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Show The Largest Grain Elevator. The largest grain elevator in the world waa built at Minneapolis Junction iu 1SJ. The building is 830 feet long, 92 feet wide and 175 toot high. It has storing stor-ing capacity for 2,000,000 bushels of grain within its walls. During its construction con-struction the carpentersand joiners used over 6,500,000 feet of lumber of all kinds, besides 32 car loads of nails, which, if packed, would make the enorormous amount of 10,000 common kegs; the best calculators say that the actual number of nails used in the mighty building will fall but few, if any, under 30,000,000! The engine u;;ed is capable of handling 175,000 to 2TA000 bushels of gTain per day, or enough during the year to equal the combined productions of the state of Minnesota and the two Dakotas. Twc hundred and fifty cars have often been loaded at this elevator in ton hours. St, Louis Republic. |