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chap, no fewer than twenty-six sack band-conveyors, nine bulk band- 

 ■ conveyors, fourteen elevators, and fifteen large automatic 

 weighers. The various machines are driven by separate elec- 

 tro-motors. This plant was completed in 1909. 



Grain elevator, No. 2, has no accommodation for storing 

 grain, but is equipped with machinery for handling grain at 

 the rate of 450 tons per hour, and the equipment includes 

 appliances for receiving, weighing, and loading grain out to 

 vessels at this rate. It is supplied with an efficient exhaust 

 plant to minimize the troubles arising from a dusty atmosphere, 

 and also complete electrical equipment for driving the machin- 

 ery and lighting the granary. In this instance the building is 

 of steel with floors of ferro-concrete. This plant was erected 

 in conjunction with elevator No. 3, and was completed in 

 1912. 



Grain elevator, No. 3, is arranged on similar lines to No. 2, 

 with the difference that it has storage accommodation for 

 12,000 tons of grain in sacks on the floors of a large ware- 

 house. The handling capacity of this plant is 600 tons per 

 hour. This plant was erected in conjunction with elevator 

 No. 2, and was completed in 1912. 



568. Private Ownership. — The large majority of elevators 

 in the United States are owned and operated either by com- 

 panies uncontrolled by railways, but organized solely for the 

 purpose of storing and handling grain, or by co-operative 

 societies or private firms. 



569. Railway Ownership and Control of Elevators. — What 

 is probably the largest elevator warehouse in the world be- 

 longs to the Canadian Northern Railway Company, and is 

 situated at Port Arthur. The Canadian Pacific and Grand 

 Trunk Railway Companies have several elevators at Montreal 

 on the most improved and modern plan. The Santa Fe Rail- 

 way has a large elevator at Chicago. The number of terminal 

 elevator warehouses, owned and operated by railway com- 

 panies in the United States, is said to be small, but the 

 number operated by companies which the railways control is 

 substantially larger. The Argentine railways have erected ele- 

 vators, with the permission of the Government, including one 

 at Buenos Aires, built by the Buenos Aires and Rosario 

 Railway Company (Downie, 1); the Buenos Aires and Pacific 

 Railway Company has erected four elevators at Puerto Galvan, 



