The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-23
AN EXTENSIVE ENTERPRISE
The CIy Elevator and Compress
COMPANY
A nricT Description Of the Buildings
and ~ List Of the OhicerH
and Directors.


and Directors.
Among the many substantial enter
prlses that have been undertaken nnd
carried to successful nultl0n IN Dallas,
there IL none, probably, That will re-
d0und no much 10 the commercial in-
terests Of our city M the erection OF
the grain elevator aud cotton compress
now under course Of construction
Some months since "A number OF gen
tlemen, recognizing the necessity TINT
existed for an elevator In our
city, met and formed company,
and after adopting the name OF the
City Elevator and Compress Company
effected permanent organization by
the election Of the following officers
aud board Of directory President,
w. j. Clark Vice President, 5. }.
Adams; Secretary, j. II. Bryan; Treas
urer, ]. l.. Leonard superintendent
OF the Grain Elevator T.. \. Stare !
Superintendent of the Cotton Com
pres II. II. Ralney, Directors-W D.
Clark, :. j. Adams, j. II. Bryan, J. l."
Leonard, T.. a. stare, George Noble,
Frank :. Bond, II. $. Cobb aud II. H..
.Rainey. The stockholders embrace
some of our most substantial citizens,
together with Colonel George Noble,
General Superintendent Of the Texas
and Pacific Railway Colonel Frank
y. Bond, Vice President of the Texas
and Pacific Railway, and Messrs. Sen
ter a. Co., extensive grain dealers OF
st. Louis, Missouri.
A site for the erection of the prOpos'
ed buildings was secured in the lot
running from Pacific avenue
10 Ross avenue and from
Austin to Lamar street, except that
portion occupied by the building used
by Messrs. Ullman IL Go. az n grocery
establishment, and in September last
work was commenced on the elevator.
The building il now sufficiently near
completion to form good idea OF It's
proportions and capacity. with aview
OF presenting to the readers OF THE
HERALD brief and succinct descrip-
ton of the building, II reporter was
yesterday detailed to gather up the
facts.
The main building of the elevator is
forty-two by seventy feet, with an EN-
CINE room, twenty by forty.two feet,
attached The latter has u forty
horse power engine from the
Union Iron Works, Decatur,
Illinois, together with ample
machinery of the latest and most inn
proved make, to meet all requirements
of the elevator. The building has n
foundation seven feet and n half be-
low the basement floor, which starts
on solid wall of mas0nary four feet
thick. The brick walls start from the
stone wall and are twenty feet high,
being thirty inches ut the bottom and
twenty-five and half inches 1T the
top. The basement is six and hall
feet in the clear, while the work floor
is thirteen and half feet high. The
columns inside are of the best season.
ed oak, eighteen inches square, and
are set on brick piers six feet deep and
eight feet square at the bottom, taper
ing to four feet mt the top, with Il solid
cast iron plate on top of the pier, ON
which the column rests. The piers
each contain six thousand five hum
bred brick, and stand ten feet apart,
from centre to centre. The columns
also havel an iron cap, on which the
heavy guerders rest, and on top OF
them are placed the joists from which
the bins start. The joists are ten by
twelve inches, and are placed one foot
apart. There are sixty bins, which are
built of two by six and two by four
scantling nailed fiat ways to height
of forty feet. Every other layer runs
across the other so that 1t makes u
solid mass of timber from bottom to
top. Thirty-penny nails are used, and
are driven ten inches apart all over the
bins. In every tier of scantling
twenty-five hundred and fifteen OF
them are used. The entire height of
the elevator building, when completed,
will be ninety-five feet.
The capacity of each bin is some
thing over twenty-five hundred BUSH
els, while the capacity of the entire
building will be about two hun
dred thousand bushels of grain.
There are three sets of elevators
to carry grain, which will have revolv-
ing spouts at the top, so as to carry
the grain to all the different bins. 1t
will be prepared to load grain at the
rate of three car loads In five minutes,
while 1t will also be provided with a
patent dumping platform to receive
wheat from wagons without handling
it in any manner whatever. A farmer
can drive up, have his wagon weighed,
grain removed and check for his
his money inside of two minutes. No
more shoveling wheat from wagons.
Drive up to the elevator, turn around