HIS LIFE AND WORK 



her doors and seven thousand vessels a year 

 arriving at her harbor. 



At present Chicago has swung from wheat 

 to corn and oats, and enabled Minneapolis to 

 become the greatest actual wheat-storage city 

 of the world. In Minneapolis the owning of 

 elevators has become a profession. There are 

 not only forty-four elevators in the city itself, 

 but also forty elevator companies that have 

 built more than two thousand elevators in the 

 wheat States of the Northwest. The Jumbo 

 of all elevators is here a stupendous granary 

 that holds 6,000,000 bushels, as much as may 

 be reaped by two thousand self-binders from 

 seven hundred square miles of land. 



Of all American cities, there are only five 

 others that can put roofs over 10,000,000 bushels 

 of grain. Duluth-Superior stands at the head 

 of these, with twice the storage capacity of 

 New York. This double city, with the pictur- 

 esque location, Duluth on her Minnesota hill- 

 side and Superior on her Wisconsin plain, has 

 in recent years overtaken all competitors and 



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