ILLINOIS 

 GRAIN 

 TERMINALS 

 PROGRAM 



Four County Companies 

 Spend Million Dollars 

 On Sub-terminal 

 Facilities 



THE steady growth of the lUinois 

 Grain Terminals Company work- 

 ing to tic 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 opened 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 1 1 

 local elevator companies organized on a 

 Farm Bureau-type cooperative basis. 



LaFLEUR RESIGNS 



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II EX* LaFLEUR, manager of the 

 •^* Champaign office of Illinois Grain 

 Corporation, resigned Jan. 1 ^ because of 

 ill health. Carl Kaiser of Alexander has 

 been named acting manager. 



Kai'-er started with Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration last July 1 and has been serving 

 as relief branch office manager at (.ham- 

 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 



