The commonwealth., 1920-01-07

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taken over. Atlanta is one Of tn
most important gate cities Of tn,
South In addition to purchasing th'
plant Of the Atlantic Compress Com
pahy situated there, new site has
been determined upon where a ware.
house Of one hundred thousand bales
capacity will be constructed.
| There Is an Atlantic Compress
plant at Athens which will be bought
and a new warehouse for twenty thou.
sand bales built on adjoining land
Much the same thing may be said Of
Albany, Columbus, Dothan Dublin
Rome, Millen and Thomasville, Geor.
gia.
Altogether Macon is an important
cotton center and should have a ware.
house capacity for storing forty thou
sand bales Of cotton, the plans Of the
Union Warehouse and Compress Com.
pany do not contemplate operating
in that city at present.
Mobile, is, perhaps, the most i'm
portant cotton point in Alabama
This is 80 on account Of its splend-
did harbor and its Importance as a
shipping point. A storage capacity
Of forty thousand bales will be pro-
wded at that city. An important
plant IL coming into the Oombina-
tion. A new high density compress
will be installed and extensive addi-
tions made to this plant. 1t will be
standardized ,modernized and extend.
ed 10 the capacity noted for Mobile
The government and state improve
ment to the navigation of the War
rior River will add much to the pres
tige Of Mobile, as il will link indus
trial Birmingham more closely to it
and to deep water transportation.
Birmingham will be brought into
the chain either by taking over the
plant Of the Warrant Warehouse Com.
pany or the construction Of a new
plant with high density compress.
Whatever plant is decided upon for
this city will have a capacity for
storing twenty thousand bales and
will, in addition, conduct general
warehouse business. II may be said,
here that at many of the warehouses
to be purchased or constructed, other
commodities will be taken for storage
besides cotton.
At Opelika there will be installed
a compress and warehouse for twenty
thousand bales.
At Selma, the plant Of the Dallas
Compress Company will be bought
and its capacity increased.
The plant Of the Atlantic Com
press Company to be taken at Mont
yomery will be increased to a stor-
age capacity of twenty thousand
,ales.
II is expected that the congresses
ocated at Cordele, Decatur, Hunts.
lille and Moultrie, Alabama, will be
AIKEN over and their storage facii-
les materially extended.
At Greenville, Mississippi, it is
proposed to take over an existing
ompress and install warehouse in
onnection with it Of twenty thousand
ales capacity.
The storage facilities which are
art Of the congresses to be pureh-
sed at Greenwood and Clarksdale,
and Monroe, Louisiana,
I'LL be greatly increased in the ear.
7 future.
Memphis is one of the most i'm
ortant points in the cotton belt. At
MS city It is the purpose to buy an
visiting plant, or to build new
arehouse and equip it with high den
ty congresses. The capacity of the
liant will be not less than one hun
red thousand bales. .
At Shreveport, Louisiana, new
obstruction will be undertaken Of a
arehouse Of twenty thousand bale j.
opacity. This will be operated in -
injunction with compress plant at :,
lat city, which is to be purchased.
At New Orleans the Union Ware
'use and Compress Company has no n
ans on foot, as the plant belonging =,
and operated by the city adequate :.
serves that part, .
At Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Ar.
nsas, the compress and warehouse =,
ants belonging to the Newburger =,
d Lesser-Goldman interests will be :,
released and storage added to
pacity of thirty thousand bales at y
III city Al
The storage facilities of the COM
esses now owned by the Lesser.
ldman interests at Fort Smith, Hell
\, Newport and Texarksna will also {
extended
East St, Louis is one of the cotton
tewsys, and an important trans r
pment point. Here the Lesser +
ldman warehouse will be purchas-
and extended to capacity of for
thousand bales, with adequate pro-
ion for general storage business.
Turning now to Texas, the state
t produces thirty per cent of all /.
cotton grown in the country: y
The Union Warehouse and Com
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