Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Across America Via the Great Northern
The immense new steel elevator of the Great Northern Railway, completed in the fall of 1897, is well worth a visit. It is built. On an entirely new principle, and is a vast improvement over old style elevator systems. The entire building is of steel and brick, absolutely fireproof. Its sixty metal tanks have a combined storage capacity of over bushels of wheat. The walls of these tanks are from one-quarter to one-half inch in thickness of solid steel. The building is sup plied with every latest device for the rapid and safe handling of whole ?eet loads of grain, and almost all the machinery is driven by electricity derived from the tunnel at Niagara Falls, twenty three miles distant.
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