Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-12-24
TRANSPORTING GRAIN,
HOW CEREALS ARE sHiPPEr
TO THE EAST.
4 Climpse % che Rnermous E1eva.
tors ~ Chiesge- Armourss $500.
600 Dashsl cranary-seienes asa
Progress.


The immense grain crop of the pres
emit year has attracted much attention. |
1t is believed that the subject OF the
transportation OF the vast quantity OF |
grain of all kinds will be Of interest to |
our readers.
The Armour Elevator company Of
Chicago, ILL.,, one of whose elevators
forms tho subject of the illustrations
accompanying the present article.
is q represen tative company. They
possess number of these structures.
with an aggregate storage capacity OF
| 5000, 900 bushels OF grain. In
a working day l,50n cars can be un.
| loaded and in an hour about three hum
ircd thousand bushels can be loaded
| into cars or vessels The differ
I emit elevators are deaignated bv letters
| extending up r. They receive grain
from the Chicago. Milwaukee, u st.
Paul, and the Chicago, Burlington 4
Quincy railroads. An immense area OF
country is tributary to these lines. the
| and the last named 9, 29b miles of road.
Through these lines North and South
Dakota, Minnesota. Wisconsin. ILL.,
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska. Kan
sas, and Missouri are drained to the
great center Of distribution where
these elevators are situated. Even
Texan grain reaches them en- route to
the East and to Europe.
AN interesting shipment occurred In
August last, when the elevator illus
trated in the cuts received cargo OF
wheat by special train from the newly
settled Oklahoma. This was the first
shipment to the North from that
region. ~, s.
grain propellers plying ON the lakes,
porting grain.
The elevator known as elevators A
and u. receiving grain from the st.
Paul read, is the largest elevator in
the world under single roof. Eleva-
tor ID and its annex belonging to the
! Armour company surpass 1t In capacity,
, but are not single unbroken structure.
1t is rated at storage capacity Of
$4,000, 900 bushels, can unload 500 carr
per day and deliver 100000 bushels
per hour to cars and boats. Cars
: enough to keep 1t at work for foul
days can be accommodated In the great
yard annexed to It. The building
proper is $50 feet long and l5S feet
is employed in driving the clevatiul
belts
The general features OF its construc
ton are the following: 1t comprises I
main building surmounted by what !
termed the cupola. The main driving
engine is situated on abo 1T the groun,
level, Mt one end OF the building
Along the ton of the cupola counter
shaft, the full length of the building
IS carried. This il driven by the en-
CINE. The main belt is OF India ruObe
and canvas, eight ply in thickness
aud sixty inches wide. This YER
nearly vertically from the engine dris
| lug pulley to the pulley on the cour
1 the commensurate arc the driving pu
leys for working the twenty-eight eli
vator belts. These belts are mad
also OF India rubber betting
and carry steel buckets rlvete
at regular intervals along the
outside face. As the belt travel
up on one side it carrie
up full buckets. At the top these pal
over the driving pulley and are emptie
as they turn over, and then they d
scend empty on the other side Of Il
belt. From the point OF delivery I
re- the belt the grain passes by. grant
ur through inclined chutes to the ma
N body Of the elevator. and is directs
~ Nv ono OF Tue Quiet Vi tuC CAutCb
he any desired point. Fig. shows pc
90 tion of an elevator belt, with Il
buckets on the ascending side Of u
nc belt.
The grain from the elevating be
falls into the mouth ct chute wifi
rotatcs on vertical axis, whose pr
I'M longation would pass through its !
m ceiving end or mouth. Thus, VIII
mr. swung around on its pivot, It's receI
M ing mouth remsins unchanged In pc
ton. The opening ends OF . numb
r. of chutes leading to the'Rarners corr
10 sponGing retrospective bins below are
tol rNaged in Q circle around the revolvi
chute or revolver" Each 10 number
s. in accordance with the bin it leads
;ss TSe revolver can be swung so Is
connect with any one OF the'
in. In this way one elevator Is ma
r. to feed q number of bins. 7
rid arrangement 10 shown In Fig.
and can also be seen in Fig.
BELOW the chutes on the next ho
are what are known as and have j,
-, been referred to as gamers. Thu
- ar. simply square bins holding H.