The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-03
SCOMAKESM
TO ENTER FLORIDA
OLD NJ, J. & X. c. r. r, WHICH
RUNS INTO MOBILE, TAKEN
OVER BY YoAkUM.
WATERFRONT IN PENSACOLA
Positively Stated That Control OF the
Mclaughlin Road viii Be
Secured, If Not Now Held.

Jacksonville.-The first move in the
open toward entering Florida by the
Frisco System of railroads is the pur'
chase of the old Mobile, Jackson and
Kansas City road, which runs into
Mobile.
With this announcement comes the
positive statement that the Frisco
holds much valuable water front and
terminal property in Pensacola and
that the West Florida metropolis Will
be entered over the road from Mobile,
across Baldwin county, now being
constructed by Henry Mclaughlin.
Once in Pensacola, little remains TO
be done in carrying out the complete
program of Florida developments. 1t
is practically certain that the Frisco
owns or controls the Atlanta, Birm-
ingham and Atlantic, which connects
with the main line at Birmingham and
extends to Brunswick, Waycross and
Thomasville, and through these hold
ings, controls the Tampa Northern. 1t
has even been stated that through
roundabout methods the Frisco is to
furnish the money for the construc-
ton of the Atlantic Okechobee and
Gulf railroad, across the peninsuiar
to the Atlantic ocean.
The original outline of the plans of
the Frisco, as doped out by transpor-
tation men and based on the best of
circumstantial indications, contem-
plates an extneson from Waycross to
Jacksonville by use of the Waycross
Southern, a line already more than
halfway completed to Jacksonville,
and from Thomasville to Madison,
where it would pick up the Drew rail
road into Jacksonville and also con-
meet with the Tampa Northern at Dun
Mellon.
This program when carried out
would give the Frisco wide range
of operations in the South, and two
great trunk lines converging at Flor
ida ports convenient to the Panama
canal. One would come down through
the mineral district of Alabama,
where the Frisco already has immense
and valuable holdings, and the other
would come down the line of the Gulf
coast. Magnificent territory would be
traversed, and the future Southern de-
velopmnet touched to the quick.
In each instance, the reported pur-
chases and plans of the Frisco give it
about the best terminal properties that
are to be had. Nothing in Tampa
beats the terminals of the Tampa
Northern. What is to be counted on
as>open to the Frisco, in Jacksonville,
is not known. At Fernandina, the
Drew road has fine terminals. This
line also has splendid terminals here.
Many circumstances have come up
lately to confirm the story. Within
two months several of the highest of,
ficials of the Frisco system have been
in Florida studying conditions. The
superintendent of perishable freights
left here, after several days spent in
the state, in company with the assist
ant general freight agent and the
agent in Atlanta, who is in charge
of freight movements in this territory.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
has undertaken a vast program of de-
velopment at Pensacola. This was
probably not to provide for the fu-
ture' development Of the town, as traf-
fic men see it, but to be prepared to
meet the competition of the Frisco on
the basis of previous knowledge of
the certainty of it's coming.
President b. F. Yoakum confirmed
the purchase of the road which let's
the system into Mobile, but offered no
information on the intentions of his
road in reference to the line through
Baldwin county to Pensacola