The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-07
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| Dear Journal
! Burns, the Scotch poet, made a
| truthful statement when he said: "Oh!
Wad some power the gift to gee us,
| to see ourselves as others sees us, It
| would for many ills free us damnable
notions" read in your Journal an
able article on the dipping law and
that some owners of the range cattle
| are trying to get the law abolished. I
| am glad to see that the citizens of Es-
Gambia county are realizing the need
of Graduating the cattle tick and while
am no prophet. if you take the steps
| to do away, not alone as individuals,
but as a united body of citizens of
Escambia county and Pensacola, will
see that the legislators enact such
laws you will have no settlers or
homeseekers to come to your county.
They can't Oxford to come here to build
homes and engage in farming and
stock farming when tick-infested
stock, full of disease in cattle
and piney woods rooters go all over
the county and spread the disease
everywhere. Go through the woods and
find carcasses of cattle which have
been killed by the awful tick scattered
all over the woods and as the writer
said in your Journal not alone that
you can't ship or sell such stock, but
you are endangering health and
jeopardizing your life by using the
milk thoroughly impregnated with the
disease from these tick infested COWS
and the meat from such infected cat
tie is poison to the human being. The
best inducement to settle I'D your
county is to prove that your stock is
protected by law from infested range
stock and you are then on equal foot
ing with other counties, enabling YOU
to sell your stock, but as 1t is now it is
not possible to sell or ship and they
are unfit for food. If the citizens of
Escambia county, including Pensacola,
wish to attract settlers and homeseek-
ers, see to it that you enact laws that
Will make it safe for commerce to
make investments in farming. stock
raising and general farming. Let it
be known that we have the finest soil
and climate in the United States for
any line Of general or particular farm
ing Of all kinds Of vegetables from a
cabbage to an onion and for potatoes,
sweet and Irish, fruits Of all kinds
from a peach to an orange, all kinds
OF berries and nuts. pecans and wal
nuts, in fact everything and that two
crops Of corn and potatoes and of all
and any can be raised a year. There
should be a competent man appointed
to be under supervision of your county
demonstration, thoroughly COM
petent man. and let a public printed
official report be made of the various
products Of your county and you will
have settlers and homeseekers come
here and make their homes. I wish II
had the gift to impress the citizens
with the Importance of the public
spirit necessary to start the various
industries required here to build up
your county and city. There is as
much capital owned by the citizens
OF Escambia county as is owned by
any other citizens Of any other county
in our state, but there is nothing done
to improve the condition or start the
manifold enterprises now laying DOR
mant. There is an old adage. but a |
true one, ACTIONS speak louder than
words" and don't forget that Pensa-
cola, Escambia county, possessesI
blessings that other portions of our
state haven't got We have the great |
est seaport in the United States. q |
harbor possessed by no other port in |
the United States, landlocked deem
water. room to accommodate hundreds
OF ships, deep water on the bar that |
will permit the deepest draft ship to |
enter and depart without delay and |
the only seaport where vessels can be
alongside Of a dock within an hour
from time Of entering the harbor and
be outside in the gulf in an hour when
loaded. leaving tho respective dock and
Pensacola. I am sorry to say that I
Pensacola is the only seaport that has
not got q single dock or wharf that
belongs to the city. in other words
the municipal dock. Not more than
seven months ago $3.50, O00.eO was sent
away from Pensacola because there
was no dock or warehouse for them to
come to and discharge the cargo. The
railroad. at that time, had TO place at
their docks and not alone the cargo
went to other cities, but the loss of
S15O,000.00 in disbursements was lost.
The East coast of Florida has the
docks, Jacksonville has two
and couple a months ago s4O0, 000.0 90
invested again in its third municipal
dock; Tampa has four, st. Petersburg
two. and these places are miles fnom
tho gulf and the Atlantic requiring
thousands upon thousands OF dollars
constantly expended to maintain a
channel of sufficient depth for the
vessels to come and go. These cities
mentioned have factories of all kinds
and canneries, canning corn, tomatoes.
beans, peas, Intoxicating tobacco and
cigars they have also paper mills, fruit