| Show RISE Ott W Hg OUlI What Onlo too lit at Time or of the Cyclone I IOn On One of oC Ih the determining factors ad 0 11 In the future of It probablY will also b be n a determining factor fator to III the de llo of most moel of lb the alII that thAI lie III westward of the flue lUt fUdge The factor is II th the relative population and nd Industrial and strength of at the rill along he Gulf Gult A As yet there II but on one eon oon rivalry ahon germ arm w WI tare but bitt othere are and III all of them are typical of l more or leaa Ipu In their tf et t feet 1 upon the country For reason too remote for analysis In this article rU Ie with Kan annaa City elty and nd Chicago vim It h baa ben been making Inroads Inroad upon the commerce that ape almost belonged belond to 10 N New Or Orleans leans Th The following tabulation show the sll situation ua D K CLEARINGS mt 1 SItU TOO New Orleans Isle 1941 ian Galveston 8 ITO ITON N New Orleans Orleana nas If Mobile t too o under the stimulus of the In Alabama ant the other southern h 1 been growing hilI N New Orleans hu ha lIMn beta going aroln the Increase of commerce between beleen 1510 10 and lacing from 1479 Ht to 07 r near nearly threefold GREAT GAI GAIN It Is not so much however the ques qUei lion ot of the Ibe rapidity with Ith which ton Ion or Mobile a advance lva nce as 11 compared with New Orleans that promise to 10 In Influence Influence fluence Ih the standing of the Western Irn cIt iss In It II I rather a question or of how much the f thue two the aid ald of new port and town lown of Port tim among all the Ihl 1111 cities ot of the Gulf and thereby tine UI u 8 among force In a tight light agaInst the North Atlantic And the a Great al Within live SIlI hal ani Iton has hal away from New York Roston Blon antI and tire supremacy In the handling of nf cotton otton and I rapidly takIng lakin from all 11 other point the first position In till of the Ihl south southWestern Western corn cOIn anil hent Mobile l is gaining In Iron and steel anal Ind woodwork business which hah formerly did not fall CU south of Baltimore and nd It II ha seine lome promise ahead of developments development I In ship shipbuilding building Man great Influence are arl at 1 work luding that of the powerful Ill 11 inoh Central railroad to compel the exports of 1 the hI valle valley to ii the end water level route roule to 10 the ocean via Ih the of the Water rather than Ihan to 10 clImb III the mountaIns that Intervene between the West It avid and Ih the At AI A more or I lesi sectional fEel In lag has grown up westward to Denver Dener favoring the lilt of western If all SortS to the Gulf If It should hould If so that Ihal MUlti corn dent elent and alth concentrate I in n I the he Gulf ell cities It a Ime likely that the A cUlt cities I find their aggregate of tre im It at least their sources of It n l that uch 1111 AI a Kansas Ity It St Louis Wm m this And will 1111 hI he OJ ni If r tally 81 aidel In their for anc aind greatness h l the Ille additional irni shorter NUll ti In the pea aea afford ly Iy flOWing the Ihl natural draIn r 1 I 1 a to It the mouth c tile the I I street In AlnIe |
