The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-21
TUESDAY. OCTOBER q. 1913.
Pensacola as Seen
Across the Continent.


comes the word that Pensacola is to be
the great maritime mart Of the gulf
coast. Business and shipping circles
throughout the continent are alive with
talk Of the Deep Water City's impe..d-
lfng development and greatness. In far
away Los Angeles they are t.. ing and
writing about it and the following
from the Los Angeles Times is sam
@sple OF what the commercial world is
saying:
- Pensacola. Fla, will be one of the
1great Atlantic cities to be developed by
the Panama canal. What Galveston Is
10 Texas. what New Orleans is to the
Lower Mississippi Valley, Pensacola
will be to Florida, Alabama, Georgia,
zsT.ast Tennessee and the Carolinas
.xsPensacola harbor is the best natural
harbor in the South. The entrance to
il is thirty three feet in depth and can
be increased to fifty feet at small
cost. The gulf acoast will now spring
into immediate Importance. The rivers
s.of the South and West flow into 1t.
From it are the nearest distances to
aa.the interior points of the Southwest.
sywhilc over the gulf are the shortest
paths to the canal.
The iarbor of Pensacola is protected
by Forts Pickens, IcRee and Bar
rancas. The government has long
recognized the Importance of Pensa-
cola as a naval and military point for
storage and shipments The whole
gulf coast is calling for more adequate
navy yards, and Pensacola. stands to
the front. Birmingham can make the
armor plate for ships to be built at
Pensacola
Corporation and private undertake
ings," says an eastern exchange, 'shave
the call at present at Pensa cola. New
rail links and inland waterway plans
are intertwined with the whole fabric
OF construction OF the recent past, OF
that now under way and that of
surety or likelihood in the near future.
The city OF Pensacola is now engaged
III paving streets, increasing the ca
pacity of the water works, and viii
soon commence construction of 4 Inu
nicipal dock and belt railroad"
The trunk line Of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad is to terminate at
Pensacola Labor saving devices are
S-being installed on the docks and new
docks are TO be constructed
Connections will be made with the
Southern railway, the Queen and Cres-
cent and the NJ. & 0. railway and
: new line of the L. & n. at Tuscaloosa
The railroad company has planned to
construct i've piers at Pensacola, each
s1200 feet long, where the largest sized
discharge cargo.
The citizens Of Pensacola in the
last three years have taxed themselves
500 per capita for municipal improve
nents. During the past ten years the
mileage of sanitary sewers has been
increased 1913 per cent: of storm sew
ers, 1900 per cent; of paved streets
$500 per cent; water mains, 143 per
cent
Eight steamship lines have already
arranged to make their terminus at
Pensacola-It is altogether probable that
within a twe1vemonth there will be a
ninth, the advertisement of which will
thing as follows: san Pedro and
y 000-ton boat will be dispatched from
Pensacola, connecting with railroad
lines for Mobile, Chattanooga, Atlanta,
Savannah, Charleston and Nashville. |
limo to Pensacola, twelve days. First
cabin fare including meals and berth, |
$50"
This sounds good, but the picture is |
rot overdrawn. It simply shows that |
the outside world is according to Pen |
sacola far greater Importance in the |
business Of the future than many of /
her own people are disposed to do |
Railroads are now building. capital is |.
coming. new trade territory is open /
Ing UP. and the advent OF new city |
and a new prosperity is practically at /
hand.