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MEXICAN GULP COAST ILLUSTRATED.
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EDUCATION AND RELIGION.
Mobile City and County has the best public school system in the South. There are 27 schools within the city limits. Forty churches, representing the larger evangelical denominations, afford to listeners the best pulpit talent of the South.
Mobile is noted for its shaded avenues and beautiful drives. Government street, seen in the engraving, is one of the finest. The Shell Road, as a drive, is unsurpassed.
Limited space forbids referring to the present manufacturing industries of the city or to those which must of necessit}7, from a most fortunate combination of circumstances center at Mobile—the lumber and timber business, and ship-building. •	,
In the fish and oyster industries Mobile will, in the near future, rival the great marts on the Atlantic seaboard. Vegetable farming has already reached large proportions, and is still expanding.
Three vast coal fields, the Coosa, Cahaba, and Warrior, are easy of access by rivers which empty into the Bay through Mobile river. The city will become, not remotely, one of the largest coaling stations in the world.
The Nicaragua Ship Canal, whose early completion is a foregone fact, means more to Gulf and inter-ocean commerce than the completion of the Suez Canal did to Mediterranean shipping. The skeptical can glance at the map of the world and be convinced. Mobile, or her deep water station, Dauphin Island, must become a coaling and provisioning station for this immense commerce.
The National Railroad of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, is approaching completion. The terminal points are Tehuantepec on the Pacific and Coatzocoalcos on the Gulf of Mexico. The importance to Mobile of this great artery of'commerce will at once be seen.
In the vicinity of Mobile are a number of attractive places and points of interest. Spring Hill, a charming suburb is only six miles from the center of business in the city. On the line of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad the principal places where numbers of the business men of Mobile reside are Pritchard’s, Whistler, Kushla, Oak Grove, Chunchula, Citronelle and Deer Park. Across the Bay are a number of beautifully located villages and resorts, summer and winteY. Among them are Howards, Montrose, Daphne, Battle’s, Point Clear, Zundel’s, and Magnolia. On the entire east Bay frontage the land is high, and the climate superb. It is one of the finest fruit regions in the South.