The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-24
Pensacola Will Then Be in Posi-
tion to Compete as Cotton Port
With Mobile, Brunswick and
New Orleans.
MEANS MORE SHIPS
WILL CARGO HERE
Shipping Board Vessels, Leyland
and Harrison Liners Can All
Be Given Full Cargoes at
Pensacola.

Contracts with the Webb High Den
sity Cotton Press company were closed
vest lay by the Pensacola Cotton
Compress company and compression
plant is now certainty for Pensacola.
II am happier today than / have been
for 20 years., +. G.. Carter said. I'VE
are now going to be in a position to
compete with Mobile. New Orleans and
Jacksonville, and shipping will be giv-
en- big boost"
II. III. Thornton, secretary and treas
urer of the new company said TT was
a hard pull We had lot of under
handed opposition but we gritted our
teeth and put it over"
The high density compress for Pensa-
cola means that vessels of the Ship
ping Board fleet which otherwise
would not have come to this port will
now be alIocated here to receive cargo.
The capacity of the compress will be
100000 high density bales year "a
In signing the contract, the Webb
Compress company agreed to have the
press in operation by December 10,
possibly two weeks earlier. The loca-
ton of the new compress has not been
definitely located, but it win be in the
neighborhood OF the old Atlantic press,
on both the G.. f. a A. and l.. & n.
lines.
Cotton for compression will come
from South Alabama. West Florida,
along the lines of both roads, embrace
ing 700 miles of territory. No COM
presses are located I'm this territory and
freight rates are favorable to Pensacola.
The territory is strictly an export one
and normally markets 100000 bales of
cotton.
h ,4wn.
compression will be received from the
greater part of NorthAlabama, North
Mississippi, Tennessee, includingMem-
phis and the Memphis district, and "A
large part of Arkansas. All of this
territory exports cotton and the rates
TO Pensacola are as favorable as TO
other ports.
Pensacola will get cotton from these
sections because other ports having
congresses are unable TO handle IL
High density congresses located on the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts are: Norfolk 3
Wilmington 2, Charlestown i, Savannah
g. Brunswick /, Jacksonville ], and one
being built, Mobile ]. New Orleans 0,
and one being built. over in Texas, en-
tirely outside of the local territory,
Houston Galveston and Texas City
have %.
Steamship lines represented here
include the Memphis line to the United
Kingdom, 10 ships; the Leyland and the
Harrison lines. Additional ships are TO
be alIocated here, including it Is ex-
pected. all the ships now building at
the Pensacola Shipbuilding company.
According to the cotton men, large
exporters who operate throughout Ala
bama, Mississippi. Tennessee and Ark
ansas will concentrate cotton at this
port. and having done so q large move
met of through cotton will come for
match marks and grades of cotton al
ready shipped here.
The local compress company will not
conduct any brokerage business, but
will have warehouses for the stowage
of large amounts of cotton.
Officers elected at yesterdays meet
ing are: George w. Howe, vice presi-
dent; H II. Thornton, secretary treas
,,rer. who with the following constitute
the board of directors: A. II. Mitchell,
f. @. Carter, Hunter Brown and l.. V.
Holsberry.