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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.
capacity of 25,000,000 feet of lumber; two planing mills, a dry house with capacity for dressing 15,000,000 feet lumber each year. A steam brick yard (bricks dried by steam) with annual capacity of 6,000,000 brick. It has two shipyards; the principal one is that of Mr. M. Martinolich, where vessels of all kinds-yachts, schooners, ships or steamboats are built out of wood or iron. There are ten stores, six churches, a college and public and private schools.
Gulf Coast College, shown in the engraving, is an educational institution, most fortunately located. Being only one mile from the Gulf there is all the advantage of the sea-breeze, and far enough from the seaside to avoid the excitements which attach more or less, to pleasure resorts, and wljich necessarily, in the minds of numbers of scholars, have a tendency to divert their minds from ;pheir studies. The drive over the shell road to the Sound is a very pleasant one, which students are frequently permitted to enjoy. The streets of Handsboro are laid off at right angles and nearly all are shaded by beautiful magnolias, oaks, cedars, etc., making charming drives and walks. No healthier place than Handsboro can be found in the United States, and no more suitable location for an educational institution can be desired.
Connected with the saw mills are repair shops, and machines for making laths, pickets and shingles.
Handsboro has the only regularly established sugar mill on the Coast. This plant consists of a complete “steam-train” for converting the raw material into sugar. For many years cane has been raised by persons who have made their own syrup. Cane does well here and is cultivated to considerable extent.
Here are clays of superb quality. Not only for brick and pottery, but in this vicinity is found excellent tile clay, and clay for porcelain wares. A porcelain factory in New Orleans obtains its supply largely from a bed of clay a few miles from Handsboro. Ochres of different colors, shades and tints are also found.