COTTON WAREHOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 



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line" companies. When a person is building a warehouse for private 

 use in which his own cotton will be stored largely, he can often 

 cut the public rate materially by having his storage house conform 

 very closely to the standard as outlined. It will be seen that this 

 particular type of warehouse wall save much in insurance rates, 

 .especially when it is used for private purposes, and it has many 

 advantages as a public storage house. 



STANDARD II.— COTTON WAREHOUSE OF FRAME CONSTRUCTION (DETACHED). 



In capacity, arrangement of doors, and general construction, 

 Standard II is exactly the same as Standard I. However, in Stand- 

 ard II each compartment is a separate warehouse. These houses 



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Fig. 2. — Cotton warehouse of frame construction — detached. 



must be placed at least 100 feet apart, and must be no nearer other 

 buildings than that distance. This avoids the use of brick division 

 walls. The ends, roof, floor, etc., are exactly the same as in Stand- 

 ard I, but the side walls are of wood. In this type, two board walls 

 and a space of 100 feet are substituted for the standard fire wall 

 separating the compartments in Standard I. The diagram (fig. 2) 

 shows three of these compartments properly arranged. The require- 

 ments for private fire protection are the same as in Standard I. 



