Here is a link to an undated postcard print of the Scott County Milling Company in Sikeston, MO. From the drawing of the elevator, I believe this is what I knew as the "Gristo Feeds" elevator at the Frisco-Missouri Pacific (MP) diamond. If anyone can confirm or deny this either way, feel free to add to the conversation! Please see the following link. Scott Co. Milling Co.
I thought the building at the SL-SF/MP diamond was a cotton gin. It has been a long time since I was there so I am probably wrong. If I am right the capacity would be in bales not bushels. Also seems like a small capacity. Thanks, Dwain.
Dwain, There may have been, I remember the elevator complex that I think is the one in the link below. It was on the northeast side of the diamond. There could have very well been a cotton gin on the northwest side or others. I do know that the Sikeston Cotton Oil Mill was a few miles east on the north side of the Missouri Pacific (MP) line.
Scott County Milling aka Gristo Feeds was located on the northeast corner of the Frisco-Missouri Pacific intersection in Sikeston. The post card looks accurate, but I only remember the grain towers, not the two buildings or the smoke stack. I was on the Chaffee-Hayti local and we were pulling some cars from the elevator northbound onto the main line. The engineer was concerned with the very dangerous street crossing before the main line and could not see us brakemen giving him the "big hole" as cars were flying left and right in the elevator. It was later discovered that someone had thrown a switch under a hopper car that was straddling the Missouri Pacific (MP) branch. Investigation time.
