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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.
resounds and varied products of the extensive territory drained by the waters of Mobile river and its tributaries, and of even wider boundaries.
The possibilities of Mobile as a “Teat manufacturing city, point to a development which no one can measure.
Raw material of various kinds, practically exhaust less, are at or near her doors.
Nature is lavish in rich stores of natural wealth all around her. At no place can iron, iron ore and coal and coke be laid down cheaper than at Mobile. Foundries, machine shops and establishments for the thousands of fabrications made from iron cannot find a more eligible location. Everything1 made of wood may be manufactured at Mobile. Hardwood forests abound not only in some sections not remote from Mobile, but in the northern portion of Alabama and in Tennessee and Georgia, which are tributary to the city.
Lint cotton grown in Alabama and Mississippi, and largely shipped away to w. t, west, Secy. Commercial Clu b. be returned in manufactured products, may be profitably reduced to fabrics of many kinds at home. No better point, if as good, can be found for such industries.
Alabama has 6,000 square miles more territory than Pennsylvania,. Says the Mobile Commercial: “We have unbroken forests of pine and oak,1 mountains of iron ore, and eleven thousand square miles of good cokeing and steam coal lying nearer tide-water than any other body of coal in the world. The thousands of acres of land now lying idle back of our city will produce everything that grows in more northern latitudes. *	*	* We
have more iron, more coal, more agricultural lands, but only about one-fourth the population of Pennsylvania. We have told vqhi what we have back of our city to draw from in the way of raw material. We have in front of us, right at our door, over 50,000.000 people who wish to trade with us, and we think through reciprocity trade relations with Central and South America and Cuba, we will soon have that trade. Our trade the past year increased more than one hundred per cent. We are nearer those countries than is any other good ocean or gulf port where cheap fuel can