The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-12
Whole Mississippi Valley
 Is Mobile Trade Territory
Geographical Location Gives Port Natural Ad
 vantage In Foreign Commerce


 This. inc sixth arsscas hg yshn c.
 ColweII, ar., on the aavantages of Me
 bile denHs with the tributary territory
 to Mobile. The sevenfh article wiii ap-
 pear in an early Issue
 The trade territory of Mobile is the Mississippi valley. Not section but eonspicuously the body of the nation and large as it is, it is not capable of being divided into sections. For 1t ii like the great river draining 1t, one and indivisible and north, south, east and west are alike necessary to it's comfort and prosperity. Its people too, in all their interests as the regions they in habit They are immigrants, mixed multitude coming from every state in the union and from most of the coun ties of Europe. They love the nation al a whole and they love all of it's parts for they are bound to them all, not only by a feeling of common interest and de pendence, but also by the recollection. of childhood and youth. by blood ant friendship. and by all those social ana domestic charities which sweeten lift und make this world worth living in Such is the inland empire the Missis sippi valley, and such it's people. Is il shON aAAtAttAA 1AtU tVEt NhNt sAAUOAtC ctfVuAl be it's principal seaport?
 An! but whether or not a port car attract business is iarSely a matter oi a very uncertain factor. to-wit: Rates As trade, territory of the port expant or decrease. But in the broatest sense the. territory tributary to Mobile in cludes Sthe twenty-seven states of yfh, Mississippi Valley, Albany, Maritoba Saskatchewan and Ontario.
 Most unfortunately, it must be noted that in the past, the commerce passinI through Mobile has been limited to canparatiyely few important bulk com lpodities.
 Molasses En First Rank
 On imports, molasses has ranked first This product iy of the blackstrap yarict, used principally in the manufacture o stock feed. Through one cnncern Ut Mo bile, it is distributed to points in fifteel states; the greater portion-ef the move ment going to Illinois, Tennessee Georgia md Missouri. In. fact. of tn, annual importation of 3000O 900 gal Ions handled through the port, lift, per cent to sixty per cent is distribute, to St. Louis, kansas City, fDmaha, Chi eago, Milwaukee Minneapolis, Mash vile and Memphis. The importance Q Mobile as melaxses distributing cente being due to the fact that the por has excellent pipe line facilities fo handling the molasses direct from tn ships hold into storage tanks or cars Not that there is any idea of bein, funny here. fer be it from such, bu the thought Is so possessing thai i should be set down. ''Yes we have n, bananas is good, but Mobile can sin Nc. we have some bananas" as abou the time that weird little ditty was be coming popular, Mobile handled tIIrougI her port Q.407 tons of them. And ii turn distributed by rail to thirty-or, states and Canada. Of the states, Hi nois was probably partrial to the. frni as she consumed 11,516 tons nor bananas than did any of her siste states. But even with Illinois likinI this green fruit, there was still enougl left to make large shipments to Mich gan, M:nnesota, Iowa. Indiana. Ohio Tennessee, Missouri and Wisconsin fBanAnas at Mobile are handled diree between ship and refklgeraf0r cars mn I ik x this deo,iQsnfe handlink that { 1 i geI Thsssa ( s|s 4Ss tl,e ilnpoFts m D s.c D, ef the poft As banana aisfributin Ecenter. IN
 First Mobile gets all atuck up wit molasses then she fills up on gree banAiIas, 90 it ig not surprising to fin that she wants to hanaA herself. Sisa grass is the third of her trinity of i'm portant bulk imports. About the tim Mobile was telling the country abou her bananas, she also received 2,0S tons of sisaI from Mexico and out o this tonnage, distributed to six states Illinois, took 2s360 tons, wonder if was going up to Williamson county
 However, large as the trinity of in ports loom on the horizon of Mobile