The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
BIRMINGHAM AFTER
 FARMERS TRADE Some Excellent Free Wagon
 Yards Maintained
HANDLING OF COTTON
Estimated That Birmingham Will Receive 10000 Bales of Wagon Cotton This Season-War-
 rant Warehouse Co.

With the opening of the winter season. the farmers of Jefferson, Blount Shelby, Tuscaloosa, St. Clair and adjacent coun- ties begin their annual cotton journeys to Birmingham to find that the city of | coal and iron is better equipped this year l than ever before 10 care for the visiting | planters and their families with three free wagon and camp yards, more buyers
 and improved warehouse facilities
 | Near the stores where Mrs. Farmer and l the girls like best to trade their wares are the two central wagon yards, one
 on Twentyfourth street and First avenue l on Twenty fourth street and First avenue and Twenty-ffth street The Warrant Warehouse company cf th;s city is fnanc- ing these conveniences and acting on the suggestion of it's former warehouse su- perintendent. B. NJ. Brasfeld, revived the free yard two years ago after an abey- ance of many seasons.
 The popularity of the Birmingham mar ket has increased to the extent that a new yard was arranged on a. vacant lot
 
 stalls camp house. furnished With | lights, water and coal at no expense to | the farmer, and wagon sheds have been erected. Beam scales weigh the bales in | the yard as they come in and this att | tended to. the farmer leaves his teams
 and goes on his purchasing and sight see ing expeditions. The yards remain at the l disposal of the truck growers and other vendors here throughout the year. At the end of each day an automobile truck with capacity of 20 bales will convey the cotton to the warehouse, which is located on Avenue A and Thirty fifth street. Here 1t Is stored in one of the 12 compartments in the warehouse, which is pronounced absolutely perfect from fire standpoint, or compressed and stacked on the platform for shipping. c. B. Tindell is the present superintendent of this department. Here another wagon
 yard is established for the farmer en-
 tering the city over the Avondale road,
 which will be ready with new stretch
 of slag and chert bed along Avenue A
 from Twenty-fourth street by October l. The warehouse, constructed of hollow tiles and concrete, is also used for the storage of all farm products, and since Birmingham has been made sub-entry port by the United States government, has many cargoes of fish products from Norway and Sweden and other foreign
 goods deposited within it's walls.
 A movement is on foot among the off cials of the company to secure from the United States a government inspector for Birmingham, making in the Warrant warehouse a bonded storage room that will eliminate the present necessity or paying duty on imports at the custom house of the port that they enter.
 The fact that the Warrant Warehouse company, organized in 1905, was the only concern of this kind in the country 10 ad- vance money on loans against cotton stored with them during the panic or 1907 was a powerful factor in gaining the confidence of the farmer and strengthen ing their relationship of security. The following men compose the oniciais or the firm: President, w. D. Nesbitt: vice president, w. P. G. Harding; secretary, H. K. Miner: directors, E. F. Enslen. w. S. Brown, E. J. Dunn. E. M. Elliot, J. D. Kirkpatrick and W. w. Crawford. The Birmingham warehouse can offer to the farmer the lowest rate, 12 cents on S1OO worth of value a year, for insur- ance in the world and do business with them as a trust company. That this sea- son will be record breaking one is
 shown by the comparison of the wagon cotton weighed. during September. 1910, which was 3s bales, and that of yester- day, being 25 bales, with the rush hardly
 begun yet. It is predicted that Birming-
 ham will handle 10000 bales of wagon
 cotton with 800 of these in the yard by
 October l.