Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-01-26
COTTON GROWERS
MEETING AT WORK
Advised to Build Warehouses
For Storage # Staple.
PRESIDENT JORDAN IN CHAIR
Excellent System of Dividing Up Work
of Convention q Great HeIp-Com'
mittees Hard at Work-s2, 900 Raised
to Print Report of Meeting.

of Convention Great Hep-Com'
mttees Hard at Work-S2, 900 Raised
to Print Report of Meeting.
New Orleans, Jan. 25.-The excel
lent system of division of the work OF
the Southern Interstate Cotton conven.
tiOn among a large number of special
ly selected committees has made il
possible to do most of the important
work outside of the convention hall
and to minimize the opportunities for
fighting on the floor The principal
committees went Immediately to work
last night and two or three of them
burned considerable midnight oil with
the result that the convention was
slow in assembling for its morning
session today. The forenoon program
embraced three set addresses with pro
vision for so minutes discussion Of
each topic presented.
President Jordan presided. The
proceedings opened with an address
on a plan for practical and profitable
storing of cotton in warehouses in the
South by Hon. E. X. SummerWell, OF
New York a prominent corporation
lawyer who, representing the Ameri
can Warehousemen's association, con
Quoted the free storage" cases before
the interstate commerce commission
Mr.. Summerwell said in part:
Il advocate as the true solution OF
the question before us the storing Of
cotton at natural points by local ware
through a general storage warrant
company, which shall provide for them
uniform receipts and methods and ex-
ercise over them such supervision as
may justly inspire confidence in them
and make their receipts good collater
al the world over.
The natural storage points are not
the villages or hamlets where a few
bales are marketed, but the concen
tration points where an ample supply
warrants the erection of standard
modern, sprinkler-system warehouses;
Any other are worse than useless. In
5urance rates alone prohibit their use
Until within recent years the cost Of
sprinkler appliances and standard con
struction stood somewhat in the way,
but now, with reinforced concrete
slow-burning materials and sharp com
petition in sprinkler-systems, a first
class warehouse for 10000 bales can
be fully equipped and operated with
ample grounds in a good location with
not over $4,000 capital and the invest
ment becomes a profitable one at once
Built on the compartment plan, the
warehouse is available for general
storage when not needed for cotton
and the system on the whole is of the
highest value to every fair-sized town
and city of the south"
On motion of Hon. ]. Pope Brown,
of Georgia, a finance committee was
ordered created to raise $4,000 to cov
er the cost of distribution of the re-
ports of the proceedings. President
Jordan said the merchants of New
Orleans offered to give $1,000 of the
amount required The convention
promptly raised it's pro rata.
President Jordan read the following
important telegram from Director
North, of the census bureau:
Accept my thanks for invitation to
address cotton growers convention
1t does not seem necessary that the
census office should be represented
there. It's position has been made
perfectly plain in my letter to Con
gresham BurIeson. If cotton planters
do not want these ginners' reports con-
tinued, and are unwilling to cooperate
heartily to maintain and perfect them,
the reports will be abandoned after
this season.
Affirmative action by the conyen-
tion approving these reports would
greatly aid the census bureau in its
efforts to carry out the law"
The telegram was referred to the
committee on statistics.
President Jordan announced that he
had wired to Mr.. North asking him to
telegraph the convention not later than
tomorrow at noon, the ginners' report
made up to Jan. 16, information of
great Importance which he believed
the convention desired.
A motion by Mr.. Clanahan, of Louisi-
ana, was adopted for the appointment
of a committee to invite ex-Congress-
man Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia,
to address the convention.
After listening to an address by Mr.
J. H. Dargan, of the Georgia, Cotton
Warehouse insurance, the convention
tool. a recess until the afternoon.