New-York tribune., 1912-12-01

of the Louisville e. Nashville Railroad
Baldwin County. to its soIth ernmost linn
| It's, twenty miles below, and opposite
Choctaw Point, at the upper end OF Mo-
| bile Bay. IL was so considered by the
early settlers. All parts of it can be
! reached by water through large creeks
| and through the Mobile, the Tensaw, the
! Raft, the Middle. the Spanish and lesser
rivers, ranging in depth from 10 to 20 feet.
There are q few Islands bordering II, the
| largest containing about 800 acres, while
islets, facing unobstructedly upon the new
21-foot channel in Mobile Bay, fringe its
| lower end.
With the exception of Blakely Island,
| (Which will. on account OF it's position op-
| posite the heart or the cltys business
district, serve alike for the location or
great industrial enterprises and FOR
a larger terminal, one affording a com
petent float service" for all this great
| body OF land as for the city itseif) near
F, ly all OF this tract, the major portion OF
which Is known as simpson lsiahd, IS
owned by one concern ,the j. ID. Gamer
! on and Son Company, from which manu-
featuring sites may possibly be had VI
| IS said at appreciably less than the prices
| lands are held at on the west shore). al
| though that concern Is thought TO prefer
| dsposing OF its 1900 acres ell bloc.
With the waters OF Alabamas river
system anywhere near their norman
| these lands are never submerged: only
bee and Alabama rivers can put them
| under-indeed. Blakey, writing In ISL; TO
a relative in Connecticut, SAID: Wheh
! the waters rise more than forty feet in
the upper rivers they don't rise an inch
on my island" As matter OF fact, they
| have not been oVcrfioWed unlli last
spring and then to no great depth.
Their virgin soil is very rich ''alluvial -
| to again quote Blakely-''as rich as the
delta Of the Nile II is well wooded
having in plenty the tupelo (satin wal
| nut OF the foreign furniture maker),
| sweet bay the same. practically. as bass
wood, black gum, cypress. dogwood and
some magnolia C'sweet' and evergreen }
and red gum. tSome of the cypress has
! been taken off years ago.
While this tract offers peculiar induce
the smaller articles. for the reason that
| they can utilize in the manufacture OF
boxes (packing), crates Derry, finish,
| grape baskets. novelties, pals, tubs
sample cases trays. vehicle parts, chair
rounds. clips (outside TRIM, bobbins, shut
ties spindles. spools, golfstick heads, egg
| crates, ginbrush ribs, handles, Kitchen
safes trunks. etc. the stuff generally
described as wood waste" that does not
appeal 10 the larger, such as the manu-
| facturers of interior trim, stairWays GIN
| ming machinery coffin boxes, columns,
silos. tanks, watts. bedsteads, flooring. re-
I frigerators. mantels, panels and the like.
for these such wood as cannot be had
| here are all near at hand in quantities
and cheap. There is one thing that must
make this remarkable tract of vast SER
vice TO the city's commerce when the ca
| nalization of Alabama's rivers shall have
made of them great highways FOR the
| transportation of raw materials ana When
| the opening of the Panama Canal shall
| have made OF Mobile not only the chief
| port but the metropolis of the Gulf Coast.
| II does not suffer as do the exposed
shores of Mobile Bay from the southerly
gales and from the consequent backing up
OF water from the Gulf And therefore its
land-locked bays and streams peculiarly
fit il for what il will come 10 be used for.
During the (river) flood season-January.
February and March-barges cannot safe