The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-29
COMPRESS WILL
BE- GREAT ASSET
Subscriptions to Balance of
Stock Will Be Taken
Immediately.
NEED is KEENLY FELT
Added Port Facility Will Materi-
ally Increase Local Ship
ping Buisenss.
NEED is KEENLY FELT

The committee of business men back
Of the movement for a high density
cotton compress for this port, have
about completed all arrangements for
its location here and in a few days
the committee on finance will make an
intensive campaign for securing addi-
tional subscribers to the one hundred
thousand dollars worth of stock for
which the company is incorporated.
Practically all vessels are now de-
manding high density cotton. although
centage of standard cotton to be ship
ped in their vessels, when high density
cotton can not be obtained.
There are several large steamers. of
approximately twenty thousand bales
capacity, each consigned to Pensacola.
to lead cotton for Liverpool, but there
is great difficulty in obtaining cotton
for these vessels, on account Of there
not being a high density press at this
port. The high density presses at the
interior pointshaye more cotton than
they can possibly handle.
Recently a Pensacola firm had a
shipment of 1920 bales booked, and the
shippers had expected to high density
this cargo at Memphis, but later found
that the presses there could not touch
it under thirty or fory days. and
would no guarantee to then. Although
they tried all over the country. they
could not get it high densitied any
where, not even in New Orleans, where
there are a number of high density
presses.
This is mentioned in order to show
that to get the cotton business out of
this port, it is imperative to have a
high density press and in order to get
steamers, we must be able to offer
cotton.
Outside of this, there is a great deal
or cotton grown in this territory that
has always came to Pensacola, and
which has been lost in the last few
years, by not having the transporta-
ton facilities to handle it. 1t will be
impossible to get interior shippers to
assemble their cotton at Pensacola un-
less we have the water TRANSFORMATION
and good modern compress and
warehouse. In order to get steamships.
1t Is necessary to get cotton, and in
order to get cotton. we must have a
high density press. II is the opinion
of shippers here that steamships will
ton, as standard cotton takes 30 feet to
stow, and high density only % feet
1t is the experience of those ports
which have handled high density cot
ton, that the compress is a paving
proposition from the start
In letter to the kiwanis Club writ
ten earlier in the season ]. II. Fraser.
manager of the then Gulf. Florida and
Alabama railway, said: 1--WE now have
en- route via our line, ten thousands
bales of cotton, all of which is coming
from Northern Alabama, Northern
Mississippi, and Memphis points.
where the freight rates are the same
as TO New Orleans, Pensacola and Mo-
bile. We have had opportunity of
handling thirty thousand bales for the
u > steamships Newberg and Cush-
noe, II we could have pressed this cot
ton high density at Pensacola.
If your committee, in co-operation
with others, should succeed in estab-
fishing a high density compress at this
port, we know that we can secure for
the compress, quite a large volume of
cotton.
In letter to a member OF a local
cotton firm, New Orleans firm
writes: If cotton should be offering
landed IN Pensacola in sufficient quan-
titles, it is not impossible that we can
put one of our japanese boats over
there. They would call for 5000 to
5000 bales.
The following report on the high
density press and it's possibilities has
been made for the benefit of the public
and stockholders:
Proposed Compress and Warehouses
TO be Erected at Pensacola.
Webb High Density Compress
(Which can also do stan
dard pressing1 erected
complete in all details for
operation -..s 100000
Land (estimated) -... 100000
Building Press room 100 by
100 .-............. 100000
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