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CANTON – A new prairie skyscraper is rising above the acres of green wheat – a sentinel to the acres of fields that inspire its construction. Across Kansas, more than 900 white mammoth grain elevators ...
Hundreds of white grain elevators stand as sentinels across the plain, serving as reminders of the importance of agriculture to Kansas. In the late 1920s, builders such as Chalmers and Borton, based ...