The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-28

announced, and Bayview is expected
to very early in the season take on
its accustomed popularity.
width at the sea end is 100 feet and
the width at the shore end is 46
feet. The total area of the wharf
is 10000 square feet, with 108,150
square feet having a depth of %
feet of water alongside. There are
on this wharf seven railroad tracks
aggregating II 900 feet in length,
of which five are on the lower level
and two on the upper or coal chute
trestle. The coal chute is provided
with thirteen chutes for handling
coal and four chutes for handling
grain. The arrangement of this
wharf is such that vessels can take
bunker coal from the upper trestle
while loading a cargo from the lower
trestle. Coal chute has capacity Of
400 tons per hour.
2. TarragOna Street wharf. The
length of this wharf is / $50 feet, its
width from 100 to 14O feet; 138,422
square feet of this wharf lie in %
feet of water and 98,8OO square feet
lie in IS feet of water
3. Commendencia Street wharf
The length of this wharf is 2,O65
feet, with an average width of los
feet. Length of railroad track 49,
400 feet
4. Jefferson Street wharf. This
IS an open pier SIS feet long by p
feet wide used for the handling of
lumber and naval stores. 1t has
three tracks extending the full
length of the wharf. There is 20 to
20 feet of water alongside
Gulf, Florida & Alabama Railroad
Docks.
Dock No. /. This is an open pier
or lumber dock 1,225 feet long BY IS
feet wide at the pierhead line. with
81 feet of water alongside. This pier
has three tracks extending its full
length. As it is a lumber dock. it
has no shed or superstructure of any
kind.
Dock No. .. This dock is 1850
feet long by 100 feet wide at the
pierhead line, with 81 feo+ Of water
alongside. 1t has four tracks EXTEND
ing its full length, two of which are
depressed.
+ PalafoX Street wharf and Baylen
Street wharf are owned by the E. E.
Saunders Fish Company and the
Warren Fish Co., respectively, and
are used for the fishing fleets of
those companies.
The Pensacola Electric Co., skirts
the harbor front, connecting all roads
and switching freight between the
roads and wharves. The connecting
road is privately owned. Equal ia
cilities are afforded to all by these
roads.
Warehouses.
Including railroad terminal ware
houses there are four. We have no
system of warehouses in connection
with the port terminals.
On COmmendencia Street wharf,
Cargoes can be unloaded from yes
sells direct into cars or into the stor-
age warehouse. The total length of
railroad track on this structure is
AGO divided in nine tracks. Both
floors of the warehouse are designed
to carry a load of 900 pounds of
freight per square foot of floor.
On TarragOna Street wharf there
are two warehouses; one of which is
so feet in width by 4O4 feet in length,
and divided into eleven compart-
ments for the storage of freight
! shipped in bulk, such as salt and
fertilizer; the other warehouse is so
! by 410 feet and is used for storing
| miscellaneous merchandise. The
warehouse first mentioned provided
| with a c. w. Hunt Automatic Rail
! way, which runs above the top. By
means of this railway salt, fertilizers,
or other like freight, in bulk or pack
ages, may be deposited at will in any
| one of the eleven compartments
! There are 22,460 lineal feet of track
! on TarragOna Street wharf, seven
of which are on the lower level and
/ one on the upper level of the wharf.
! The arrangement is such that a yes
/ sci can take cargo from both levels
! or can load bunker coal from the
/ upper level while receiving or dis
| charging cargo direct from ship ia
/ cars or ship to warehouse, from the
/ lower level.
The Gulf, Florida & Alabama has
! some storage space, but was unable
! to ascertain Just how much.
The Atlantic Compress Company
J here has vast storage space and car
: NhN lAiAAAbNAeANN -NrDNN DdAtS OF NOlLbL
/ at one time
In time of war there are many va
cant stores and houses that could be
! turned into storage warehouses.
Railroad Facilities.
The railroads entering this city
are the Louisville & Nashville Rail
road Company, from the north. east
and west, and the Gulf, Florida &
90 Eg,T1 l.
/ Also, the Pensacola & Perdido Rail.
road operating from Pensacola tc
Millview, Fla, and to the interior Of
point of the L. & \. Railroad.
The L. & y. extends east to ITALIA
! hassee where it connects with the
/ Seaboard Air Line; through sleepers
are run to Jacksonville. There is
also a connection from River June
! ton, Fla, up to Climax, Ga, on the
mainline of the Atlantic Coast Line
! from MONTGOMERY to Jacksonville