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crete: wooden elevators are not convenient owiijo- 1 

 tl.e liability to fire, while the products have to stand a. 

 correspondingly hirh insiiranee against fit 1 ". Elevai 

 of reinent "armado" are incombustible and risk of iire 

 eliminated . 



The said project provided for the construction of 

 three terminal elevators and one hundred and fifty lo- 

 cal elevators, but the intention was to augment tl 

 installations liradually to eijrht terminal -uid four hun- 

 dred country elevators. 



The ampliation would be made without any aid 

 j'rom the State. Employment would be Driven to ap- 

 proximately 12.000 workmen. 



FrRTHER PROPOSALS FOR ELEVATOR 

 CONSTRUCTIONS, 



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The other projects based on similar arguments dif- 

 fered but little except in financial details, and iu the sys- 

 tem to be adopted over the payment for the construc- 

 tion of the Elevators: all proposed a similar type of 

 building 1 , that adopted in the United States, that is, of 

 tubular bins as storage places; although all the varia- 

 tions recognised floor bins, a principle suitable for ce- 

 reals from damp zones, flat floors storage, etc-, and the 

 combinations of every class were to be experimented 

 with . 



STATE REI-TSES TO ALLOW COXSTKl (T10N. 



After Ion*:' delays the Government declined to ac- 

 cept an.v proposal, neither the one to construct the ele- 

 vators for account of the State because the State irea- 

 sury at the time did not allow of such expenditure 

 nor. the second because of the required <riKt ran teed in- 

 terests which the Government held were equivalent 

 to the State advancing the necessary fun- Is, and the 

 others because the State had decided to do nothing but 

 talk the matter over first to <ret the best ideas. Further 

 proposals were then withdrawn, and rhe foreign u'nanci- 

 .ers retired somewhat astonished at the extraordinary 

 criterion rei<win<' in the then Government. Undeniably 

 it sounded too cynical, especially as the Aliniste- de- 

 clared that free competition was to be the jruidinji 1 rule. 



Obsessed, however, by the idea of the State owning 

 and working the Elevators, as proposed by a Minister 

 of a preceding Government, the Government, curious- 

 ly inconsequential as it may seem after their own ex- 



