The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-22
BY WILL IT. sHEEHAN.

| COdi HdS been 10 NeWcdSLle anu cotton has been to Montgomery. 1t has been the dominant business in terest, the greatest source of suste- nance. the city has known.
 It is still a vital commercial interest of the Deep Water City, but 1t is no longer king, no longer the whole thing Other interests have so grown in fm- | portance that they are almost prepared have assumed at any rate value that is steadily increasing and which will lumber when the unremitting campaign l against the great yellow pine forests will have come to an end for sheer lack of material.
 distinction of being one of the great fish markets of the world. In fact 1t Is said that no other port in the entire universe ships or catches so many red snappers as does Pensacola. Ten years | ago cotton shipments through the port ot Pensacola were practically unknown or of too little importance to win notice. Pensacola Is now exporting in | the neighborhood of a hundred and fifty thousand bales each year and the | number Is constantly growing. The been contributed to in no small way by Montgomerians. Two of the leading cotton men of the city. John O'connor nnd Gqntef ef ose well ss are aae | Montgomerians who have moved to Pensacola to go into the cotton busi- ness.
 And ten years ago there was practi- cally no sort of naval stores business done there. The city now exports in the neighborhood of three million dol twelve months and the interest is steadily increasing in value. It claims not only the distinction of being the largest pitch pine timber and and. lumber Der present time 1t Is the third largest paval stores market It expects to be in due time the second and then the largest of all naval stores market as 1t Is now the first market of yellow | pine timber.
 A big lumber trade Is a valuable as- to me in an interview with ", A. Allen: of the office force of the Collector of the Port of Pensacola. .s If New Orleans, for instance. said l MT. Allen. should do the same amount | of export business in lumber that 1t l does in cotton 1t would be one of the greatest ports in the country. Its big | gest business. however. is done in cot ton A vessel comes into New Orleans | and takes on a cargo of cotton worth say $1O0,000. The cargo can be, put aboard the vessel In three or four days; city and the city draws no great benefit from the vessels short stay on the Mis- sissippi River"
 Cotton vs. Lumber.
 'Now contrast that with what hap pens when a vessel comes into Pensa- cola and lays in a cargo of lumber. This cargo may, perhaps. be not worth $2O,000. Still the vessel and the crew may remain in the harbor more than two weeks. Moreover, the big lumber a large force of employees and the men who work on the lighters that load the foreign bound vessels number up to or three times as much direct benefit from the export of $20.00O worth of lumber as t would get from the ex- this you can see that while the receipts in the aggregate of the New Orleans port are very large the sort of business that Pensacola. does Is more advanta- geous to the city"
 MT. Allen drew attention. too to the great advantage that accrued to Pen and spring rendezvous of the meno0f- war of the United States Navy. The commands of the American Navy which rendezvous in the deep water harbor are the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Coast Defence, Carribean, European and Training Ship Squadrons. At Dor born no less than forty lighting vessels with complement of men near to 1O'-
 The vastness of the lumber territory from which Pensacola draws business is little short of astonishing. It em- braces nearly all the States of Alabama: Florida and Mississippi; So ni great sn hal, and ness that the two big mills at Brew ton, below Montgomery have been brought into such close relatlonShip Lumber Company and Lovelace Broth : CTS for all practical purposes might be considered as located in the suburbs
 The two largest mills in the South, the Sullivan -Alger Lumber Company 5 plant at Century, Fla. and the plant Of Lockhard are exclusively feeders to the port business of Pensacola. A great part of the immense lumber out put of the Alabama town of Florala passes through the harbor Of Pensa- cola.
 The Escambia River and one or two are valuable assets to the city's lum- Der business Probably 90 per cent Of the immense output of hewn timber that goes into the harbor at Pensacola enters through these waterways. being rafted down and stored in the big ium Der yards along the bay until 1t IS is needed for the foreign vessels as they drop anchor in the harbor.
 While the hewn timber Is rafted down. the large bulk of the sawn lum- Der comes to the port. by rail. probably S5 per cent of it reaching the city this way. This lumber Is brought in by three branches of the Louisvllle and Nashville, the Flomaton and Pensacola branch, the Pensacola and PerdidS branch and the Yellow River branch that reaches Hut and touches the rlch lumber fields in and around Florala.
 A list of the mills whose output Is sent through the harbor of Pensacola to the outer world will in a way snow the great scope of the lumber industry of that city. The more important reed CTS to the citys lumber trade are the Escambia Lumber and Manufacturing Company, w. B. Wright and Company, and the Brent Lumber Company in the city, the Southern States Lumber ana Timber Company, with mills at Mill view and Muscogee, the sullivan AIger g Lumber Company, with mills at Cen" tury and Foshee the Dixie Lumber Company and the Lovelace Brothers, mills at Brewton. the McMillan Mill Company at Pine Barren, the Jackson Lumber Company at bockhart' tne the Florala Saw Mill Company at Pax ton the Britton Lumber Company at Florala, R. R. Cowan's Mill at SVea the Falco Mill Company at Falco Junction. Aycock Brothers Mill at Maybourne. the | Sanford Lumber Company at CaryVllle. the Scotch Manufacturlng company rpeISo ,Sy a, Milligan, the Stearns-Culver Compah ny at Bagdad, two large mills; the Black- water Lumber Company at Bagdad, C. J. Helms and Company at Bay PoInt the Bay Point Mill Company at Bay Point, Wood Robinson Lumber com and Company at Freeport, Graves stat, ton and Company. Omar; Flournoy NH Company at Jolly Bay; J. l. Kelly @ ana Company at Portland; Odd Lumber con pany at Point Washington; Beach Rogers and Company. De FuniaR Beatrice Lumber Company at Beatrice Jernigan Lumber Company at Ham mond; NJ. I. Jackson's mill at Perter- man and the Davis-Thompson Lumpei Company at Cypress r.o,n
 In addition to this impressive lls' there are perhaps twenty-five smaliei mills than these named which send their product to Pensacola for export