Wood County OhArchives News.....The Perrysburg Elevator October 1, 1892
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The Perrysburg Elevator. Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Oct 1, 1892, Page 4. October 1, 1892
	The new elevator which has been in process of construction during the 
past summer is very nearly completed.  Already large quantities of grain have 
been placed therein, but the elevators and machinery are not all in running 
order and will not be until the first of next week.

	The main building is 36x40 feet and 48 from the lower flower to the 
eaves, with a brick engine house 20x24 feet, which is supplied with a 40 
horsepower boiler, made by Woodbury, Booth & Pryor of Rochester, N.Y. and a 
high speed, rock valve 35 horsepower engine, built by the Vulcan Iron Works of 
Toledo.

	The first floor or the main building is supplied with apparatus for 
weighing and handling grain.

	One of the most convenient devices being a large hopper bin built upon 
a large portable Fairbanks scales which can be used for transferring gran and 
weighing the same while in transit.

	All the scales used are of the celebrated Fairbanks make which is a 
guarantee of their accuracy.

	The building contains 20 hopper built crib bins of 2x6 cribbing, and 
the spouts are so arranged that the weigher on the ground floor can, by turning 
a lever direct the spouting of the grain into any bin in the house.

	There are three large elevators 61 feet long each capable of elevating 
1200 bushels per hour, and the storage capacity of the house is 35,000 
bushels.  On the upper floor of the building are situated one elevator wheat 
separator and cleaner, with a capacity of 1,000 bushels per hour.  Also one 
improved double screen dustless corn cleaner and shaker which separates the 
corn, blows the dust into the dust room, the cobs down into the engine room and 
the corn into the bins.  The corn is first shelled in the basement by a Victor 
sheller and is then conveyed to this cleaner by the elevators.

	The office building is a one story structure one-half of which is 
occupied by the large platform scales used in weighing the grain as it is 
brought in from the farms, in wagons.

	The elevator is in charge of John C. Maddy who has for many years been 
associated with Mr. Churchill in the grain business, and since he has been 
associated with the grain buying interests of this locality, his honorable 
business methods have won for him the esteem and confidence of the people 
throughout the entire section of country tributary to Perrysburg.  He has for 
assistants his brother, Chas. Maddy, and C.F. Franklin, who are thoroughly 
conversant with the details of the business and who are well known to the 
people doing business here, as very accommodating gentlemen.

	Thomas Roether, a young man born and raised in Perrysburg has charge of 
the engine.  Thus it will be seen that not only is the elevator a complete and 
well appointed gain house, but the men in charge of the various departments are 
capable and honorable men, well worthy the confidence and respect of the people.



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