COTTON WAREHOUSES. 



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was requested. From this list a careful estimate has been made of 

 the quantity in compressed cotton which these same warehouses 

 could store. A detailed study of the entire situation has been made 

 in order to ascertain which warehouses ordinarily receive flat cotton 

 and which receive compressed cotton. "Capacity as offered" in the 

 table represents the total number of bales which these warehouses 

 would hold, in the form in which it is usually offered, as thus esti- 

 mated. This table also shows the total number of warehouses in the 

 State, the number reporting, and the number not reporting. The 

 capacities entered in the table are for those warehouses which made 

 reports. 



Table III also shows the storage capacity of the warehouses 

 owned by cotton mills in Georgia and North Carolina. The data 

 upon which this table is based were secured directly from the mills. 

 A letter of inquiry was sent to all cotton mills in these States asking 

 for information regarding storage facilities, including the capacity of 

 their warehouses, and insurance rates. The table shows the number 

 of mills reporting, together with the total storage capacity of the 

 warehouses belonging to those of each State. 



Table III. — Number and storage capacity of warehouses in Georgia and North Carolina 

 (beginning of 1913-14 season). 



Kind of ware- 

 houses. 



State. 



Total 

 number 



Number 

 reporting. 



Number 

 not re- 

 porting. 



Capacity in bales. 2 



Flat. 



As offered. 



Com- 

 pressed. 



Public and pri- 

 vate. 



Cotton mill 



Do 



/Georgia 



\North Carolina, 



Georgia 



North Carolina. 



128 

 151 

 326 



668 

 114 

 123 



274 



322 

 14 

 28 

 52 



1,038,445 

 182, 705 

 397, 875 

 368, 495 



1, 281, 745 

 229, 205 



1, 746, 060 

 318, 855 



1 Data secured from warehouses. 



3 The totals given here include only the warehouses reporting. 



THE COTTON BELT IN GENERAL. 



Table IV (p. 14) gives the result of a letter of inquiry sent to the 

 county agents in the cotton-growing States. Written reports were 

 received from these agents which gave the names and storage capaci- 

 ties of the number of warehouses in each State entered in this table. 

 Some of these reports referred to cotton in the uncompressed form, 

 some to compressed bales, and still others did not indicate to which 

 form they referred. As a result of a careful estimate, there is shown 

 in one column the number of flat bales these warehouses could store, 

 and in another the number of compressed bales. The form in which 

 cotton is ordinarily offered for storage has also been determined as 

 nearly as possible, and the capacity as thus estimated is given under 

 the column headed "As offered." 



