158 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Sepr., 1902. 
On another occasion, in Western Kansas, I noticed elevators, as follows,” 
successive towns :— 
Town. No. Elevators. Town. No. Elevators. 
Rossville rhs 2 Near Salamon 2, 
St. Mary’s 2 Ellsworth 3 
Wamego... xx 1 Wilson ee is, 2 
Kanopolis me 2 Bunker Hill... Be ao 
Salamon ... 2 Russell 2 2 
Near Salamon 1 Ellis 3 
Again, in Central Illinois, westward from Bloomington, on the Chicago and 
Alton Railway, I noticed elevators as follows :— 
Town. No. Elevators. Town. No. Elevators. 
Hopedale... 2 Talula 2 
Delavan a ‘4 Ashland 3 
San Jose ... oe v Prentice $. 2 
Natrona ... a 2 Sinclair... cy 1 
Mason City 6 Woodson ... hz 1 
Greenview 2 Murrayville 2 
A small siding 1 Manchester... 2 
Peterburg il 
On still another occasion I photographed nearly all the elevators betwee? 
Big Stone City, S. Dakota, and St. Paul, Minn., along the Chicago, Milwaukee: 
St. Paul Railway, an average line as to elevators. ‘Che photographic tally wa 
as follows, the total, including those not photographed, being about 1 
elevators on about 15U miles of road :— 
Town. No. Elevators. Town. No. Elevators. 
Coal et fz 6 Bird Island xT 5 
- Appleton ... e 5 Olivia nee oa 6 
Watson ... 3 4 Stewart... 1h) 4 
Montevideo a4 6 Sumpter ... an 2 
Milan yt fe 2 Brownton ... = 2 
Granite Falls 3 Glencoe... rs 4 
ee ow 5 » Augusta ... bx: 2 
Rennville AA 6 Norwood ... ne 2 
(ELE CtOTya es orf 4 Cologne .. oa 2 
Buffalo Lake ae 4 Minneapolis an «(ERD 
The Minneapolis elevators, however, are all terminal. North of this 
railway the elevators are more numerous; south of it, less numerous. (S® 
Plate I.) 
It is upon data such as this that I have estimated the country elevators, | 
the United States at between 15,000 and 20,0U0. These figures, which 
represent a conservative estimate, show the important part played by th® 
country elevator, which would still exist and operate if the United States d! 
not export a single bushel of grain. No account is taken here of th? 
thousands of elevators connected with flour-mills in all parts of the country: f 
I have already given the location of the principal terminal elevators. 9 
special interest are those of Minneapolis, which furnish grain to the great flo” 
mills, and hence may be regarded as local elevators or home-consumptio? 
elevators. Minneapolis is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants. It possess? 
about thirty elevators, having a capacity of 27,500,000 bushels, capable rf 
receiving upwards of 1,500 carloads of grain per day. These elevators cou! 
receive, grade, and deliver the annual wheat crop of New South Wales in five 
days. More than half of the capital invested in these elevators is Minneapo!* 
capital. 
3 Elevators have lately been erected on the Pacific Coast of the Unitet 
States, and these are increasing in number. One of the latest (of which 
insert a drawing, Fig. 7) is that erected by the Great Northern Railway, # 
