The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-03
INDUSTRIAL
STATISTICS
OF PENSACOLA
CHEMICAL ENGINEER RoEHR Or
THE COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION
COMPLIES STATISTICS OF IN
TERESTING NATURE.

The following report of Chemical
Engineer Roehr of the Commercial As
ISOLATION on industrial statistics os
Pensacola is interesting:
There are in Pensacola thirty pro-
prietors of industrial plants manufac
turing fertilizers, cottonseed oil, meal.
hulls, and lint, chalk rosin, store and
bar fixtures, mattresses, awnings,
sails, tents, tarpaulins, swings, life
savers, grits, meal, chops, wood sup
plies, cabinets iron and brass cast
ings, boilers, cigars, sodawater. struc-
tural iron, cornice, sky lights, cleo
tricity, spirit, drip, oil and syrup bar
rels, Ice, and lumber, and producing
packed fish, machinery repairs, laundry
and chemical cleaning and printing.
There are 1404 hands employed in
these plants.
This report contains also list of tho
raw materials used, and the payroll.
1t is not complete, however, as num-
Der of the plants withheld certain in
formation.
Waste Materials.
The monthly waste in Pensacola
consists of the following:
Garbage, $50 tons; fish scraps. ~
tons; haematite, $50 tons; flint. tons;
oyster shells, SO tons; wood waste
within radius of so miles, 129,767
tons.
"A
placed on the wood waste, making an
annual value of $750,000. :.
yellow Pine Waste.
This report is very exhaustive and
shows that to utilize all Of the wood
waste in a circle of 90 miles from
Pensa cola, numerous industries could
be built up.
F'irst-The manufacture of turpen-
tine and rosin.
Second-From the pulp manufac-
tured paper.
From the saw dust, after the tur-
pentine and roSin are extracted, Xylo-
18th may be manufactured. 1t is used
| for step covering, telephone cell COW
| eringS, toilet covers, floor and wall
| coverings. for bath rooms. hospitals,
hotels, offices, armories, schools and
| ice houses.
Saw dust may be used as an alb
| sorbent for dynamite; it is better than
| infusorial and fuller's earth in the
| bakery as wood flour. Wood flour may
| be used in the manufacture of limo
leum, papier -mache, antiseptic powder
| for floor sweeping, lincrusta, and stuck.
| Denatured alcohol may be extracted
| from the saw dust, leavin gan uncon-
verted fiber which may be either re-
! used or burned for heat
Calcium sulphite is a waste material
available for use in paper manufac-
| ture.
The materials necessary for paper
making are largely found in this vi
| cinity, and those necessary to be i'm
ported, by proper utilization, will pro-
/ duce by products of greater value than
| the cost of the imported article, which
! in turn may be manufactured or util-
lied at this point. Two of these in
| dustries will be the manufacture of
| paint and fertilizer.
Result of Investigation for New In
dustry.
i 1t is shown that the following ar
| ticles may be manufactured with profit
/ at Pensacola:
Il Oars, batteries, overalls iron nip
pies, wrapping materials byl utilization
of cotton seed bulls, fish glue and pa
per. soap. clay products, sand products,
fullers earth products, explosives, and
finally the evaporation Of vegetables
and milk.
Accompanying the report is a tabr-
lated statement Of vegetables proper
to plant in this vicinity, dates OF
planting, and the yields obtainable
from lands with normal culture.
The United States census OF manu-
features for 1905 shows that Penss.-
cola has 80 manufacturing establish
ments with a total capital OF S2,14s, esq.
Land value, S194, 414. Buildings. S2+5,-
S97. Tools and machinery, S1,913.isf.
Cash and sureties, 1898, 191. TwsntE-
SISiil pIOPIlCLuES, 1zU SaidT1eu CIuC1aiE
and clerks, with calaries OF s132.4s7.
The average number of wage earners
1905, and the wages earned, SAYS, G42
Men employed over Is years Of age
1892, and they earn S473 .S49. The
number of women over Is years Of age
employed, 5, and they earn S1,27e. The
number of children under 16 years al
! age, 9, and they earn S915.
The rent of works, $216, 900. Taxes
not including internal revenue, s13,.
269. The rent of offices, and interest
etc, $135,S12. Contract work, $50, $50
The total cost of materials used, SS19,-
CAT. Principal materials. including
mill supplies and farm, sso3.403. The
value of products, including custom
work and repairing, S1,936,751.
Bates-The world owes every mar
a living.
Yates-Yes; and like some men
know, it's mighty slow pay.-Exchange
ION what grounds does your fathel
I object TO me?''
Ill "On any grounds within a mile o