jyjoy Street Warehouse Employe
es
100,000 Bales Of Cotton Processed
StS D employees of the Bay
j t Bonded Warehouse No. 1
.Columbus, Ga.,
Il,„ proud this month.
processed the
^ lUWth bale of raw cotton to
Nthr.
1974
'ough that facility since it
operations in November,
now to store raw cotton
totfi, to store raw cotton
Sw P Columbus Towel Mill and
opinning Mills, the 89,000
square foot building was
formerly utilized for the storage
of finished goods for the
Columbus Towel Mill. Raw
cotton at that time was stored at
the respective mills rather than
at a single facility.
After considerable renovation,
the building can now house a
whopping 25,000 bales of cotton.
The employees are able to
process about 800 bales per day.
As each bale arrives at the
warehouse, samples are taken
which are used for testing. These
samples are tested for
fluorescence, or the ability to
reflect light; for coarseness,
staple, or length of the fiber, and
grade.
Each bale is then tagged
according to these criteria and
stored, to be delivered to the
mills as needed.
The cotton is generally
delivered to the warehouse by
rail and sometimes by truck
depending on the distance from
which it comes. It is then
delivered to the mills in
Columbus by truck. Occasional
ly, cotton is sent from the Bay
Street Warehouse to Eden area
mills.
Normal inventory in the
warehouse is approximately
20,000 bales and the average
storage time is two to thtee
months.
The Bay Street Warehouse is a
federally bonded public
warehouse. It was renovated to
government specifications and a
negotiable receipt must be
issued for each bale of cotton
stored there.
100,000th bale? Arthur Hill, sampler, and Charlie Mahagony, ware
houseman, begin to process a bale of raw cotton.
The new facility, in addition to
providing consolidation of cotton
storage for the Columbus Towel
Mill and Swift Spinning Mills,
has also resulted in a more
streamlined and efficient
storage, testing and delivery
system.
Siii operator, stacks processed bales of cotton
“•leshir
'*S shipment to various mills.
Weighing the cotton are William Lindsey, left, warehouseman, and Paul Thomaston.
i Testing cotton is Paul Thomaston, lab technician.
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Bill Lively, cotton classer, examines cotton.
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