Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-09-13 | Page 2 | Kaysville Leads the Entire West by Erecting Grain Storage Tanks

KAYSVILLE LEADS THE ENTIRE WEST WESTBY WESTBY WESTBY BY ERECTING GRAIN STORAGE TANKS r v j gt S I Iq q S SI I 1 t e 5 S SI Et t I S St NI I c I 5 5 I i 4 z I tT c ii 1 The Tue Kaysville Milling company compan has in installed installed stalled stalle elevated grain storage tanks at their new nen mill mUl Just completed at Kays Kaysville ays yule ville These tanks are the first to be built in connection with floud mills west Weilt of ot Omaha Through the middle we west t they are used all aU over the wheat belt but these are the first erected In il Utah G W Pope contracting engineer r for a Minneapolis company compau had the contract and has just completed it It There are four tanks seventeen and a half baIt feet In Siam diameter diameter eter and thirty feet teet in height The Thu ca capacity capacity capacity of the four is bushels of ot wheat The rite roof is 1 maae mace of corrugated Iron and ud waterproof water ro f When hen wheat Is to the mill mm it itis itis itIs is dumped into a bin and an elevator car cur carries curries carries ries it to the top tOti and then carries it along a tramway from the th mill to the tanks where it Is unloaded unload d into the bins An underground under round tunnel runs from the mill under the tanks In the tunnel is I installed an automatic carrier When the tho mill is put in operation the automatic carrier Juad itself with wheat and ard car carries carries ries vies it from the tank into the grinding I machine Another nother advantage about these tank tanks is la that four different crops crop of I wheat can be stored and kept for old aid milling wheat Qt I