Photo by Don McLaughlin on April 11, 2010. Click on the photo to visit his photostream.
DALLAS CENTER–Work has started on a 250,000-bushel concrete elevator for Dallas Center Farmers Cooperative Company. It will be 166 feet tall and is being built by Tillotson Construction Company at a cost of $151,000.
Located west of the firm’s south elevator, it is 56×70 in base dimensions.
Aeration equipment will be included in each of the ten 23,000-bushel bins, Manager Don Brown reports.
Farmers’ Elevator Guide, circa September 1955
Photo by Pete Zarria, April 1, 2011. Click the image to visit his photostream.
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