The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
FRISCO AND M. so. GROUPING URGED
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 groupings formerly proposed to the commission by it's own experts, that the Mobile and Ohio railroad-physically solely related as it is to the port of Mo bile, should be allied in a group with a line serving trans-MiSSissipp territory "a line that is without present gulf port connection and is of a sufficient territorial opportunity and tonnage prospects to reasonably justify the ex- pActatiOn that the Mobile and Ohio rail- road would afford the shippers over such trans-Mississipp line convenient, economical and prompt mean of trans porting water bound tonnage for move ment in intercoastal and foreign com merce. Such an alliance would afford this territory a very desirable compe- tition in service to the gulf coast.
 Case Of Frisco
 ''The Frisco system is the trans Mississippi line that offers the very best opportunity to make practical, efficient, public-serving application of this idea for feasible grouping of the Mobile and Ohio railroad. These lines intersect at Tupelo, Miss, 116 miles southeast of the Frisco's Mississippi crossing at Mem phis. The Frisco serves great territory. producing a large tonnage that should seek the benefit of foreign and Pacific coast distributions distribution over the Gulf of Mexico and the seas that would be facilitated and prompted by the fact that nearly all of the Frisco's trans-Mississipp territory is much nearer the gulf through the port of Mo- bile, via the Mobile and Ohio railroad, than through any other gulf port.
 ''The Mobile and Ohio is, we are ad- vised, a self-sustaining unit However, if it was not self-sustaining, the Fris. co.'s own interest in having direct con. nectiOn with a first class gulf port at Mobile, and the Frisco's financial abil. ity to successfully maintain and op. crate a system of which the Mobile and Ohio was part, coupled with the ex- cellent, deserved reputation the Fris. co.'s present management is universally accorded, confirm the view that the Mo. bile and Ohio should be gr, uped with the Frisco, thus and thereby allyine units having obvious mutual interests and constructing a combination of man. ifest advantages to the people, the ship. pers of vast, progressive, productive and growing areas.
 | Advantages Shown
 'The advantages of an alliance of the NJ. and O. railroad with the Frisco makes material the consideration, ia. miliar to the informed in the realm of economic shipping, that affect the rout. ing of ships, intercoastal and foreign service, to ports of the United States particularly to the gulf ports." The brief summaries the considerations saying that ships desire and seek ports where an outgoing cargo may be promptly, efficiently, economically re, ceived for the return voyage"
 "A combination of the M. and o. with the Frisco system would certainly promise, if not definitely assure, sucf volume of classified cargo at the port of Mobile, awaiting transportation tC foreign ports or to our own Pacific ports, as to attract shipping from thu ports of the world. The grain, cottor and other light commodities moved port ward by the Frisco and the M. and O would furnish the clements of a bal anceds cargo that would counterbalance