Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-21
INSPECTED COTTON
HANDLING FACILITIES
Members OF Farmers Union Visited
Houston, Texas City and Calves
ton for Information on Cot
ton Shipping.

OF general interest among the farmers
Of Texas is the visit last week of
committee of 100 members of the
Texas Farmers Union to Houston to
inspect the cotton handling facilities.
The delegation came to the city in
response to an invitation from Hous-
ton TO come down and see how the
greater part Of the cotton crop of
Texas and Oklahoma is annually
handled.
The delegation was headed by R. D.
Brown of Paris and d. E. LYDIA OF
Cameron, vice chairman, They spent
the day in Houston and went on to
Texas City and Galveston to see how
cotton is handled at shipside.
The delegation was much impressed
| by the great and modern facilities for
cotton handling in Houston Houston
possesses the greatest and most mod
ern cotton warehouse and compress in
the South in the Weld-Neville plant on
the Ship Channel and the delegates
manifested much interest in inspect
ing the five-story concrete warehouse
of this concern. They inspected the
Sprunt, DENSITY and other warehouses
along the Ship Channel and the large
ones in the Fifth Ward.
At noon they were entertained at
an oyster luncheon given by the
Chamber of Commerce and the Coz
ton Exchange, and in the afternoon
they assembled at the Chamber OF
Commerce to hear talks by Houston
ians well informed on the cotton sit
uation.
w. C. Mum, president of the Cham
Der of Commerce, informed them that
Houston this year handled 100000
more bales of cotton than last year,
despite the Fifth Ward fire that Grip
pied part of Houston's cotton hand
ling facilities. Jonathan Lane, A. w
Pollard and Adolph Boldt described
the building plans now under way
which will give to Houston next yeaI
greater cotton handling facilities thar
any city in the South. Houston al
Q ready is the greatest inland port cot
ton market in the world, but the in
creasing cotton production demands
increased facilities and Houston il
spending millions in providing them
A fact that occasioned some littl,
surprise was the information that The
Houston Ship Channel is the means o
saving to the cotton producers o
Texas $6,000,000 annually. We're it no
for the Ship Channel and its rate of
cents on cotton, cotton shippers would
be compelled to pay an additional Il
cents to get cotton to shipside. Tit
Texas farmer was misinformed wheI
he was told during the recent cam
paign that the Galveston-Houston dit
ferential was costing him hundreds o
thousands of dollars. The Houston
Ship Channel is saving him million
in cotton alone.
The delegates were profoundly i'm
pressed with the facilities Houston
has to offer for cotton handling. Ever,
compress in Houston and every ware
house is this winter charging its ia
cilities and Houston next year will b
equipped to handle cotton faster an
more cheaply than ever before.
The visitors before leaving ar
nounced they werep leased with tn
prospects Houston offers for the el
peditious movement of their cotto
next year. By the time the crop O
1914 is under way the Ship Channe
will be completed and all cotton wi
be loaded at shipside in Houston
Every railroad entering Houston
preparing for this event and cotto
companies, the city of Houston an
private individuals are preparing fc
warehouse and shipping facilities.