New Ulm review., 1922-11-08
EAGLE Mill HAS
OCEAN TERMINAL! | ] | !. |,
LOCAL COMPANY ONE OF II
TO LEASE WAREHOUSE
AT PHILADELPHIA. B
MOVE EXPECTED TO RESTORE
FLOUR EXPORTS OF U. S.
I TO FORMER PLACE.

The Eagle Roller Mills, New Ulm,
| is one of eleven milling companies to
underwrite a Philadelphia Tidewater
terminal warehouse which will be
used to store -four for foreign con-
sumption. The project is expected
to do much to restore America to the
place she once occupied as an exporter
Of flour, in the opinion of millers over
the United States.
The United States sent to Europe
annually between 1898 and 1903,
1 $1,000, 900 barrels Of flour. By 1913
this total had been reduced to TO-
600, 900 barrels a year. During the
war high totals were reached in flour
expectation because Europe was out
Of the flour business. But while the
exports in 1919 were $4,000, 900 bushels
they had fallen off in 1921 to 16, 100000
bushels.
More Wheat Exported.
Millers believe that the principal
cause for the loss Of -four business to
foreign countries is because OF the
superior facilities at the seaboard for
handling the expectation of grains, re-
sulting in larger wheat exports to the
detriment Of the flour business.
While wheat has been dumped into
seaboard elevators and loaded directly
Into vessels, flour was shipped from
the interior to make connections with
an ocean vessel. Often the flour would
not reach the coast in time to be loaded
on the vessel.
Store Flour in Terminal.
This difficulty has been overcome
lin the new Tidewater terminal, its
lsupporters contend. It will be used
lby the II millers to store their flour.
when cargo of -four is wanted a ship
will draw up along side and be filled
lby gravity chutes.
In addition to the Eagle Mi Is, the
1others in the Underwriting syndicate
Fare: Pillsbury Flour Mills company,
/ Russell Miller Milling company, Shef-
field King company, G Commander Mill
ling company, Minneapolis; Interna-
3tional Milling company, New Prague
1Bay State Milling company, Winona
lMinn.; Lawrenceburg Roller Mills
i company, Lawrenceburg, Ind; Red
/ Wing Milling company, Red Wing
/ Hubbard Milling company, Mankato
and Everett, Aughenbaugh & Go.
i lWaseca, MINI.
Beecher Attends Opening.
Be II. Z. Beecher, treasurer and genera
| manager of the Eagle Mills, ATTENDED
1.-THE formal opening Of the giant pier Of
i October 81. The immense termina
lbs on pier projecting into the Della
3 |Ware river for 4, 800 feet. It is nearl.
sl30U feet wide and accoInod odates stW'
.sthree-story fire proof arehouses, 4 49,
A feet long and 100 feet wides Eacl
'slware house,is divided by frewalls int
II ave sections each about 800 feet lone
! 1.-THE total storage capacity Of th
4 terminal is 1 ,0O0, 600 bushels.
IA. u. Goetzmann Of the AZ Z. Goetz
mann Grain company, Minneapolis
who engineered the project for th
4 millers describes the results to be oil
tanned from the terminal as follows:
5 1t is my profound conviction tha
these facilities at the call Of the e
port amillers whose freight rates enab
them to reach the Atlantic coast, wi
have greater influence toward Il
Imainte ntenance and extension Of our e
e Iport trade than any action which Il
= millers Of this country have ever take
. lin q united way. is' i
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