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((^ MOBILE, ALABAMA. 
 
 .OBILE, the only seaport of the State of Alabama, is situated at the head of Mobile Bay abput 
 twenty-eight miles from the Gulf of Mexico, from which it is approached by a channel navigable 
 for the largest vessels plying in the Gulf of Mexico, and with an outlet guarded by Fort Morgan 
 on the mainland, on the east side, and Fort Gaines on Dauphin Islandon the west side. The city 
 was founded as a Fort by Lemoyne d'Iberville (de Bienville) in 1702, and continued to be the Capital ot 
 the Colony of Louisiana till 1723, when this rank was transferred to New Orleans. It has now a popu- 
 lation of forty thousand inhabitants and is steadily growing in numbers. 
 
 Mobile owes its great importance to its location at the mouth ot the Alabama River System composed 
 of the great rivers, Tombigbee, Black Warrior, ( Jahaba and the Alabama, the last of which has for its most 
 northern feeder the Coosa River, which rises in the State of Georgia. The Tombigbee rises in the State 
 of Mississippi and penetrates a rich cotton producing section, whilst the Black Warrior and Cahaba Rivers 
 take their rise in the hill districts ot the State and flow through the great Warrior and Cahaba Coal Beds. 
 The Coosa River flows through one of the richest mineral districts of the state, abounding in coal, iron, 
 marble, etc., and when the improvements now in course of construction by the general government are 
 completed, will offer a continuous navigation of eight hundred miles in length for steamboats from Mobile 
 to Rome, Georgia. At present steamboats reach Wetumpka, twenty miles above Montgomery, the Capital 
 of the State, situated four hundred miles above Mobile. 
 
 The stranger acquainted with the flat, low country bordering the Coast of the Southern Atlantic 
 States, is surprised to find near Mobile nothing corresponding to what is called the ^'/ozv country " of those 
 states; nothing like the great rice region of South Carolina, nor the level belt of country, elevated but a 
 few yards above tide and extending back for miles and reaching from Charleston to Albemarle Sound; 
 but on the contrary as he approaches Mobile, he finds the sand hills which he had seen in middle North 
 Carolina and extending across the middle of South Carolina. 
 
 The bluffs opposite Mobile, on the eastern side of Mobile Bay are from twenty to thirty feet in height 
 and the land a little back from the water's edge is one hundred feet above the sea. This shore of the Bay 
 is the site of summer hotels and residences with which communication is had from the City by daily lines 
 of steamer's. On the western side of the Bay, after leaving the plateau upon which the City stands, we 
 reach in about five miles a sandy pine clad ridge with clay foundation, that rises to a height of two hundred 
 and fifteen feet above tide, which is within twenty-four feet of being equal to that of Tuskaloosa on the Warrior 
 River and in the heart of the State. Within sixteen miles of the City in the same direction the elevation is 
 two hundred and fifty feet, and the hills masses ot low grade limonite ore. These elevations are not those 
 
of isolated points, but a ridge extending southwardly to Grand Ray on the Mississippi Sound and forming 
 the water shed between the streams emptying into Mobile Bay and those tributary to East Pascagoula River 
 in the State of Mississippi. The result of these geological conditions is, that Mobile is surrounded by a 
 country well watered by beautiful streams of rapidly flowing living waters, of excjuisite purity, and which is 
 admirably adapted to truck and fruit raising. The early vegetaljle and fruit industries of Moljile are very 
 large and constantly growing. The same causes have resulted in the City being endowed with two 
 systems of water works, one deriving its supplies from a powerful spring called Three Mile Creek, and 
 the other from a spring called Clear Creek, about ten miles west of the City and about two hundred feet 
 above the tide, both furnishing a water almost chemically pure. These supplies are now ample enough 
 for a population of several hundred thousand and can be easily increased. AH the elevators in buildings 
 and nearly all light machinery, including that of grist mills, areojierated by power derived from the water 
 works. The cUmate of Mobile is one of the most equable in the United Slates and not surpassed l)y that 
 of Florida. The streets of the City outside of the business districts, are largely shaded by live oak and 
 magnolia trees. Besides excursions upon the Bay and to the eastern shore, the visitor is ottered the en- 
 joyment of a drive on the Bay Shore Shell Road, which runs along the western shore of the Bay some six 
 miles, and which I^rofessor Sargant of Harvard University pronounced capable of being made one of the 
 loveliest parks in the United States. Westward the stranger can visit Spring Hill, situated upon the high 
 ridge before described. A steam dummy line connects this point with the City. In all directions around 
 the City the visitor can enjoy drives through a charming country of truck farms. The City is noted fur 
 the excellence of its Public School System, which was inaugurated in 1S52, and was then the peculiar and 
 exclusive possession of Mobile County. The City is the terminus of the Mobile & Ohio Rail Road, which 
 extends from St. Louis, Missouri, and of the Mobile and Birmingham Rail Road, which is the Gulf outlet 
 of the Richmond Terminal System. Besides these two rail roads the City is entered by the Mobile & 
 Montgomery I^ailway and the Mobile and New Orleans Railway, which are both operated by the Louis- 
 ville and Nashville as a part of its trunk line from Cincinnati to New Orleans. Three other rail roads in 
 the near future are, one to Jackson, Mississippi, another to Cedar Point on Mobile Bay and a third to 
 Dauphin. Island at the mouth of the Mobile Bay, A fourth road will traverse the eastern shore to Navy 
 Cove, near Fort Morgan. 
 
 The hundreds of streams and bayous of the vicinity abound in fish, wild fowl and deer, and other game 
 in abundance are found in the neighboring woods. No visitor has ever examined the advantages offered 
 by Mobile, who has not recognized the superiority of this City over any other in the South, not only in a 
 commercial aspect, but as a winter health resort for the people of the North and West seeking to escape 
 the rigors of a Northern winter. 
 
 THE PUBLISHERS. 
 April i, 1892. 
 
View from Court House— Looking South West. 
 
b'jUTiicRN Market and Ar:\;cM;v 
 
German Relief hall. 
 
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U. S. Custom House and Post office. 
 
South Royal Street. 
 
AND OFFlCtS Oy THE MOBILE AND OHIO HAILROAD. 
 
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Cotton Warehouse. 
 
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Spring Hill College. 
 
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Fort Morgan, Entrance to Mobile Bay. 
 
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