The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-28

try can be quickly reached and our
warm climate and early season en-
ables our farmers to begin shipping
about the time producers in other
parts of the country put their seed
in the ground. The farm lands of
Florida can be depended on to enable
the owners to meet readily any fnan
cial obligation they might reasona-
bly, assume in the form of mortgage
loans. AS in commerce and industry,
the development in productive agri-
culture is dependent upon sufficient
and efficient credit. The Farm Loan
System is intended to meet that need,
and will be the backbone of our ag-
ricultural development. Men hither-
to unable to own farms on account of
the high rate of interest, and the
short time mortgages will soon be
men of affairs. They will prosper,
the merchants will increase their
sales, in fact, the whole town win
feel the thrill of prosperity. The
county demonstration is instructinR
our men and boys in the most up-to-
date methods of farming, and under
the able direction and guidance of
Miss Lonnie Landrum the girls are
being educated in the ways and arts
of homemaking.
The real development of Pensacola
has taken place during the last ten
years. This is shown by comparative
figures on the various lines of indus
try. The industries of the city have
on their pay rolls about one-fifth of
the population. Pensacola has sixty
industrial plants with capital of
S2,046,00 all of the industries en-
gage 4,611 wage earners, who receive
approximately $1,998,000 annually.
The number of wage earners is al :
most one to every five of the popula
ton or nearly 20 per cent. Only rs
per cent of the population of Florida
are employed in industries. In Es-
Gambia county, II IL per cent. The
value added to the manufactured arti-
cles in Pensacola is s1,008,000 annu-
ally.
Pensacola offers unusual induce
ments for manufacturing. 1t is the
coal and iron port of the Louisville
& Nashville railroad which encircles
the Birmingham coal and iron region,
also of the Gulf, Florida and Alabama
railroad which, when completed, will
have its northern terminal at Jasper,
Ala, in the center of the Alabama
coal fields, furnishing us with abund-
ant transportation facilities and
making fuel and power cheap. Then
too, Pensacola has witnessed during
the past year important additions to
her port facilities which will greatly
increase the handling of bunker coal.
Pensacola is one of the leading
pine ports of the United States, and
would be suitable location for man
ufacturing plants using pine, cypress
and hardwoods. For many years
Pensacola has been the leading lum-
| Der port of the gulf and one of the
largest in the country. The articles
now being manufactured are of wood
native to Alabama and West Flor
ida. There are more than fifty saw
/ ys
Pensacola is the mahogany port of
! the United States. G.. c.. Mengel u
Co., of Louisville, the largest import
ers of mahogany in this country.
after investigating all southern ports
| decided few months ago to route
their entire business through PenSa
cola. The E. o. Saitmarsh, August
Belmont, the Hornet, The C. C..
Mengel, Jr., and the VIM. H. Murphy
are part of this company's fleet,
which is being steadily enlarged
Mengel & Co. selected Pensacola
because it is the deepest and safest
harbor on the gulf; other importers
will follow suit if we go after the
business and give them encourage
ment. The mere handling of these
logs not only constitutes large pay
roll for Pensacola, but with the
cheapness of fuel and transporta-
ton, is destined to develop here a
great furniture manufacturing indus
try.
i Our deep sea fishing industry has
added another source or revenue tc
its already large income by entering
upon a new field of endeavor in the
making and canning of fish chowder
which will make Pensacola famous
A new branch of this industry will
soon be in operation by the estab-
lishment here of the Pensacola Oh
& Fertilizer Company, a company
engaged in the making of oil and fer
tilizer from fish scrap.
Just within the past week the pass
ing of an ordinance grantina the
laying of the several spur tracks tc
connect the Gulf, Florida and Ala
bama railroad with various industries
and warehouses will great'y relieve
the switching situation ! re city
and it now looks as thou s.. ,ye were
going to get dry dock at last.
The completing of the roads and
bridges now under construction vii
play an important part in our city's