People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — BIG ELEVATOR DEAL. [ARTICLE]

BIG ELEVATOR DEAL.

Tacoma Grain Company Buys Thirty-Nine Northern Pacific Elevators. Tacoma, Wash., June 18. —The Tacoma Grain company has purchased of the receiver of the Northern Pacific Elevator company thirty-nine elevators belonging to the Northern Pacific system in the northwest. Thirty-eight elevators, with a capacity of 6,000,000 biishels, are located in Idaho and in Spokane, Lincoln and Whitman counties in this state. The terminal elevator, of 750,000 bushels capacity, is located in Tacoma. Last year these elevators shipped 2,900,000 centals of wheat, which loaded thirty-six ships, and this year they are expected to ship 4,000,000 centals.