Excerpt from The Canadian Lake Public Terminal Elevators, 1918 The Canadian Northern Railway Com pany built an elevator at Port Arthur in 1902, and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Com pany built its elevator at Fort William in 1910. The managers of these two railway companies held views similar to those acted upon by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. They, too, realized that the development of the territories served by their lines required the introduction of the most economical methods of handling grain. They encouraged the building of country elevators over their systems, and in order to do this to the degree that was required, they leased the terminal elevators which they had built at the head of the Lakes, to firms, whom in turn they obligated to erect lines of country elevators. These two railway companies did not, them selves, operate their terminal elevators. They realized that a greater degree of success couldbe secured if they followed the line of evolution marked out in commercial business generally, and in the grain business of the United States in particular. 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.