The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-19

and Cattle" on one in the Ohio Penn
sylvania Coal and Iron,'' on one at
Chicago Manufactured Articles and
Supplies" on one in the Tennessee,
Red and Mississippi rivers "Missis-
sippi Valley Products" on one in the
Inland Waterway from the Rio Grande
along the coasts of Texas and Louis
lana to the Mississippi Sugar and
Rice" on one in the Warrior river
Birmingham Coal and Iron," on one
in the Apalachicola river "Chattahoo-
chez Valley Products" one in the
Florida ship canal Florida, Phos-
phate." l would then show all that
commerce headed down stream, and all
the rivers by means of the Missis-
sippi to Atlantic inland waterway,
with its burden of commerce, flowing
to Pensacola. l would indicate streams
of southern products, cotton, naval
stores and timber, Central and South
American fruits, hardwood and COM
merce leading to Pensacola.
l would show that Pensacola is in
the radius of electric energy generated
by water power, and Alabama coal de-
livered by means of the inland water
way to Pensacola at a total cost of
$3.50 per ton will make her a great
manufacturing center.
| would indicate the Gaping mouth
of the Panama canal reaching I'D to
receive the vast commerce of Pensa-
COLA carried on vessels constructed in
Pensacola's shipyard, in return for i'm
ports Of Pacific North and South
America, Alaska, Manchuria, Japan,
Corea, the 400 million people of China,
the islands of the Orient, the Philip
pines, India, Arabia, Australia and
Africa. Also the two eastern mouths
of the Gulf of Mexico, indicating the
path of commerce to Europe, the Med
eterranian, Africa and South America.
l would then show that the collec-
ton of this vast commerce would make
Pensacola wholesale and distributing
city.
And that her location on the
isthermal line of the Bermuda Islands,
the health resort of the world, the
cooling breezes of thousand miles CT
salt gulf and the healthful tonic OF
pine ozone, with bountiful sea food,
| ideal bathing, boating, fishing and Gil
matte conditions, would make her the
health and pleasure resort of the gulf
Then 1 would indicate that with the
completion of the Panama canal, the
| natural increase of population, which it
is estimated will be $50 to 300 millions
in 1850, and the collection of this COM
merce, by the law of gravity, by the
law of economy of freight the shortest
rail haul to salt water, over many con-
verging lines Of railroad besides the
waterways-one continuous city with
its suburbs, several ports, electric and
steam railways connecting, covering
this entire section of the most highly
favored section of our land, extending
from and including Apalachicola. st.
Joseph, st. Andrews, Panama City,
Pensacola and the territory of Perdido
and East Mobile Bays.
Then if | were a merchant | would
use that picture on my stationery.
And if / belonged to the Pensacola
commercial bodies / would endeavor
to have that picture spread broadcast
over the world.
AS a means of developing your city
| it is important that the world knows
what you have, but it is vastly more
important that it should know what
you expect to be.
That part of the inland waterway
from Apaiachicola to New Orleans,
the survey for which has been made
by the engineers, is no dream of
a visionary, but a solid sound business
proposition, founded on every law of
reason. Its realization is 10 distant
thing of the dim future, but of tangible
immediate result. / have in my hand
| copy of the rivers and harbors bill
which has just passed the house. 1t
not only contains appropriations for
part of our waterway, but also hun
dreds of thousands of dollars for the
inland waterway in Texas and Louis
lana ard on the Atlantic coast.
With sufficient rightly directed er-
fort on the part of Pensacola it can
be completed before the Panama
canal. Pensacola is the large city 10
Gated in the center of the area of con-
| struction, it is her initiative and large
| ly her task. VIII she seize oppor.
| tunity as she has in the past, and
march on to supremacy and unparaI-
| leled eminence.