East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-05-31

never Jagged from the commencement
have commenced the manufacture Of
Factory Filled Dairy and Table Salt,
upon scale proportionate to their
extensive operations in the production
Of other varieties of salt, and in q
manner which is sure to secure as
excellent a reputation for the new as
that already established for the other
brands.
BUILDINGS.
For the purpose of carrying on this
manufacture the company have erected
mill, 50x50 feet, three stories high,
little north of their first well, front
ing the river on the west; in the rear
of this is store house, So=llO, two
stories, and on the north Of the store
house dry room, 27x60, north of
this, at an interval of ten feet, is the
Engine house, 40xi0, built Of brick
and divided north and south into two
rooms with brick partition the first
22x40, in which the motive power
an elegant 60 horse power engine, to
which is attached one Of Sewalls
Patent Governors, the safest and most
perfect apparatus for the purpose do
signed ever invented-the next 18x40,
in which are the furnace, boilers, and
powerful steam pump for which
sufficient length of rubber hose is
furnished to conduct n stream of
water to any portion of the works.
The general arrangement and APP
pearance Of the Engine House, as, in
fact, the whole mill premises, is the
perfection of neatness and convenience,
and the style Of theiwhole, within and
without, tasteful and attractive.
Still to the north, at distance of l6
feet from the engine house is wood
en.building, 36x70, two stories high,
into which, as into the mil, runs line
of shaft from the connection with the
engine. In this building it is designed
to make all the slaves, barrels, boxes
and packages to be used for all pur-
poses of packing and shipment, to
which end variety Of machinery is
being introduced
PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE.
The quality designated as Factory
Filled Dairy Salt is not, as many sup
pose, manufactured from solar salt, but
from kettle boiled salt, which by a
process peculiar to this special article
Of salt is cleansed from all organic
impurities during the process of boil
ing. This is conveyed in horse cart
10y a driveway Is feet in width
by 100 in length on the eastern end
Of the building, to the second floor of
the store house, where it is weighed and
dumpedinto a cleansing tank of which
there are four in the apartment, each
6x16 feet 10 inches deep. In these it is
washed in a brine drawn from filter
ing watts above, by which means it is
completely cleansed from all insoluble
impurities after the washing process
1T is thrown into a draining room
where it remains from Is to 20 days
before going through the final pro.
cess of drying, grinding and packing
A large cistern above furnishes fresh
water for cleansing the tanks, the i'm.
purities from which are discharged
into reservoir on the first floor.
The salt being sufficiently drained
is conducted to car on tho second
floor, by which it is carried to larg,
hopper at the eastern end Of the dry
ing house, into which it is thrown
From the hopper it is delivered to the
dryer by feed roll, so arranged as t.
be graduated to the capacity desired
The drying apparatus consists of {
shallow pan, sx50 feet, placed hori
rontally ona brick furnace, at an eleva
ton of about feet, beneath which
is fire box extending the Who'll
length, and above, a movable rack
running on rollers, with cross beam
every l6 inches, to the lower side G
which are fastened perpendicular
triangular pegs, the apex pointing to
ward the hopper and the base, com
paratively speaking, facing the fir
CRATE, and so alternated on the eros
bars as to serve the purpose of bot
stirrers and conveyers. The distanc
traversed by this rack at each revolu
ton of the gearing attached, is tire
feet and the return the same, by whio
motion, as will readily be seen, ever
PARTICLE of the salt is thoroughly o,
POSED TO the action of the heat below
aud tho grains effectively separate
before il reaches the other end ,
the dryer, at which point it falls INF
couveyor leading to an elevator, b
which IL is conducted to the grindin
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