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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
$4,000 to $5,000. The warehouses are all owned and conducted by the 
merchants and importers. 
Patrons are allowed to place their goods in bond with a view to 
transhipment, or for other reasons that would necessitate bonding 
goods. Owners of the warehouses furnish labor and receive and de 
liver goods. The scale of charges for storage is based on the size of 
the packages, say 6 cents per month for an average barrel. It is im 
possible to obtain any idea of the receipts and expenditures on account 
of services. 
Goods of all descriptions are stored in bond for transhipment to 
other ports. The warehouses are used to a very small extent by 
Americans, as very few are engaged in business here, although large 
shipments of American goods are received here. All nationalities are 
treated alike by the administrators of the warehouses. 
Goods can be kept in bond for transhipment for one year. Facili 
ties for removing goods from the warehouse to boat and vice versa 
are good, labor being cheap. The cost per average barrel is about 3 
cents. All goods are transported by lighter between vessel and ware 
house. 
The warehouses are supervised by custom-house officers, who are in 
attendance from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and give every facility for the 
landing and reshipping of goodsi The keys of the warehouses are 
delivered to the owners at 10 a. m. by the customs authorities and are 
returned at 4 p. m. 
David F. Wilber, Consul. 
Barbados, West Indies, July 23,190If. 
BERMUDA. 
(From United States Consul Oreene, Hamilton, Bermuda.) 
The dimensions of the twenty-six buildings used here for bonded 
and other storage warehouse purposes are from about 50 to over 
100 feet long and 18 to 47 feet wide. These buildings are of one, and 
a few of two, stories in height; they are of stone with slate roofs, 
to minimize the danger from fire, as are all buildings in Bermuda. 
They cost from £1,000 to £1,500 ($4,866.50 to $7,299.75) each, accord 
ing to size. They are owned by business men of the colony. 
The service seems to be satisfactory, as no complaints have been 
made. Charges are 3 pence (6 cents) for 5 cubic feet per month. 
Spirits and malt liquors are the principal goods stored. The Ameri 
cans use the buildings to a large extent for whisky storage, many 
thousands of barrels of American whisky being stored at one time. 
Goods remain in storage from six months to a year, but some lots have 
been in storage for two years. All nationalities are treated alike. 
Goods are carried to and from the warehouses by trucks or by 
horses and drays. The charges for warehousing and removal are 
about the same as the monthly storage charge when the goods are 
moved by truck ; when they are drawn by drays with horses the charge 
is about 2 shillings (48 cents) per load of 10 barrels, commonly 
known as flour barrels. These warehouses are under the super 
vision of the officers of the customs, a revenue lock being placed on