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LUMBERING ALONG PEARL RIVTR
SPECULATION ABOUT MOUNDS ON
BANKS ~ BUFFALO WOOL' SOUGHT
ON SAVANNAS — WAVELAND *
DESCRIBED IN
1886
Louisville & Nashville R. R Bay St. Louis, Miss. 1886
On the 10th instant the chronicler of this narrative, after a parting salutation with its sun-browned citizens and sportsmen, and a regretful glance at the glistening bunches of green trout, sheepshead, and redfish that were being transported to the north-bound train, left Louisiana and English Lookout and landed in Mississippi on the east bank of Pearl River.
I,umbering Along the Pearl
Pearl River, flowing from its head of.navigation, 300 miles distant at Carthage in Leake County, Miss., passes through Jackson, the capital of this flourishing and rapidly-growing State, affords a navigable waterway for a fertile cotton country, and intersects the great Southern pine belt in its very center.
It penetrates the finest lumber region in American, which, comparatively undeveloped, is even now receiving the earnest attention of Michigan and Minnesota capitalists and lumbermen, who, anticipating the early exhaxistion of the Northern pine forests, are looking southward with a view of transferring the lumber industry of the country to a wider and more prosperous field.
The river is already bordered by many saw-mills, thriving lumber settlements, and prosperous towns; and large numbers of sea-going vessels are annually loaded in the offing in front of its mouth with yellow pine for the M.xican, South American and European markets.
Kvsterlous Shell Mounds
The mouth of the Pearl into the Gulf of Mexico, or, more directly, Mississippi Sound, is surrounded by the sea marsh. Near the Louisville & Nashville Railroad crossing, and higher up at the confluence of Mulatto Bayou, huge shell mounds, covered with live-oak groves and forests, rise above the marshes.
Seventy odd years ago they were used as cemeteries by the English and Americans for the interment of slain soldiers and sailors.
In prehistoric ages they were apparently employed for the same purpose, as skeleton, fragments of Dotterv* stonp hatphotc on^