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the railway company, along whose line they are located. 

 By calling on several or all of these elevators at one time, 

 a firm may be able to fill large orders quickly, or secure 

 a large quantity of one kind of grain. 



623. Terminal elevators. All the elevators so far 

 mentioned transfer their grain later to other points. 

 At the chief grain markets are terminal elevators where 

 wheat is stored for consumption by large mills, and 

 where grain is delivered in exchange transactions or held 

 for export. 



624. Floating elevators. At the docks of lake and 

 ocean ports, go-between elevators are employed for re- 

 ceiving grain from railroad cars to be transferred later 

 to large steamers for export. Many of these are in use 

 at New York City. As they are constructed on the 

 water they are called floating elevators. 



625. The modern elevators. Formerly there was 

 much loss of grain in elevators by fire. In later years 

 they have been made more and more fire proof. At 

 first this was done by stone construction. Now both 

 the elevator and the large tanks are commonly made of 

 steel (Fig. 172). There are at present 52 elevators in 

 Minneapolis alone, having a storage capacity of 44,850,000 

 bushels. In 1912 there were 1315 elevators in the entire 

 state of Minnesota, which shipped out that year 73,000,000 

 bushels. In the Canadian provinces, west of Winnipeg, 

 there were 1763 elevators in 1911, with a storage capacity 

 of 54,000,000 bushels. In other countries there are very 

 few elevators. However, of the few that were seen in 

 Russia by the author in 1900, those in North Caucasus 

 were well built of stone. 



The country elevator, when ready to ship, loads the 

 grain originally received from the farmer, into a railroad 



