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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
American goods stored are principally tobacco and salted meats.' 
All nationalities are treated exactly alike. 
Goods are taken to the warehouses at the expense of the importers. 
Wagons and workmen for the handling of goods are always to be 
found on the quays. As the warehouses are very near the wharves or 
quays, the cost is low. 
Goods are not received unless found in good condition. Any de 
fective baling must be remedied before goods are admitted. Petro 
leum is excluded from these warehouses and must be stored outside 
the city with the authorization of the prefecture. Perishable goods 
can be handled in small parcels with the previous authorization of the 
custom-house. The custom-house formalities for goods in transit are 
the same as for goods intended for direct consumption. A special 
form is employed. The goods in the warehouses can be sold or trans 
ferred to third parties without any formalities or special expense. 
At the expiration of the three years articles not withdrawn are sold 
and the duty paid. The net product of the sale is deposited in the 
treasury. 
Daniel S. Kidder, Consul. 
Algiers, Algeria, June 0,9,190If. 
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. 
CAPE TOWN. 
(From United States Consul-General Big ham, Cape Town, South Africa.) 
This city is amply supplied with warehouses, many of which are 
very old and some very large. A company having three bonded 
warehouses was not able to tell me the cost of construction. The 
government has extensive warehouses at the docks, but most goods 
are stored in private bonded warehouses, being taken directly there, 
as fast as discharged from vessels, by dray wagons belonging to the 
harbor board. 
After goods are hauled to the warehouses by teams they are un 
loaded by coolies. The owner of the warehouse is under a heavy 
bond to take no goods out of the warehouse until the duty is paid, 
after which he handles them as he desires. The keys of the ware 
houses are kept in most cases by the private owner. I am told in 
some cases the government has locks on the warehouse also. 
The price of storage varies, some paying from G pence (12 cents) 
to 10 pence (20 cents) per ton of 40 cubic feet per week. Unloading 
from wagons at the warehouses is done by coolies at an expense of 
1 shilling (24 cents) per ton; when the goods are taken from the 
warehouse again the expense of loading on the wagons is 1 shilling 
per ton. This applies only to goods stored in warehouses where 
cold storage is not necessary. Perishable goods are all stored in 
private bonded warehouses, as the government owns no cold-storage 
chambers. The price for storage in such chambers varies according 
to the amount of merchandise and the time it remains in storage, 
but I am told that it will run from Gs. Gd. ($1.58) to 10s. ($2.43) per 
ton per week; some goods in small packages are charged for by the