The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
The pearl Mills.

Il Our readers have been notified tina
| Messrs VIM. Shacklett d Co., wer
building large steam Touring mill OF
: the Hampshire pike, about five mile
: from Columbia. The mills were put il
operation on Monday OF last week. Las
2 Friday we visited their mills, and spen
5 several hours in examining the entir,
! establishment, from top to bottom. Tn,
building has four stories and an attic
4 which afford ample room for the seventy
horse power engine, the wheat and corr
stones, all the fans, conveyors, boiling
chest, bins, shutter and separator, etc
etc. There are three stones-the mer-
chant wheat stone, the custom wheat
stone and the corn stone. The wheat
stones have a capacity, per day, of 60(
bushels and the corn mill of 4S0 bushels
The wheat is taken from bin to the
basement room, where it goes over the
shaker and is subjected to a draft
from the suction fan. This is an admir-
able thing, and is the invention of the
architect OF the mill, Mr.. D. H. Caswell,
| nillWright and machinist, of Nashville.
| This continuance is difficult to describe.
but it accomplishes its work admirably,
| and with astonishiDgly little noise,
| resting as it does on the solid rock. TIE
wheat is then taken to the third floor,
| when it goes through the "Decortica
| tor" which is large hollow stone,
/
wheat is forced through the middle OF
this stone by the means of wrought
iron cylinder, the stone rubbing off the
| ends of the grain, which the shutter and
| separator fail to get off. This is an ex-
| pensive machine, and bfr. Caswell inA
| formed us that it was the only one in
| use in Tennessee, so far as he knew.
The next and fourth cleaning process
for wheat to go through is the shutter.
1t is No. Vandegrift Shutter, and
| has a capacity of twenty-five bushels
per hour. This machine is a wonderful
| invention and cleans all the smut from
the wheat, and is arranged also to sepa-
rate the chaff and faulty grains. The
| fifth and last cleaning process Tor the
wheat is the Vandegrift Feeder. This
is a small concern, and is situated just
where the wheat enters the stone to be
ground. 1t has suction blast which
throws out what remains of dirt and
family wheat, These FIVE cleaning pro-
cesses get absolutely everything from
the wheat except the pure, sound grain,
from which to make a splendid article
of flour. AS the wheat is ground, it is
taken Immediately in conveyors to the
attic, or top of the mill, where it is de-
posted into the coolers, which cools the
flour before it goes into the boiling chest
below. The boiling chest contains four
reels, eighteen feet long and thirty inch
6S In diameter, ana Jour cOnN6yOfS, An
important feature here comes in, known
as the New Process of making flour.
1t consists of machine, the mid
ding Separator or Purifier" The cOarser
portion of the shorts is known as "ship
stuff" used for feeding cattle, another
portion is ground over and low grade
of flour made of it; then the middlings
purified are ground over, which makes
the best article of flour.
The corn goes through three cleansing |
processes, and when the stone receives |
it nothing but the pure grain remains. |
Messrs. VIM Sfacklett 81 Co. will |
shortly be prepared to sell pew brand, |
"Self>raising Flour" which will require |
no Yeast or soda to make nice light |
bread and good biscuits, etA They |
have the very best machinery, and it is |
pat up in mastery manner by mas
ter workman. Their flour has not the |
smallest speak of bran in it, so far as we |
could see. Indeed, the flour will COM |
pare favorably with that OF st. Louis, |
Richmond or elsewhere. 1t is flour and |
flour only, without any foreign SUBJ
stance, The proprietors are Northern /
men, of Pittsbuug, Pa, and excellent |
men and good citizens, and very popu-
lar in their neighborhood. We trust
they will succeed, and that other North
ern men of capital will be induced to
come among us and invest in similar
tendency to build up the county and
State. Let other and, if possible, better
mills be erected in the county. The
more Touring establishments of first
quality that are located together, the
better for them all. Ii will advertise
the locality as the best place for mer-
chants in the different Southern South
ern States 10 get flour. When the vari-
Gus narrow gauge railroads, of which
this place is the centre, are completed, |
Columbia will be the central point for
the wheat raised in the great Limestone
Basin to be sent.
The mill building is on a solid rock.
1t has four stories and an attic. The first
is ten feet high, the second or stone
floor is ten feet, the third eight feet, the
fourth twelve, feet. The building is
thirty>six feet by fifty, and is strongly
and solidly built, the first ten feet be-
ing masonry, The entire establishment
was designed by D. 81. CasWell, Ma
chinist and MillWright, and Mill Fur
nisher, Nashville. Mr.. Oaswell furnish
ed everything except the building pro-
per, which was built by John Lancas-
ter, of Columbia. Cornelius FriersOn,
col, an excellent workman, put up the
masonry, and Murphy 81 Attwell, tin
ners, put on the roof. The seventy
horse power engine was built at Nash
Vile by j. B. Romans. James Barrett,
VI IuO OAleA4OOA ohA |
and he tells us that the three stones
can be run ON fifty pounds of steam,
and on one cord and half of wood per
day. 1t takes him just fifteen minutes
every morning 20 start the mill. Mr..
w. II. Anderson, of Nashville, miller
of more than twenty years experience,
is the miller. Every turn of wheat or
corn brought to mill is marked with a
number, and the mill-bOy given brass
check, with a corresponding number,
which prevents the loss of bags and the
brought about by it. We are
told that Mr.. Caswell, the architect OF
the mill, is one of the most celebrated
in all the country. He has
built about thirty mills-six in Tennes-
see, at the following places: Near Tri-
une, Tor Ellis TennisOn; at Pinewood,
for S. l.. Graham & Son; Sycamore
Mills, Cheatham county, for S. Watson;
near Gallatin, Brenham 81 Mentlo;
for J. B. Lille IL Co.; Msury
for VIM. Shacklett 81 Co. One
OF his mills has been running four
years, and the owner told Mr.. Ashton !
that it has cost only about forty dollars
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