The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-12

commence there are yet &her interest ing and renumerative products passing through the port for distribution. Among them can be cited chicie from Honduras, cocoanuts and rosewood from Central America, hides from tuba, lines from the West Indies, shingles from British Guinea. fertilizer and mangan- csc ore from Chile, hurlap from India, coffee from Brazil, and toys from Ger many, In fact, taking Mobiles i'm port ecommodities list one finds them highly interesting and covering a wide range of countries aud things.
 On exports Mobile also has trinity bulk commodities, lumber and lumber products. iron and steel products and coal.
 Not that there Is Anything wooden about the port but lumber and it's kim dred products it's the most important commodity for export. And as a pa rade of the wooden figures" of the 145.- O56 tons exported recently 95.04S tons came from the charming state of Mis- sissippi and 32.955 tons from that soul of friendliness and hospitality the state of Alabama. These southern timber lands showing their iinpartiality by sending their products to Cuba, the West Indies, South America, Central America. the United Kingdom and con tinental Europe. <
 Alabama, empress of the iron and stell industry, furnished the bulk of the next important of export through her own port of Mobile. Out of 40,- 100 tons passing through the port in export. 27.977 tons came from the Bir- mingham district. 4,173 tons from Hi nois and Lord bless our souls, 1,0S5 tons from Pennsylvania. The balance came in lesser qnarahties from other states.
 Alabana Leads In Coal
 Again. Alabama to the front, as queen of the Black Diamond, the state ex- ported out of total of 62, ,125 tons, 56,- I0S tons Of the balance the Blue Grass state, Kentucky, furnished 5,417 tons. The coal in export went princi- pally to Cuba and Central America. But we are down in Dixie, so cotton must not be forgotten as an article in export. Mobile handled 1S,393 tons con. signed to Europe, the United Kingdom, China and Japan. Although the bulk of l this product came from Dixieland, name ly. Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. TWO stntes north of the Ma | tonnage, to wit: Illinois and Ohio Ol course the cotton tonnage was not as high as one would have like to see it especially the people of the cotton pro. l duciug states. Still there are possibly two reasons for this apparent failing of | in the south cotton nioduction. One the boll weeyil, has caused some cot ton producing sections to turn to rais ing of livestock. And the other, but perish the thought as serious, the fierce and keen competition offered to Mobile 1 by Galveston and New Orleans for cot. ton export business,
 And to prove that Galveston and New Orleans do not have the commercial trade all their own way. Not so long ago sack flour from Wichita Falls Texas, for export to Cuba and large consignments Of salt from New Iberia La, for export moved through Mobile l passing serenely by the fair and flour. shing gulf ports of Texas and Louisiana
 Not half bad for the Alabama port you 1 will agree. ~
 Hewsgsr, is viii he found that siobiI, fias her SfEade relh si9nn with her terri l.tdeg has flp mQ on hsiHeas, orig I limiting in that teff isOrY as esen there I there are height mdyefnenta for import I ant export to other ports. The whol, Equestion of routings being based on thu competitive rate basis combined with thu 1 port facilities and services in attract
 ing and holding business. But in the case of Mobiles geographical position and it's relationship to the important interior points of production, cOncentra
 ton, consumption and distribution and the port relationship to the principal
 foreign ports of the worlds are import
 ant factors. in fact very important a. applied to Mobile and should be so re fgarded by the shippers of the Mississipp vallav