ILLINOIS 

 GRAIN 

 TERMINALS 

 PROGRAM 



Four County Companies 

 Spend Million Dollars 

 On Sub-terminal 

 Facilities 



THE steady growth of the Illinois 

 Grain Terminals Company work- 

 ing to tie the state together into a 

 large, farmer-owned, grain mar- 

 keting cooperative is shown on the 

 adjoining map. 



Greatest growth is evident in the areas 

 along the Illinois and Mississippi rivers 

 where the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion grain marketing affiliate has set up 

 sub-terminal river elevators at Morris, 

 Lacon, Hennepin, Havana, and Dallas 

 City. 



Grain originating at inland elevators 

 and accumulated at the river sub-terminals 

 will eventually be marketed through ter- 

 minal elevators at Chicago and East St. 

 Louis. Sites have been chosen on water- 

 fronts in both cities. 



The Illinois Grain Terminals plan is 

 designed to bring about a condition Illi- 

 nois farmers have long hoped for — con- 

 trol of some of the grain from their own 

 farms to the processor. 



Grain producing areas have been or- 

 ganized by counties and the counties by 

 districts under the Illinois Grain Termi- 

 nals plan now in operation. Four dis- 

 tricts (see map) have been organized so 

 far and all are in the north central area of 

 the state — The Producers River Grain 

 Company around Morris; The Prairie 

 Grain Company around Ottawa, Henne- 

 pin, and Lacon; The Havana River Grain 

 Company around Havana; and The West- 

 ern Illinois Grain Company around Dal- 

 las City on the Mississippi river. 



These four companies already have 

 spent about one million dollars to prepare 

 sub-terminal facilities. Most of the 

 money has been raised from stock pur- 

 chased by inland elevators and farmers. 



At present a half million dollars is 

 being raised for operating capital for the 

 state company which has op>ened an office 



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in Chicago under the management of Sam 

 L. Hassell, a successful grain salesman in 

 Chicago and Buffalo for many years. A 

 branch office also has been opened at the 

 eastern milling center at Buffalo. Termi- 

 nal facilities in Chicago and the St. Louis 

 area may be rented. If elevators are built, 

 however, more capital may be needed. 

 Plans are for a three-million bushel ca- 

 pacity elevator in Chicago and two mil- 

 lion bushel elevator at East St. Louis. 



Besides the four district companies, 

 there are 16 county grain companies, 

 seven county service companies, and 11 

 local elevator companies organized on a 

 Farm Bureau-type coojserative basis. 



LaFLEUR RESIGNS 



REX LaFLEUR, manager of the 

 Champaign office of Illinois Grain 

 Corporation, resigned Jan. 15 because of 

 ill health. Carl Kaiser of Alexander has 

 been named acting manager. 



Kaiser started with Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration last July 1 and has been serving 

 as relief branch office manager at Cham- 

 paign and Jacksonville. He graduated 

 from Illinois College at Jacksonville and 

 studied at the University of Illinois. He 

 taught at the Illinois School For The 

 Blind at Jacksonville. 



FEBRUARY. 1949 



