Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 14 | Buffalo Harbor Bulging with Grain

BUfFAlO HARBOR BUlGING WIT ITH GRAIN Golden Stream Will Leave Lake ake Boats in Early 1 Spring BUFFALO Jan Strung along side by side Ide Jn Imposing array under I the l leo lee o of the outer breakwater and tucked away way in ln corners of or the Inner harbor here arc are nearly of ot the largest freight freighters on the Great Lakes loaded to capacity with ith grain harvested harvested harvest harvest- harvest harvest- ed in the Am American and the Canadian northwest MIl last falL tall The vessels with their cargoes which comprise nearly q 0 bushels of 01 wheat grain-wheat corn oats rye barley and flax flax are are worth at present market prices about Much of ot the grain will remain In storage in the holds of the vessels Until until un un- til spring when it wilt will be elevated loaded Into canal barges and moved to so tidewater placed in r u Other ther vessels ha have e been the harbor that th they y can cane be time e moved UP i to elevator r legs some during the winter when the movement by rail will haYo havo relieved the tho elevators eleVator of a part of ot their bulging ing stores The movement of grain from boat to elevator and from elevator to boxcars boxcars boxcars box box- cars never ceases from the time the folden stream starts down the Great a Lakes Lales but the fi final al rush Is Is iso PO c great great great- that these facilities meet the demands of only a small portion of the fleet Nor could tidewater facilities handle the crop if il It were possible to move it there as rapidly as the freighters bring it down the lakes So the big freighters become storehouses for the winter and they are a as desirable for tor that hat purpose as the elevators The largest winter cargo In floating storage this season Is In the hold of the steamer William Wllliam C. C Agnew Oats in her bins woud fill flU boxcars or ora ora ora a total of bushels one bushels one of th the lar largest larest est winter cargoes on record The rates next with bushels of ot grain The Agnew was Agnew was among the last of the grain carriers to battle through the storm swept lakes at the close dose of navigation I Grain receipts at the port of ot Buffalo Buffalo falo this season broke all aU previous records The total of all grains 1 and flour figured on a n. wheat-bushel wheat basis was bushels This Is more than double any total since 1916 The previous high mark was twenty five tive years ago when a bumper crop I brought the total up to bushels