this character nearer than 500 miles north of this point.