New Elevator is Building

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, March 12, 1926:  Construction has started on a mammoth grain elevator with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels on the Big Four Railroad west of Sloan Av, near Beech Grove.  The grain terminal will be one of the largest in the Midwest with eighteen giant concrete tanks and an elevator workhouse. It will be leased to Early & Daniel Co, a large Cincinnati, Ohio grain dealer, which has a contract for storage, processing, and handling grain with the Indiana Wheat Growers Association, a cooperative marketing subsidiary of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation.  Designed by local architects Bacon & Tislow and underwritten by Indianapolis financiers, the $300,000 (2024:  $5,425,458) project is being built by R. C. Stone Engineering and Construction Co, a St. Louis firm, and will be completed in time to receive this summer’s wheat crop.

“New Elevator is Building,” The Indianapolis Star, 12 March 1926, p. 23:6