Excerpt from The American Elevator and Grain Trade, Vol. 17: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Elevator and Grain Interests; October 15, 1898 The main building is 143 feet long by 90 feet wide and 155 feet high. It rests on a foundation of piles, heavy grillage and masonry, andis built out into the river so that barges can receive grain from either or both sides of the elevator. This ar rangement gives also a wharf eight feet wide on either side of the elevator. The first story consists of heavy pest and girder work, which supports the bins. The latter are 59 feet deep, built of planking, and are surmounted by a cupola run ning the entire length of the building and five stories high. On east side of the elevator are four shipping bins, each of bushels' capacity. These, with the 74 others in the house, give a storage capacity of over bushels. The walls of the building are covered with galvanized corrugated iron, and _the' roofs with tar-felt and gravel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.