The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-30
ASK CONGRESS TO
COMPLETE LINK
Concurrent Resolution Passes House Re.
questIno Terminal Belt Line
Be Finished.
(ey JOHN c. TRIcE.)

TALLAHASSEE, May 29-Messrs. Car.
roll and Rowland of Escambia county
yesterday got the house to adopt a con-
current resolution requesting the senators
and representatives of Florida in the
congress of the United States to bring
to the attention of the congress the ne
cessity for pushing to an early compile.
ton the link Of the Terminal Belt Line
so as to connect the Naval Air Station
the Navy Yard and Fort Barrancas. The
resolution is as follows:
WHEREAS. The Citizens Of Pensacola
have voted s400.000.o0 of Municipal Bonds
to be expended in building Docks and
a Belt Line Railway. both of which inn
provements are necessary and required
to improve facilities, and make useful
the City's Superior Harbor for its IN
creasing volume of commerce; and
WHEREAS: There has already been
expended a large sum in construction OF
a Terminal Line of Railway, that WIN
connect all the industries of Pensacola,
by Common Carrier line OF raiiroao
with the Naval Air Station'-the Navy
Yard-and Fort Barrancas-and the H. :
900 miles of railway lines now terminal
ing at Mobile; and.
WHEREAS: Completion of this TERM
inal Belt Line, of which 81 miles are
now In operation, will provide direct
continuous Common Carrier line of trans
portation between the Warrior River In :
land Waterway for all materials and
supplies originating in the Birmingham
mineral district. and for quartermasters
and other SUPPLIES required at the Navy
Yard from localities south and east OF
Mobile; and
WHEREAS: Completion of this Term
inal and Belt Line. will substitute 81
miles OF rail transportation for a present
minimum of 25S miles of rail transporta-
ton. that connect the Naval Air Station
and Navy Yard with Birmingham and
the great government owned fabricating
plant at Fairfield. Alabama: and
WHEREAS: Completion of this Belt
Line Terminal will shorten the rail haul
distance so miles. between the Naval Air
Station and all localities west and south
of Mobile, from which quartermasters'
and other supplies required at the Navy
Yard. are now hauled; and
WHEREAS: Cooperation with this
Terminal Belt Line will augment the
revenue earned by operation of the War
rior River Inland Waterway by trans
porting commercial commodities. in addi-
ton to the tonnage required to and from
the Naval Air Station; and
WHEREAS: Completion and operation
of this Terminal Belt Line is plainly
necessary and required, for correction of
practiced by existing railroad lines,
which collect the tolls for A miles of
extra distance. on all traffic in COM
modities to and from F-loridas 5000 miles
of railroad, and from Pensacola's 10000
citizens.
THEREFORE,: Be it resolved by the
House of REPRESENTATIVES of the State of
Florida the Senate concurring, that the
Senators and Representatives from this
State are hereby respectfully requested
to submit to Congress the demonstrable
and unInistakable necessity for pushing
to an early completion this link of Term
inal Belt Line, so essential for economical
transportation to the Naval Air Station.
and the foreign and domestic commercial
needs of 10000 citizens of Pensacola.
RESOLVED FURTHER: That the Sec
rotary OF State be, and that he is here
by directed to furnish copy of these
resolutions, under the seal of the State
to each one of the Senators and Repre-
sentatives of the State of Florida, in
Congress of the United States; and that
he also is hereby directed to furnish fifty
copies to Nthe Chamber of Com
merce of the City of Pensacola.