The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-19
RI wilI F. sheehan.

means more to Pensacola than even the building of the canal. The raiiroaa as to come in at once; the r ccmpie''o" V
 So said W. c Jones. the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.. an actiye body which bn;d IS do1g mucn iroW We were discussing conditions which surrounE the Deep water City, The Secretary Is sar ounHF He wss was eats wasa tention to the city's aO-foot harbor, nor ness to Colon, the city which will be at the eastern end of the Canal when the big ditch is completed. If the outside claims of Pensacoia upon the future. 1t will not be for lack of eloquence rom patriotic Pensacolians. This famous give the city its chief distinction. In it's lack of railroad competition certain of It's citizen have seen Pensa- which forbade the realization of the hope of attaining It's destined state 'ot
 For Railrcad Competition.
 'TIeretofore," continued Secretary Jones, athe louisville and Nashville ! Railroad has had a monopoly of the have had no other railroad. Not that proteet ws eave to shK Ie aeainss the Louisville Pensacola property. 1t has here one, of the finest elevators and one of the fn- SsanoSas Snarpss of the in Lonisvlis as Nash vile run out from Pensacola In adui- tion to it's main line to Pensacola, one touching Fiorala and connecting with another line from Geneva.
 "But one road Is not enough TOT No matter how good the road Is. no matter what sort of service 1t gives to the city or what sort of rates It's makes to grow big and great on one railroad
 You have expressed some surprise that a city of Pensacolas size ana importance should have so few facto- ries. Other visitors have done the same thing. We have made 10 effort to get factories in Pensacola; ,H How sort of a chance would we Lave in competition with cities which have two or more roads and which ,,, .,rsv assure nsne sne competing freight rates. The man wno Gaoqs IS M the Of Sat Gs se dass tsat the road can make or break him.
 As to the New Road.
 can sasiiy see the tbs soSaSe a0r oa our the new road. You can understand the building of the railroad means as the canal"
 This new road, the announcement of whose coming has been as idings or great joy to Pensacola, is not at pres ent known openly as the Central. By others 1t Is believed to be an indepen- dent road It is nov nov a.,ard cSiisd the Pen sps officers who are at the head of the con cern are F. c. Brent. President; c. M
 covington. yicesPresident; and O. W
 Whatever the road is called. how ever. and whoever the officers are, the : enterprise Is considered in Pensacola as From Andaipsia, where the Central ends. to the water front at Pensaccia
 about SsI liS O5os % Tns 5oas w nd cross the state line between Florala and Geneva. Notwithstanding what people secton 6eeys 1H rch and | which needs only development 10 make 1t one of the wealthiest farming sec
 o sSps Of of eoSnty sna s saT practically identical, with that which has made the counties. of Southeast Alabama an agricultural paradise. And near the State line the Florida soil Is
 noNless productive
 The old idea that along the State line lands lands were % merely pine barrens. good for growing pine trees for lumber and
 practically good for nothing else, has been exploded. Some twenty years ago lands of Southeast Alabama. The idea was general then. Nobody holds 1t
 now.
 The Lumber Section.
 The road will tap one of the richest lumber sections of all the South. The woods gang and the crosscut saw have year after year eaten their way through the pine forests of Alabama Year after year the lumber industry like a slow moving glacier has cut down and swept the pine trees before it until now it's headquarters are at or ha richer lumber fields, the more extensive pine forests are perhaps south of the State line. The new s road will push sn big lumber mills on It's way to Pensa- cola through whose port more lumber passes than through any other port in the world.
 The right of way for the new road has been gotten. every foot of it. The city of Pensacola received the railroad ou6e tSreW open Tight of Hs way tS the railroads, a right of way which permits the road to enter the city on Olivia Street coming south to Gordon. running west on Gordon to Reuse and down Reuse to the water front. To emphahize it's generosity to the new en- terprise that was going to bring rail l Council gave the road a fine lot for a passenger depot, lot l10x190 feet on , the corner of Spring and Gordon. There was no doubt about it Pensacola need l. ed and wanted a railroad badly. still Another Road.
 Another new road Is projected from Pensacola to Memphis. The project has assumed definite shape and Mayor T. E. welles of Pensacola has great
 T know m w some of the men who are r behind this movement said the Mayor. land they are the men who , build railroads or establish any other enterprise or industry in which they ' may become interested. The moving . spirit in this Pensacola and Memphis , project is, I understand, Dumont. tht 8 well known New Yopk capitalist, pro- moter and builder of railroads.
 '"The City Council will meet during the week to take some action in refer . ence to this new road. l have nc doubt but that the road will get fran. chise and whatever reasonable and just
 thing 1t may ask for:
 agricultural section of Alabama" con
 tinued, Mayor Welles, taking down 2 big map. Here, some miles to the
 west of Monroeville 1t will cross the
 Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. Il
 will then cut across the State line anc
 touching Meridian. will pass on tc
 No man familiar with the situation may doubt that the eyes Of the rail l road men are turned to the Gulf oi Mexico If he doubts 1t he need but look at the great activity in railroad building in and around Mobile in tht
 past few years. Another emphatic l the Gulf is the remarkable develop
 ment of the Mississippi town of Gulf
 mort. with It's fine railroad support. Pushing for the Gulf.
 It was only the other day that an . nouncement was made that the Ba! | hal