The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-07-03
Factories and Farmers
Pensacola Needs Them.

| Inc hTSt eleven months of the ifs
cal year ending June 30, 1909, brought
to Pensacola a foreign import and ex-
port business Of $16,04S,5 ISL. This by
comparison is a splendid showing; for
this business was very nearly as
large as that of all other Florida ports
combined, viz: Fernandina, St. Aug
Justine, Jacksonville, ApaIachicola,
Key West, st. Marks and Tampa.
The united foreign export and i'm
| port business in these seven ports
was only S16,9S3,776 during the same
period of time; or only $685., 225 more
than for the port Of Pensacola alone
| The Journal is indebted to the Jack
sonville Times Union for the figures
| from which this information is de-
rived.
OF course this large foreign trade
should be pleasing to the hearts of
our citizens who love to realize and
dwell upon the present activities and
immense future possibilities of the
Deep Water City. With but one rail-
road entering here these port figures
are indeed remarkable and indicate
clearly that when Pensacola becomes
the terminal point of other lines run
ming into territory not covered by the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, its
| foreign commerce will reach a point
which battles present calculation.
But there is another lesson con-
veyed by these figures. A very sig
nificant lesson II is that both Jack
| sOnvilIe. with a foreign port business
of only S1,69S,638, during the eleven
months covered, and Tampa with a
| business less than one-haIf that Of
sacola-$7, GIT, 430-are each far
larger in population than this city
and can boast much greater prop
erty valuation. In Jacksonville We
find q variety of trade far reaching
and of great pecuniary value, and in
Tampa an aggregation of cigar FAC
tories whose annual output is larger
than that of Havana and Key West
combined.
The lesson, then, to be learned is
that whereas PensacoIans are Justly
proud Of the great superiority over
all competitors of their harbor, it's
accessibility, depth and the protee-
ton it offers TO visiting vessels, they
should bestfr themselves to secure
business establishments within the
city, whose activities will give en-
| plOyment to residents who, on their
part, will circulate their salaries or
70 hn
trade. They should bestir them
selves to back up every effort, such
as the proposed tri-county fair, made
to attract to the many uncuItivated
acres OF Escambia county and its
neighboring. counties thrifty settlers
-agriculturists, who have always
been and necessarily must continue to
be among the very first and most de-
pendable sources of wealth, prosper
ity and municipal strength.
Give a city factories withing its
walls and farmers in its outlying ter
ritory and it is bound TO grow and
prosper. Money is certain to come
to it, for it is a base of supplies.
reaching, perhaps, points thousands
of miles away. Combine with these
industries a great shipping business
to foreign countries and you have a
tower Of strength future metropo-
lis. New York, with its immense
area and four and a half millions or
population is an example Of what
such q combination will produce.
This great city gathers a harvest
from both sea and land while at the
same time producing within itself
commodities which reach the utter
most parts Of the earth and which
employ in their production hundreds
of thousands Of artisans, mechanics,
clerks and la5orers whose money is
used to ever increase the city's al
ready gigantic trade.
So, while proud of PensacoIas for
eign commerce; while eager to in
duce new lines of railway to seek an
outlet here; while fully appreciating
the value Of the naval stores, lum-