The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01
MORE ABOUT PENSACOLA.
The Natural Advantages and Resour-
ces-A Great Commercial Center.

Leslie'c Popular Monthly for March
contains the following descriptive ex.
tracts of Pensacola:
Pensacola, to-day, has nearly %, 00C
Inhabitants. and has the best prospects
of any city in Florida or on the Gulf
Its harbor is unsurpassed, and ite
shipping ranks It among the fist of all
American ports. It's climate is nearly
stable at 7Oo Fahrenheit. 1t is becom.
ing the drilling ground of the navy,
the Mecca of fashionable touring, and
the foremost port of the south. Re.
bellious Indians are kept there as curl
osities. Enormous schools Of fish come
into port, as il to save the fishermen
the trouble of looking after them.
Roses perpetually bloom in masses,
and the inhabitants die purely of old
age. If were asked to name the fu.
ture metropolis of the south, should
answer, Pensacola"
All Floridian and Gulf harbors are
sand harbors. On this account the
government despairs in the hope OF
deepening them. as the sand fills in as
fast as it is dredged out. Only one
war vessel can get up to Mobile-the
Yantic. The harbor at st. Augustine
has been abandoned by the Govern
ment, but it Is understood that the
proprietor of the Ponce de Leon Hotel
Is u skeptic, and will undertake to
dredge it at his own expense. New
Orleans, being 128 miles from the Gulf,
is not seaport, unless Albany, N. Y,
can be called one. The bay of Penea.
cola, then, forms the only harbor of
importance in the south, because it has
sufficient natural depth, and is indie
pendent of the dredge. The largest
chips, under full load at high tide, can
get in and out through the entrance
without difficulty.
The magnificent sheet of water FORM
ing Pensacola Bay; its fine, secure
roadstead and water communications
furnished by the Escambia and Black
water, the Yellow river and Santa
Rosa Sound, with its railroad COM
munications, (by the Louisville &
Nashville road), and possible canal to
Perdido and Mobile Bays; the Ala
bama river, and the rich iron and coal
regions of neighborlng States,-all
combine to render Pensacola the most
advantageous place for the greatest
naval station on the continent. It is
seldom that the climate is not healthy
and delightful. Yellow fever can be
kept away by the ample quarantine
facilities in existence here. ION Santa
Rosa Island is an immense and effect.
i've quarantine establishment). Un-
limited supplies of iron, coal and wood
exist in the vicinity. Fresh water is
more abundant than elsewhere, the
sands ahounding in large springs.
But little more can be said of this
city, the Popular having done so we'll,
giving nothing but facts and in no
way over-estimating anything. A
view of the city and bay from the top
of the Custom House, will instantly
visitor that there is beauty
in Pensacola and her surroundings; a
few days scjourn in and around the
city will convince the visitor that her
advantages over other seaport
towns, will stand the test and that
her prospects CT becoming one of the
greatest, if not the greatest, CONNER
cial center as we'll as the most impor-
tant shipping points. are second to no
othe: city in the world. These are
facts, and We predict that as soon as
some "get-up-and-get" people from the
north, more especially Kansas, become
aware of these facts and locate here,
then Pensacola will, in due time,
stand unrivaled as seaport. A eues-
ton is now being agitated in Alabama
and west Florida, regarding the an.
nexation of that part of Florida lying
west Of the Chattahooche and Apalach-
icola rivers to the State of Alabama,
and it is not improbable that such will
become fact, as Alabama, as a whole
Is in favor of the move as is that part
Of Florida spoken of above. There is
but one city in the south that may
in the future with Pensacola,
mot abiding to the shipping advan-
tages), and that is Birmingham, the
beautiful and progressive metropolis
of Alabama
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