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THE NATURAL GATEWAY TO PANAMA CANAL'PORT LEADS TH CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA IS PENSACOLA WORLD 1P0RTS WHICH HOLDS ADVANTAGE OF ALL GULF PORTS MAHOGANY LOGS DEEP-WATER LANDLOCKED HARBOR AND NEARNESS TO OPEN SEA MAKES FOR SAVING TIME AND MONEY An Average of Thirty-three Feet of Water at All Times Covers the Entrance to the Gulfs Deep Water Harbor and Terminals Are Present for Handling the Largest Freighters Port Can Take Care of Three Times the Present Volume of Business Without Adding to. Facilities Al- 4 ready Possessed Three Hundred Thousand Square Feet of Closed Warehousing and Enormous Amount of Open Storage Is Available. Shipments In Four Months Time Places the Deep-Water Port Ahead of the World for Valuable Importation. PENSACOLA'S IMPORT AND EXPORT BUSINESS LEADS GULF PORTS EXCEPTING NEW ORLEANS AND OUTSTRIPS ALL FLORIDA TRADE OUTLETS SHIPPING COMPANIES GET BIG ALLOCATION OF EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION VESSELS - Never before In the nlstory of our - country has the question of ships, shipping and ocean terminal facilities . at our ports, occupied such a promi nent position in the mind of the Amer ican public America-s answer to tho U-boat campaign resulted In a scalo of ship construction unprecedented in the history of the world. Hundreds of shipyards were established, existing yards greatly extended and the ener gies of the nation directed to tho building of a vast fleet of cargo steamers, sufficient to handle the en tire commerce of the United States. To take care of the enormous Increase in trade which this new merchant marine will bring to our ports, the United States Shipping board formulated plans looking to a great expansion of America's existing wnarf and ocean terminal facilities. Tho congestion of traffic at the north Atlantic ports during the winter months, due among other things to the intense cold weather resulting In tne tying up of ships and rolling stock caused special attention to be direct to the gulf ports. The natural direction of traf fic moving for export or coastwise shipment from the southern states and the central west is south. Drop a plumb line from" Pensacola and graz ing Yucatan 4t will hit plumb in the center of Honduras. Give It a 45 de . gree angle to the west, without length ening the radius, it touches Vera Cruz, the importing center of Mexico. In cline the angle very slightly to the cast and barely missing Cuba, it will bit the Panama Canal. Latin-Amer ica e.ist and west coast that's our obvious market the great new world that o-fers vast opportunities, a coun try wiiich is only sparsely settled along the coast and rivers, and whose Interlo.-s have hardly been explored; that needs everything in unbelievable quantities. To satisfy this demand whien development really begins in Latin America enormous factories will be built all over the south. In addi tion the proximity of the port of Pen sacola to Central and South American countries, and the Panama Canal, which furnishes the quickest trans portation route for trafric between all the eastern and central portions of the United Staes ana the Pacific coast, Japan, China, and Russia, brings out the possibilities of trade and commerce with , these countries, which contain over one-third of the total population of the world, and are natural trade territories ror the United States. Pensacola "has been officially recognized by the shipping board as the shortest route to and, from tho Panama Canal. It is the logical ex port point for South American trade, large manufacturing plants could be profitably established here and a mag nificent maritime commerce built up between here and Latin America. Be ing closer to the big manufacturing centers of the Middle "NVeet this city offers to those shippers a quicker transportation of their products and a more direct route to South America and the Orient than any other Amer ican port. It has every advantage, insofar as natural facilities are con cerned end Is due to strike its stride , and take Its place among the Import ant ports of the south. "We have a 2.000 mile advantage in proximity over New York and a wonderful opportu nity of winning our rightful share of this trade. Determined efforts have been made on the part of the com mercial interests of every southern pert to convince the government au thorities that up to a certain point time may actually be saved by sending ships to the gulf where cargo may be taken without the loss of a single day. To some extent this effort has met with success. The recent ruling of the government on freight rates has re moved the discriminations against this pert and has made it possible for Pen r a cola to get export business which heretofore went to tne big eastern ports. i kjl me guar ports, tne nearest ports j qualified by depth of water, protection to shipping and general location as great export and Import points are the ports of Pensacola, New Orleans and Jlobile, Of these three ports, that of Pensacola is far superior, possessing strategic natural advantages over sll others on ths gulf. It possesses the only adequat. rut a and landlocked an chorage ground of any gulf port, of which there Is not less than six square miles opposite the city having a depth of from 32 feet to 56 feet greater than any port south of New York or New port News. "We have no . long or tor turous channel to be rollowed by ships to get to loading bertns nor do we have such a harbor as necessitates the NO. 1 Continued on Next Page From September 1, 1919, to Decem ber 21, 1919, the importation of ma hogany logs at Pensacola will amount to about 10,000,000 feet, equal to in the neighborhood of 22,600 tons, val ued approximately at $2,260,000. This far exceeds any other U. S. port and places Pensacola "wel in the lead in the Importation of mahogany logs. These logs are all imported by C. C. Mangel & Bro. Co., of Louisville, Ky., who arme undoubtedly the largest con cern of their kind In the world. They have their own camps m the widls of West Africa and Central America and their own organization cuts the ma hogany In the virgin forests, floats the logs down to the seacoast and loads them on vessels to be transported to Pensacola. The margin of profit on raw ma terials is always comparatively small and to make a success of a business of this kind, the greatest economy has to be practiced in evtry detail. Messrs Mengel have tried out various Atlantic and gulf ports but they have found that their logs can be handled more cheaply, more efficiently and to better adantage-at this port. This is con crete evidence that the natural ad vantages of Pensacola place us ahead of any other ports to a conspicuous degree and as we can handle mahog any logs to ,such better advantage, there is no reason why tvith the prop er development we cannot handle with the samt success other commodi ties which are Imported and exported in the United. States. . FREDERICK GDLLMORE. Regular Sailing of Vessels for Liverpool, South American and Continental European Ports Are Made By the Latest Type of Giant Freighters Bunkering Facilities Equal to Any Other In the Entire World Electric Coal Pier and Oil Bunkering Station, Huge Floating Drydock and Mammoth Shipbuilding Plant Puts the Natural Gateway to the Panama Canal in the Front Rank With the World's Greatest Seaports. Not in the history of Pensacola ha for it3 great ship building plant, Paul oiewart, now president of the plant, but at that time in the employ of the government, made a tour of the ports of the United States fo rthe purpose of comparing advantages for such a location, and made his choice of Pen sacola, which had never been regret ted, as In depth of water, climate and geographical location this harbor Is unsurpassed. In a recent Interview given to The Journal, the manager of the Aber thaw Construction Company, stated that he considered the port of Pensa cola the best in the south, and had been amazed at the wonderful oppor tunities here for world trade. The Aberthaw Company is employed In building the great dry docks now in course of construction by the Bruce Dry Dock Company. It was recently stated by an officer of high rank in the navy, that no port in the country. In his estima tion, compares in its advantages as a naval base to that of Pensacola. He declared that three hundred torpedo destroyers could be mobilized here at one time. This man, had been in the navy from boyhood and had made the ports of the world; he was familiar with every harbor of any consequence on the seven seas, yet he gave it as opinion that In natural advantages, Pensacola ranks them all. The location of fuel oil stations at this port by the Texas Oil Company Is another indication of the increase in business; not only Is oil used for merchant ships, but newly construct ed vessels of the United States navy, particularly those of the destroyer type, are oil-burners. port development been so marked as for the past two years, during which i time war conditions, and development due to increase of maritime trade, have placed this harbor in the forefront of Southern ports. But the commerce of the past months, and the interests which have already been centered here, are but slight indication of the re sults to be attained, if Pensacola reached out for the commerce which Is rightfully hers, and takes advantage of the opportunities for trade expan sion, offered by natural facilities and location. Pensacola's export and Import busi ness is in excess of any other port on the gulf, with the exception of New Orleans, and far ahead of any port In Florida, figures sent outthaoinaoinnnn toms office at Tampa several months ago, showing this port more than one million ahead of Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami combined. The recent allocation of more than twenty ships of the United States Emergency Fleet corporation to this port, and the increase In export and import trade, have been among the most recent evidences of port activity, but aside from these factors in port development, Pensacola may lay claim to much along industrial lines which is directly the result of the advantages possessed by this harbor. In a public speech, Frank Cren shaw, assistant manager of the Pen sacola Ship Bulling plant, declared J that before the Emergency Fleet cor poration chose Pensacola as the site Another forward step In develop ment, is the location of a high density cotton compress for this port, the first payment upon which has already been made, and the location for which has been chosen. The bunker facilities of Pensacola are unequalled anywhere south of Newport News, the great terminals terminals of the Gulf Pensacola and Northern Railroad, formerly the G. F. & A., and those of the Louisville and Nashville, handling coal in the most mw'.ern way and with the least possible expenditure of time or man-power. Vessels from New Orleans, Mobile avd other Gulf ports, after taking cargo elsewhere, constantly come here to bunker, In addition, to those loaded here. "While the Pensacola Naval Air Sta tion could hardly be looked upon as a harbor asset, yet it is due to the splendid harbor, as well as to the geo graphical location and equable climate, that the station Is the largest naval air training station in the country, and has recently added to its equip ment a free balloon school, which will be the ranking school for lighter than . air work. The fortifications that defend the harbor of Pensacola are the most modern batteries extant and the for tifications were strengthened In every way, until today they rank with any on the continent. The army garrison and the forts not only add to the In terest of the harbor, but to its value in a commercial way, as it gives to t every industry a sense of security. No. 2 Continued on Next Page ' t