The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-28
ELEVATOR
Wichita to Have an important
Enterprise.
PLANS ARE ALL MADE
For a Building of 10000
BusheI Capacity.
WILL BEGIN NEXT WEEK
The E, K. Nevling Company
to Build 1t.
WILL BEGIN NEXT WEEK

Wichita Is going 10 have q new grain
elevator. The E. K Nevling Grain com
pany is going to build it. It viii have
storage capacity Of $4,000 bushels. It viii
be the best elevator west Of the Missouri,
considering its equipments.
ar Nevling, Of the c. K. Nevling
Grain company, was found In his ohice IN
the edgwick block yesterday and on the
table before him were the plans and
specifications Of an immense elevator.
The outlines. showing the front eleva-
ton. looked very much like one of the
big grain elevators in Chicago.
a reporter for the Eagle was some
what surprised when Mr.. Nevling said
10 him, There is the kind Of an eieva-
tor we are going to build in this city"
There had been a good deal of talk about
an elevator, but nobody had ever work
ed their ideas up TO one of that magni-
tude. This is the first indication that
Wichita IS going TO get ready to handle
at least portion OF the wheat. corn and
oats thar belongs 10 her territory.
When asked to tell something more
ABOUT the elevator, Mr.. Nevling said:
L nave about all arrangements made
for the erection Of our elevator. and ex-
pect to commence work next week on
the foundation. The outside walls of the
foundation viii be laid on a concrete sur
face 3 feet wide by Is inches deep, and
height Of foundation walls viii be feet,
with five inside walls running through
the center of the building. on which the
superstructure VIII rest. The dimensions
Of the outside walls VIII be IS by y feet.
The working part of the elevator win
have a storage capacity OF $1,000 bush
els, and in this section win be installed
the elevator legs, machinery and scales.
The size Of this portion win be = feet
wide by = feet long. and 80 feet high.
The storage part proper win have a ca
pacity of 100000 bushels, being a feet
wide, 2 feet long, and Y feet high.
There viii be two receiving elevators
for unloading grain from cars. These
win be equipped with a 20-inch belt and
buckets IS by T. with q carrying capacity
of 1900 bushels each per hour The
grain win be unlOaded from cars with
two double steam power shovels.
ION the working floor win be located a
full line of cleaning machinery Of the
latest styles.
There viii be three Hopper scales, hav-
ing weighing capacity each of ] 400
bushels and from the scale floor VIII be
distributed the grain 10 the different
parts OF the house
The elevator viii be furnished
throughout with electric lights transmit
ted from dyEamos located in the engine
house
THE engine and boiler building will
be 30 by 40 feet, built of brick. In this
VIII be installed two large boilers 81
inches In diameter and 20 feet long, fur
nishing steam to a 200-horse power en-
CINE.
Ut is our intention to rush the work
on the elevator, 50 as 10 have II com
pieted by the time the new crop COM
r.r-1-r
wheat crop turns out equal to what pres
ent prospects indicate, we have certainly
ID glowing prospect for business through
this house the coming season.
we viii be prepared TO furnish con-
siderable storage TO parties wishing 70
store their grain so they can have IL con
venient to market when they wish to dis
pose of it, and our rates for this ser
vice will be very reasonable. Should this
part OF the business increase beyond our
present capacity. we have arranged so
we can conveniently add additional stor-
age room.
Il think everything is coming Wichita g
way now, and il seems to US an oppor-
tune time 20 look after the gram ana
milling interests that ought by natural
rights belong 10 this city The natural
tonnage for this city is that obtained,
or rather that should be obtained, from
the handling OF the farm products tribu-
tarv and nothing VIII furnish more ton
maze than the elevators and mills. With
Increased tonnage, it is but natural that
railroad officials should cast bewitching
smile our way. and begin TO think that
after all Wichita may one day be some
thing"
lat talk had the ring Of business, and
ar Nevling spoke with much earnest
ness. He has faith in Wichita, ana he
believes ii VIII in the near future be one
If the great grain distributing centers o.
tae west He has been III the business
here long enough 10 know what IS raised
ia the territory tributary to this CITY, and
Aa and fhe men associated with him are
going to show their faith by their works
Tbev are going 70 handle the grain thai
IL former wears has been going TO other
markets: not because the other markets
80, better located than Wichita, but be-
Pause Wichita did not have the elevator
facilities for handling the grain that 10y
an the laws of trade and the DEGREES OF
commerce belonged to her.
Wichita does not have 10 wait for the
building of the Nicaragua canal 70 md
q market fer wheat and corn The great
west and the south that consume SO much
of these products are as near 10 Nichlta
as 10 Chicago, St Louis or Kansas CITY
when you come 70 count the distance
from the grain fields Of Kansas by way
of these other markets 10 the consumers
Afr. NevIing and his associates are able
20 see these things. and they are actine
IN rhe information learned In the grain
business They are going 20 build. anc
before 4he next crop is marketed mere
viii be somewhere mp toward tho racsi ns
houses q towering elevator that Ill ta'
wears to come win be pointed 70 as lh'
nioneer in the grain trade OF grea-ei
Nichita-