The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-09
C. T. & A. IS OUTLET
TO GREAT COMMERCIAL
CENTERS, WILL TAP MORE
At Kirnbrough, It Connects
With Southern; Reach
Other Markets
HAS TWO BIG PIERS HERE
Depth Of Water 81 Feet,
With Other Facilities;
Encourages Export
HAS TWO BIG PIERS HERE

1t was January 10, last year, when
the Deep Water Route formally an
nounced the official opening of the
line to Kimbrough, where connection
was made with the Southern Rail-
way. The route of the G. F. & A. is
almost due north of Pensacola, pass
ing through Escambia county, Flor
ida, and Escambia, Monroe, Wilcox,
Marengo, Hall, Tuscaloosa and Walk
err counties, Alabama, to Jasper, a
few miles northeast of Birmingham,
where it will connect with the Hi
nois Cetnral and the Frisco Railroads.
Connections at present are, with the
L. & N. at Atmore, and the Southern
at KimhrOUgh, as announced above,
and future connections not already
mentioned above are With the South
ern at Uniontown, Greensboro, Oak
man and Jaspar, and with the Mobile
& Ohio and the Alabama Great
Southern, at Tuscaloosa.
Big Freight Center.
These connections will throw open
to the ports new railroad every great
freight center of the northern and
eastern states. and as the great trunk
lines have hitherto been unable to Sc
cure satisfactory rates into Pensa-
cola, it is expected now, with the new
life injected into the Deep Water
+ Route, will readily take advantage Of
! the new order of things and viii
route a great deal of their exporting
through this port.
The G. F. & A. has at Pensacola a
modern coal dock, with facilities said
to be superior to any of the kind on
the gulf coast. The new facilities, al
though they have been tried out and
found to work with perfect satisfac-
ton, have never been used for bun.
ker or cargo, for the very evident
reason that it has been impossible to
/ transport coal without cars.
Shipping Facilities.
Two other piers IKE up the
! water front facilities of the G.. F. &
A. One is the 14o0-lone by 30 feet
wide wharf, and the other 800x100,
with depressed tracks for handling
; lumber, naval stores, steel and other
exports. This pier will in due time
be extended to 1926 fest.
! A depth of water of Fl feet at each
of the three wharves above referred
to, with safe approaches from the
| mid-harbor anchorage assures the G
F. & A. a position IN export facilities
unex>elled for a comparatively new
road.
Export Facilities.
With tha extensive local trackage
and fine export facilities, the Deep
Water Route is ALREADY finding itself
cramped for space, and with the new
life which is bound to come under the
new regime, it means greater activity
for shipping than ever. Traffic
agreements with all big trunk lines
of the north and east assure this
looked for activity. Through traffic
from the industrial centers of the
United States must of course be
i greatly augmented by the local ship
ments of lumber, nav stores, cottor
and like items, and with the compile
ton of the Jasper-B Birmingham con
nection, when the great steel, Goa
and iron fields are tapped, it viii
mean the greatest of tonnage from
the Alabama centers of supply, ant
with the augmented exporting on the
part of the Illinois Central, the G. F
& A. gives promise of Immediately
coming into her own.