Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1912 — DRYING PLANT AT ELEVATOR RUNNING [ARTICLE]

DRYING PLANT AT ELEVATOR RUNNING

Babcock ft Hopkins Now Have Complete Plant In Operation—Building Another Big Crib. - The drying plant at the Babcock & Hopkins’ elevator has been completed and was running a short time Tuesday night for the first time and placed into permanent operation today. This, completes the elevator equipment and now it is prepared to do a big transfer business at a' less operating expense than it was prior to the big fire of a year ago last April. The dryer, cooler and bleaoher are all erected on the west side of the main building and the arrangement is better than it was in the old elevator. A part of the hew construction is a smoke stack that stands 110 feet above the track level. Thursday the work of building a 25,000 bushel corn crib will be started. It will stand where the old crib stood. The capacity of the old crib was 18,000 bushels. Just east of the corn crib is the old depot building, which is used for a machine shop. Babcock & Hopkins are again prepared to engage in an extensive transfer business, shipping in oats, bleaching, clipping and drying them and then shipping them out. Their force works night and day and now about twenty men are employed. The elevator plant is one of the best in the state.