The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-25

OF FACTS BY
AN ENGINEER
SECRETARY OF COMMERCIAL AS
ISOLATION PREPARES STATE.
MENT ON GULF, FLORIDA &
ALABAMA RAILROAD.

road which has been completed and
making q careful study of the plans
and surveys, Leland J. Henderson.
secretary of the Pensacola Commercial
association, who is also a practical
civil engineer, has made UP a very
full and comprehensive compilation of
facts regarding the Gulf, Florida &
Alapama road. This compilation of
facts contains information of every
sort regarding the road and will be
placed on file in the offices of the Com
mercial Association for reference in
cases of inquiry.
Mr.. Henderson's statement is as
follows:
Gulf, Florida G. Alabama Railroad.
Three hundred miles long.
Sixty-four miles completed from
Cantonment, Fla, to Local, Ala, in
Guiding spur from Muscogee, Fla, to
Gateswood, Ala, II miles.
Connections.
Three lumber roads in first 90 miles,
also L & n. at Cantonment, Fla, At
more and Thomaston, Ala.
The Southern Railway at Pine Hill.
Uniontown, Greensboro and Oakman,
Ala.
Mobile & Ohio and Alabama Great
Southern Queen & Crescent) at Tus-
caloosa.
Frisco. Southern and L c. at Jasper.
Gulf Transit Company. four lines to
Liverpool, Bremen, Havre and Genoa
South Atlantic S. 8. Co. to Liver
pool.
Vogeman Line, Holland, France,
Spain and Mediterranean points.
Cans and Leyland lines to Liverpool.
Two coastwise lines.
Arrangements are being made for a
regular service from New York to Pen
sacola to deliver Atlantic coast
freights.
Pensacola Terminal.
City population $4,000, latitude 30: 20
N, longitude 87:1S w. Harbor, 10 IL
square miles in area with a roadstead
Of IL square miles. Depth, 33 to so
feet. Depth over bar. 33 feet. Dis
lance from bar to wharves, miles.
Distance from sea to piers Of Mo-
bile, 40 miles; New Orleans, ITO miles.
Water front property ample for
needs for all times. Largest water
front property owned by one interest.
Trackage rights include a terminal
line along the entire water front, and
right to run, two lines with a double
track through the streets.
The United States census for 1910
shows that Pensacola has so manu-
featuring establishments, with a COM
bined capital of $2,400, 900. One Of the
largest naval stores yards in the world.
annual output 100000 barrels rosin and
turpentine; 80 per cent exported, ball
ance shipped to Interior.
Class of Construction.
Best In engineering practice. Great
| est curvature, degrees Maximum
gradient against traffic will be 10 per
cent and per cent in the direction Of
light haul The width of roadbed from
shoulder to shoulder will be Is feet
| and in excavation the width Of the
subgrade will be "a feet. Main track
So pound rail, branch lines so pound
| steel rail
Zone of Influence.
Wherever territory is divided with
| existing roads, the existing roads have
| been allotted two-thirds. In territory
| tributary to G. F. & A. road, 1910 cen
sus, not including towns on eSistins
railroads, s5,0S6 people.
Coal.
| Approximately % per cent Of the
| gross revenue Of all the railroads OF
| the United States is contributed by
| the carrying of coal. Interstate com
merce commission reports show for the
| United States the revenue derived BY
a road from through traffic delivered
| to it by connecting lines practically
equals the revenue from the local traf-
| f1c of the line itself.
Local Traffic.
Timber and lumber, 1895, $4,000 an
nually
| Naval stores: A crop of 10. 500 boxes
will produce annually for five years 45C
barrels of rosin, weighing ESQ pounds
each, and $50 barrels of turpentine
| weighing 420 pounds each. Income
| will be S35,S00.00 annually. For each
car Of naval stores a return car Oh
| local freight should result, producins
a revenue of $50, 10000 per annum.
Cotton: $500 bales of compel
| tive cotton should be controlled alone
the line. Also additional cotton trans.
ferTed from LOCAL points to compress
and distributing centers. In 1910 Pen.
sacola exported 10000 bales of cotton
| The gross revenue from cotton ship
! ments, $13S,775 per annum.
Cotton seed: For each bale Of cot.
| ton weighing 300 pounds, there are
| 1000 pounds of seed. 20 per cent o.
which is shipped TO oil mills. Thi:
movement will approximate 40, $50 ton.
at an average rate Of $3.50 per ton
| annual revenue, S60,375. Return ship.
ments should amount to 25 per cen
of the gross tonnage in by-products
/ as each ton of cotton seed yields So
| pounds of cake or meal, 800 pounds O
oil, 500 pounds Of hulIs and so pounds
of linters. Revenue from this sourc,
at the rate of $3.50 per ton, $50, 1874
.
fertilizer to every four bales of cotton
| Estimated one ton to six bales OF Is,
SIS tons at s1.25 per ton, revenue $16,
97S75.
I Coal: It Is estimated 100000 ton
of coal will Be exported annually from
| Pensacola. Tonnage to be derived
275. 900 per annum, with a revenue o
1926, 900.
In addition to the above: Product,
of agriculture, 1854 tons, s17,76S
products OF animals, $50 tons. s2,6s0
manufactures. II, $50 tons. S35,s40; mis-
cellaneous I5. 0e0 tons, s40.225.
Passenger Traffic.
Interstate commerce commission re
ports show average railway paksenge
earnings in Alabama for 1909 were 81 .
900 per mile. Estimate $500 pc
mile. total $3.50 900.
Mail end Express.
$3.50 per mile per annum, total SIS,
600.
) THROUGH Traffic With Connections.
| Estimated revenue so per cent OF 10
cal gross. Revenue from this sourc'
will be s471, sOTs5.
Total traffic, 81 $40. 1880.
I On 500 miles. SIS, 469.07 gross. Oper
ating expenses and taxes SIS per cent
S42O4se. Net earnings per mile, So
6641s
Future Traffic Possibilities.
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