The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

Recently, we made visit to the Cen
tral Mills of this place, and were shown
/ through the entire building by Capt.
/ Ashbrook, one of the proprietors. Hav-
/ ing heard that this establishment was
being furnished throughout with new
and improved machinery, and was being
thoroughly overhauled the better TO en-
able the proprietors to meet the con-
stantly increasing demands for their
flour and meal, we deemed brief
mention of it, matter of some impor-
tance to our citizens, and the farming
community, who frequently have occas-
ion to transact business there. With
this view, we made the visit. Among
the noticeable additions to the Mill, is
beautiful new engine, of much greater
power than the one it displaces which is
sufficient TO run all the burrs of the es-
adjustment, the capacity, as it is term
ed of which is now something like thir-
ty FIVE bushels of grain an hour There
are modern devices in the general ar
rangement of machinery, for the better
and more expeditions separation of the
-four and meal from the "offall, among
which is new and immense boiling
chest, which is said to possess many ad-
vantages over the old fashioned contri-
vances for this purposes. Besides, there
are many minor, though doubtless i'm
portant, improvements, with which we
are not sufficiently familiar to mention
in detail; but all of which in connection
with the chief ones we have named, form
a system of machinery not usually found /
in country mills. Thus equipped, and I.
under the management of gentlemen
thoroughly conversant with the milling
business, the proprietors of these Mills /
are not only enabled to meet the require /
ments of the people of Northern Per /
ry, in the matter Of -four and meal, but .
they supply a very considerable foreign /
demand-that is, demand from towns in
neighboring countIes,-with a fiattering
prospect of working up, in this respect,
still more extensive and lucrative pat
ronage. Grain Of whatever description,
finds 4 ready, cash market at these mills
it being one of the main objects of the
proprietorS to purchase all that is offered
in this market. At the time of our visit,
they had on hand about 1000 bushels of
wheat
In the matter Of convenience of stu
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located" Being on the railroad, -four
&C., is loaded directly on the cars with
out the necessity of wagoning, and the
coal which is used for its furnace is un-
loaded at the spot it is wanted, without
any further handling than to simply
throw it from the cars. And when the
road leading from the pike TO the mill
and depot, which has been given by the
Ashbrooks to the Corporation, shall be
as it will be before great
while, the facilities of access, in all sea-
sons of the year, will be all that could be
desired.
We have made this lengthy allusion
to this establishment because it is enti-
tied to recognition as the chief "institu-
tion'' of our village, and on account of
its admirable facilities and already ex-
tensive and increasing business is wor-
thy of special mention in the columns of
the village "organ" yclept The Press.
To the faith that was in the Ashbrooks
that this particular business could be
worked up to something like respectable
are we indebted for this
marked improvement in our midst
And if we mistake not, our citizens will
have further occasion to praise the en-
terprise of these gentlemen.