Sprouts

“Crunch, crunch, crunch,” said the ground. “I know,” I replied.

The flour mill’s interior is really just a system of steel and rubber tubes that crush flour over and over in the gap. This mill was never run off of water power directly, but it used to generate power using the river.

The depot of Ringling is a very lonely looking building and there are many holes in its roof. There are no signs on it whatsoever.

Pillsbury from across the Mississippi River and Stone Arch Bridge from the roof of the Washburn Crosby Elevator (aka Gold Medal Flour).

…a little close for comfort.

The side of Stelco and its scrubber-stacks. This is demolished now.

I did not take the escape ladder to the surface, but I am told it pops up in the middle of a hill next to the missile silo doors.

Mammoth Mine overlooks Central City from atop Mammoth Hill. In the distance you can make out Coeur d’Alene Mine (red), which operated from 1885 through 1940.

Every elevator has sets of these conveyor switches. Grain comes down through the top chute and the bottom chute rotates to move the flow onto various belts around the plant by gravity. The cross belt is another switch and the bridge belt brings the flow to the other half of the elevator.