Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-09-15
POSSIBLE COST OF STATE WARE
HOUSE SYSTEM.

Senator Wiley, whose esteem for
that measure seems to be about on a
par with our own, has calculated that
Il will cost $7.495,7OO TO institute and
TO operate for eight months the ware
house scheme provided for in the
emergency bill that has just been
passed. Perhaps better way TO ex-
press Il would be to say that II IL
censes that expenditure II the politi-
clans should have the hardihood to
exercise all the discretion and power
Il grants TO them, according TO his
calculation.
He estimates that II will require the
services OF 800 agents for thirty days
TO put the system In a working con-
dition, and he estimates the total OF
their salaries at 100000 He puts
the cost OF the necessary stationery,
printing and office equipment at ST..
500, and then adds to these items 81
400 as the salary Of a chief clerk;
$4,000 as the total salaries for assist
ant clerks. and ss6O,SOO as the rental.
at $50 a month, Of $3.50 warehouses
for eight months. These items make
a total OF s9Ss,7OO as the total cost OF
setting up the system.
As the operating expenses. he sets
forth sS59.5OO as the aggregate o.
monthly salaries Of the warehouse
managers. and an equal amount as the
aggregate of the salaries Of the help
ers Of the managers. To these items
he adds sS9,S75 as one months sta
tionery and ink bin. producing a
grand total of monthly expenses Of
sS0S,S75. This multiplied b. eight,
the number of months in a cotton sea.
son. and he gets s6,471,OOO as a sea-
sons cost of operation. which plus
$9SS,70O. the estimated cost Of estab-
fishing the system. yields the total Of
$7,is57OO, which he thinks II will cost
to establish and run the system FOR
one year.
We should by no means be under
stood as subscribing to this calcula
ton. It is based on the assumption
that a warehouse will be established
at every railroad station that handles
cotton, the number OF such being 1886
whereas we very much doubt II Q
tenth that number will ever come into
existence. Furthermore, we SHOULD
demur to the estimate of sS9,S75 as
the monthly stationery and ink bill
We doubt II Texas purveyors are ca
pable Of supplying the immense guam
tity Of stationery and ink that coult
be bought with that sum. But, ever
II they are, we are quite sure II woulC
require even larger army of man
ayers and helpers than Senator Vile,
estimates to mutilate that much papeI
and spread that much ink. We think
in fine, that while the expenditure
which this measure makes possibl,
may fully equal Senator Wiley's esti
mate, the probable expenditures ar,
to be thought much less than his est
mated total.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding
1t is a costly scheme that the State 1
authorized to effect. The bill itsel
might not inaptly be subtitled meas
ure to provide employment to men on
Of work at time when jobs are rels
lively scarce. Certainly 1t would pei
init provision being made for a goo
many Of the jobless, and since unen
ployment is one of the evils of tn
moment, the measure somewhat Just
fies the assertion of its prepayment
that it is an emergency measur,
However, we suffer the suspicion tina
the relief 1t affords will not be to III
cotton crop, but at its cost.-Galvei
ton Nor.r