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START POURING CONCRETE FOR NEW ELEVATOR
[Welland Tribune February 5, 1940]
150 Men Employed and This will be Doubled at Peak of Construction
Build Road
Workmen of the Carter-Halls-Aldinger Co. began pouring the concrete for the footings of the new 2,000,000 bushel grain elevator and 4,000 bag per day flour mill of Robin Hood Flour Mills Ltd., at Ramey’s Bend this morning. Lorne Sandberg, superintendent for the construction company announced today.
The concrete is hoisted in buckets from the huge stationary mixer up the 265 foot tower and poured at whatever level is needed. The top of the hoist tower is now at the 225 foot level but will rise another 40 feet before the work is completed.
About 150 men were employed on the construction this morning, Mr. Sandberg reported, and this number would be more than doubled shortly as the construction swung into the peak. Of the men employed the large majority were local men and this policy would be continued throughout construction, he said.
The roadway into the site north of Humberstone village on the west side of the canal from Omer avenue, is complete except for the installation of one culvert. The N.S. and T. Main spur into the site is complete and in use but the three spurs on the site off off this main spur are yet to be constructed.
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