The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-12
Deal is Closed For the Moore
and Garfield Ice
Works.
HAS A CAPITAL
STOCK OF 100000
Transaction For the Pensa-
cola Properties Handled
by P. A. Vans Agnew. of
Law Firm of Vans Agnew
& Crawford, of Kissimmee
Corporation Purchases
Many Ice and Electric
Plants in State.

The Pensacola end of a deal which
includes the taking over of some -
public utility plants in Florida by one
company was consummated yesterday
when the Moore ice plant and the
Garfield ice plant passed from tho
hands of their former owners and be-
came the property of the Southern
Utilities Company, just organized in
Florida with a capital stock of ten
million dollars-the largest Florida
corporation ever organized.
The transaction for the PensacoIa
properties was handled by Z. y. Vans
Agnew, of the law firm of Vans Ag-
new and Crawford, of Kissimmee,
acting as the representative of the
Southern Utilities Company.
To a Journal representative last
night Mr.. Vans Agnew said that
the purchase of these various plants
all over Florida meant not only
a tremendous amount of new capi-
tai in the state, but in many cases
it would mean cheapening of the
product of the plants to the consum-
er. made possible by the standardizing
of the methods of production.
The proposition as whole is prob
ably the largest single enterprise OF
the kind that has ever been attempted
in Florida and it will have an almost
velopment of the state.
The controlling power and the
mother company OF the Sesithern UtiIi-
ties Company is none other than J. G.
White Company, Of New York, IL
not the largest, at least one of the
two largest firms of construction en-
gineers in the United States.
1t is ]. G. White & Company who
built the railroads in the Philippine
Islands, the greater part of the London
Tramway system in England. and who
are the United States government en-
gineers in charge of the government
buildings in Washington. They also
own and operate the street railway
systems Of Augusta, Ga, Columbia. 5.
c., and several other cities. It was
J. G. White & Company who bought
and established the famous Everglades
Fellsmere Farms in South Florida at
a cash cost of $4,000, 10000. It is this
firm also. says Mr. Vans Agnew, whom
the Internal Improvements Trustees OF
Florida have now engaged to make 4
survey and report on the development
of the Everglades reclamation project.
The Southern Utilities Company, in
corporated for $4,000. 100000, received
its charter Monday from Governor
Trammell and is a Florida corporation.
Its operative offices will be in Jackson
vile and it's administrative offices in
The Guarantee Trust
Company, of New York. is trustee for
the bonds and is the financial agent
Of the company.
]. G. White, head of ]. G. White &
Company, is now touring Florida in q
special car and with him as guests are
several of New York City's largest
monied men.
The properties taken over by the
new company include ice. electric, gas,
water. or laundry plants in the fol-
lowing cities: Pensacola 2 Oce plants):
Miami. 2; West Palm Beach, /; Lauder
dale. 1; ST, Augustine, 2 (ice plant and
aundry); Palatl1a, 2; Fernandina, 1:
Live Oak, 2: Lake City, 1; Sanford, 2;
Fort Myers, ,; Punta Gorda, I:
(including Palmetto and
Manatee) 1; Tarpon Springs, l. It IS
also that options have also
been secured on several other plants
n various sections of Florida.
The Junior member of the firm OF
Vans Agnew and Crawford, of Kis-
'immee, which handled the business
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