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42 intention had been to complete pier No. 1 before construction of this ware- house was begun, but this plan was changed to meet the immediate needs of cotton merchants and others desir- ing to move the staple through the port of Mobile during the season of 1926-27. W. Horace Williams, Inc., of New Orleans, has the contract for the foundation, floors and walls of the cotton warehouse. Decatur Cornice & Roofing Co., Albany, Ala., has the con- tract for the structural steel and the roof. Poe Piping & Heating Co., Greenville, S. C., has the contract for a sprinkler system. Webb Press Co., Minden, La., will supply the compress and boilers, and the Cox Electric Co., Mobile, Ala., will do the electric work. The moving of the Louisville & Nashville railroad track involved MARINE REVIEW throwing up a fill from Chickasaw creek to One-Mile creek, a distance of about three miles, and the construc- tion of a drawbridge on concrete piers across Three-Mile creek. The fill was made by the use of suction dredges and Three-Mile creek was_ straight- ened by the same means. In the proc- ess of dredging and filling large areas of the docks site have been covered ALABAMA'S RIVER SYSTEMS UZ COAL. TERRITORY EEE ORE TERRITORY SCALE OF MILES with sand and its marshy aspect is rapidly disappearing. The Suction Dredge Alabama One of the first moves of the state docks commission after the selection of the site for improvement was to build the ALABAMA, a modern 20-inch pipe line dredge, with steel hull and first- class equipment. The ALABAMA’ was built by Ellicot Machine Corp., Balti- more, and was towed to Mobile. The August, 1926 record shows that the work of this machine has been effective in the high- est degree. General Sibert employed dredges of the same type in his work on the Panama canal with similar success. New railroad connections and traffic arrangements affecting the port of Mobile have recently been effected. President T. C. Powell, of the Chi- cago & Eastern Illinois railroad, has notified General Sibert, as head of the Alabama state docks commission, that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois has established through working ar- rangements to Mobile with the Mobile & Ohio railroad through both East St. Louis and Tamms, IIl., in addition to similar connections already in force via the Louisville & Nashville railroad and the Southern railway. President J. M. Kurn, of the Frisco lines, has announced that the Frisco will make Mobile one of its Gulf Ports. The new line of the Frisco will cross the Alabama, Tennessee & Northern railroad at Aliceville, Ala., which, with the Southern railway from Calvert, offers an open route for this line. to Mobile. General Facts About Mobile It has also been officially announced that while application of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern railroad for ac- quisition of control of the Jackson and Eastern railway and of trackage rights over the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis from Jackson, Tenn. to Paducah, Ky., are pending before the interstate commerce commission, preparations are going forward for the connection of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, which will make Mobile an outlet of the Burlington route. It should be stated as a matter of just credit due, that the railroads and individual owners of. land. em- braced in the state docks site sold their holdings to the state, almost without exception, at prices fixed by the board of appraisers appointed by the governor, at prices which were based on the value at which the sev- eral parcels of land were assessed for purposes of taxation. Mobile’s present population, includ- ing immediate suburbs, is approxi- mately 100,000. The latest annual report of the city health department shows that the birth rate per 1000 of the white population for the calendar year 1925 was 19.88, while the death rate per 1000 among resident whites was 9.77. This is a good showing, but a slow method of doubling a modern city’s population. _ The Mobile chamber of commerce, co-operating with the Alabama state