The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-08
Of MUCH VALUE
TO PENSACOLA
THIS CITY Is SHOWN IN PAM
PHLET AS ONE OF TWELVE
cENTERs OF DISTRIBUTION OF
A BIG CONCERN.

An advertisement of incaluable value
to Pensacola, that could not have been
purchased at any price. is being cir
culated throughout the world by The
j. K. Armsby Company, of San Fran
cisco, California.
The Armsby Company is one of the
pioneers in the marvellous develop
ment OF that colorado of the west
the wonderful Pacific coast country.
The ramihcations of it's business eX-
tend to practically every line of food
stutfS produced from Alaska south. to
Lower California, but it's activities
have been greatest in the development
Of the dried and canned fruits and
bean growing industries of California,
pineapple culture in Hawaiia and the
salmon canning industries or Oregon.
Washington and Alaska. Indeed. in
grocery circles everywhere, The Arms
by Company is recognized as the lead
ing distributor of California cured
fruits and beans, and of pineapple and
salmon. Its agencies are located not
alone in every city in North America,
but in every distributing center of the
civilized world. Every week in the
year "Arn1sby's Weekly Letter" an at
tractively gotten up pamphlet COM
tanning invaluable information to its
agents and the wholesale grocery
trade bearing up the products handled
by The Armsby Company, is mailed
to its agents the world over. and to
each and every wholesale grocery
house where its agencies are located.
This weekly letter of January 10, last,
contains an annual review of The
Armsby'S Company'S business forNl i,
and in addition a statistical resume OF
the annual productions and average
selling price by years of every variety
of all of the products OF the Pacific
OF CT Il
period of ten years, and is regarded by
the grocery trade as so complete and
accurate as to render it reference
book for frequent consultation by
every buyer Of Pacific coast products
throughout the world.
EmbelliShing q double page of the
Weekly Letter of January 10 is a map
Of the North American continent. In
the distance, the Atlantic Ocean in
tervenfng, is shown Great Britain,
Germany, Russia, France and Spain.
Standing on the Pacific side of the
picture where San Francisco is locat-
ed. is an heroic figure of Plenty,
holding in her hands outstretched
over the entire American continent
her apron, filled to overlooking with
the products of California. Train
loads of these products crossing the
continent by five trans continental
lines of railroad to the eastern markets
are also shown in the picture. Twelve
distributing centers for these train
loads of goods from the golden far
west also appear on the map.
Pensacola is one of these twelve
centers of distribution.
The Pensacola business of The
| Armsby Company, through it's local
| agents. B. Jones & Co, aggregated
| twenty-thre carloads in 1911. which
had ts~infuence in Pensacola appear
ance on the map. but the chief factor
| in this recognition of Pensac cola was
| the fact that a business organization
OF such extensive KNOWLEDGE OF trans
| portation highways as The Armshy
Company possesses. has konwn since
| the Panama Canal was first projected
! that Pensacola's deep water harbor
| would, upon the completion of the
canal. be the gateway to the middle
west. via the canal route from the
Pacific coast.