As I Have Before Said,
60,000,000 Bushels Of Breadstuff Were Thus Pushed Through Buffalo
In The Open Months Of The Year 1861.
These open months run from
the middle of April to the middle of November; but the busy period
is that of the last two months - the time, that is, which intervenes
between the full ripening of the corn and the coming of the ice.
An elevator is as ugly a monster as has been yet produced. In
uncouthness of form it outdoes those obsolete old brutes who used
to roam about the semi-aqueous world, and live a most uncomfortable
life with their great hungering stomachs and huge unsatisfied maws.
The elevator itself consists of a big movable trunk - movable as is
that of an elephant, but not pliable, and less graceful even than
an elephant's. This is attached to a huge granary or barn; but in
order to give altitude within the barn for the necessary moving up
and down of this trunk - seeing that it cannot be curled gracefully
to its purposes as the elephant's is curled - there is an awkward
box erected on the roof of the barn, giving some twenty feet of
additional height, up into which the elevator can be thrust. It
will be understood, then, that this big movable trunk, the head of
which, when it is at rest, is thrust up into the box on the roof,
is made to slant down in an oblique direction from the building to
the river; for the elevator is an amphibious institution, and
flourishes only on the banks of navigable waters.
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