Baxter Springs news., 1918-12-20
COMPLETING sToREHOUsES
Big Ore StorehOuses Nearing Com
pletiOn-Will Improve Working
Conditions of the Mines

Miami, Okla., Dec. lo.-NopeclaIJ-
Considerable has been said regarding
the establishment Of ore storage
warehouses in the Missouri-Kansas-
Oklahoma zinc and lead mining dis
trict, yet but little is known regard
ing the amount of material needed for
the completion of the Douthat ware
house alone, which is not the largest
of the string now building, by 10000
tons storage capacity.
The Douthat warehouse, which was
started after the Picher warehouse
was nearing completion, will have a
storage capacity of $4,000 tons, is 400
feet long and A feet wide; will be
equipped with automatic conveyors
and all the lAbor-saving devices
known to storage warehouses Of this
character. Nothing has been spared
to make the Douthat warehouse the
premier of the entire string of build
ings. The concrete work has been
finished, the contractor said the lat
ter part of the past week, and work
of putting on the roof has been start
ed.
Little does the average mine opera
tor or reader of the daily newspapers
imagine the amount of material nee
essary to bring these warehouses to
the mine operator for the storing Of
his ore. Take the Douthat warehouse
for instance: did you know that fif-
teen cars of lumber were required for
the building of this warehouse? Five
cars of cement were used in the con-
crete work. One-third of car OF
nails was used in the construction Of
the Douthat building. One thousand,
six hundred cubic yards of dirt were
moved before the concrete work could
be started. Think of the amount of
time, money and labor necessary to
complete work of this kind.
Let's lengthen the thing out a bit.
Take the lumber, to start with. There
were fifteen cars of lumber. If the
2x6 stuff, used in the Douthat ware
house, was to be placed in a straight
line on the ground it would reach a
distance of more than six miles. Next
would come the cement used. In the
five cars consigned to the Ore Storage
Association and already used, there
weer 1000 sacks of first-class cement.
Next would come the one-third car Of
nails. In the shipment received and
used there were 100000 S-penny nails.
To drive these nails into the lumber to
hold the structure in shape, it took
100000 strokes of the hammer. Re-
garding the removal Of the 1900 Gu
bic yards of dirt, it took 2,200 wagon
loads to get the dirt out Of the way.
There are many other items in the
building Of this warehouse which
should be mentioned. For the forty
doors with which the building will be
equipped it was necessary to purchase
800 lineal feet of barn door tracking,
to say nothing of the forty pairs Of
door hangers needed to hang the
doors. In order to adequately cover
the warehouse, 100 square yards OF
roofing will be necessary.
Many other items, used in the build
ing of an ore storage warehouse,
could be named but space does not
permit at this time. However, when
the fifteen cars Of lumber, the five
cars of cement and the one-third car
of nails are all in place, operators Of
the Missouri-Kansas- Oklahoma min
ing district believe they will have an
ore storage warehouse Of which to be
proud. It is believed by many that
the Douthat warehouse will be ready
to receive ore by the middle or latter
part of January.