There
Is Water On Both Sides, And The Corn Or Wheat Is Elevated On The
One Side, And Reshipped On The Other.
To effect this the corn is
carried across the breadth of the building; but, nevertheless, it
is never handled or moved in its direction on trucks or carriages
requiring the use of men's muscles for its motion.
Across the
floor of the building are two gutters, or channels, and through
these, small troughs on a pliable band circulate very quickly.
They which run one way, in one channel, are laden; they which
return by the other channel are empty. The corn pours itself into
these, and they again pour it into the shoot which commands the
other water. And thus rivers of corn are running through these
buildings night and day. The secret of all the motion and
arrangement consists, of course, in the elevation. The corn is
lifted up; and when lifted up can move itself and arrange itself,
and weigh itself, and load itself.
I should have stated that all this wheat which passes through
Buffalo comes loose, in bulk. Nothing is known of sacks or bags.
To any spectator at Buffalo this becomes immediately a matter of
course; but this should be explained, as we in England are not
accustomed to see wheat traveling in this open, unguarded, and
plebeian manner. Wheat with us is aristocratic, and travels always
in its private carriage.
Over and beyond the elevators there is nothing specially worthy of
remark at Buffalo.
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