The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
WILL BUILD B|G
 GRAIN ELEVATOR Cost $30,OOO With a 100000
 Bushel Capacity PLANNED BY COSBY Mir. Cosby States Development of His Grain Business in Birmingham
 Demands That Big Eleva-
 tor Be Erected
PLANNED BY COSBY

A grain elevator with a capacity for .OOo bushels of stored grain and equipped with 2t bins will be erected by William M Cosby. work to start at once The elevator will be the largest in this section and will compare ia vorably with the grain elevators erec'- e, In Memphis. Nashville, New or leans and elsewhere It will he adjoin- ing the store of AIr. Cosby on Avenue 4 between Fifteenth street and Six teenth street.
 The new construction will cost it is estimated, about sso,00o and will be one of the finest that can be ar ranged The structure will have a ca ; pacity of handling 2f cars of grain per day, either unloading F cars and loading 12 cars or simply placing 2i cafs in the elevator or discharging that tonnage. The structure will be of re- inforced steel and concrete, measuring 40 feet by s5 feet II will be S5 feet high 10 accommodate the immense els- vator service and the scales, which will be installed.
 Belt COnveyers
 Belt conveyers will be a part of the equipment to carry the grain from the railroad sldetracks to the storage bins. Underneath the elevator will be placed distributing and cooling systems to fa- cilitate the handling and to protect the Immense quantities of grain The power for the operation of the plant will be electric while every feature of the equipment will be modern and up-to- date in all particulars Places for clean ing and mixing of grain for distribu- tion per order will be arranged for in the equipment necessary to modem plant.
 The elevator will be situated boz tween the tracks of the Seaboard Air Line railroad. located on Avenue A., and the Birmingham Belt or Frisco railroad, having track into the al- icy. The locality for the new grain elevator has been rapidly built up and occupied by various mercantile con cerns.
 We'll Known Grain Broker
 MT. Cosby. who is to erect the ele- vstor, has been engaged in the mer- chandise brokerage and grain busi- ness here for many years. At the pres eut time and during the past there has not been in Birmingham concern with sufficient grain storage capacity for any considerable quantity of grain. Mr. Cosby's operations have caused him to store grain in Memphis grain ele- vators at a tremendous cost. He decided after some time that Birmingham could well afford to have one large elevator, hence the construction of the present one. It is believed that the elevator will be the means of trans forming Birmingham into grain dis- tributing point even more so than at this time and that this elevator will eliminate Memphis and Nashville so far-as this district depends upon those towns for such service.
 The plans for the new construction are being drawn by H. b Breeding, the we'll known architect. who said yes terday that nothing of like character i1 this section could compare with the ]. lant when 1t Is completed, which will be in a reasonable length of time.
 MT Breeding said yesterday that the rev structure would be a great addi- tion to the Birmingham district. filling c very imperative need.