Excerpt from Memorial and Proceedings of the River and Harbor Improvement Convention: Assembled at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, November 17th, 1885 It is a matter well known that through the Harbor of Mobile the agricultural productions of many States are sent to markets abroad, and the convergence of many railroads to the Port of Mobile gives it an importance with regard to direct trade with all the neighboring nations of the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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