Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-06-13
Farmers Union Cotton Warehouse Plans.

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Farmers Union Cotton Warehouse Plans.
The following is COTTON up upon the
very simplest and cheapest plans for the
use of cooperative unions.
This plan is for one section, to which
may be added as many more sections at
times as may be required to accommo.
date the needs of the union.
Walls 100 feet long; IL feet tall at high
end, feet tall at lower end; space be-
tween walls, 80 feet Excavations should
be dug out to firm ground or clay Gf in
drained all round, good clay floor we'll
beaten down.
AS the cost of material in foundations
varies in different places our estimate for
cement walls are taken from about the
floor line.
Parapet walls may be required by in
surance companies whore more than one
section are put up together. but these
walls above the roof are of no benefit in
the way Of protection from fire on one
section cotton warehouse.
Estimates given here are for 1O-inch
hollow block for foundations and S-inch
block for walls, and all other material
that farmers do not usually have on their
farms.
All labor, sand for cement blocks and
the nine lO-inch round posts to rest Cir
ders on through the middle of the room,
are to be supplied by the farmers.
This style of cotton warehouse will
hold about 400 bales to each section. Two
round poles, l0inches in diameter, should
be placed undor each row of bales to pre-
vent capillary attraction of moisture
there at any time.
Remember this, that if lower ends of
bales are wet or moist when stored, that
in all cases this lower end will be dam
aged more or less, it matters not what
! kind of floor it rests on.
MATERIAL FOR ONE SECTION.
25 barrels Portland cement, 100 cubic
yards of sand, Is girders 3x12x25, POS
rafters 2x5x13, stills 4xex25-these NAV
be round; ground post 10 inches diameter,
perlines 2x4x25, 50 plank 1x12xS, 81
straps 1x4xS, 80 plank lx12x12, 81 straps
1x4x12, 5000 feet sheeting. Total amount
sawed lumber IL 900 feet.
At Sl.50 per 100 feet. :. .S165 10
% barrels cement at S1.S0. .. As 90
| Nails estimated Observation-Disclosures. 3 so
81 squares V-crimp iron roofing at
SZ.oO per square. re................ 127 so
One two-hand Hollow Block ce-
ment machine. Observation-Disclosures. 75 90
Estimated freight on machine.... 90
Total cost of bought material. S42O 40
This cement machine may be sold
for $50 when through with
CTeulI. ....... ..................... 1O 90
Net cost of bought material. 1910 40
Thus it is made plain to all union men
that by clubbing together they may put
up the cash S37O.40 for the bought mate
rial and do all the work, making the ce-
ment blocks and putting up their own
yp1fl fhnir l,l> 4. Al
cooperative plan, and have their ware
houses ready for this crop, if they will
go at it when through working crops.
For less money than it takes to pay for
good pair of mules farmers may 90 to
work in neighborly way and put up
their own Notifications now and get we'll
entrenched ready for the fighting that is
sure to come this fall to force cotton
farmers to turn loose their cotton at
prices that have always made all others
rich that handled cotton excepting the
men who toll most of all to produce this
cotton.
If this warehouse movement among
cotton growers progresses in gaining
strength and confidence among cotton
producers as time passes, as it is now do.
ing, we look for several thousand of these
cooperative warehouses to be put up this
summer.
When cotton producers get a great
chain of these warehouses linked together
in all the cotton States in bonded form
and produce their own farm supplies,
this concert of action in business way
will place this whole cotton proposition
upon firm foundation and insure con-
tinued prosperity, not only to cotton
growers, but it will also bring prosperity
to every industry in the South.
There is nothing new in this art of
making artificial stone or cement blocks
6y properly mixing sand and cement
This art is about as old as the country
But the recent improvements in the man-
ufacturing and consequent caeapening of
the cost of cement and the machinery for
forming these hollow blocks has reduced
the cost of this building material to such
an extent that it now looks like we are
into what might be called the cement or
concrete age.
These small hand power machines,
weighing from 400 pounds up and cost
ing from $50 up, may be set up at any
convenient place, and by following the
instructions sent out with these machines
most any intelligent man can make these
hollow blocks and put up these ware
house walls.
Any further information on this ware.
house subject may be had by any union
men that will address this bureau and
enclose stamped envelope for reply.