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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.
the firm, and his three sons, W. T., G. A., and J. L. Harkness. The plant covers a large area,‘and its equipment is extensive and very complete, embracing the very latest improved wood-working; machinery. A special feature of the company’s business is scroll and ornamental work for buildings, galleries, piazzas, equal in style and finish to the best made elsewhere. The senior member of the company is an experienced contractor, architect and builder whose ability in the business is attested by many of the finest buildings on the Coast. These are so numerous and well known that to particularize is unnecessary. Mr. Harkness has educated his sous to the business, and in this firm the Coast has an organization of practical men. which is a guarantee of a thorough and satisfactory performance in their line, of whatever is entrusted to them.
The latest addition to the manufacturing industries of this thriving city is the superb mill of the Biloxi Milling Company, manufacturers of and dealers in high grade flour, meal, and mill feed of all kinds. They use the full roller process, and the capacity of the mill is eighty barrels per day. The machinery is of the latest and most improved kinds. It was made by the widely known houses of the Barnard & Lees Manufacturing Company of Moline, Illinois, and of Todds & Stanley Mill Furnishing Company, St. Louis, Mo. The Cornelius Internal Roller Mill system is employed. The mill was planned by Mr. E. G. Burklin, a practical millwright of St. Louis, who superintended its construction throughout. Four grades of flour are made. The best product is a high patent flour equal to anjr iu the United States. The proprietors are confident that in regard to yield and percentage this mill can compete with any in the country. This is an industry that has long been needed on the Coast. Why, is at once obvious, and it is more than probable that this “new departure” will be patronized not only by Biloxi’s population, but by many people at other Coast towns who will know where they can assuredly get flour and meal, fresh, sweet, and containing' no insects.
Biloxi has an excellent hotel, the “Montross,” shown in the engraving on page 18. It has recently been enlarged. Mr. Montross is widely and favorably known to travellers and to visitors on the Coast. Mr. Schuyler’s efforts to anticipate aud provide for the comfort of guests of the Montross are proverbial. He is an enthusiastic sportsman whose conquests with rod and gun are well known.
Mr. E. G. Burklin, recently of St. Louis, but now of Biloxi, has established an electric plant at Biloxi, which gives the place another valuable acquisition. Mr. B. has kept abreast with the astonishing progress of