The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23
LOBBING TRADE
TEN MILLIONS
immense Business Done by Pen
sacOLa Wholesale Dealers Dur
ing YearJust Past.

psnsacola's jobbing trade Is forging
,ead with leaps and bounds, nearly
I,re,v line being represented in this
b. by large and enterprising con.
,,rs who are alive to the needs of
Ihe surrounding country, carry i'm
morse stocks of goods, and are ready
: nromptly take care of any amount
n business that may be offered. All
| n tbe firms doing wholesale bust.
Ises, in this city are represented upon
M road by two or more thoroughly
I'rtodate travelling men, and the
Edces at which goods can be purchas
y here are equal to those that can
X secured in any section of the coun.
|rv for goods Of like quality.
That Pensacola's jobbing business
tr the last year reached the enor.
nous total of $9,720,000 speaks well
b- the enterprise of her merchants
AMI is ample demonstration of the fact
had the Pensacola markets offer in
.lucements TO purchasers Of every class
. b goods. Competition among travel
pg men for business is so great that
tr.ces have to be scaled down to bed
+ock If any business Is to be secured
md Pensacola jobbers have more than
demonstrated their ability to keep uI
'Eith the procession and supply the
'kants of their customers at figures
which insures them a large proper
ton of the business of the territory
which they operate.
Lines Carried.
Among the lines which are carried
by Pensacola jobbers may be mention
dry goods. shoes, hats, notions
hardware, groceries of every descrip
ion. feed stuffs, meats and packing
house products. crockery and glass
ware. wines, liquors and beer, drugs
Druggists supplies and surgical appli'
3nces, soft drinks, sporting goods, snip
thandiery and machinery of all kinds
10 say nothing OF articles OF every
description which are too numerous to
knumerate in this article.
| The trade Of the PENSACOLA is grad
Nlly getting larger and statesmen from
bis city now work in territory that, 4
Few years ago, was considered tribu'
parry exclusively to other cities. Pensa
pla travelling men, in addition &c
rering all of West Florida, include
lthwestern Georgia and southern A.!
lima In their itineraries, and to their
Edit be 1t said, they do a large bus
less in adjoining states in direc,
tmpetition with men representing
buses in several Of the larger cities
Great Development.
The great development that ha.
zen going on all over the Gulf coast
tuntry during the past few years has
srlted in greatly increasing The
rade Of Pensacola and one Of the
lain factors in this increase has beer
be increased transportation facilities
fnered by both rail and water. New
falroads are being constructed
throughout this section Of the South
md new towns are springing up alon,
hem, all OF which are tributary to thi.
n.y. and Pensacola merchants are mo-
low to take advantage Of any add
Onal facilities for disposing Of theil
ares that may be offered. When The
lew lines that are now building Of
ontemplated are completed 1t will
lark another epoch in the growth O
ensacQla's wholesale trade, for an I'M
ense amount of new territory will
opened up that will, as a matter
course, draw supplies from the