The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-15
SOME PENSACOLA ASSETS.

Knight ana wars FLORIDA IDEA ad-
vertisements, appearing in the Tam
pa papers weekly, boosting Florida
towns, are giving all parts of the state
some good publicity. Pensacola should
have place, particularly in the news
features that the advertisement are
playing up.
We might give publicity TO the fact
that Escambia county, by vote of the
judges at the state fair, so = far
stands as the best agricultural county
in the state, having carried off the.
blue ribbon last year, and more indi-
vidual first premiums the year before
than any other county:
That Escambia county will vote on
a two million dollar bond issue in a
few days.
That Pensacola will soon place on
the market bonds to the sum of $780,
900 for municipal docks.
That Pensacola has just completed
and turned over to the management
one of the most modern high density
cotton congresses in the South.
That advices have been received to
the effect that the United States gov
eminent is looking to this port as a
supply base for the Panama Canal
Zone.
That Pensacola has the greatest
naval air training station in the United
States and the most modern coast for
tifications on the Gulf or Florida
coast.
That Pensacola has the largest fish
market in the South, and the great
est snapper market in the world.
That Pensacola has in operation a
dry dock which is being patronized by
other Florida towns, notably Tampa,
one of the great ships of the Oscar
Daniels company having been docked
at the Bruce Dry docks.
That Pensacola has one of the larg-
est Chemical Fertilizer factories in the
South.
That Pensacola has the largest tur-
pentine products companies in the
South.
That Pensacola has the greatest
Gulf Beach in the South, and when the
road bonds are voted, will have one
of the greatest beach resorts in the
world.
That Pensacola has one of the best
hotels in the South, and under man
agement of one of the most progressive
hotel men in the United States, who is
interested in hotels from Michigan to
Florida, and who visited all Florida
cities, making Pensacola his choice,
strictly on the merits of the city and
it's location.
That the former manager of the San
al hoG uvha
Gambia county finishes it's Gulf Beach
Highway he will build a hotel on the
Gulf Beach, which will rival other
Florida hotels.
That the Pensacola spirit has made
these things possible and will make
other and better things possible.
Messrs. knight and Wall may not
care to give Pensacola so much pub
icity but at any rate these are few
OF the enterprises that we might men
ton to this progressive firm.
And we might add to these that PEN
sacola has the very best and purest
water in the state, by government
analysis. That we have just voted a
half million dollars for schools, and by
next fall will have one of the most
modern high schools in the state. That
we now. have one of the best high
school faculties, pay our teachers a
living wage. and are making many
school improvements. That we are a
community of churches; have active
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, live com
mercial body and in spite of public re-
ports to the contrary. that our death
rate during the past summer has been
one of the lowest in the state and in
the history of the county, this no
doubt partly due to the campaign
waged by the government, state and
authorities.
An of these are facts. They are
facts that we do not half appreciate.
and that we need to see set down
once in a while, to bring home to our
selves and others that we have one of
tn greatest cities in the South, and
one of vast possibilities.