SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



nessee rivers, barge shipments can be made to Bir- 

 mingham and Columbus, Mississippi, to Chattanooga 

 and Knoxville.* 



For handling cheap, imperishable raw materials- 

 coal, bauxite, sulfur, clays, lumber this far-flung system 

 is being used by many localities to an extent that few 

 outsiders realize. Tank-barges carry oils, even acids, in 

 vast quantities. Since it first opened, a dozen years ago, 

 the famous sea-water bromine plant at Wilmington, 

 North Carolina, has shipped the extremely volatile 

 ethylene bromide by barge to Wilmington, Delaware, 

 where it is an essential ingredient in the preparation 

 of the motor fuel additive, ethyl fluid. Sulfur from the 

 lower Mississippi and the Texas coast goes regularly 

 by inland waterways to New York and Philadelphia, to 

 St. Louis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. 



These water highways serve a great sector of the 

 most potential industrial areas of the South. Their use- 

 fulness will be greatly increased by advances in barge 

 design won on the landing beaches of Africa, the South 

 Pacific, and Europe. Bigger, better, lighter cargo car- 

 riers, operating under their own power and designed 

 for undreamed-of speed, capacity, and convenient load- 

 ing and unloading, are at hand at salvage prices. 



Not only Memphis, but scores of other Southern com- 

 munities are reckoning with this improved industrial 



* See map inside the covers of this book. 



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