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Show Cars o! Grain Unloaded Into Big Sperry Elevator; Mill Under Construction . Two views showing progreess at the Sperry elevator on Pacific avenue. The one view gives a ? j good idea of the size of the elevator and also a glimpse of the flour mill under construction. The s jl other view shows the long conveyor belt for moving grain. This conveyor belt is in the top floor j of the elevator. j I Finishing fourTs arr bMnr: siren the Sperry grain elevator, aeeoalin;1: to Manager deorge B. Flack, and the huge elevator will be ready for the inspection of the general public during dur-ing the livestock 'show hero early in January. OgdVn will have one of the largest grain elevators in the United States, as the elevator will have a capacit of 710,000 bushels. Modern methods are in ey (dence veryhere The gain after bei na received re-ceived at the ekvator is removed from the cars into huge bin-. Two large Two rleaners hrw e been installed ahd a third will he completed in the 'near future. Each tleaner has a capacity ca-pacity of 2.200 bushobs an hour. The dust Is blown through tubes. Eiglit bins for stock have been erected in the elevator. Twelve cleaning clean-ing bins, tour screening bins and seven large storage- bins in the head housp givi - the elevator a capacity of 710,ooij j bushels. Four garners each capable of hand-i hand-i ling 2,000 burthels of grain arc in work-1 work-1 ing condition and ready for operation park the entire giounds surround? 1 ing the mill, elevator and office build-1 build-1 ings. Trees and grass will be planted j John II Rossitec is president of the I Sperry Flour company. Mr. Rossiter has been serving on the shipping board al Washington. Seward D Mr-Near Mr-Near is vice president and general manager of the corporation. Oeorgo B. Flack is general manager of the local branch of the Sperry company. com-pany. Mr. Flack has born on the job i In OgtU n for a number of months He 1 is recognized ;s one of the leaders in ! ' bins are now In use. An automatic car puller has been installed in-stalled which moves cars on the ! tracks with caruparative r-use, eliminating elimin-ating tho switch eugiue The car pul ;ler is capable of moving eighteen loaded cars at one lime. Cars are opened on arrival and a .-ample ql the grain is taken. Two men are attached to a car. In many cases a carload of grain is unloaded in from 20 to 30 minutes by two men who use automatic power shovels The ordinary car contains from 1500 to 2000 bushels of grain and from the time the door is broken until the sweeping of the car is completed tho average time of unloading is about 25 minutes. Into Huge Bins, The grain is unloaded into bins aft er which it is conveyed to the top of the grain elevator on bucket belt With this system the grain is carried 160 feet from the first floor to the top floor and then carried into a garner. gar-ner. The garner is 10 feet high and 16 feet in diameter From the garner the grain is carried onto the r;il where it is weighed. Five thousand bushels an hour art weighed on a 30-inch 30-inch belt which is capable of handling 10,000 bushels. The belt is 360 feet long. The grain is next carried to tho storage room. : An electric switch board room has been Installed with safety devices. Signals for every emergency are lu catcd 'hrougtvjut the p'ant. In case of accident to an employo or in case of accidents with the machinery the new:, is flashed spe.-dil.. The winding stairway was manufactured manu-factured by the OgdeH iron orks An elevatoi for 'he use of employes has been installed Passengers are earned ear-ned from floor to floor on a belt. Drinking fountains are located on each floor. Locker rooms, dressing rooms and showers are provided. With few exceptions the elevator Is now ready for use and b is expected the entire elevator will be ready for operation during the early part oi' January. Two spur tracks are extended to the elevator. Old Glory Waves. Old Glory was unfurled and waves from the top of the elevator tlag pole The new mill building which is now under the course of erection will be tin by 158 feet and will be 110 Teet high. It will be constructed of brick With a reinforced concrete foundation. founda-tion. With the mill completed work on a modern office building will be started and modern garage buildings will also be erected. It is the intention inten-tion of the officials of the company to the giain industry in America. He has directed the general work of, the company here and has offices at 419 Colonel Hudson building. M. C. Couchst is the consulting engineer en-gineer for tbt- Sperry company with general headquarters at San Francisco. He is overseeing the erection of lh" j mill. William Parry is superintendent of construction work. D. II. Eveleth j is supervising engineer. Warren B. Felt is the chief clerk while John H Roennfeldt is superln-tendt superln-tendt nt. Mr. Moennfeldt has had many years of experience and is from Kansa.- City. lit will have complete jurisdiction at the elevator concerning the operation while Manager Flack will do the buying and general overseeing. over-seeing. The Sperry Flour company is known from coast io coaBt and while their j factories and mills are located in the! W 1 iheli products are known from, one cud of America to another Mills ; are located at Vallejo, Stockton, ; Fresno and Los Angeles, California; j Tacoma, Creston and Spokane, Wash inglon. A rice mili is located at Chico, California, while Ogden is rep- ( resented with an elevator and will have one of the largest mills in the wtst Forty-three outside selliu? stations .n ( .difornia and Oregon are i maintained. |