Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-05
ELEVATOR AND
MILL WILL be
OPENED SOON
State Owned Establishment
To Be Ready For Bust
ness In Three Weeks

The state mill Int terminal efeVator
will De ready for business in less than
three weeks, The official opening, ac-
cordins TO A. Myklebye. fiscal agent
place about. October Is, or maybe q
couple Of days earlier.
The industrial commission will meet
plans for the opening Celebrations, II
any. will be decided upon then.
1t is also expected that the appoint
rnent Of a general manager will be
announced IN q few days. B. L. Sim
mons and o. l.. Spencer, managers for
the elevator and the mill, respective
ly, have been on the ground Tor some
time and superintended the iAstalla-
ton Of the machinery.
The Grand Forks Project consists
of five major buildings,-the elevator
building, the mill building, the power
house, the repair shop, and the ADMIN
istration service building.
The elevator is the largest struc.'
ture; not including the thirty-two stor-
age tanks 1t is SO feet wide, 100 feet
long and 1877 feet high. making it
equal to the average twelve story sky
scraper. -
The tanks cover considerable a
to the south OF the main elevator. each
tank having a capacity, Of 10000
bushels. ; 49,.
= Capacity Of Elevator.
The total capacity Of the elevator
is 1888, 600 bushels All the machtn-
cry Is up+to-date In every respect,
Every Ave feet in the tanks there are
THERMOMETERS which register the. tenn
perature Of the wheat The tanks
measure 20 feet In diameter and are
90 1-2 Feet high.
The mill building proper, consists
Of eight stories. 1t is ~ feet wide.
sides, there arettwo storage wings,
the north, wing being, 1s0x42 and the
south stsrage, 20Ox42; both are one
story high.
There are really three mills in the
building, each with a daily capacity Of
1000 barrels; two of the units will
grind flour wheat; the third is intend
ed for Durum.
There is not a more up-to-date mil!
insthe country than the state mill at
Grand Forks, and as to size it meas
ures we'll up with the biggest in the
country. Besides having all the lat
est machinery, the wheat will be
cleaned and washed before it ID DC
cepted at the mill. The cleaning US
ually takes place at the mills and very
few of the mills elsewhere go to the
trouble and expense Of washing the
wheat before grinding.
Other Buildings.
The machine shop and the service
building complete the project. There
is also a water reservoir 120x60. The
we'll goes down nearly five hundred
Work on the state mill and eleva-
tor project was started by the Frazier
administration in the early spring Of
feet to granite.
The power house is ssxS7 feet.
From the top Of the smoke stack on
the top Of this building one looks out
on the world from the highest point
in the Red River Valley. The stack
reaches up 200 feet; 1t il eleven feet
in diameter at the bottom ana the
seven and one-half feet at the top
looks like one-half Of one per, cent to
the person looking UP from the base.
1920: Some progress was made dur
ing the summer, but towards"the kall
the commission found it hard to OBJ
tain money, and finally the work came
to a'standstill in November 1890.
Nothing further was done until, af-
ter, the recall election when the nsw
Industrial Commission, consisting of
Governor Nestos. Attorney General
Johnson and Commissioner of Agri-
culture and Labor Kitchen, immedi-
ately set about to prepare tor speedy
construction work in the spring OF
this year.
F>The Job is now practically finished,
less than, q year after the recall cleo
ton and eleven months after the new.
administration took office.