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HOW SUN -i\- SAND RESORT PROMOTES THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE GULF COAST
The mailing pieces, folders, literature and the popular daily guest bulletin called the SUNNY SANDER, reproduced here (shown in black and white but actually printed in several colors) are part of the come and enjoy and stay longer program of SUN-N-SAND Motor Hotel and Resort straddling U.S. 90 on the beach between Gulfport and Biloxi. On these printed pieces SUN-N-SAND devotes much space to presenting the natural beauty and the diversified activity of the Coast, a-s well as its own facilities. This is one of a series ' we are reproducing of colorful, informative promotion campaigns distributed by our aggressive Coast Hotel Courts like Sun-N-Sand — sent to prospective guests before they arrive and carried away by customers when I hey leave—that are helping to dciicloft the Culf Coast into tin- slcmliist growing year round saltwater recreutiuidaiul in the Deep South.
Designed and Produced by Activities, Inc., Biloxi, Mississippi.
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Editor** Note:	We	are reproducing
verbatim below An editorial promoting the Coast that appeared 71 year* ago in the Mississippi Gulf Const nrwipnpcr “The Daily Herald” which, incidentally, ju*t celebrated at* 75th Anniversary. You will note that the Herald use* the term “immigrant*.M The present day term “tourist*” had not yet been coined.
Today thi* magazine Down South, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Adverti*ing Association, the HarrUon County Advertising Commission, the State of Mississippi, the Gulf Coast Chambers of Commerce, the hotel*, motel*, restauranti and attraction* are all promoting the Gulf Coast to the tune of over a million and a half visitor* a year and with the result that it is today the fastest growing recreational and industrial area in the Deep South. But way back in 1888 the Herald wa* a lone voice in the wilderness.
IMMIGRATION
We again call the attention of our people to this important subject. There are three classes of persons in the Northwestern States whose attention has been called to the superior advantages of the Southern States. The farmers, the capitalists, and those of delicate health, whose pecuniary circumstance? will enable to spend the winter in the South. To all these South Mississippi offers special attractions — Lands here are cheap—good farming lands can be bought from one to five dollars per acre, convenient to railroads or navigable rivers in good neighborhoods: good public schools are found in any township in the State. The winters are mild and the climate healthy. Timber for building purposes and fire is superabundant. For the capitalist there are opportunities for investment in improved and unimproved property, greater than in any portion of the Union. For the health seekers, for the aged, for delicate women and children, the soft southern breezes mingled with the odors of the pine make an atmosphere especially favorable. For all these classes of persons no part of South Mississippi offers inducements equal to the counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. Our own people know these things, but except for a few who have been visitors to the coast, to the great masses of the Eastern and Northwestern people they are unknown.
Thus far our people, with the exception of a very few individuals, have done nothing to induce immigration to South Mississippi. Our sister State, Louisiana, has been active in spreading information among the farmers of the West. The different parishes have subscribed money for the establishment of an immigration bureau, and for talking up and writing up the advantages of (he various parishes. And the State is beginning to reap the benefits of the of
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