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river front is 60 feet wide, that on the railroad is 110 feet. The edifice is constructed as 

 strong as wood and iron can make it, and is protected on the outside by a fire-proof roof and 

 walls of brick, or sheathed with sheet iron. The height of the main building is 62 feet to the 

 roof, or a little over 100 feet to the top of the cupolas, two in number, where is constructed 

 the weighing apparatus. There are in the building above the lower floor, sixty-six bins of 

 5000 bushels capacity each, or of the dimensions of ten feet square by thirty-five feet in depth, 

 all braced in the strongest manner to sustain lateral pressure. The two immense shipping 

 bins hold 12,000 bushels each. The lower floor gives a clear space for rolling freight, and 

 will easily accommodate 50,000 barrels. The uppermost story is designed to furnish con- 

 veniences for drying grain, and also for receiving and storing grain in bags. By way of re- 

 capitulation, it will be seen to be a moderate estimate that the warehouse can give storage- 

 room to half a million of bushels of grain. The grain is received on the land side by four 

 elevators, which can unload, in the aggregate, 10,000 bushels of grain per hour, or two hundred 

 car loads. On the river-side a single elevator unloads the canal boats at the rate of 3000 

 bushels per hour, while in the same period, into the vessels, may be pouring at once, 8000 

 bushels of grain. The great heart of all, the seat of life in the establishment, is found very 

 economically and snugly stowed in an interior angle of the building in shape of a splendid 

 low-pressure engine of one hundred horse-power. 



Ford's Improved Granary. 



Fig. 1. 



The annexed engravings are views of an improvement in granaries, for which a patent was 

 granted to Ebenezer Ford, of Spring Cottage, Mississippi, October, 1854. 



The nature of the improvement consists in erecting a building having double walls and 

 double floors, furnishing the same with double partitions; the walls, floors, and partitions 

 being filled in with salt, in order to prevent the attacks of insects. 



Figure 1 is a perspective view of the granary, and figure 2 is a horizontal section of 

 the same. 



