The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-28
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2s, 1911.
A Big Canning
Company in Florida.

There is a mammoth canning COM
pany being formed in Jacksonville with
a capital stock of three hundred thou
sand dollars, headed by Fred Gray and
other Jacksonville capitalists. This
company proposes to have some TWEEN
ty branch factories scattered over the
entire state.
The company will sell five thousand
dollars worth of stock in each COM
munity where factory is located, il
being the intention of the management
to make it a big cooperative concern
to benefit the entire state by promot
ing the truck farming industry and
being able to can the fruits and vege-
tables the market does not want.
Without endorsing this specific con-
Germ it must be remembered that Flor
ida is actually losing millions of dol
lars by falling to establish canning
factories in every section, and unless
Pensacola or Escambia county would
like to have branch of this Jackson
Vile concern. this is one proposition
that should bring the farmer and the
business man, the real estate agent
and the professional man together.
They should not allow other sections
to get ahead of us on an enterprise OF
this kind.
Just at this time The Journal does
not have the figures as to the cost and
operation of a canning factory, but ii
does know that there is no finer coun-
try in the world for growing every
kind of truck produce and such fruits
as peaches, pears, plums and straw
berries than Is the vicinity of Pensa-
cola. 1t knows also that there is
nothing that will help Pensacola more
than to have it surrounded with truck
farms bringing to the farmers large
profits every month in the year. Where
there is a rich farming country fully
developed, there will a growing and
prosperous city be found.
Truck farming never pays the most
unless there is in the community a
canning factory to utilize the produce
that cannot be sold in the local mar
et 4ffd the markets of the north, and
If Pensacola people would expend a
few dollars where they will bring in
the greatest returns a stock company
should be organized. with as many
stockholders as possible, to equip and
operate a canning factory in the Deep
Water City of the Gulf
With every business man contribut-
ing, this needed industry could be OBJ
tanned without any one person having
to bear the whole burden, and since
the benefits to be derived would be
general everyone ought to feel like IL
is part of his duty to help begin ar
industry of this kind.
The Journal believes that a general
canning business should be done. but
IL no other article except sweet pota-
toes should be used we are certain
that with slight effort a variety o.
eandied sweet potatoes would become
famous in the northern markets ant
the entire country around Pensacola
could be planted in this one articl,
which yields so prolifcly.
- Everything that benefits Pensacoi;
must be secured by united effort. TIL
San Carlos would have yet beel
unbuilt if there had not been con
certed effort to secure it-and that i
has been the best thing Pensacolian
ever did, everyone admits. Now,
canning factory. one large enough
insure the farmers that their produc
will find a ready market, will brin
thousands Of dollars to this city tina
now go elsewhere.
It may be secured without anyon
having to invest but a few dolalrs !
you and your neighbor will take
hand-will you do it?
"