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A street railway is among the valued public improvements of the city, and the citizens feel now that they could not do without the street railway service.
The city_ buildiffg recently completed is one of the finest, if not the finest, in the state, and reflects credit upon Biloxi.
The estimated value of taxable orooerty in the city of Biloxi for the year 1896 is $871,000.
The following comparative statement shows the post office business for the five years ending June 30, 1896, as against the previous five years:
Amount of receiots for five years ending June 30, 1896 - $22,391*57
"	"	"	"	"	"	"	June	30, 1891 -	12,633.21
Increase $ 9,75£8.36
No. of yoney Orders issued in 5 years ending 6/30, 1896 - 13,766 "	"	"	»	11	»	"	"	«	6/30, 1891 - 6,6W6
Increase	7,120
The Kethodist Camp Ground belonging to the New Orleans Seashore and Kobile Conferences joins the western boundary*of BiloxiT' Upori this beautiful site there are about eighty cottages, twenty of which belong to the Conferences and the remainder to private individuals.
On the north side of Back Bay, one mile from the ferry landing, is the Helkes-Biloxi Nurseries Company's farm of 500 pcres. This company is incorporated and has a paid-in capital stock of $20,000. The situation is a beautiful one, the land being inclosed in a rabbit-proof wire fence. At the present time there are if 135 acres under cultivation, whiclT vill be increased as rapidly as possible. A specialty is made of roses as experience has proven that this locality is specially adapted to**the growing of roses uoon their own roots. The nursery contains also pear, plum, fig, mulberry and pecan^trees of the best varieties.
For the fall of 1896 and spring of 1897 they will have 200,000 field grown roses. This company is practically a br ?nch of the Huntsville, Ala., nursery, and its transactions are strictly wholesale, i-'rx. James Brodie, the superintendent, is very enthusiastic over the coast for the cultivation of nursery stock.