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(*'. James Stevens)
1827 ii&i* ? on;' sieaj'ecat i.ak?
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NEW CITY OF ELIPAW PLANNED FOR
MOUTH OF PEARL RIVER -- DISADVANTAC
DAUPHIN ISLAND PROPOSED
July 28, I836
N.O. Commercial Bulletin - Thurs. - July 28, 1836 - p 2 col 2
DAUPHIN ISLAND, etc
Seashore Boats
In an article tvo years ago in the "Bulletin," ve siid:
"Seven years ago there was but one steam boat plying the lakes in the vicinity of Nev Orleans. There are now nine*fConstantly departing from, and arriving at the foot of the rail road. --They are generally crowded \^ith passengers, going to, and returning from the numerous villages vhich stud the shores of Lake Borgne and Lake Ponchartrain, happy in the enjoyment of such facilities of escape from the heat and insalubrity of the city, and the anxious cares of business."
At the present time ve are unable to recount the number of boats added to this business, so great has teen the increase demanded by the numerous visitants to the various houses of public entertainment which skirt the shores of these beautiful lakes.
With the enormous growth of New Orleans, will correspondingly expand its habitable vicinity, and	the time is yet to	come,	and not far,
far away, when these shores	shall be almost as	populous	as the
great city itself.
New Ci ty on Island of Elipaw
A new city indeed is already projected on one point of Lake Ponchartrain at the Island of Elipaw near the mouth of Pearl River, the boundary between this state and Mississippi, which it is promised shall soon to spring up in emulous rivalry of the great Emporium of the West and the commercial	mart of our sister	state	of	Alabama.
The strip of territory	which fringes the	shores	of	the Gulf
from Pearl to*Pascagoula Rivers is the only marine outlet of the great state of Mississippi, and it is a determination of a company of gentlemen, leading men and capitalists of that state, to found a city upon the point that ve h"ve marked, that she too may hereafter toast her own commercial emporium, upon vhich to pour part of the benefits of the great trade to be derived from the extensive and fertile resources of her soil.