The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-11
TIE new MILL ELEVATOR

large tanks, six interstice bins, si1
square overhead bins and a workhouse
all of which cover an area sixty-eight
> feet long, fifty-four feet wide and is
ninety feet high from top of foundation
| slab to underside of main roof. This
| surmounted by Cupola twenty-three
feet long, seventeen feet wide and nine
feet high. The large tanks are twenty
one feet inside diameter and along with
the interstice bins are used for storage
while the overhead square bins are used
for sacking purposes. Together al
these bins have capacity of two hun
dred thousand bushels.
The workhouse is located between the
south tanks and is divided into three
floors above the basement.
The basement is designed to accom-
modate motor, carpuller and all
necessary distributing conveyors and
spouting. The first floor or working
floor is used for sacking grain from the
overhead bins and also accommodates an
automatic car shovel of the latest de-
sign. The second floor is the cleaner
floor and is occupied by large ware
house cleaner of the most modern type.
This cleaner is capable of cleaning two
car load of grain per hour. The third
floor is to accommodate all distributing
machinery.
On the track side of the building
there is a car dump through which the
grain enters the elevator and empties
directly into the boots of the double
stand of elevator legs fitted with a
strand of V cups reaching from the
basement to the Cupola Through these
elevator legs the grain is elevated to
the cupola where it can be distributed
through spouts and conveyors to any
bin or machine in the building. This
direct feed system from the dump to
the boots is the most modern design,
and is seen in recent years only in the
largest transfer grain elevators of the
world.
The power for operating the machin-
cry is furnished from two direct current
motors, one installed in the basement
and the other in the cupola. This is
the most modern design of power trans
mission as it permits of a direct drive
from each motor to the countershaft
which does away with the old style
transmission rope that reached from the
main line shaft in the basement to the
countershaft in the cupola and through
which twenty-five per cent of the pow
er is lost in friction. From the base
ment and cupola countershafts the en-
tire machinery is driven.
Along with the single automatic car
shovel, a carpuller and separator, the
plant is further equipped with the lat
est design of the Fairbanks Hopper
scale, modern dust collecting system,
a car loading spout through which four
cars of grain may pass per hour and the
latest design of the Burrell Manlift.
The machinery throughout is of the
most modern design that the market
affords and is in no way inferior to the
modern reinforced concrete building in
which it is rapidly being placed.
The building throughout including
the roof is of the most modern rein
forced concrete fire proof design. In
the structure there are twenty-seven
hundred yards of concrete, made up of
fifteen hundred yards of sand and
twelve hundred yards of crushed stone
in which is mixed thirty-two hundred
barrels of Portland Cement and two
hundred and fifty thousand pounds Of
reinforcing steel placed.
The concrete was placed in record
time, The ninety feet being made in
fifteen days, or twenty-one hundred
yards of concrete placed in two hundred
and sixty-f1ve working hours which
makes about eight yards per hour
throughout the JOB.
The large capacity and the unique de-
sign along with the modern machinery
makes the building one of the most con-
venient and equally as well equipped as
any grain handling plant in the West.
1t also has as large capacity and equally
as modern machinery as any grain
handling plant between Kansas City
and Denver.
This all goes to show that the Hays
City Milling and Elevator Company are
preparing to handle grain in large
quantities as well as in the most modern
and convenient way possible.
The building is designed and con-
structed and machinery designed and
installed by the Burren Engineering &
Construction Company of Chicago. A
company who has designed and con-
structed seventy-five per cent of the
modern grain handling plants west of
Chicago in the last few years.
NOTICE
Several people have asked me about
the Ford Tractor that is now being
demonstrated at the Normal Short
Course. This tractor is not product
of the Henry Ford Motor Tractor Co.
It is an altogether different breed of
cats. The Ford Motor Co. will put out
their tractors some time next summer
and they will be handled in the regular
way by the Ford agents.