The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-12
WAKE UP, PENSACOLA

of the Kiwanis Club and other organ
lizations and individuals in Pensacola
in the completion of the high density
Icotton compress is one of the most
important ever undertaken by citizens
of Pensacola. 1t is not too much TO
say that upon 1t the future OF this
,port very largely depends.
There is continual talk Of more en-
! terprises for Pensacola, but unless we
support such enterprises as are al
ready ours, what possible use can
there be of inaugurating new move
ments? The high density cotton COM
press is already well underway For
some reason, difficult to determine, it
has been hanging fire for months. 1t
is now up to Pensacola to put this
enterprise over or to acknowledge
that we have been so short sighted as
| to have beaten ourselves out of our
own best bet.
| The Pensacola lumber market is
rapidly being depleted. There is no
lumber market here, compared to that
of former years. The naval stores may
be said to be almost exhausted. The
back country has not yet been brought
into such state of cultivation as to
insure any large returns
| Cotton, then, is to be Pensacola's main
dependence as an export. And it is
impossible to ship a cargo of cotton
from any port without modern facil-
tiles. The modern high density cotton
compress has made cotton the most
practicable of all measurement goods,
and its light weight and, through dem
sity compression. its small bulk, makes
1t the best possible cargo to offset the
heavier shipments of iron and steel.
For a number of years now Pensacola
has been boasting of it's wonderful nat
ural advantages. And these advantages
cannot be disclaimed by any man. But
while we have boosted of these ad-
lvantages, with nothing to compare
with what we have here, has built up a
wonderful world trade. Mobile has
two modern high density cotton COM
presses. 1t is nothing unusual for
that port to have forty vessels in
port in one day. The city of Jack
sonville has recently made arrange
ments for high density press. also.
Pensacola lacks facilities. There is
mo gainsaying that statement. It is
useless to urge ships to enter this port
unless we are going to give them car
go after they get here And how can
we furnish cargo without the adequate
facilities?
| Cotton is today the most valuable
cargo in the world. 1t takes less space
when high densitied than does any
other measurement cargo. If we fail
to put through this big enterprise
that we have undertaken, we shall be
deliberately giving to Mobile and
Jacksonville such advantages as will
not only put those cities forward, but
will throw this city back for many
years.
A prominent business man, long
identified with the interests of this
port, in speaking Of the importance If
this movement, said: 1T is not too
much to say that upon it depends PEN
sacola's entire future. With the lum-
Der and naval stores almost entirely
gone, cotton cargo is Pensacola's great
est asset. But cotton cannot be
shipped unless high densitied. Com
pressed in a modern high density
press, 1t Is the best measurement car
go and facilities for its compression
and handling would put Pensacola for
ward many years.
| 1t is up to the people of Pensacola.
The money is here il we choose to IN
vest 1t. The high density compress
| is one of the best investments tnat
Pensacola has ever had to offer.
| At the recent convention of the
American Manufacturers Association,
the keynote of the meeting was Ed Il
cation. AS an illustration, attention
was called to the use of mechanical
farming equipment in the west and the
lack of it in the south.
| The fact that the south has been
| slow to seize upon modern equipment
| of any kind. is one very potent rea-
son for it's slow rate of progress for a
number of years.
| The old way of pressing cotton
must go, along with other antedelu-
Wan methods employed by the south.
Cotton cargo today must measure up
to government requirements. Cotton
| is the most valuable of all measure
ment cargoes. Pensacola should be the
greatest cotton market of the south,
with its proximity to Georgia. Ten
Inessee. and Alabama. Cotton was re-
Gently quoted at sixty cents for mid
ding. Prices have never been so
| high, the cotton cargo has never been
SO valuable. And. If one may judge
from the tenor of reports from cotton
lassocia atoms throughout the United
States. cotton is not likely to depre-
ciate in value.
The cotton growers have at last got
ten on to the fact that the manufac-
turers' have been making most of the
money. The people have gotten on to
the fact that high priced cotton means
good times for ev- xybody.
| Cotton keeps the balance of trade in
favor of the United States. 1t is the
greatest American commodity for ex-
port This should be the great Amer
lean cotton export market. 1t is adj
mirably situated to meet conditions of
world trade. but for one thing. We