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AIRPLANE VIEW OF PENSACOLA AND THE WATERFRONT
No other port on the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic can boast better terminal facilities or deeper water. All slips at piers an d docks are dredged to 28 feet or better at mean low water.
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
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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.
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