The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-20
LET'S PROVE UP.


attention 10 the fact that while P m
sacoIa Is the great mahogany port OF
Florida, this city has failed to take
ed in manufacturing mahogany logs
into furniture.
The Tampa Tribune comments on this,
and urges the people Of the state the
necessity Of utilizing those advantages
we possess over other states in the OPP
portunities for manufacturing raw ma
teriaIs imported into this country from
markets to the south OF US.
Many times The Journal has called
attention to the great advantages Pen
sacola possesses over other ports as q
manufacturing and distributing center,
and until this fact is brought home TO
every one Of us and acted upon in some
practical way, this city and section can
not take the place which is rightfuIly
ours in world commerce.
Pensacola's situation as a manufac-
turing and distributing center cannot
be surpassed. It's proximity TO the
steel and iron and hard wood Of Ala
banla and Tennessee; the esuability Of
its climate and the depth Of the land
locked harbor, make the location ideal
for such a centre.
Let us take for example farm ma
chinery; what city In the country is so
well adapted 10 the making Of farm
implements as Pensacola, with its
proximity to the steel and hardwood Of
Tennessee?
Factories for machinery, for furni-
ture. for various lines which would find
ready market to the south Of us would
find this the ideal location.
Recently the Havana News carried
an editorial regarding the sugar situa-
ton, the trend of which was that the
United States was being forced to take
some of it's own medicine. That the
articles exported from the United
States were 50 exorbitantiy high, as to
make it necessary for the Cubans TO
return the compliment by raising the
price Of their sugar crop, TO even things
up.
The two great American products
which are shipped to Cuba are shoes
and farm implements. If factories were
established in Pensacola for these two
articles of export, the short distance
from Cuba would make it possible to
put the price lower than from mar
ket hundreds Of miles to the west Of
us, with a long rail haul before sailing.
What, is needed, to make of Pensa-
cola a manufacturing centre? Capital.
Capital is the only thing necessary to
make this one of the greatest manu-
featuring cities in the country. g.,
What Pensacola needs most at this
time, then, is capital. How do men go
about getting capital when they wish to
form a private business? They borrow
on good security, or they sell stock in
their enterprise.
When Garrard Harris visited Pensa-
cola on the invitation of the Chamber
of Commerce. he left one idea behind
him which, il It could take root, would
mean a tremendous advantage to Pen
sacola. That was the organization of
cooperative companies for manufac-
turing and export. Men, by pooling
their interests, in this way could start
manufacturing on small scale branch
ing out, as the returns justified.
In some cities which have undertaken
such enterprises, one factory manu-
features various articles, all under the
same roof with each business an entity
in itself, but overhead and other ex-
penses cut in this way.
Pensacola has been the great naval
stores and lum Der market of the south,
but the forests are greatly depleted,
and in a few years II this section is
to continue to prosper, it must look to
new enterprises.
That is one reason for congratulation
on the organization of the high density
cotton compress, and for the ship build
ing plant, and for the chemical fer
tilizer company and the tax products
companies, which have taken the
stumps of the pine forests and liter
ally converted them into gold.
Every time a new enterprise locates
in Pensacola, there is reason for re-
joicing. For slowly but very surely the
old order changeth, and the day will
come when Pensacola and Escambia
county must look to something more
than timber and lumber and naval
stores for wealth.
1t would not be possible for Pensacola
or any of its organs to dwell too much
upon the natural advantages Of this
section. These advantages are what
capital are seeking; capital is the only
thing that is needed for development
Let US tell the world that we have the
city, in embryo, in the United
States. II capital can be attracted here
we shall prove our claim without any
litigation whatsoever.