by William Lafferty » August 1, 2020, 12:29 pm
I remember when I got interested in shipping Chicago was really a grain shipping hub. At the time those two elevators were operated by Continental and the Indiana Farm Bureau. Cargill had an elevator. Continental operated what is now COFCO, and I believe there was a General Mills or Rialto elevator. Now there's just COFCO.
Coincidentally, last week I put together a list of grain elevators on the Calumet River in the early 1960s. Lake Calumet, already discussed, is excluded:
Continental Grain Company, 93rd Street and river, 600 thousand bushels
Norris Grain Company, 98th and river, 2.15 million bushels
Norris Grain Company, 102nd Street, 2.8 millions bushels
General Mills, Inc. (Rialto), 104th Street
Louis Dreyfus & Company (Irondale), 107th Street, 2.75 million bushels
Central Soya Company (Elevator A), 117th Street and river, 6.8 bushels
Cargill, Inc. (Northwestern), 122nd Street and river, 23 million bushels.
Chicago had been the world's largest grain shipping port until overtaken by the Canadian lakehead around the time of World War I. The Central Soya elevator is now owned by COFCO, which means owned by the Red Chinese government which also owns the Jones Island elevator at Milwaukee.
[quote]I remember when I got interested in shipping Chicago was really a grain shipping hub. At the time those two elevators were operated by Continental and the Indiana Farm Bureau. Cargill had an elevator. Continental operated what is now COFCO, and I believe there was a General Mills or Rialto elevator. Now there's just COFCO.[/quote]
Coincidentally, last week I put together a list of grain elevators on the Calumet River in the early 1960s. Lake Calumet, already discussed, is excluded:
Continental Grain Company, 93rd Street and river, 600 thousand bushels
Norris Grain Company, 98th and river, 2.15 million bushels
Norris Grain Company, 102nd Street, 2.8 millions bushels
General Mills, Inc. (Rialto), 104th Street
Louis Dreyfus & Company (Irondale), 107th Street, 2.75 million bushels
Central Soya Company (Elevator A), 117th Street and river, 6.8 bushels
Cargill, Inc. (Northwestern), 122nd Street and river, 23 million bushels.
Chicago had been the world's largest grain shipping port until overtaken by the Canadian lakehead around the time of World War I. The Central Soya elevator is now owned by COFCO, which means owned by the Red Chinese government which also owns the Jones Island elevator at Milwaukee.