Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-17
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD ELEvA-
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The Machinery in Successful Operation
"A Cargo of Southern Corn for Liver

The Machinery in Successful Operation
"A Cargo of Southern Corn for Liver
pool.
1t has been known for some time past
that one of our enterprising grain dealers
had purchased a large consignment of
Tennessee corn, amounting to some
twenty-five car loads, or 10000 bushels,
and that it was destined for foreign mar
ket by direct shipment from Savannah. The
grain elevator of the Central Railroad. at
the docks of the Ocean Steamship Compa-
ny, has been completed for some time. and
being perfect in all its arrangements for
handling grain, only awaited the enter
prise which would start its machinery in
motion and show its importance to the
commercial interests of the community.
The enterprise of S. G. HAYNES & Bro,
the largest grain dealers in Savannah,
has furnished the looked for opportunity.
and we trust has solved the problem of
savannah as grain shipping centre for
Western and Southern grain in bulk. AS
we are informed, these gentlemen some
time ago effected the purchase of 10000
bushels of Tennessee corn, in bulk, which
was shipped to this port via the Central
Railroad, and arrived safely at its destina-
ton some two weeks ago.
The elevator was not at that time eX-
actly prepared to handle the grain. owing
to the fact that provision had not been
made in the shape of a cleaner, which was
found to be necessary in manipulating
the stock of corn of Southern growth and
harvesting, but Immediately set about to
prepare for the emergency, and ordered
from the mandatory of Barnard e. Lees
a Morline cleaner especially adapted to
the service, which soon arrived and was
placed in position on the second floor of
the elevator, under the direction Of Mr..
Frank Divine, the Superintendent, who
had presided over the erection of the ele-
vator and is now in the employ of the Cen
trail Railroad Company.
All being in readiness for handling the
consignment of corn, yesterday morning
the cars containing it were rolled to the
elevator, the machinery set in motion and
the work commenced. One by one the
cars were rolled to the pocket for the re-
ceptiOn of its contents, their movements
| being determined by a simple arrange
ment of machinery in the lower floor of
the editice-a large windlass, worked
nOiselessly by the engine of the elevator,
to which ropes are attached, which pass
through the side of the building near the
railroad tracks, and are connected with
the car to be moved to the pocket where
the grain is to be deposited in the
basement. One by one the cars
containing the corn, which was in
bags, We're drawn to this point, the bags
in which it was placed, handled by
negroes, were emptied into the
pocket, from which the endless elevators
or copper buckets carried it on it's way to
the bins of storage or shipment, as the
case may be. In the case of yesterday
this consignment was destined to
immediate shipment, for while we
stood looking at the machinery and
listening to the noise and hustle Of the
novel spectacle, the splendid English
steamship Mareca was hauled into the
slip alongside the elevator, and during the
afternoon ten thousand bushels of corn,
clean and bright, were pouring from the
shoots of the elevator into her hold for
ward, which had been prepared for the
granary during the voyage to Liverpool
| The loading of the remainder of the
freight will be concluded to-day.
The working of the elevator was perfect
in every particular. The corn, as it is
taken into the boot or pocket as it comes
from the cars, is weighed on the first floor
by a system which is infallibly perfect.
| This tells the gross weight of the grain.
| including all imperfectiOns of trash, husks
or any other foreign substances. 1t is
then in endless rotation carried above to
the cleaner, where it is deposited and
where it leaves all its foreign mixture, if
/ any, in the great wire cylinder
which turns by the machinery, and
dropping into other buckets it proceeds
| upwards to the bins for its storage, where
it is again weighed automatically, and
the result recorded on the scales on the
first floor under the supervision of the
/ superintendent or whoever has charge.
When the entire power of the elevator is
developed it will be capable of manipula-
ting 10000 bushels of grain per hour.
Yesterday but one set of elevators were
at work, as there was no particular neces-
sity tor more force to handle the loten
hand. All the machinery worked splend-
idly, and the elevator was pronounced by
all who witnessed its operations a COM
plete success.