The Portland daily press., 1897-02-10
BY MARCH FIRST.
Elevator to be Finished During FeD-
Tuary.

How the Big Building is Arranged ana
Something About It's Capacity-"iii be
Largest Building in City When FIN
ished.
The new Grand Trunk elevator, tne
contractors sag, will be ready tossrecei'o
grain by March 1st. The main oulluihs
is now practically completed anu III"
chinists are at work putting in place 1'ie
machinery, setting up tue boilers and
engines and getting very5hing IN rea"l-
ness to handle grain.
A PRESS reporter climbed to the top
of the uain building yesterday after
noon and was well repaid for his trouple
by the magnificent view which was re-
vealed rs he stepped out on to the ROOF
of the big structure. He was then %
feet from the ground and was little
more than half as high in the air as he
could go were the top house completed.
5 This top house is to be 70 feet high
and while it will not be as wide as the
building on which it will rest, it Will be
fully as long. In that part of the stiuc-
Va
deep wells, as they appear to be from
the roof, which are intended to hold
grain. -Four Of these bins are Is feet
wide, ID feet inches long and 6o feet
deep. Three of them are 13 feet wide
and IA feet inches long, while the TEST
of the bins are feet, 8 inches square, all
being so feet deep. When one considers
how much grain any one of these bins
will hold, it is easy to realize the i'm
mense capacity of the whole elevator.
The top house will be divided into
four stories. The top stor y will be
the elevator head flow in which all of
the machinery will be placed. The floor
next below this will be the gamer floor
where the grain will be placed before
it is ready to be weighed out, the next
floor below will he the scale floor where
tho grain will be weighed and the floor
below this till he the spouting horn.
When the grain comes to the elevator
in cars it will be shoveled out and will
fall through gratings into the pit be-
meath the track Here it will be taken
up by long endless bucket belts and
carried to the roof of the elevator and
then, having been weighed it will be
placed III the bins for storage When
ready for shipment the grain will again
be taken to the roof of the elevator and
then run down to the long endless belts
plying over big rollers in the conyeyors
and thus carried out to the ends of the
dad inf hi holds nf no
vessels.
The whole elevator building is to be
covered with galvanized iron sheathing
of which it will take three oar loads to
cover the building. The convayors will
be painted, but the rest of the building
will not be.
When the elevator, 1877 feet high in al,
is completed, it will not only be the
highest building in the city, but Will
be land mark that may be jistin-
guished miles at sea and for many miles
i'll the country.
About Is feet of the inside brick work
has been placed in the elevator chimney.
There are four large boilers being placed
in the boiler room. These were made
by the Portland company and are up
right steel plates we'll riveted. They
are tubular boilers, each one containing
$50 two aud one-half inch tubes. They
measure IS feet in height and feet in
diameter. Two of them have already
been placed in position in the boiler
room and the brick work at their base
completed. The remaining two will be
set in place in a few days.