June 10, 2007 - Hobbs' hillside yard are 750 containers bearing foreign icons from shipping companies in China, Taiwan and Japan -- China Shipping, China Ocean Shipping, Evergreen, Hanjin and Nippon Yusen Kaisha. During World War II, 200 trains came through here each day, carrying troops, supplies and material critical to the war effort. The iron oxide is used by the Chinese to make magnetic components that are then shipped worldwide, even perhaps back to the United States.