The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-22
WHATLIMBER TRADE HAS DONE
 FOR PENSACOLA'S PROGRESS
It Practically Made Assured Future of Florida Seaport, But is No Longer King of lndus-
 tries There The Fish Market.

, lumber trade was interestingly discuss. ed by a member of one of the largest of these firms.
 There is not a day in the year. he said, but what one or more ana | loading with lumber or timber The timber tn the main comes to the har- | bor on the streams that entersit, while Whether it is timber or sawn lumber, however, the product Is loaded on | barges and towed to the stream In the | harbor where the vessels have cast anchor Here the lumber Is put aboard | by longshoremen.- It is no uncommon | sight to see a dozen vessels loading with lumber at one time."
 | "Where does Pensacola send Its lum- her? Why, to the. whole world. It | sends lumber practically to every coun- try and every continent Both steam and sailing vessels that go out Of Pen sacola harbor are loaded with lumber and timber for the markets of the world" "The lumber trade of Pensacola with South American countries IS especlallyy southward in sailing vessels, while the | lumber that is sold to other parts Of | the world is in the main carried on | export harbor on the Gulf of Mexico, both to foreign and to home ports. Pensacola boasts of being the largest red snapper market in the world. IL | | than 1t is of being one of the largest fish markets in all America The Gulf waters are especially prolific oi muliet firm firm of E. E. Saunders & so.. of which Mayor T. E. Welles is a member oper- | ates no less than twenty-four hsning from four to ten men. The entire Gulf | is their fishing ground and trips to Central America by these vessels oai, are not nfreGuen5 nart,culaniv adepted ST to % the growth of both red snappers and null l let.
 At all times hshing vessels are com, '.on,, | ing and going into the harbor. rney are brought up against the big wharEes of the larger fish firms and their cargo. freshly taken from the Gulf. is unload | ed and put aboard cars that are run to the very edge of the wharves.
 Do you know" said Mayor Welles, that our firm sustained a loss of oev. eral thousand dollars by the coming Of the North Atlantic .squadron to the | waters about Pensacola Bay in the ear ly part of the month? The loss came vessels The noise of the big guns frightened the fish away for miles and miles around the mouth of the harbor: Under ordinary conditions. May should have been our best month. But the big guns almost depopulated the waters and we had to bear heavy financial loss. However, the firm is making no complaint. The presence of the war vessels means a great deal in findn- cial way for Pensacola and we are not making any complaint about thing that does the city good"
 Real Estate Activity.
 To touch upon another phase of Pen sacola's business life that is attracting attention just now Is 10 have wood or two to say upon the real estate mar
 Real estate Is high too high some of the citizens of the town say. The price of property in the city has made re- markable jumps in the past two or three years. The owners of property are counting a great deal on benefits that are expected for the city within
 Notwithstanding the high figures al , which city property is held, the real hopeful sign of the active real estate market is that 1t is by no means con fined to Pensacolians. Numerous out sisted In putting vigor and vitality in | the market.
 Nor have the Pensacolians ignored the value of immigration: A move Eye in h and increasing the value of farming lands about the city has been inaugu- rated by the Pensacola Investment Com, pany. Pensacola Is not an agricultural Icenter. The farming interest about tn: city have not heretofore been consfd- erable The city has even imported its cream and butter fir om the many dairies in and around Montgomery.
 Convinced that the only thing tha' the country needs about Pensacola is development, the Pensacola InVestmen, Company has bought 15.OOO acres ol land seven miles from the city to the northwest. The company. is settling this big tract with German immigrants For this purpose of securing immi- grants the company has an agent ii New York.
 During last winter the company lo- cated the heads of twenty families OF their purchase. The Germans have all ready proved themselves thrifty and in. dustrious. Men who came in February are daily selling on the streets of Pen sacola the products of their truck farm which they cleared and cultivated since February. Moreover. an industrious German has founded dairy and is ex' pecting a considerable business.
 Since the first twenty families were tiers have come in and gone to work The company sells these lands for s1C an acre a moderate price for truck : farming lands In the near future the company expects a material advance in the price of their lands, condition which Is due as a result of the success | of the German settlement