The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
FOR SALE
GULFPoRT, MISSISSIPPI.

The following was clipped from the Gulfport Daily Herald one day last week:
 Every trucker in this section has a pocket full of money and the cry of hard times is heard no more. The radish. crops have been good, and that they brought good prices is shown by the fact that they are bringing slloO a car. Ernest Mohler shipped last week PIT barrels. the proceeds from which were S1543.75."
 Another item in the same paper says, that our fruit and vegetable stands in Gulfport are offering for sale beets four inches in diameter. cabbage weigh ing or 10 pounds, carrots, onions, rhubarb. turnips and many other va rieties of vegetables that are grown on our splendid trucking lands surrounding the city.
 I received a report from Long Beach yesterday stating that the truckers were shipping an average of 5000 worth of vegetables per day to northern mar kets. And they have been doing nearly this well all the winter. Not only Is our lands great truck farming lands. but all the staple crops that grow any where else in the south will grow there as well. In addition to that, our lands are especially adapted to the growing of oranges, grapefruit oceans, kum- quats, Japanese persimmons, plums, grapes, figs and in fact any of the semi-tropical fruits. Thousands of citrus fruit trees have been set out our coast this year. and it is only ques- ton of a little while until our lands will be bringing as much as the famous California land.
 While I was down there last month met two prominent Birmingham physi- clans, who stated to me that they were spending awhile there for their health. and that our splendid climate was great benefit to them.
 I noticed in the Trucker and Farmer that Dr. H. E. Scott. of south Alabama, read paper at the annual meeting of the Horticultural association, in which he stated th0t he had a Satsuma orange tree in the year 1911 which bore 22S5 and sold for g per 100, or s45.70 for the total product of the tree Now when we consider that we have a great portion of the civilized world for a market and the circumscribed territory in which they can be successfully pro- dnced. we can have only faint idea of the wonderful commercial possibil- tiles of the Satsuma orange.
 The territory in which they can be sue cessfully grown is strip of country extending across the northern part of Florida and extreme southern part of
 
 ana and Texas. along the gulf, and not all of this land is adapted to it, as a great deal of it is too swampy and wet
 Now that is what Dr. Scott says about it. and 1t is a fact that the lands along the gulf coast of Mississippi are partic- ularly adapted to the growing of this orange Our lands are free from marsh and swamps and are very easily put into cultivation. Up to a few years ago people believed that south Missis- sippi was swampy. They also had an idea thot it was bad for malaria and mosquitoes, but they have found that these things are untrue and the coun- try is settling up and land values are advancing all the time
 There is no better investment in the south today than lands along the Mis- sissippi coast, especially lands near Gulfport because Gulfport is a splen did harbor and is going to make a big city, and lands located mine are. adjacent to the city, l am sure that they will advance year by year, and even if you did not improve these lands right away, it will be one of the best investments you could possibly make. However, if you will. improve them in just three or four years they will be bringing you a large income. I want you to see our country, I am proud of it's development. I am proud of the way land values are advancing all the time I want you to see with your own eyes this splendid country of ours and you will realize that I have not told it half as good as it is. I can refer you to dozens of prominent citi- zens here in Birmingham who have bought some of this property, and have already made money on their invest ment and many of them have set out this winter hundreds of orange grape fruit and pecan trees on their land Am selling 10-acre tracts for $750 on four years time, without interest or taxes It is the best buy you ever made. Hon. estly this land is really worth more than $100 per acre now, and it Is only a question of a little while until it will be bringing that. Just as soon as the people find out what our gulf coast really is land values are going to go sky high.
 A postcard or phone call will get you one of my new Gulfport booklets, with a splendid map of our coast in it. Ask for one today.
 B. c. COX.