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and as these warehouses which he had Hcensed were in leased huikiings 

 he decided he couhl not afford to take the risk of a loss this year, so 

 he did not renew his licenses when they expired: in fact, he asked that 

 some he canceled. The same thing is true of grain. In grain we 

 had one case where a warehouseman had 68 licenses last year and this 

 year, due to cooperative movements in that particular section and 

 the movement of grain for export, he difl not renew his licenses on 

 more than about 34. His warehouses were in leased buildings and 

 he could not afford to take the risk of a loss. 



Mr. Anderson. Are these terminal warehouses as a rule ? 



Mr. YoiiE. No; they are practically all at comitry points. We 

 have not gone into terminal territory as yet. We have one rather 

 large wareliouse, which is terminal in nature, at Davenport and an- 

 other at Fort Worth, with a capacity to accommodate about 1,000,000 

 bushels. We have one at Mansfield, Ohio, and we have now pending 

 an application from the Mill and E)levator Association of North Da- 

 kota for the licensing of the warehouse at Grand Forks, which has 

 a capacity of about 2,000,000 bushels. If we once begin to get appli- 

 cations from these terminal warehouses, it is going to make very 

 heavy inroads into our appropriations, because it will practicallv 

 mean that we will have to station one man continuously at such 

 terminal warehouses. 



I do not know whether the committee would care to see how the 

 work is going with respect to the large warehouses, but your inquiry 

 with respect to termmal warehouses prompts me to place in the 

 record some figures with respect to how the large cotton warehouse- 

 men are availing themselves of the act. As you probably recall, in 

 the first few years most of the cotton warehouses were o\^^led by 

 small operators, but now we have a ^reat many ranging from 4,000 

 bales' capacity up to 165,000 bales. I shall be very glad to give the 

 clerk the figures to place in the record. 



(The figures referred to follow:) 



Number and capacity of warehouses. 



Number of Number of , 

 warehouses , warehouses , Capacity 

 May 1, I Nov. 20, in Dales. 

 1922. 1922. 



14 

 7 

 3 

 1 

 3 

 1 



11 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



10 

 21 

 8 

 6 

 2 

 5 

 1 

 17 



4,000 

 5,000 

 6,000 

 7,000 

 7,500 

 8,000 

 9,000 

 10,0(X) 



io,r.oo 



11,000 



wjm 



12, (MX) 



i:{,(MX) 



II, (MM) 

 1.">,(MM) 

 115,000 



Number of 



warehouses 



Mav 1, 



1922. 



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Mr. YoiiE. I might state tluit the tremendous increase in this 

 work in the last two years, and j)arli(ularly in the past year, is due, 

 in a measure, to the influence of these cooperative associations. Take 



