Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-05-09
wARREN MANUFACTURES.
d. w. Camps Mills.
FIGURING MILL

This mill is situated on the Mahoning
river, in the north part of town, a few rods
south of the Atlantic & Great Western R. R,
depot. This property forme rly belonged to
J.. L. VanGorder deceased, and came into
possession of Mr.. Camp in 1889. Under
wise improved; and in 1864, it was enlarg-
ed to twice its former size, the steadily in
creasing business demanding this addition to
its capacity. The mill building is eighty
five feet long, forty feet wide and three
stories high, and is filed with the latest and
the best milling machinery. The grain is
received at the front entrance and poured
into a receiver which conducts it below to a
hopper car on a rail track, and is then con
veyed to the scales, weighed, and dropped
into huge bins below; from thence it is car
ried by elevators to any part of the mill de-
sired. We were shown a -four pa ker, Kin
mans patent, by means of which two men
can pack from forty to fifty barrels of -four
an hour. In the upper story we found eleva-
tors, a smut mil, bran duster, suction fan
and bran separator. Each stone is driven BY
a separate wafer wheel, and everything
about the mill showed 1t to be complete in
all its appointments. The water power is
supplied by the MshOning river. The old
dam being much deeayed and of little SER
vice, in the summer of 1862, Mr.. Camp
built a new one at an expense of nearly three
thousand dollars. This mill manufactures a
superior article of -four, and has a reputa-
ton second to none in this county. 1t en-
joys a heavy retail trade, and finds market
for its -four not only here in Trumbull coun-
ty, but in the oil regions of Penn, and all
far east as Salamanca The demand exceeds
the supply, and although running night and
day, when we were at the mill, found they
had orders for nearly three hundred barrels
of -four. more than they could then furnish.
Mr.. Camp employs three practical millers.-
The grinding is superintendent by Mr.. J.. F.
Snyder, one of the best millers in the State.
he also employees six men whose business it
is to receive and deliver grain. After in
specting the Touring mill We crossed the
river and took q look at the
FLAX MIL
1t is a large, one story wooden building,
situated directly opposite the Touring mill
In it we found a complete set of machinery
for manufacturing tow and fax. There
were two Sanford & Mallory brakes, one
gang roller brake, two heaters, one picker,
one tow devil, one scutcbing machine and a
screw press. The machinery is driven by
water wheels, and has a capacity of
manufacturing three tuns of straw per day.
Between twenty and thirty men are constant
ly employed. The straw is obtained from
throughout the country. The tow
fax Is sold mostly East and South.
Mr.. Camp is interested in a large mill at
..reenviIle, Pa, where they have the same
kind of machinery as in the mill here, and
addition have spinning machinery, and
manufacture Irvine, carpet yarn. etc. He is
likewise interested in a fax mill at WestSa /
EN-. o. These three mills nave during the
year manufactured about fourteen
tons Of straw.
Mr.. Camp is a young man, well and ia
7Orably known as being upright, energetic,
md possessing superior business qualidca
ions. May he continue to prosper.