New-York tribune., 1912-12-01
TERMINAL FACILITIES.

While Mobiles terminal facilities have
been described In the story OF the port.
ii would be doing her an injustice to omit
mention OF those which have been. or are
being added since. for 'twould leave the
impression that this city had rested con-
tent with what II then had Whereas, II
has come to recognize that. to achieve
its riehtful rank among world ports in
telligent expansion OF It's facilities for
storing and handling cargoes, for the
coaling OF vessels. etc, must not lag.
In consequence. the city itself. planned
and completed .24V feet long and li5 feet
wide steel sheds to connect with It's older
shed, which is 120 feet by 20 feet. The
work on the terminal OF the Cochrane
system is well under way. And the Mo
bile x Ohio has extended the sheds on
Pier a1 feet. TO connect with the city's
sheds will reclaim from the marsh above
One Mile Creek, 1000 feet OF water front,
where IL will install an electrically oper-
ated coal hoist 1T will be the only one
south Of Norfolk. and where II Will pro-
vide docking accOmmoda ations-most prob
ably three or four piers-for the largest
vessels entering Gulf ports. While the
Southern Is planning to erect a new
,s5o.OcO) freight depot on Beauresard
street and the Mobile Cha OF Com
merce and Business League, which repre-
sents the new and progressive spirit ami
mating the business community, is ever
engaged IN pressing forward the harbor
and terminal improvements that will be
required by the future Mobile. the Mobile
II has determined to make centre OF
world trade Indeed (while, through a
systematic division OF labor among com
mittees. each headed by one of the board
OF directors. and representing, practically,
all Of it's membership. II is on guard over
all Of Mobiles interests) It regards this as
a vital issue.
Mobiles Cheap Coal.
Alabama's coal product (although
treated of In the first story must Of
necessity again figure Importantly: and.
AZ EXPORT coal and bunker coal service
mean most 10 the world at large. and.
especially, to that worlds ocean (steam)
carriers. 1t may most fittingly be dis
cussed here.
Major James X. Glennon, man OF
marked prominence here. points 10 the
future cheapness OF fuel az one. OF Mo-
bile's greatest inducements to manu-
facturers. To the assertion that tine
coal on the rivers 10 not so good as tnat
in the Birmingham district ne answer. % s,is
face, robbed by the atmosphere or lts
best components, has been touched
When the Tuscaloosa measures snail
have been gone into more deeply tney
Will yield as good steaming coal as those
OF Birmingham" And he adds: NOT only
will Mobile be the cheapest coal port,
hut Alabama coal will go TO Panama IN
steel barges. Why. already, New orleans
Is building barges to bring coal down
our rivers and 10 her own wharves.
That Mobile can furnish coal to Colon
the gulf ports. and the Caribbean. cheap
est Of all the gulf ports. even now; IS
shown by the following: Bunker coal at
Mobile Mobile. per long ton. s %; New Orleans. 1s
Sc a: Pensacola, g ls: Galveston, - 7c;
Tampa. s. IS, and Key West. ~ II Is
d0ubfful IL even the originators OF tne
NTH that "Alabamas coal In so volatile
as 10 make 1t subject to spontaneous
Combustion, when stored In large guam
titles in the tropics" believe that that
ruse du guerre will long serve 70 pIeveni
WobiIe from furnishing the mentioned
stetinns. For not only do iron "tramps
and steel-built liners. whose routes lie
IN or through tropic seas, fill their DUNK