APPENDIX A.

STATEMENT OF THE GKAIN ELEVATORS, WAREHOUSES, AND MILL FACILITIES ON THE NORTHERN PACIFIC LINES, JUNE 1, 1900.

[Furnished by the Northern Pacific Railway Company.]

The following schedules have been inserted to show the equipment of a representative grain-carrying railroad for the purpose of handling this commodity. Few people have an adequate conception of the capacity, the variety in ownership, and the operating control of these facilities for handling the commercial grain crop of the Northwest. The data here presented is not readily available, and has recently been sought for by foreign inquirers. The presentation of the exact number of grain-handling facilities at local stations and at terminal points affords, moreover, the best kind of data to understand the position of the producer.

KEY TO STATEMENT.

(A) Grain-buying firms (line elevator companies) whose central offices are located at primary markets. (B) Houses owned or operated by local dealers.

(C) Houses owned or operated by farmers' associations. E-Elevator.

W-Warehouse.

M = Mill.

Location of offices of line elevator companies controlling elevators and warehouses in Minnesota and North Dakota: Monarch Elevator Co., Andrews & Gage (Lessees Consolidated Elevator Co.). Thorpe Elevator Co., Great Western Elevator Co., Johns & Powers, Duluth Elevator Co., Cargill Elevator Co., Victoria Elevator Co., Independent Elevator Co., Minneapolis.