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Pulp Pellet Warehouse

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The MAIN BUILDING, with five floors, houses most of the machinery and equipment for the

sugar process ... The PULP DRYER and PELLEf WAREHOUSE, with gabled roof, houses machinery

for making dried beet pulp pellets and provides bulk storage for 18,000 tons of the

stock feed ... Eight BULK SUGAR STORAGE BINS, the white silos standing 185 feet high, . hold up to 6,300,000 pounds of refined sugar in bulk form ... The SUGAR WAREHOUSE holds

up to 600,000 pounds bf sugar in 100-pound bags, with facilities for loading bul~ sugar into special rail cars ... The BOILERHOUSE furnishes steam for factory processes with three 11_package11 _{boilers fired by natural gas ... The LIME} _{KILN, rising}_{behind the main} building with an inclined conveyor for handling 1 imestone, furnishes burned 1 ime under a~tomatic control for use in purifying process juices ... The BEET HANDLING section cleans and washes beets before they go into the process ... The BEET RECEIVING bridge system, not shown above but located north of the fac~ory, provides mechanical equipment

to receive, pile and convey beets ... There is also a closed-circuit WATER CLARIFICATION sys~em, not shown here, to recycle process wastes and eliminate stream pollution ... The OFtlCE BUIL~ING, in front, houses the offices for factory mana~ernent personnel and also