The Pensacola journal., 1913-01-12

COCK and a coal Q0cks the MetHpliIS q
Gulf R. r. have planned extensive dock
facilities; private individuals own
docks of lesser magnitude; and the
city of Pensacola has just authorized
bond issue for the purpose OF con-
structing municipal docks and a belt
railroad, with a view TO providing as
good independent wharf facilities and
terminal facilities as may be found
anywhere. The L. & n. docks have
1880 feet of warehouse, with both
elevated and platform tracks; the-coal
ehutes have a discharge of one ton
PER minute per hatch; bunker capac-
ity, 30 tons per gang per hour.
The port charges are:
Pilotage compulsory en- vessels Of s
feet draft or more.
Harbor Master, 1c per ton, net, limit
Of S20s0o $500 for change Of berth
or anchorage, to which CSC per ton net
for entering.
Coaling. bunker coal, f. o. b. and
trimmed, $40 per ton.
INDUSTRIES.
Existing Lines of Manufacturing:
Industries already existing in Pensa-
cola are engaged in the manufacturing
of cottonseed oil, cottonseed meal, lint.
cottonseed hulls, chalk, rosin, store and
lar fixtures, awnings, tents, sails, tar
paulins, swings, hfe-savers. mattresses,
cabinets, brass and iron castings
boilers, grits, meal, chops, cigars, soda
water, structural cornice. sky lights.
drip, oil and syrup barrels. ice, creo-
sote, blocks, wood supplies. and ma
chine repairs. The industries Of the
city have on their pay-rells about one
fifth of the population.
Pensacola has so industrial plants,
with a capital of s2.04s, 600; all of the
Industries engage 4.611 wage earners,
who receive $1,99S,000 annually The
number of wage earners Is almost one
to every five Of the population, or
nearly 20 per cent. Only rs per cent
of the population of Florida are enl-
pIoved in industries in Escamoia, II
Fer cent. The value added to the man
Ufactured articles is 81 100000 in Pen
sacola. annually. The average wages
paid employees per year, in manufae-
turing. in South Carolina is 1888;
Georgia, s295; Alabama, 1858; Ten
nessee, s3I6; Florida, 1915; Mississippi,
1888; Pensacola, $411.
MANUFACTURING IN PENSACOLA.
Pensacola offers unusual induce
ments for manufacturing:
1st. Cheap power. the price Of Ala
llama coal at the mines is soc to $1.25
per ton: the railroad transportation
cost to Pensacola is $1.10 per ton. Coal
at $3.50 per ton. or less, means cheap
power The shipment Of coal to and
through Pensacola is now more tnan
SEQ 900 tons annually.
End. Transportation: Water con-
nection with the world is unexcelfed,
because Pensacola has the bes' har-
Ior in the south. The water terminals
are owned by the three land trans
portation companies now running to,
and building to the city, and by private
individuals. These terminals VIII
doubtless be supplemented by munich
pal docks and a belt railroad. The
Louisville & Nashville r. r. is trunk
line touching the Mississippi river at
st. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans,
having it's northeastern terminal AT
Cincinnati, southeastern in Atlanta.
with rail connection with all parts Of
the United States. This road eneireles
the Birmingham coal and iron region,
and Pensacola is it's coal and iron port.
Ii handled $4,000 cars of import and
export freight at Pensacola last year.
and the value of the exports alone was
more than $20.000,000.
The Gulf, Florida & Alabama r. r.
now has 100 miles of road constructed,
and is operating trains from Local,
Ala, to Pensacola, Fla. The line, when
completed, will be 800 miles long, with
the northern terminal at Jasper, Aa.,
the center of the coal and iron region
of Alabama. This road will have con-
rections with the following trunk
lines: Louisville & Nashville r. r.,
Southern Railway, Mobile & Ohio, Ala
lama Great Southern, Illinois Central,
St. Louis & San Francisco and
Southern. 1T is claimed that this road
win furnish unlimited coal at two
thirds of the cost in Atlantic ports
this to Pensacola; and that 1t viii
handle annually 325,000 tons of coal;
the present annual lumber cut on the
road is $4,000 Nj feet or 1880 cars;
the present naval stores and mercan-
/ file business viii amount to ! lao cars;
the cotton production is 81, 500 bales
annually, all of which should move by
! this road.
| The Pensacola, Alabama & Tennes-
see R. r. is operating trains from
/ Pensacola nearly to Mobile. The line
| is to be completed to Mobile by Janu-
airy 1, 1918, and will furnish a direct
| route to Mississippi Valley points and
/ connect with the Louisville & Nash
vile, Southern. and Mobile & Ohio
railroads. In the distance from Mo-
bile to Pensacola, this road will make
/ a saving of so miles over the Louis
willie & Nashville.
/ Two other roads seem assured for
| Pensacola. One, the Memphis and
! Pensac cola, to be constructed from
| Memphis, Tenn. This road has been
surveyed and franchise granted. A
railroad is now being constructed from
| Pensacola to AndaIusia, Ala, where
It will connect with the Central OF
Georgia, opening up valuable new
trade territory for Pensacola and Civ
ing direct connection with the north
east and New York.
The steamship lines touching regu-
larly at Pensacola are the Gulf Tran
! sit Company, operating four lines. te
Liverpool, Bremen, Havre, and Genoa
respectively; the South Atlantic
Steamship Co, to Liverpool; the
Vogemann Line, to ports in Holland
| France, and Spain. and points in the
| Mediterranean; and the Cans Line and
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