Show Exports from Gulf Ports The growing importance of the gulf ports for the shipment of western produce is gathered from a statement recently Issued by the department of commerce For the 10 months ending with April Galveston New Orleans and Mobile exported worth of f breadstuffs against worth for all the Chesapeake ports including Baltimore and worth for New York New Yorks York's lead Is readily accounted for by the advantage it has in the cheap water route through the lakes and the Erie canal which also give her not a little wheat from the Canadian fields With Witha a deep wate waterway way from Chicago to the mouth of the Mississippi New Orleans which contributes to the above total of for the three gulf ports would in all likelihood excel excel excel ex ex- cel New York in the shipments of ot breadstuffs and other western produce |