Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Wheat shipments fell when new railroad was built
A report in the May 3, 1907, edition of The Odessa Record on the volume of wheat received at Odessa warehouses during the preceding season emphasized that the town was the world’s largest primary wheat shipping station.
Odessa area wheat field had been in production less than 10 years but more wheat was being shipped out of Odessa than at any other point along the Great Northern railroad, and that included Montana, North and South Dakota and Nebraska.
A large sign painted on the side of the Odessa Flouring Mill proclaimed this fact. About a third of the wheat leaving Odessa was in the form of...
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