Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1901 — The Largest Warehouse. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Warehouse.

Liverpool has the biggest warehouse in the world. It is built beside the docks, and is intended to house the imports of tobacco which form so important a part of Liverpool’s trade. The warehouse is 725% feet in length, 165 feet wide and 124 feet 10 inches high. The ground area is 13,300 square yards and the area of the several floors 174,098 square yards. There are at present in bond in Liverpool some 93,000 hogsheads of tobacco, weighing 50,000 tons, which is equal, roughlv estimated, to a custom duty of £l3^ooo, ■COO.