The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
Unalterable Laws Of Trade
 Insure Mobiles Greatness
Expert, In First Of Series Analyzes Ports Ad-
 vantages As Traffic Center

and spices from India. There is also some coffee, sugar, manguenese ore port, as a factor in our national ex- port trade is making her bid to the en. tire country for her proper share of it's export traffic, and not without req son, for her invitation to her trade territory is based on service and the shortest route and lowest rail line hauis from points in the interior. As seaport Mobile has even now more than New Orleans in that she is on deep water and only 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Her port facilities even as they now are, are second only to New Orleans and with the compile. tion of the new state owned terminals will be second to none. .-
 Imports Are Important
 Because of Mobiles facilities adapted to the handling of special commodities, the port is an important distributing center of molasses from Porto Rico to a large section of the United States and more especially to Missouri, Ne. braska, Illinois. Minnesota, and Ten nessee; bananas, too, are an import passing through this port in large quantities and distributed to 31 states Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alebrta; sisal is another commodity and burlap handled through Mobile but the volume of these imports is at present small.
 As port for the traffic destined for exports, Mobile handles large vol umes of lumber products for destina- tion in Cuba, the West Indies, Central America, South America, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe manufactured iron and steel products for the Pacific coast, Mexico, Central America and South America, Japan, Continental Europe. Coal is exported through Mobile to Cuba and Central America cotton to China, Japan and the United Kingdom and Europe.
 Other traffic for export through Mo. bile moving in small quantities include agricultural implements, sack flour, grain, cattle, evaporated cream, glue. greases, packing house products, sad dlery, shoes, soap, beans, beet sugar, corn, cottonseed oil cake, feed, malt, meal, rice, tallow, tobacco, turpentine, textiles, wood and paper products, non. metallic minerals, ores and metals, machinery and vehicles and chemicals
 The significance of these varied inn ports and exports to the port of Mo bile lies in the fact that the port is now capable of handling this traffic, But with the new terminals now in pro- cess of construction, how much more readily will Mobile be able to offer quick and economic movements to the freight passing through the port.
 There are of course other important reasons for Mobile becoming a factor in our national foreign trade develop. ment among which are, the great stress now being placed on the utiliza. tion of our gulf ports, the navigable waterways, tributary to Mobile offer. ing all water rates from many points and a rail-water rate as of eight per cent of the all rail from many other the ports proximity to the Panama Canal, the fine trunk line railroads en- tering the port city with their connect ing lines linking as they do, Mobile to the entire country from the Rockies to the Atlantic and the Dominion of Canada to the gulf, a port and harbor managed by the Alabama State Harbor commission, and the municipal co-ope. ation and service vouched to the ship. pers using the port.
 And that nature and sound economic can supply belong to Mobile. Therefore to end as begun, nothing can prevent