'MOBILE. The Port ot Alabama; the State is building the most modern port facilities in the U. S., costing $10,000,000. This and the bridging of Mobile Bay opens Mobile as the southern focal point of highways, waterways, railroads and ocean lanes. An unusual port, ample facilities, 20 steamship lines, six railroads, and miles of convenient frontage for expansion. Center of fertile agricultural district; early cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers, sat-suma orange ami pecan nut orchards. Fishing, hunting and water sports, bay and gulf resorts. Founded by the French 1711. (Sec page -11).
Hotels—BATTLE HOUSE, fine modern hotel. New ST. ANDREW HOTEL, moderate rates. BIENVILLE HOTEL semi-modern.
Municipal camp, free, on Mobile Bay, 3!& mi. south good. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
LONG BEACH. Undish and truck growing inland. PASS CHRISTIAN. Resort city, facing the gulf and the Bay of St. Louis. Numerous realty-resort developments. MIRAMAR HOTEL, nice family hotel, faces the gulf; HOTEL NELSON, new commercial, good.
BAT OF ST. LOUIS. Ferry hourly until midnight, Toe. Bridge under construction.
‘BAT ST. LOUIS. A resort city on the Bay of St. Louis and the gulf, developing rapidly. Fishing, sailing, bathing. HOTEL WESTON, new, modern, overlooking the bay. "amp space. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
MISSISSIPPI-LOUISIANA STATE LINE
East X*carl River.
GRAND BAY. Satsuma orange and pecan orchards: ruck raising. Country hotel. Camp space.
A LA BAMA-MISSISSIPPI STATE LINE
MISSISSIPPI—93 MILES
Paved from the Alabama line to Pass Christian; then £8 mi. of well maintained gravel to the Louisiana line. Bridges will be completed across the Pascagoula Kivcr and the Buy of St. Louis during 1927, then ferries will cease in 3Iississippi.
The eastern part is cut-over coastal plain pincland. From Ocean Springs to Bay St. Louis Is the Gulf Boulevard section where the shore is lined with fine homes and hotels, and realty-resort development of a high order. A sea-wall and boulevard are built along the eoast. The gulf cities arc all-year resorts.
Biloxi was the first French settlement in Old Louisiana, 1699, and the first seat of government. Then they founded Mobile in 1711 and IS’ew Orleans in 1718. Later Spniu ruled the territory.
MOSS POINT. Lumber towu. Wrapping paper mills-Fresh and salt water fishing. Clean country hotel. Free camp on OST.
'’PASCAGOULA. On tlie Gulf of Mexico and the Pascagoula River. POL HOTEL. Camp space near beach. Inf.— Chamber of Commerce.
PASCAGOULA RIVER. Ferry, continuous, 00c. Bridge under construction.
GAUTIER. West side of ri\ ■er. Camp space.
OCEAN SPRINGS. On Hie gulf and Biloxi Bay. Resort city. Shrimp and oyster fisheries. Pecans and satsuma oranges. PINES HOTEL. Gulf Ilills, line renltv and resort development. (See page -12).
■BILOXI BAY.
BILOXI. Resort capital of the “Emerald Coast.” First capital of Old Louisiana, settled in 1001). Fisheries harbor in Back Bay; oyster and shrimp packing houses on the gulf. BUENA VISTA HOTEL, popular gulf beach and social hold; the AVELEZ, new, down-town: RIVIERA, on the beach, moderate; the KENNEDY, popular, down-town, fills early.
Private camp, near city, west, iiOc up. Free camp in fine grove on Back Bay, northwest. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce and Buena Vista Hotel.
GLLI'PORT. Dee)) seaport. Resort and commercial eit.\, center of the Gulf Boulevard development, growing rapidly. GREAT SOUTHERN HOTEL, spacious, coin-lor able, overlooking (lie gulf; HOTEL MARKHAM, new and modern, down-town; HOTEL RAYNEIl, moderate. Inf. Chamber of Commerce.
LOUISIANA—341 MILES
The road across Louisiana well maintained gravel. 80 mi. are paved. No dirt sections. Ferries at the Rigolcts and Chef Menteur, east of New Orleans at foot of Lake Pontchartraln. Bridges over these streams are now being built. A toll bridge 11 mi. across Lake Pontchartrnin will he completed early in. 1928 thus giving optional routes. Ferry at Mississippi River and at Berwick Bay. Morgan City. All ferries give constant and good service. Louisiana now has good roads serving the whole State.
Louisiana east of Morgan City is the ancient delta of the Mississippi River. The country is threaded with bayous and the Old Spanish Trail rambles by them and across them. Solis arc rich delta deposits. This is the old sugar plantation district and the Old South of legend and story. Old plantation homes, negro colonies and the French speaking classes thickly dot the bayou shores. Corn growing, fishing and fur industries are also important. Thousands of acres near the gulf arc dyked—this is “Raceland’s Little Holland/'
From Morgan City to New Iberia the Old Spanish Trail runs along the Bayou Tcchc past old sugar plantations with the colonies of negroes still living in the cabins of slave days. Old live oaks, cypress and pecan shade the roads, homes and bayous. Some cotton, corn and rice thru here. At Lafayette all products mingle, then westward rice fields spread over the country. Southwest Louisiana is one of the greatest rice areas in the C. S. Water is pumped thru its network of canals to flood the lands. Lumber, suit and sulphur mines, and oil, are other sources of wealth.
In the eastern part are French and Acadian types and the " Trench language, religion, cooking and habits arc prominent. Public improvements, schools and roads are good. In the western part people have settled from every state drawn by the rice industry. Their cities and homes arc distinctively American.
There are thousands of miles of rivers, bayous, lakes, bays and inlets in South Louisiana. Roads among them are good. There arc thousands of acres of wild life sanctuaries including the Sage and the Rockefeller preserves and private club preserves. Conservation 1ms improved the sport for everyone.
The French took command of the vast territory of Old Louisiana by establishing sovereignty over the Mississippi River in 1099 Tills move by the French divided the Spanish territory in i \vo nnd become ‘one of Hie decisive events In North American lilslorv. The first settlement was at Bilovi in IGOi). In I'll the French settled Mobile. 1718 they founded Nouvclle Orleans: llie same year Hie Spanish settled San Antonio as an outpost to protect their western possessions. In the strangle of empires Tonlstnnn was ceded lo Spain in 171H. Spain took possession In 17GP. Spain ceded I.onslnnn hack to France in 1800. France sold lo the I ailed Slates In 1803. New Orleans as Ihe frontier post on the mlgl.lv river that drains a halt of the continent became the inciting pot as all classes of people struggledfor life, power or development on Ihe North American continent.
\1o.ir the Bayou Tccho Is the Evangeline country- immortalized by Longfellow's poem. The Acndinns were exiled from Nova SYotln In 1755. Along this bayou today arc Acadian homes towns .	...	  s,	vtortlnvlllo	the	story	is	more	fully told.
WEST PEARL RIVER. New bridge. Another of the difficult flood-water crossings of the Old Spanish Trail.
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