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-gyl Q0519	COTTO”	^CTING	IK	HAT'COCK
AIT) HARRISO” COU'TIES 1871 - 1872
Daily Picayune - Friday, At)ril 19, 1872
quoting "Bay St. Louis Gazette" of A^ril 1.3? 1872
SEA ISLAND COTTON
"The cotton grown by J. Tp. H. Claiborne last year at Zama Plantation in Hancock County on ditched prairie land, without fertilizers, is pronounced to be the finest and longest staple ever exhibited in New Orleans, and has just teen sold by Fessrs. Claiborne Co., 58 Carondelet Street, for 50 cents a pound. Had it been ginned on rollers, instead of a saw gin, it would have netted 75 cents.
Col. Claiborne's crop of the previous year, grown on hammock land, was shinned to Liverpool a few months since and netted 32 cents sterling. So much for Hancock County sea island cotton lands.
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The "Handsboro Democrat" says the raising of Sea Island Cotton in Harrison County has paid. The whole coast is especially adanted to the culture of this cotton.
The yield to the acre is at least 300 pounds, lint cotton, which sells readily at ^1 to £>150 per pound.
The land can be bought for from 50 cents to Si.00 per acre.