The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-05
MUST ABANDON
PRESENT METHODS

1T is thus obvious that under the
provisions of the TaliafercO measure
the present mode OF handling spirits
of turpentine must be abandoned,
which would entail an enormous loss
ny leakage and evaporation, or the
expense of an additional inspection in
Cured, since under the excessively
stringent provision of the measure no
inspector would be willing 10 certify
TO the grade or quality of a tank car
lead OF spirits for interiar shipment
or a barrel for export drawn from
reservoir containing the mixed pro-
duct of iRnumerable producers with
cut a reinspection. The expense OF
this additional inspection could not
Only be an unjust tax upon she indus
try but would also prove a burden
" hich the traffic in it's present strain
ed condition could i'll afford to stand.
In fact, in the case of Pensacola, and
] daresay to a great extent in the
cases of Fernandina and Jacksonville,
as ] have pointed out above, the bulk
of interstate shipments of producers
10 naval stores ports or points of con-
centration, sensitive as all commerce
IS to the conditions which entail adj
ditional cost of handling, would be di-
verted to ports of points of cOncen-
tration intrastate
This perhaps would not be imme-
date but it would be certainly ulti-
mate, or as soon as readjustment of
railroad tariffs to meet new conditions
could be affected Thus a great pOr-
tion of the South Alabama product,
which under present conditions seeks
a market in Pensacola, would uIti-
mately be diverted to Mobile; that
portion of the South Georgia prOdutc
which goes to Jacksonville would be
diverted to Savannah and Brunswick,
and that portion of MiSsiSsippi's pro-
duct now seeking market at Mobile
and New Orleans, would eventually be
diverted to Gulfport. and so on
Con its face such a condition, it
would seem. would prove adVantag-
eous. certainly it would meet the gen
eTal conception of one of the Talia-
Zorro measures advantages. But IN
der the peculiar hut fixed system of
marketing naval stores nothing of ad-
vantage to the trade as a whole would
accrue TO such a condition except the
sentimental satisfaction of the prod
uct of the state being handled within
lis borders. and this sentimental sat
is<actiOn would very soon breed the
bitteTest discomfort in the breast of
the practical producers who would be
forced to ship their product to what
are termed IN trade parlance as
closed ports, such as are Pensacola,
FeTnandina, Tampa, Mobile and Gulf
pert, at which in the absence of pre-
Viously made contracts their product
would be placed at the mercy of buy
ers who, humanity, would want to make
al arbitrary diErrential between the
closed port price and the open or basic
port price 1t VIII readily be obserV-
Cd that such a condition would prove
TuinOus to the producers placed in
such a position. but such ( condition
under the operation of the Taliaferro
bill would be inevitable.
Trade is Now Sick.
AS the business is now conducted
the factorage and commission houses
located at the closed ports enter into
a contract for one ~ear or term OF
years with the producer for his output
az a price based upon the agreed diff
ferential below or above the date of
delivery price of the open or basing
market, which is Savannah In turn.
upon the same system of Sn agreed
differential, the factorage or commits
sion house contracts the sale of the
product accumulated by it To jobbers