The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-11
NEWGRAINELEYA
Proposed Construction On the
Barrel Factory Site.
GOOD PROMISES OF SUCCESS.


A company Win be Incorporated In this
essv within txo weeks which intends %
erect ! grain ssrshouss and es<vstog On
the site Of the old barrel factory In North
Seattle. the building 20 have all the most
modern facilities for handing grain sco-
noruicaliy and 70 have . capacity OF ,eo.-
co bushels IL b also probable that By
the time shs work Of construction beKsns
negotiations Will hsvs bssn closed for the
erection Of Eonr mill aJjoiniEg the Gle
vstor wish . capacity greater shsn that Of
any mill n Wsshingtea o. Oregon.
The principai local promoter OF the on
fsrpsiss Ii Edward Blswstt. Who has In
tsrestsd Hiram X. Moore, Of Boiss. Idaho,
snd several Chicago capitalists Ar.
Biswsst own the barrel factory site. aud
has sgrssd 10 cell Is 10 the elevator COM
pAny, which II to BE- called the Seattle
chipping Company, and take payment In
stock. He has also agreed 10 take con-
sidsr&bis block Of stock and pay cash for
It. Mr. Moore and the Chicago parties
win also subscribe literally, 20 that there
will BE- about 900 or 30. 600 open for
public subscription. 1t il proposed 10
capitalize the company IT 100000 TO
e350. 900. the exact amount depending on
the estimates Of the cost based ON the
plans. which are now being drawn.
The site selected II admirably adapted
for the purpose, a. II slopes 1t such .
grade that the upper floors can b reached
from . railroad spur running mp the Hill
o. IN easy grade 10 the rear Of the house
and it viii have connection with both the
~
Lake ehors roads. The Great Northern
has agreed 70 lay spurs to which sach
road viii make It, own crossings. The
site II 6o0xi40 feet end the building. which
will Be frams, three stories high, will be
G0oxl20 fest, leaving 20 feet In the rear
for railroad tracks.
The company viii also occupy the tide
lands fronting on the site and extending
70 tbs inner line OF the harbor strip.
wherever that may bs located. and will
bulls T-shaped wharf with zoo feet front
- on dssp water.
All the grain viii b. unioaded from tho
cars on the third aoor and will then be
moved by chutea 10 the second floor, where
a will b transferred by reversible belt
ooavsyos from the center Of the building
u either direction. Round slides at the
esntsr Of the building viii transfer the
sacks 20 another conveyor, running 1T
night angles out 70 the ship which IL load
Ing. % that grain may BE- loaded from
cars on board ship by an automatic trans
eer from one oonvsyor 20 the other, and
viii NOS require handling by manual labor
from tho time Il b taken from the carr I'M
til Il 10 piled in the ships hold. The con-
vsyos running to The ship will run over
hssd Of Railroad avenue and thus viii be
clear Of the tracks, which viii Ut that
point b on the lsvel Of the
ground floor. The machinery viii Be run
BY electric power. ~ this will save the cost
Of engines and boilers and reduce the ia
surancs. Tho ground floor viii be used -
. bonded warehouse for imported goods.
Anothss saving will b on the cost OF
switching. - the railroads have agreed TO
do Il frea.
The present II considered Q favorable
t1ms Tor the erection Of the warehouse. a.
labor and material can b obtsined for
oae-thlrd leo shan four years ago.
Grain ahippsrs are much interested In
the success Of this enterprise. for they say
that there b not enough warehouse ac-
commodation In the Pacific Northwest for
the crops Of the interior, for which the
Sound cities and Portland are the natural
outist, aud they regard Seattle A. the best
shipping port Repeatedly during the
chipping season the tracks at tho ware
houses here and at Tacoma have been
blocked with cars, which could not be IN
loaded - fast ~ they arrived because
the houses were full and the ships did not
come In fast enough TO take the grain away.
This happened In . year when the crop
vas very short In Eastern Washington,
% that the blockade would have been stili
worse with . full crop to handle. Ship
pers realize that Seattle Is the coming
grain port. ~ IL has the advantage of a
good harbor and water frontage and OF
competing railroads, while Portland IL
handicapped by tho dangers Of the Column
bia bar aud the cost of towsge mp the river.
In consequences. the largest shipping firm
on the Coast has expressed Its readiness 10
take stock In the new company. and Il the
enterprise should be carried through. to
remove its headquarters to this city.
The same parties who are interested In
the warehouse are negotiating for the
erection OF fiour mill Of I, go barrels day
capacity adjoining the warehouse, with a
good prospect OF success. Another part of
the barrel factory site has been offered
certain msliers ~ bedrock price and Is
now being favo-ahly considered. Should
this deal be closed a stone building would
he erected with conveyors running di-
rectiy from the warehouse into il aud the
-four would be loaded on board shin
for China and Japan At the wharf in front
OF the plant Men Who are rostsd on the
trade say that there is = good opening for
another aour mill here. ~ the Novelty
Mil Company IL now selling iis product As
fast ~ IL can grind IL ont, and the mills a,
Portland are taxed beyond their capacity
10 supply the demand from tho Orient.