Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1911 — WILL START ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTION THIS WEEK. [ARTICLE]

WILL START ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTION THIS WEEK.

Babcock k Hopkins Will Build Same Sised Building as Formerly, and Have It Beady for Corn.

' \ * Babcock & Hopkins, whose big grain elevator was destroyed by fire in April, will at once begin the construction of another elevator to be the same size as v the one burned down, and equipped with all the machinery employed in the other elevator for the bleaching and drying of grain. They have been very fortunate in the purchase of second hand lumber, having struck a bargain in Chicago where a big elevator on Twelfth street was being razed. The lumber is largely white and yellow pine and said by lumber men whom Messrs. Babcock & Hopkins took there to look over the lumber, to be far the lumber that could be purchased new'today. They will have sufficient lumber for the greater part of the building and purchased it at a considerably less price than they would have had to pay for hemlock lumber of a poorer grade. Two cars of the lumber arrived Wednesday and will be unloaded at once, and construction will begin this week. The building will be erected on the. old foundation which, fortunately, was left almost intact. Bert Abbott will have charge of the erection of the new elevator : he being a mechanic of experience and unusual ability. Julius Taylor and all the other regular elevator hands will work on the building and it is expected. to have it ..completed by the middle of November In timfe to handle this year’s corn crop. Not all the machinery will be installed this fall, owing to the fact that the elevator will not be completed in time to get much of the oats and wheat business, and it is probable that the larger part of the machinery for corn drying will not be installed before next summer. Messrs. Babcock & Hopkins will engage again in the transfer elevator business, buying foreign grain and shipping it in here for drying. This was for years the greatest employing institution in Rensselaer and it will be good news to every person in Rensselaer and surrounding country to learn that the elevator will be built as large as the old one, and that the proprietors will engage in extensive transfer business.