COTTON WAREHOUSES. 



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year. Letters were sent to these companies to determine whether 

 they had actually constructed buildings, and if so, the storage capaci- 

 ties of these new warehouses. Replies were received which show 

 that 26 of the 41 companies have actually constructed buildings and 

 are doing a storage business. The reported capacity of these 26 

 warehouses is 53,250 bales. This is an increase of over 10 per cent in 

 the cotton storage space in the State, and 20 per cent in the number 

 of warehouses. It is certain that many other warehouses have been 

 constructed since that time, and, in all probability, a number of 

 persons who have not applied for charters are doing a storage busi- 

 ness. In view of the fact that these two investigations show such a 

 large increase in the apparent storage facilities in the autumn of 1914, 

 the estimate of 10 per cent as the average increase for the cotton belt 

 must appeal to everyone as being very conservative. 



ESTIMATED STORAGE CAPACITY OF COTTON-MILL WAREHOUSES. 



GEORGIA. 



In Georgia there are 151 cotton mills (Table VII) . Reports received 

 from 123 of these show that the total capacity of their warehouses is 

 398,875 bales of uncompressed cotton (see Table III). This is an 

 average of 3,317 bales per mill. Making the supposition that the 

 28 mills not reporting have warehouses of equal average capacity, 

 their total storage capacity is almost 100,000 bales. This, added to 

 the figures actually reported, would give a combined storage capacity 

 of almost 500,000 bales. In order to avoid any overestimation, it 

 has been assumed that only 15 of the 28 cotton mills have storage 

 houses and that the average capacity of these warehouses is 1,000 

 bales, or less than one-third the average capacity of those reporting. 

 This would give a total storage capacity of 15,000 bales. Adding this 

 to the 397,875 bales actually reported gives an estimated total 

 capacity for the mill warehouses of the State of 412,500 bales. Any 

 error that may exist in this estimate is on the conservative side. 



Table VII. — Estimated number and storage capacity of warehouses and cotton-mill ware- 

 houses now in use compared with the production of each State, in running bales, for 

 1913. 





Warehouses. 



Cotton mills. 



Combined 



storage 

 capacity. 



1913 pro- 



State. 



Number. 



Capacity 



in bales as 



offered. 



Number. 



Capacity 

 in flat 

 bales. 



duction in 



running 



bales. 





581 

 233 



51 

 1,089 

 200 

 167 

 149 

 120 

 337 



31 

 497 



30 



1,884,355 



965, 800 



357, 830 



1,693,280 



1,095,930 



1,525,810 



264, 446 



842,330 



1,363,560 



919,435 



2,513,324 



316, 580 



62 



6 



1 



151 



6 



18 



326 



7 



164 



27 



36 



19 



62, 000 



6,000 



1,000 



412, 500 



6,000 



18, 000 



400, 995 



7,000 



300, 000 



27, 000 



36, 000 



19,000 



1, 946, 355 



971, 800 



358, 830 



2, 105, 780 



1,101,930 



1,543,810 



665, 441 



849, 330 



1,663,560 



946, 435 



2, 549, 324 



335, 580 



1, 483, 669 





1,038,293 



66, 700 



2,346,237 



436, 865 



1,251,841 













842,499 





837, 995 

 1,418,704 







366, 786 





3, 773, 024 

 24,569 







95, 629 















Total 



3,485 



13, 742, 680 



823 



1, 295, 495 



15,038,175 



13,982,811 







