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J. F. H. CLAIBORNE COTTON CROP IN HANCOCK COUNTY 1870 - 1871
"Summit CKiss.) Times" - April 18, 1872 quoting "Bay St. Louis Gazette"
The cotton grown by J. F. H. Claiborne last year (1871) at Zoma plantation in this county on citched prairie land without fertilieers is pronounced to be the finest long-staple ever exhibited in New Orleans, and has just been sold by Messrs.
Claiborne & Co., 59 Carondelet St., for 50 cents a pound.
Had it been ginned on rollers instead of a 0 saw gin, it would have netted 75 cents.
Col. Claiborne's crop of the previous year, grown on hammock land, was shipped to Liverpool a few months since and netted 32 cents sterling.
So much for Hancock county sea-island cotton lands.