The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11
Interesting Meeting at the
 Court House.
Montgomery Farmers Hear mn Address on Conditions in the Orient and Resolve Firmly on Ware
 house Project.

The Montgomery County Cotton Growers Association met and was in session for. over two hours yesterday in the county court house, and put new life into the project of building its own warehouses in this county. The farm CTS also listened to an eloquent and profound address by Col. A. A. Wiley, Congressman from the Second District.
 The speech of Colonel Wiley aimed at solution of the serious labor prob- lem of the South and the whole of the United States, and told of the vast pos- abilities for our trade with the Orient, especially in opening the cotton mar ket. He gave some of the salient points about the Chinese boycott that were established by his personal visit with Secretary Taft and his party on their recent trip. The relation of this boycott to the cotton industry of the South was impressed deeply upon his hearers by Colonel Wiley.
 At the conclusion of the speech of Colonel Wiley, the members of the As- sociation and visitors at the meeting began to consider the vital question of warehouses. Despite the almost prohibitive weather. there were at least fifty interested business men and farm- CTS in the gathering, representing sev- eral sections of the county.
 
 The warehouse project gives signs of undoubted success. Every time the plans are explained before an intelii- gent audience, as assembled yesterday, subscriptions begin to pour in upon Secretary Charles L. Gay of the county organization. The idea, as has been often explained, is to organize a stock company to build and own two or more warehouses in the city of Montgomery, rxxk1 Afy alI hA AAf nf hA county is marketed.
 It is intended that the majority of the stock shall be taken by the members of the Southern Cotton Association. There have already been between two and three thousand shares subscribed. These are mostly the subscriptions, too, of the remote beats of the county. A. P. Smith, representing the organiza- ton in Beat Is, appeared before the meeting yesterday and gave list to the Secretary of subscriptions amount ing to 400 shares. When a special meeting was held in that beat less than a month ago over 200 shares were sub- scribed in a single day.
 < A 'oon as the majority of the stock rHR.- proposed corporation is taken clerks. growers, the books will be a1s' to the general public. and it is predict, according to the state
 or the men DenlnQ the move 1Rthat the time will be short for ..sr..- a.szlxipg of the rest of the stock by
 zss men anywhere in the State.
 Committee Is Increased.
 give a second impetus to the :. yement, A. B. Brassell yesterday put a motion. which was adopted, that the conf ~ tee of five, appointed at a re- cerS Nass meeting in Montgomery, for e' rpose, be increased to twenty
 hese extra twenty members will G. ed by the Executive Committee rt- county association and are to
 scted for different parts of the ~SGht Work will begin anew on this project It Is a well-established fact that it will take farmers ware houses all over the South to insure better and stabler prices for cotton. To hold the staple effectively places where 1t may be stored without big costs to the producer must be provided. This Is the argument of the promoters of the movement and one of the most forceful claims they have to present seems to be that the storage and other warehouse charges for one year in Montgomery amount to as much as is needed to build those warehouses that are contemplated by the growers.
 President W. H. Vaughn opened the meeting a few minutes before 12 o'clock. Without delay he introduced