The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-01

at the shaliowest places--that ID. over
the bar--which protects Mobile Bay
from the ocean. The depth and fluid
condition OF the mud at the bottom
makes the channel deeper actually than
the cfficial measurement, and vessels
drawing as much as twenty-fopr and a
half feet OF water have entered the
harbor.
The terminals OF. the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad at Mobile are much
smaller than at Pensacola. the termt-
mails at Mobile having only one wharf
and water front of. about 1.S00 feet.
The terminals here include one shed
and freight house and one warehouse.
The principal products brought by the
Louisville and Nashville into Mobile are
grain products and hay, chiefly from IL
linois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Wisconsin, Minnesota Kansas and Mis-
souri, The cotton caEried by this rail-
road for export Is taken to. Pensacola.
About 100 cars a day have been handled
at the Mobile terminal, the number de-
pen ling upon the character of the
freight and the facilities for transferr-
ing to the vessel
The principal railroad that brings farm
products into Mobile for export is the
Mobile and Ohio. The seaboard termi-
front about mile long, interrupted
somewhat by city wharves. The Mo-
bile and Ohio wharves consist of one
fruit wharf with berth space for three
to i've steamers, two fruit Warehouses;,
having, respectively, 10000, $4,000 and
rs. 900 square feet of floor space The
grain elevator of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad at this place has a storage
capacity OF 100000 bushels. The grain
products over the road come from what
Is known as the '1owsr and upper Mis-
souri, River Territory" including chief
ly the States of Missouri, Kansas, Ar
kansas and Minnesota.
A new railroad, bringing considerable
cotton into Mobile--=tfie Mobile, Jack
son and Kansas City--already has a
terminal covering sixty-nine acres, To-
Gated at Choctaw Point where the Mo-
bile River enters the bay. This road
is able to handle about 200 cars a day.
1t has completed one wharf 1000 feet
long. and is building another which will
brought over this road into Mobile is
grown in Alabama and Mississippi.
The larger rivers emptying into Mo-
bile Bay are navigable, except at low
water. for several hundred miles, and
are important highways for an import
ant trade between interior points in
Alabama and the port of Mobile. The
Alabama River affords water transpor-
tation between Montgomery and Mobile.
a distance of 400 miles, while the Mis-
slssippi Sound and the chain of lakes
at its western end make 1t possible for
small vessels from Mobile to reach New
Orleans without having to encounter
the rougher waters of the Gulf.
Mobiles FOreign Trade.
The value Of exports OF domestic mer-
chandise from Mobile in 1904 was about
$17,000,00O, or about the same as New
port News. The leading farm products
exported from Mobile In 1904 were cot
ton, valued at $S,000.000, or about the
same 40 cotton exported from Pensa-
cola; dour and corn, valued at nearly
$2,00O,000. and meat products, at about
$l,b00,00o. Other farm products, sheep
bread and biscuit. coffee. eggs, feathers
nuts, hay, hops, malt. oil cake, fresh and
dried apples, prunes, raisins, canned
fruits. nursery stock, cotton seed oil.
linseed oil, dairy products. rice, cotton
seed, starch, strip. sugar, tobacco and
vegetables. There was q marked in
crease In the exports of provisions
from Mobile in 1905 as compared with
1908. the largest article of increase be-
The three leading countries to which
exports were consigned from Mobile
during 1924 were Germany, Cuba and
the United Kingdom. The total ex-
ports to these countries from Mobile
was $13.000.000 and the exports to all
900. "''''
Among the principal farm products
imported at Mobile are bananas and
comee. During 1904 this port received
1000 of bananas and coffee valued
az $4,000. Nearly ewo-thirds Of the
imports received at Mobile during 1904
came from Mexico.