The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-11
INTERESTING
INFORMATION
ON PENSACOLA
LETTER SENT TO PUBLICATIONS
REQUESTING FACTS ABOUT
WATERFRONT FACILITIES CON-
TAINs MANY FACTS OF IN
TEREST.

Following inquiries from these pub
LEGATIONS. Secretary Henderson of the
Pensacola Commercial Association, has
sent the following letter to the Nor
folk Ledger Dispatch, of Norfolk. Va,
and the Pacific Advertiser, Of Vancou-
YER, British Columbia
The letter contains. in a very con-
densed form. much information in re-
gard to the waterfront facilities in
Pensacola and what is being done in
the way of preparing for the opening
or the Panama canal. The informal
ton Is well compiled and, no doubt,
contains some facts which are UNI
known to the majority of Pensacolians.
The letter sent out to the publica-
tons, both of which are widely circu-
lated in entirely different sections of
the country. is as follows:
Gentlemen: In reply to your letter
of recent date: We are sending you
our statistical, industrial~an agricul-
tural bulletins, resolution relative to
Pensacola and the Panama cnal and
an article in the Saturday Evening
Post on the Gulf Ports and Panama
Our docking facilities that are now
complete are:
Lumber and general docks of the
Pensacola, Alabama and Tennessee
Railroad. These are open docks with
out warehouses with 25 feet water
depth.
The L. & N. coal docks especially
equipped for bunker coal and used ex-
clusively for that purpose, with % feet
Of water at mean low tide.
The l.. & n. general docks with am
pie two-story warehouses. consisting
Of two piers with central slips, with %
feet of water alongside. Commerce
handled over these docks last year
amounted to over s22,00O,OoO in value
The Gulf, Florida and Alabama rail-
road is now building to Pensacola. l
send you their prospectus. About SO
miles >of the road is complete, and 80
miles will be in operation by fall.
You will observe plan of their docks,
construction of which is now under
! way. You will notice it is estimated
in this report that this one railroad
should haul 100000 tons of coal per
annum.
The Memphis and Gulf railroad has
been surveyed to Pensacola, and bond
is up for franchise rights. They also
propose new terminals.
The Stearns & Culver. Lumber Com
pany have the largest part of a road
constructed from Andalusia, Ala. to
the peninsula of Santa Rosa county on
Pensacola bay, directly opposite Pen
sacola. This road connects with the
Central of Georgia at Andalusia. and
is supposed to tss an extension of that
system
In addition to the above port facilf-
ties on hand and proposed the city of
Pensacola owns about one mile of
waterfront in the city limits. and this
organization is now endeavoring 10
secure the erection of adequate mu-
nicipal docks and a belt railroad
A In the year 1899 an act of the legis-
Nature was passed quieting the title of
the submerged property in front of the
city. and passing it to the city-of Pen
sacola, and thus all question of riparian
right and ownership of the waterfront
has been settled. BY this act the city
acquired about two miles Of frontage.
approximately one mile of which has
been granted to railroad or private
interests, leaving about one mile in
the possession of the city.
An agent OF the department of COM
merce and labor was in Pensacola
last week, and we furnished him writ
ten information for the department a
copy Of part of which send to you.
Yours truly,
L. J. HENDERSON,
Secretary