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UP TO B80 BILOXI WAS ?-3 MONTHS BUSINEt. . TOW AS RESORT -
CANNING OYSTERS & SHRIMP CHANGED
THIS —IN 1892 3 FACTORIES
SHIPPED 200,000 CASES OYSTERS 15,000 CASES' SHRIMP
5,000	CASES FIGS 50 CARLOADS OF CANS USED
COAL FROM ALABAMA — WAGES MOSTLY PIECE WORK AT 60 CENTS TO Si.25 FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN AND DAY LABOR 15 CENTS PER HOUR WITH QUARTERS PROVIDED September 3* 1892
Daily Picayune - Monday, September 5, 1892 - p 7 c 3
BONNY BILOXI
A MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST TOWN OF BUSINESS & PLEASURE A SUMMER & WINTER RESORT & ALLYEAR ROUND BUSINESS TOWN
Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 3, 1892
Summer Resort
The chief industry of Biloxi, vhich has made it the leading city on the coast between New Orleans and Mobile, twelve years ago (1830) vas unknown to hur people. At that time "summer business" of a coast resort, vhich only iasted for a fev months, vas the only season to vhich the inhabitants of this now thriving burg depended, and when the summer visitors had departed at the beginning of the Fall, the tovn vas practically dead in a bxisiness vay and those seeking employment vere compelled to go elsewhere to find it, while others vere content to remain idly at home trusting to the faithful cast-net to furnish them vith a bountiful supply of Biloxi bacon--black-eyed mullet—and an odd job now and then vould secure the other necessities of life.
But now all this is changed, and instead of a 2 or 3 months' business in the year, Biloxi is doing a good business every month, and each succeeding year the volume of such transactions is largely increased.
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