Download or read book The American Elevator and Grain Trade, Vol. 23 written by Harley B. Mitchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Elevator and Grain Trade, Vol. 23: December 15, 1904 In the days of its first organization the great grain fields of the West were only beginning to be developed, and the business of our members was mainly within a radius of 100 miles Of Philadelphia. The competition of Baltimore then for the trade of the Cumberland Valley was relatively of as much moment to our membership as to - day the competi tion of the Gulf and of Canada is to us in our battle for a share of the products of the broad valleys of the Mississippi and the Missouri. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.