The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-22
FLORIDA MATERIAL
FOR STATE ROADS


The Tribune notices. with approval,
the apparent movement everywhere to
minimize the cost of excessive freight
charges by using material as near
home as possible There is a great
difference between doing this and de-
handing that a community shall use
nothing hut what in manu- "a ctured
tnere. For instance. The Tribune
might look over the news and book
STANDS OF Tampa and finding a large
number OF popular papers and maya
zines from other cities bedng sold,
might ask the board of trade, the
Rotary and the Kiwanis clubs to re-
solve that no papers or magazines
save those made in Tampa be bought
by Tampa men and women Tastes
differ. Not every man and woman in
Tampa, even, may be satisfied or suit
ed, by the papers and magazines made
in Tampa. They have right
to buy what suits them, regardless
of where it Is made But the great
majority of Tampans, men and wo-
men. will buy their home papers and
magazines first, because of their
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ism and loyalty that is in the people
The freight on road material and on
building material is exorbitant The
man who sells the sand for building
a Tampa church now IN process of
construction says he pays fifty cents
ton for the sand in Marion county
and more than three times that a ton
TO the railroads to haul it to Tampa
Counting the freight on the brick
from Birmingham or Augusta the
state highway department announces
1t will cost $4,000 a mile to build the
road OF brick between Jacksonville
and Lake City. Entirely too much!
1t is the freight charges that runs
1t up. Because of this condition which
confronts the department. condition
which requires two dollars for freight
to every dollar for material f. o. b.
the point of purchase-the department
Is seeking permission from the fed
era1 government to use material which
is Astounding in this state, and thus
save the expensive freight haul of
brick and other road material brought !
from distance. The federal govern |
ment Is invoked because it has appro-
priated a large sum OF federal money
for the building Of these state roads /
in connection with the states
From every standpoint 1t would APP
pear that the answer of the federal I
government must be Certainly; buy
where you can get it the cheapest" I
If Hillsborough county had been
forced to pay rail freight rates on all
the Tampa manufactured road paving
block it has used in its new fine
roads, Hillsborough county would
have fewer miles than 1t has by more .
than half. It was through the ability 4
of this county to get its road paving
material at home and without paying /
the railroads the high transportation /
cost for moving It, that this county
today stands with more miles of COM
pleted roads to its credit for the
money spent than any other county
in the South.
Properly made and laid, there is no
better paving material for Florida
roads than the material made from
the raw ingredients shipped mere by
schooner and steamer in bulk, and
made into the finished product. in
Tampa, and in other parts of the
state.
The secret OF Florida's keeping
ahead in the road building program
from now on win lie in Florida. using
it's own road material, and In Florida
making it's own paving surface as near
to the place where it is to be laid as
possible. The advance in rail rates
coming, means a heavy toll TO be +
taken from the road building funds
of state and federal government for
this state. It behooves Florida's state I
highway department to buy material
at home, and to use home made ma /
teriaI.a as much as possible.-Tampa +
Tribune.