CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



is now the leading wheat-shipping port in the 

 world. Buffalo comes next as an elevator city, 

 having twenty-eight towering buildings of steel 

 operated by the energy of Niagara Falls. Even 

 this famous cataract helps a little in the making 

 of cheap bread. New York follows closely after 

 Buffalo; with Kansas City and St. Louis run- 

 ning neck and neck at quite a distance behind. 

 It is an odd fact that there is not one elevator 

 on the Pacific coast. Because of the rainless 

 weather, the wheat is put into bags and piled 

 outdoors until the day of shipment. This is an 

 expensive method of handling, as the bags cost 

 four cents apiece and no machine has as yet 

 been invented that will pick up and handle a 

 sack of grain. 



The American elevator has now been very 

 generally adopted as the ideal wheat-bin. 

 Two Roumanian cities, Braila and Galatz, 

 have suggested an improvement by using con- 

 crete instead of steel. And one Russian city, 

 Novorossisk, on the Black Sea, has introduced 

 a most original feature in the building of ele- 

 vators by erecting a very large one a quarter of 



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