Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1907 — Dust Nuisance Overcome. [ARTICLE]

Dust Nuisance Overcome.

Four dust collecting apparatuses have been installed in the Bab Cock & Hopkins elevator, including blowers,' etc., and the oats clippings and dost nuisance in the neighborhood will now probably be altogether overcome. The system was pot in by a Minneapolis company, the force of men leaving here Saturday after working some five or six weeks on the job. The dust is collected and passed into sacks for shipment! It has a commercial valae, being utilized, it is understood, In the manufacture of a stock food. The big elevator is now one of the most thoroly equipped in the state, and since the' enlargement made during the summer and the installation of the additional oats bleachers the firm will be in

shape to handle much niOre weste. n dats4hUh they' h&vff ii" prdvftiul years. This buying of oats in the west, shipping them here, clipping and bleaehing them aa& re-Shi ppin£ them, bf the constitutes «F considerable portion of the busiT mess of tips firm of hustling ybuhg men, who are the largest employers of labor established iff business, here.