Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
WORLDS RICHEST STOREHOUSES
TO BE RUN BY GOVERNMENT
Arranging Control London Docks Away From Private
Owners Buying Property Worth Two Hundred Millions and
Trying Huge Experiment n State Socialism,

/ when fully laden. 81 to 81 feet. have 10
| wait for deep water on the bar at New
| York there always is 43 feet Of water
at the entrance to the port of London,
and plenty OF depth when the vessel
reaches the dockside, At southampton
big ships rest on the mud at low tide,
and they cannot get up To- Hamburg
on Antwerp at all.
MILLIONS IN IVORY.
So much for the size. depth and ac-
commoCation of the London docks. but
there Is another phase of the question
still more surprising quantity ana
value of the materials which reach
London In the great warehouses
which line the docksde you see ms
terials gathered IRON the four corners
of tho earth For example, IN going
over the docks recently, accompanied
by one of the officials the writer was
shown n warehouse which contained
nothing but ivory. Spread out on the
floor were literally thousands of Gle
plants uusks from Africa, India and
CeylOn, little tusks, big tusks long
ones, short ones, tusks from fossil ole-
plants, from mammoths, from baby
misunderstanding into the dim dis
lance of the immense floor space almost
as far as the eye could reach. Many OF
the individual tusks weighed $50
bbhllNN, anu SUM were lllll' l'tl lode
As crude ivory Is worth about 81 par
pound, each of these tusts would bring
$3.50 IN the wholesale market
'HcW much is IT WORTH" / asked
the official.
"Oh. not less than $,750,O0O" he said
iu casual way, as If such trcmcu-
dous accumulation Of ivory represent
ing 10000 elephants were the morest
matter of course.
TOBACCO IN BOND.
Everything at the docks is simply
the biggest ever Your guide opens
door sitter door into rooms containing
priceless wealth ana casually hands cut
amazng facts that play havoc with
your ideas Of arithmetic For instance,
at the Royal Albert docks-tho largest
ana deepest iu London. where the big
American liners laud-you can see $40
100000 worth of tobacco "Iu bond
They usually keep ON hand about 20
GOO tons of tobacco at one time This
is the largest accumulation of tobacco
u the world About oue-half Of this
s nom the United States. The dock
Ouupnuic- open every bale, box and
packet uf tobacco that comes To the
docks. take out samples. ana dispose
uf the Wares un behalf of the shippers
Tho dock companies do the largest
samplUg business boa the world, ana
every NhA dispose uI hunultuS or lnUEr
sand. of dollars worth OF tobacco,
quite lurgc quantity of tpoaccr
reaches the doCksidc in damaged con-
dtun aud dl this Is gathered up and
burned iu what is iacetiously called IN.
King pipe. nickname for large
mfnacs Who're they constantly kuoU
going what probably rs the most oN-
peusiy' me ON earth.
WHlFs FROM KINGS PIPE.
Though vast quantities of the "Wcrd
are thus burned the custom authorities
see 90 ID mat moi single leaf rs taken
away Many "On class" tobacco mrl-
chants would be only too glad 90 buy
this condemned stun aud sell h missed
with othr tobacco, but the English au-
thoiucs prefer tO see IL smoked On
his majesty pipe. There b. "a tradition
"a the effect that people owning houses
near The tobacco furnace charge ok
ira for rooms because uil lodger has
Co do in order 20 enjoy the effect of
good smoke b. IA open his window ana
get awhift nom the "king's Pine
lnsld; jus a9ehg SEVERAL strange 0usl-