The age-herald., 1901-02-03
FAR REACHING
 IN ITS RESULTS Absorption of the M. 6 Q. by
 the SOuthern JAMES K. GLENN0N TALKS Forecast of the Immediate Future and a Wise Suggestion to the Mer- chants and Manufacturers
 of This District.
JAMES K. GLENNON TALKS

James K. Glennon, who has lived for f, fty years in Mobile and is prominently iden- tfed with it's banking, real estate and p- surance business, has been in Birmingham several days Investigating the various in dustries. MT. Glennon is an astute thinker and man of fine judgment. He was at his room in the Morris hotel yesterday, and in speaking of the general condition of the State and the district said:
 'The recent absorption of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad by the Southern will be vast ly more far-reaching in results than many suspect It's effect upon the traffic and business of Birmingham and Mobile will be incalculable. If the Southern had paid several millions more of purchase money it would even then have bought at cheap price a valuable property, because of the franchises of the Mobile and Ohio. The Southern, having now secured possession of the Mobile and Ohio river front and dockage facilities at Mobile has magnif- cent facilities for the easy shipment of iron. The Southern is now erecting mammoth coal chute on it's river front, which will materially lessen the handling of coal There is no question in my mind that the export of coal from the Birmingham dis trict via Mobile will now increase ten-fold And 1 am equally certain that the export of pig iron from this district via New Or leans will also cease.
 This fusion of the Mobile and Ohio and the Southern makes a short haul for every product of this district to the outer world via Mobile. The fact that the Southern IS such large corporation, and Mobile is it's only terminal on the gulf, would necessitate the roads catering for and securing all possible tonnage to that port. The Mobile and Ohio owns terminal and track facilities and other franchises along the river front at Mobile that are of incalculable value.
 Export Trade.
 Much of this river front, not yet devel- oped, will at once be utilized and improved by the Southern and will enable that road to handle for export all the products of the Birmingham district much cheaper at Mo bile than at any other point 1t or any other road counld possibly reach.
 The products coming into the port Of Mobile from Havana, Central America and other foreign ports will be of such magni- tude that the Southern will soon find 1t necessary as we'll as a most profitable investment, to have a line of steamers run ming from Mobile to Havana and all the ports on the Southern side of the gulf.
 "All the merchants and inhabitants of Mobile are elated at the idea of the close connection of the two most important cities in the state, and there is no doubt whatever that the alliance will be of i'm mense value, benefit and profit to the in habitants of both cities.
 But now 1 come to the especially impor- tant points. The acquisition of the NJ x o. by the Southern not only takes in the gen. eral system of the M. & O. from St. Louis to Mobile but also all it's branches. Now among these branches Is the Mobile and Bay Shore road which runs Southwardly, near the West shore of Mobile Bay to Ce- dar Point and will ultimately reach Dau- phin Island, where the Southern will erect an immense coaling station that will be excelled by none other in this country. Yes sells plying from any ports on the gulf to any ports along the Atlantic or to for eign countries may stop here and be coaed, and lose less than twenty-four hours by such stoppage and go only fiften or eighteen miles out of their regular course.
 Nicaragua Canal.
 "It is an undoubted fact that when the work upon the Nicaragua canal shall have commenced. all the iron structural ma terial and all other materials will be shipped from the Birmingham district via Mobile and the Southern to the port of that great enterprise. The merchants and manufac turers of Birmingham should be notified now to prepare for these coming events, to watch for these results, to take time by the forelock and to be ready to reach out and grasp these rich plums.
 Tn view of these undoubted facts the po tentalites of the rapid increase in com merce and exchange of busness between Birmingham and Mobile cannot be estimat- ed. At no distant day the merchants and manufacturing enterprises of Birmingham will have agencies in Mobile and travelling