title: Grain Elevators
author:  Lisa Mahar-Keplinger 
description: The Grain Elevator is a quintessential American monument. Mahar-Keplinger's crips yet haunting photographs are works of art, and her text reminds us that the American equivalent of the Gothic cathedral or the Egyptian pyramid is more than just a subject beloved by artists...[It is] a good introduction to the development of the American silo and is about silos as objects of beauty. <!-- source --><strong>William Morgan, University of Louisville </strong><BR><BR> Anyone who's ever seen the immense grain elevators scattered like cathedrals across the American landscape will be enchanted with this modest, beautifully-designed and illustrated book. <!-- source --><strong><I>Travel Books Worldwide</I></strong>
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  # Calumet K
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  
  
  
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  E-text prepared by Robert Petty
  
  
  CALUMET “K”
  
  
  by
  
  
  MERWIN-WEBSTER
  
  
  1904
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The contract for the two million bushel grain elevator, Calumet K,
  
  
  had been let to MacBride &Company, of Minneapolis, in January, but the
  
  
  superstructure was not begun until late in May, and at the end of
  
  
  October it was still far from completion. Ill luck had attended
  
  
  Peterson, the constructor, especially since August. MacBride, the head
  
  
  of the firm, disliked unlucky men, and at the end of three months his
  
  
  patience gave out, and he telegra