168 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Sepr., 1902. — 
About a year ago Messrs. Gillespie Bros. and Co. began the construction | 
of a wooden elevator at the Anchor Roller Flour Mills in Sydney. This 
eleyator has now been in operation for over six months, and is, in the wordsfot 
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this floor guide the bags of grain to the railway trucks. 1. Weighing hopper hung on a steel- 
eet 2. Mouth of asilo. 3. Lever for opening and closing the mouth of thesilo. 4. Steelyard. — 
5. Weights. : 
the proprietor, “(a great success.” It consists of 35 bins or silos 8 feet — 
across and 40 feet deep, the full capacity being about 70,000 bushels. The 
framework is of ironbark, and the silos ot Oregon pine. The machinery requires 
20-horse power, and handles 35 tons per hour. (Hig. 29.) 
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27.—Bagging arrangements on the second floor of an English elevator. Shoots from 
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Fig. 28.—Elevator erected by Mr. F. Crago at Sydney (Newtown) in connection with his 
flour-mills. Capacity, 75,000 bushels. 
All the above elevators are used in connection with flour-mills, and are, 
therefore, not of the strictly commercial type, having, as they do, special 
apparatus for mixing grain, and lacking for the most part the special weighing 
