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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES 
Stor-age charges in Trebizond warehouses. 
Weight of package (in kilos—2.2046 pounds each). 
Rates per day. 
First 
week. 
Second 
week. 
Third 
week. 
1 to 113 
114 to 226 
227 to 339 
340 to 452 
453 to 565 
565 and more 
Cents. 
2 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
Cents. 
3 
6 
9 
12 
15 
18 
The expense of storing goods and removing them from warehouses 
is borne by the merchant to whom they are consigned. The classes 
of goods stored include tea, coffee, sugar, flour, and hardware. 
Goods can not remain in warehouses longer than one year. No 
American merchant, so far as 1 am aware, makes use of these ware 
houses, but all nationalities are treated alike by the administration. 
Goods are removed from the boats by the use of derrick cranes and 
thence carried to the warehouses on the backs of laborers. The cost 
is 6 cents for each package. 
The warehouses are taken care of by a special watchman, who is 
in the employ of the customs officials and whose duty it is to protect 
the goods. There are no facilities for fighting fire; goods can, how 
ever, be insured in several insurance companies who have local 
representatives. 
Edward J. Sullivan, Consul. 
Trebizond, Turkey, July 7,1904.