Ashcreek Elevator SoldThe following appeared in the Rock County Herald on October 6, 1939:Carstens Bros. Buy Ashcreek Elevator BuildingTo Use Material for Feed Storage House at RanchCarstens Bros., of this city, last week purchased the Ashcreek Farmers’ elevator building and equipment, and a crew is now busy razing the building preparatory to transporting it from Ashcreek to the Carstens’ turkey ranch on section 3, Mound township.Marvin Gray and Geo. Westerbur have the contract for dismantling the structure.Material from the elevator structure will be used to erect a feed storage building at the turkey ranch. It will be equipped with a dump pit and an elevator for distributing the feeds to several bins. The 10-ton scale from the elevator equipment will also be used in the new structure. Concrete work for a foundation for the feed storage plant is already under way at the ranch. Power for operating the plant will be drawn from the Luverne-Hardwick highline running past the farm.Carstens Bros. plan on moving their turkey ranch from its present site just northwest of the city to their newly acquired site on the former Stelling farm, seven miles north of Luverne, on Nov. 1st.The coal sheds forming a part of the old Ashcreek Farmers’ elevator property have been sold to Rudolph Boelman. It is understood negotiations are now under way for the disposal by the company of its residence property at Ashcreek.Donations to the Rock County Historical Endowment Fund can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.
