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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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heir own funeral. They have at least reaped some bene- fits from the industry of oth-ers, and their pride in theappearance and welfare oftheir city is unmistakable,(xovernment Street is one ofthe most beautiful residencestreets in America. It is verybroad ; the homes, old andnew, are spacious and ele-gant ; the yards aboundwith palms and flowers of thetropics, and along both sidesare stately live-oaks whosewidespreading boughs givea wealth of stiade. A na-tive Mobilian, Dr. HenryGoldthv/aite, quarantine offi-cer of the port, directedthe fight which kept thecity free of yellow fever in1905.Alabama is the fifth largest coal-producingState in tiie Inion, and her pig iron makes theprice of pig iron for the world. Warrior River,which penetrates the States great mineral re-gion, is being locked and dammed by the Gov-ernment, and in a few years Mobile Bay willteem with barges heavily laden with iron andcoal, and with tramp vessels, come to carrythese staples to foreign ports. Even now Mobile
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HOYAIj street, the retail business SECTION OF MOBILE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR GULF PORTS. 193 is the cheapest bunker-coalport in America Fifteensteamship lines to all partsof the world make more orless frequent sailings to andfrom Mobile, and five rail-roads enter the city. Herexports to Cuba exceed thecombined exports of all theports in the United States,except New York ; in im-ports of tropical fruits sheranks third, and she handlesalmost the entire sisal cropof Yucatan. Mobile has theonly landlocked harbor onthe Gulf of Mexico, and his-tory does not record a vessellost in either the harbor orthe bay. But the channelfrom the Gulf to the city, adistance of about thirtymiles, is not yet deep enoughfor many of the big freight-ers of the transatlantic lineswhich are to knock for entrance to Mobiles gateswithin the next few years. In 1870 the depth ofthe channel was only thirteen feet. This the Gov-ernment has increased to twenty-three feet, andwhen improvements now under way and contem-p

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