Excerpt from Majestic Mobile
To bring the matter directly home, however, Mobile is triumphant in the new industry of truck farming. It has been shown that, by the aid of commercial and other fertilizers, the worthless pine lands of this State, and especially those supremely worthless lands around Mobile are made to produce luxurient crops of vegetables. Owing to geographical posi tion, Mobile can always secure a handsome price for this truck in the Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago markets. In fact the people of Mo bile, one and all, look to this new interest for their financial salvation and begin already to compare it favorably with the old time cotton busi ness. It may be asked at this point: what would this truck business be without the aid of railroads? How could these valuable resources be utilized without the assistance of improved machinery?
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