CANADIAN NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1928, Page 7

CANADIAN NOTES

A GIANT ELEVATOR, OTTAWA, December 20. The world’s largest single unit grain elevator, with a capacity of over 7,000,000 bushels, Pool Terminal No. 7 was officially opened when Air A. J. M’Phail, president of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wheat Producers, Ltd. in tho presence of forty' directors and members of the Saskatchewan, Albert and Manitoba wheat pools, started the machinery whereby the first carload ol grain was raised and dumped into the hoppers.

, Some idea of the dimensions of the building is gleaned from tlie statement that it is 1100 feet long, has 225 storage tanks each 125 feet highland 55 l inter-space and outer-space bins. The workhouse is 210 feet high. The work on the giant elevator was done in the record time of 149 days from the time the first concrete was poured. FUEL-TESTING LABORATORY.

The best equipped fuel research laboratory in America is nearing completion in Ottawa. Erected by the Department of Mines, at a cost of 150,000 dollars, it will be ready lor occupancy during tbe winter months. In the new Ottawa, laboratory, whiel will house the personnel of the Divi sion of Fuels and Fuel Testing, facilities will be available for chemical and physical analyses, and in addition V apparatus for testing and analytica' work there will be a by-product re covery coking plant, powdered fuel steam generating equipment, and briquetting and coal-washing plants, all designed for test work on a commercial scale. Another feature of the laboratory will he the installation of equipment for research work jn low temperature carbonisation, liquefaction of coal and production of synthetic motor spirits, distillation of shales, and for experiments in house heating with different Canadian fuels. CHRISTM.AS-TREES.

A record shipment, totalling approximately 3,000,000' Christmas-trees, will be New Brunswick’s contribution to the Yuletide celebration in the United States, according to officials of the Illinois Central System who were in St John recently, after a trip arranging for the transportation of the huge consignment. Large orders for New Brunswick Christmas-trees have been received from points as far distant as Chicago and Now Orleans,, it is stated, and the first movement over the Illinois Central System, via the Canadian'National and Canadian Pacific lines, commenced about November 15.

Some GOO fiat cars or “gondolas” will be required for the shipment, each cn varying 1000 bundles of four to six trees. The railway men declared that indications pointed to a yearly increase in this business for New Brunswick because of lessening supplies oi suitable trees in tbe New England State.