The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-02-19
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OPEN LETTER TO THE
CIVIC LEAGUE OF PENSACOLA

Editor Pensacola Journal
The Civic League: We have read
in The Journal OF the 18th inst. the
article contributed by the Civic
League. entitled THE Mosquito Plague
And The Distillery."
The article does not recite conditions
as they exist in that locality at this
time. Some time last summer COM
plant was made. and County Solicitor
Loftin filed a bin OF injunction against
the Pensacola Distilling Company. The
Pensacola Live Stock and Poultry
Company then made an arrangement
with the distillery company. whereby
the live stock and poultry company
were to have all OF the siop and mash
from the distillery When this ar
rangement was perfected, the live stock
and poultry company installed at a
cost OF about 100000 STOP dryer out
fit and this slop and mash which
formerly went into the branch and
bayou Is now utilized for feed The
Pensacola Live Stock and Poultry
Company keep on hand from 200. to
500 head OF hogs. and an evarage Of
100 head of cattle, which they fatten
for the market on these products; and
from the meal which formerly went
into the bayou and formed the sedi-
ment. which stagnated and soured in
the waters of the bayou, the Live
Stock and Poultry Company are now
manufacturing "Distillers' Grain"-a
high class food for cattle and hogs
There Is no mash or slop discharged
in the branch or the bayou and has
not been since the Live stock Company
installed the slop dryer and feed mill.
There is nothing discharged in the
branch at all, and the only discharge
that goes into the bayou Is about eight
thousand gallons OF water per day.
This is the water off the meal, and Is
whitish in color. Mixed with this
eight thousand gallons OF water is
about sixty gallons of silica. BY
silica, we mean very fine particles of
meal.-that part which is SO fine as to
pass through the dryer with the wa
ter. and not be retained by the sieve
that is installed to catch and hold the
solids.
We ara consuming the slop and
mash from the Distillery. and convert
ing the mash into a high grade cattle
feed. and selling It to dairymen and
others. The slop we are feeding to
our own cattle and hogs. which we
satten and sell in the market. We do
not believe that the Distilling Company
or ourselves, who now handle the slop
and mash from the Distillery, are do
ing anything that the most particular
person could object to with reference
to the disposition of the slop and mash
from the Distillery.
We would be very glad to have
committee from the Civic League call
on us, and we will take great pleasure
in showing them over our plant and
letting them see for themselves the
disposition that we are making of the
slop and mash which heretofore went
into the bayou. If committee from
the Civic League viii accept this invi-
tation, they can phone us at Phone
No. 1893, and we will fix an hour for
their visit when our plant and the
Distillery will both be in operation, so
that they can see the practical work
ings, not the theory, Of how these busl-
nesses are being conducted.
We believe that If any interested
and unprecedented parties will come out
to the West End of Garden street,
where the Pensacola Distilling Com