The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-05-05
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Pensacola prosperous and Pushing

~"A wy, VApiVeu EoubhcOlH ana
received the impression OF q small vii.
lage with o big bay in front of IL.
Last week he again visited Pensacola,
and the impression made upon him was
OF a large, thriving, enterprising, bust.
ling, business city with most magnifi.
cent harbor and shipping facilities and
the certain prospect Of commercial great
ness, as the development of the resources
OF this State and the neighboring States
will demand for them an outlet.
There are many things that impress
the visitor to Pensacola-the air OF
thrift, the spirit Of enterprise, the mag.
nihcent buildings, the delightful eli
mate, but
1t Is THE HARBOR that makes the
DOMINANT AND MOST LASTING
IMPRESSION upon the mind of the
visitor.
Pensacola Bay, spread before the city,
three and half miles wide and thirty.
eight miles long, with from thirty.five
TO forty-fve feet of water, capable of
accommodating the navies and fleets OF
the world In safe anchorage, is THE
FEATURE Of Pensacola, and is the
thing that will make IL great city.
With thirty.fve feet OF water at high
tide on the bar, and with docks only ten
miles from the Gulf, at which ships can
be loaded to a depth Of twenty. eight feet
PENSACOLA Is able TO assert its supremacy
as q port.
The geographical position OF Pensacola
gives 1t command OF the trade that will
pass through the Panama Canal TO the
markets OF South America and those of
the west coast Of Central and North
America. The docks in Pensacola are
exactly the same distance from the bar
ut New Orleans as the docks In New Or
leans are from the New Orleans bar. Il
Is exactly the same distance from The
bar ut Mobile as that city is from its
bar. ~
1t 10 twenty.seven miles nearer the
mouth OF the Panama Canal than Mo.
bile Is, and thirty.six miles nearer tban
New Orleans. The depth Of water on
the Mobile bar Is twenty,one feet, and
the channel from the bar to the docks
Is narrow, Is forty. three miles long. and
OF the same depth. The depth Of water
on the New Orleans bar is twenty.e,pht
feet, and the distance from the bar TO
the docks is Ito miles Of winding chan.
mel.
The Illinois Central Railroad brings
TO New Orleans the products of the vast
territory known as the Middle West, for
shipment to the markets of the world.
The Mississippi 10 also great feeder
Tor New Orleans. Pensacola Is but 800
miles from New Orleans, 600 miles from
st. Louis, S98 miles from Memphis, 1875
miles from Kansas City, and only 200
miles from Birmingham.
Pensacola has not the railroad facili.
ties that its magnificent shipping facili.
ties entitle 1t to. A trunk line to st.
Louis or Chicago or Memphis, which
would connect Pensacola with the great
railway systems Of the country, would
enable PENSACOLA to assert its supremacy
as a port and draw its share of the com.
modities that now reach the world
through the ports of New Orleans, Mo.
bile and Galveston.
No better terminal facilities exist in
TINS country than those at Pensacola.
Inc mammoth export wharyes of the
LOUISVILLE q Nashville Railroad can nc.
commodate eighteen large ships Mt one
time, which can be loaded to q depth of
twenty'eight feet, with additional
eerths Tor sailing vessels drawing twenty
ieet or less. These twin docks are .2O0
ieet long and substantially built. ON
one OF them, in addition to track ON
each side, Is an overhead grain carrier
connecting the elevator at the end Of the
docks with the elevator at the rear by ,