The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-26

Of its class in the entire South. He has
given her 40 miles of paved streets, beau
tlfui parks and monuments, magnificent
public buildings, metropolitan newspa-
pers, a splendid commercial organization.
three new railroads, municipal docks,
factories, etc, and this young man has
Just started. His purpose, 50 he says, is
to make his city the mistress of the
American Mediterranean, the Rome and
venice of the new commerce which the
Panama Canal is to bring in ever
increasing volumes to the Mexican gulf;
and If the history of the first six years
of his endeavor is an index and a guide
to his accomplishments in the future, there
would seem to be no way to stop him nor
70 Keep him from accomplishing his real
ization.
Cities are men-made. Natural re-
sources are everywhere. No city, no
town, no village in the world over but
what mas In some measure, greater or
lesser, that general thing called natural
resources, but there can be no doubt
that certain places have an excess of
these resources and certainly If any city
has, that city is Pensacola, where is To-
Gated the largest and deepest harbor on
the gulf coast, the largest lumber and
fresh fish market in the Southern States
"a city that has found itself, and hav-
ing been found, is determined not to get
lost again. And Pensacola is man-made
and that notwithstanding her almost in
credible natural resources. Her present
growth and prosperity is a tribute to en-
terDrise and TO enterprise alone-and if
she progresses further and she will, nat
nral resources may help. but enterprise
VIII be the lever by which the same is
accomplished and the result obtained.
THE JOURNAL A FACTOR.
There Is one factor in the growth of
this Florida city which the average per-
son does not fully realize, a factor within
a factor, for the factor referred to IS
mat one which inspired the young men
onward ana upward, in fact the cause to
very great extent of the upward
moyement-yet the average person there
takes it as a matter of fact, something
tnat because it is should be as it is and
no circuit, or little. given-that factor
within factor has been a newspa per
Mayes, editor and principal owner of The
Pensacola Journal, the best independent
newspaper In Florida. and a newspaper,
size of city and trade territory eonsid-
cred, equal to anything in the United
States. Frank L. Mayes, with his Pen
sacola Journal, has to very great ex-
tent been responsible for that great turn
In public sentiment which has made and
Is making great city And he has OPP
Grated fearless and aggressive newspa-
per: has not been afraid to take a stand
and while he may have at times lost
business because OF 1t, he has neverthe-
less stood by what he conceived to be
right, and as right always wins. so has
he and his paper.
This article is written on a southern
city. as 1T is, only for the purpose of pay
ing deserved tribute to another place
where enterprise has won and for the
further purpose of showing further to
the people of Pecos If that he necessa RI,
precedented enterprise and public spirit
cannot fail but win. for Pecos is sure to
become the greatest city of the whole.
trans-Peeos country.