The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-04-20
OUR MANUFACTURES.
THE EGYPTIAN FIGURING MILLS.

lUE 'NAh'iiNiI'l'hAs Va NuiiNs
The main building is four stories in
height and presents, a railroad and river
'front.' Of forty feet, and depth of sixty
Get II, is Of brick, built in the best and
most substantial manner, at cost of about
'orty thousand dollars. The engine and .
boiler house, about "a by 80 feet is on one
side and large, iron-roofed bar rel house .
in the rear.
The machinery, and all the appliances |
and apparatus are new, and of the most
generally approved kind. Four run of
stone are at present employed, but there !
is ample power for double that number
The capacity of the mill il two hundred
barrels every twenty-four hours.
Since the establishment has pass into
the hands of Mcssrs. Fulton and Sons. who
own aud operate it, improvements have
been made and conveniences added Of
very useful and ingenious charactcr-such,
in fact, ~ seem to invest it it'll absolute
Intelligence. Wheat is brought TO the
door by railroad. A laborcr shovcls it
from the car door into hopper
underneath, whore it is weighed.
From this hopper it passes 10
large bin in the first story, in which
stand. the feet of an elevator. From this
bin il !. elevated TO the tower some fifteen
or twenty feet above the roof Of the mill,
aud there deposited into n revolving, wire
, cloth cylinder, that separates from it at
least portion of its dust and impurities
From the end of this cylinder it is sifted
into conductors that convey il to an inn
proved graduation separator on the fourth
| -four, in which IL undcrgocs blowing and
shaking that makes IL part company with
such cheat, oats, etc, as passed through
the revolving cylinder. From hence IL
| finds its way TO second separator, located
on the third floor where II encounters
further juvenile hurricanes and earth
quakcs. From this second separator IL
passe. down TO the floor from which IL
started, where smut machine "takcs II
through taxing II for impurities. Again
the elevator comes into play and hoist, 1t
TO the fourth floor, where II is deposited in
another separator, which divcsts it Of all
broken, shrunkcn or dwarfcd grains, and
every vcstige Of dust and foreign matter.
From this separator, it passes to bin,
which communicates with the stones, and
is there permitted to rest until the miller
chooses to grind it. We are thus par.
ticular in detailing the cleansing processes
employed by the Egyptian Mills, because
no other one thing is more essential to the
production Of good -four than clean, sound
wheat. This being true, the reader must
confess that Messrs. Fulton and Sons have
prov dcd facilities tina, will always insure
them that essential prerequisite.
Amer observing the ingenuity and Won
dsrful labor-saving character of the ma
chincry, otc-how the work is nearly all
.adllcd upon the engine, and the fixtures
and appliances driven by II, and that about
the only service charged to the proprctors
was 10 buy the wheat and sell the Hour
after observing this, the next feature tina,
attracted our attention was the mir Of clean
illness that pcrvgded the establishments
There were no dirt mud or marks of 10.
bacco juice upon the floors, nor fe.,oons OF
cohvcb, hanging from the joi.ts or over
q head machinery. Throughout there wcr,
tina, order and cleanliness that spoke q
tue presence Of willing industrious an'
knowing hand,
Much of the -four manufactured in thes'
, mills is shipped to Nashville Memphis
New Orleans, and points along the Noble
Il Ohio Railroad, and considerable guam
. ,ity goc. 10 supply the local demand. Tn
4 wheat is bought in Northern, Central an
southern Illinois, or wherever purchase
& can ho effected to the beet advantage,
J.. The proprictors are practical mil'er'
/. the elder Fulton having devoted NOR
than u quarter of n century 10 the business
!. and that too in localities where the great
n ct efficiency was always essential to sue
., cess. His sons, both young men, are ais
= familiar with all the details of the calling
and with their father, ara bending thei
energies Ia the work of naki0g the Egyp'
ian mill, II credit to the city and the equi
A Of the best il the country. That they wi
deserve and achieve success no person AZ
ounintcd with them aud the character {
h ,hoir facilit o, can dollt, Experience
AT millers. Intelligent aud accommodatin
"a gentleman. lhoy have no such word 4
y, "fail recorded IN their lexicon.