The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-24

one hour from entering the harbor car
| be alongside any dock or wharf to dis
charge their cargo and can take bum
coal at the same time, and in one +
from leaving this dock she can be out
side in the gulf; no sandbars or mud
flats or crooked channels and other OBJ
structions; can enter or leave night OF
day: no rehandHng OF cargoes, right
from the cars into the ships. and from
the ships to the cars, or right in the
warehouses; no waiting for tides
plenty of water on the bar for the
deepest draught ships, and a universal
depth in the bay of 40 feet; a com
pleteIy landloCked harbor sheltered
from the storms of the gulf by Santa
Rosa island, which towers above the
gulf up to 100 to 200 feet high sand
hills. such being the bright outlook,
the brightest Pensacola has expert
enced in more than half a century, and
in my experience of Sc years. it should
animate every man, woman to bury
mannana Spanish for tomorrow so
deep that there will never be any
resurrection and each individual work
together for the common good. and
when you find knockers. who from
some reason, either political or other
wise, stand in the way OF universal
progress for your city and county, take
Immediate steps and invite such cattle
to make their abode in some other
city, as their absence will be a bless
ing; all human beings are made by
the heavenly Father to depend on one
another; no one can stand alone; there
must be constant corporation from
the cradle to the grave: this being so,
It tehooves ell to wcrIl in earnest ana
do her or his part in building up your
city and county; help one another to
stand shoulder to shoulder and fight
every obstacle that stands in the way
of Pensacola and Escambia's progress,
and remember rhe heavenly Father has
showered on your city and county the
richest blessings that could be given
to any county, the blessings Of health,
the surroundings that make health
pure air coming constantly from the
great Gulf Of Mexico impregnated with
the ozone Of the salt air, pure drinking
water in the United States and Won
der surroundings; high rolling country
lofty hills, no swamps or low marshy
lands, or malaria1 infected districts;
wonderfully productive and soil yield
ing 100 per cent in grain, forage crops
and all kinds of fruits, berries and
nuts; the water all about stocked with
the finest oysters and shrimps and all
kinds of sea food.
Without fear of contradiction, have
been all over the world in every cline
and have here continually in Florida,
my Florida. for Sc years, and 7 have
never found any place that can com
pare in everything to make life worth
living and working for like Pensacola,
Escambia county, The Shuiluota Tin
dian name for "Beautiful'), nor any
place If any person will use their ener-
gy. brains and will power that he or
she will have to use away from our
southland. that they can live better
and longer and happier with less out
lay in capital than in any place in the
United States; such being the indis-
putable facts, it becomes the solemn
duty Of every citizen to work together
for the common good.
Thanking the Great Creator for all
his wonderful blessings and let each
individual use every lawful means to
make this wonderful old Pensacola
larger and better city and larger and
better Escambia county.
Talk about It. write about It, sing