Berdiansk — The normal grain export of this port is 400,000 tons yearly. About 

 fifteen per cent, of this quantity is loaded from the cars directly to the steamers, and the 

 total need of grain warehouses is estimated for this port at 60,000 tons. The existing 

 storehouses are rather temporary, and, therefore, the port needs an elevator with a 

 capacity of 35,000 tons, which could be enlarged later by an additional elevator of 25,000 

 tons> 



Mariupol needs an elevator of 50,000 tons. Because of the planned improvements 

 of this port its trade must grow, and it will soon need another elevator of the same 

 capacity. With planned improvements of the port and building of the elevators, the 

 export trade of Mariupol is expected to reach 800,000 tons of grain annually. 



Taganrog — It is planned to build an elevator of 35,000 tons capacity and ware- 

 houses with capacity of 50,000 tons. 



Rostov — The normal export trade of grain is about 1 ,600,000 tons annually. About 

 340,000 tons, or sixty per cent, of the grain imported by river, and 170,000 tons, or 

 twenty-five per cent, of the grain imported by railroad, are loaded directly from the 

 barges and cars. There is in the port a private elevator, with a capacity of 13,500 

 tons, and warehouses with a capacity of about 115,000 tons. It is proposed to build 

 on the new wharf two new elevators of 25,000 tons capacity each, and, in addition, two 

 groups of well equipped warehouses with a total capacity of 50,000 tons. The project 

 forsees also that, after the actual work of equipping the river Donets with locks is 

 finished, it will be necessary to build here an additional elevator of 17,000 tons capacity. 



Novorossiisk — The normal annual export of grain is more than 1,000,000 tons. 

 Twenty-five per cent, of the exported grain is loaded directly from the cars. The 

 remainder of the grain needs warehouses of 130,000 tons capacity. The capacity of 

 the existing elevator (the largest in Russia) and other grain warehouses is about 90,000 

 tons. The remaining 40,000 tons will be more than covered by the obligatory building 

 by the Vladicaucasus Railway of a second elevator with a capacity of 50,000 tons. 



If we add the needs of the ports of Azov, Eisk, Temruk and Kertch, we may admit 

 the total immediate need of our ports as 



Elevators 6,000,000 tons 



Well equipped warehouses 170,000 tons 



The average cost of construction of elevators is estimated at $18.00 per ton of 

 capacity, and of well equipped warehouses $10.00 per ten of capacity. 



If we admit that the project overestimated the work of the elevators and that the 

 elevators will be filled not six, but five times in a year, and the warehouses four times in 

 a year, the quantity of grain served yearly by the present and proposed grain storehouses 

 will be, in round numbers: 



Proposed elevators 3,000,000 tons 



Proposed warehouses 650,000 tons 



Present existing elevators. 1,650,000 tons 



Total 5,300,000 tons 



or, approximately, five million tons, or more than one-half of the actual sea export. 



The Ministry of Trade and Industry asked, for this purpose, a credit of 25,000,000 

 Rubles ($12,500,000.00). We have no information at hand concerning the subsequent 

 fate of the above mentioned project of the Ministry of Trade. 



Actually the work of building a network of elevators in the country is in the hands 

 of the State Bank, a Department of the Ministry of Finances. The latest information 

 we have upon the activity of the State Bank in this direction we take from the "News 



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