Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-02-01
A HUGE JOB
TEN MILLIONS FOR GRAIN
ELEVATORS AND PIERS.
Baltimore and Ohio Making Wonder
full improvements in Grain Hand
ling Facilities at Locust Point
Near Baltimore.

Baltimore, Md.-Half an inch at q
time, SIX or seven feet every "a
hours, the huge Baltimore and Ohio
grain elevator ia Locust Point, Bal
tImore, Md, has risen to completion
of the storage bins.
The storage bins and workhouss
bins are already finished and the
cupola construction is progressing
A daily growth Of six feet repre-
sents a structural bulk equivalent to
that Of five story building cover
ing lot 30 feet wide and 80 fest
deep.
Mere dimensions convey little no
ton or the massive structure. Ersc-
tion of four walls enclosing an area
of similar size would be a slight un-
dertahng. In the new elevator the
outside walls are the minor factor.
Within their enclosure are great tubes
of concrete for grain storage, each
tube 10 feet in diameter and 90 feet
deep. Viewed from an airplane the
upper surface of the incomplete unit
suggests giant muffin-pan with 81
subdivisions for individual muffins,
arranged in 13 rows of seven each.
To raise this great bulk six feet or
more every "a hours involves clock
like precision of effort. Every por-
tion of structural detail is represent
ed by a wooden form. These forms
are four feet in depth. When they
are filled the lifting apparatus, oper-
ated by an army of trained workers,
is raised half an inch, and thus the
great bulk climbs steadily upward
with uniform exactneSs-outer walls,
bins, supplementary compartments
and all.
The elevator structure is but part
of the development now taking place
at Locust Point. Immediately adjoin-
ing the storage bins is the towering
concrete building known as the work
house, providing equipment for the
treatment and handling of grain in
transit from the farm to the worlds
markets. With the height of a II
story office building, this completed
structure is 81 feet wide and 240 feet
long.
Separtors and cleaning machines
capable of cleaning 10000 bushels Of
grain an hour will form a portion Of
the workhouse equipment, and this
structure will afford additional stor-
age capacity in the form of bins
holding 100000 bushels of grain.
Added to the 100000 bushel capac-
ity of the elevator proper this will
give total storage room for 100000
bushels.
The tracks are a part of a compre-
henslve system of yard arrangement.
There are no stub tracks, and hence
no backward movement Of empty
cars. Four unloading tracks are pro-
vided with a capacity of eighty cars
in continuous discharge of grain.
Special car bumpers, four in num-
ber, will handle eight cars an hour,
giving a capacity of 256 cars for an
eight hour day. Grain-dryers will bs
located over the track-shed, with
hourly drying capacity Of 1000 to
5000 bushels.
Delivering the grain to the 1872
storage bins will be accomplished by
means of ten endless belt conveyors
extending to cupola story on top of
the elevator, from which the grain
will pour by gravity into the huge
tanks.
Pier construction is an important
phase of the new development at Lo-
Gust Point, and this, too, is making
rapid progress. The new Pier No. 5,
stretching out into the water for 1000
feet, is well under way. In building
this structure more than $4,000 pieces
Of piling were driven, to give solid
foundation. With an average length
of IS feet, these piles, end to end,
would stretch from Washington to
Philadelphia.
New Pier No. z will provide berth
ing space for four ships of large size,
for grain loading only. For unload
ing grain arriving in small vessels
from Bay and River points this pier
will have an unloading tower at the
outer end, with pneumatic equipment
for the withdrawal of cargoes from
the holds of the boats.
Pier No. 6, part of the old develop
ment at Locust Point, is receiving q
new gallery structure. This dock will
accommodate four vessels for grain
loading or for combined grain and
general cargo. When both piers are
in use it will be possible to transfer
grain to ships at six berths at once,
giving total loading capacity of 150,-
900 bushels an hour. -
| AS now under construction the Lo-
Gust Point development involves i'm
provements costing $10,000,000.
The entire plan is worked out in
a way that will permit the installa-
ton of additional units with capacity
of 100000 bushels, thus insurine
total storage facilities of 9,000,0 0,00C
bushels, aside from the workhouse
bins.
Work on the improvements was
started in May, 1923. 1t is expected
that the plant will be in operation
| early in the summer of 1924