The Grange advance., 1874-01-14

ness rather than to squeeze the cost dow,
to the lowest figure.
THE BOILERS.
Entering from the saw mill we came ira,
, to the boilers these are two in number
They are tubular boilers, 81 inches in di.
ameter, and Is feet long, each boiler hay.
ing 81 hues 81 inches in diameter. Mex,
we came to the
ENGINE ROOM,
where we found Mr.. Frank Howe in charge,
able and willing to give all desired informa-
ton. This room is furnished with two of
Knowles Patent Steam Pumps, Nos 8 and 6.
The larger of these pumps is used to pump
Inc water: into tank in the second story
holding 40 barrels of water. The water
passes oack from the tank. into a No. 7
Stillwell Heater and Filter. whore it is
heated by exhausted steam from the engine,
and purified by passing through filter,
and IS then pumped pure and hot into the
boilers; by which not only do the boilers
escape injury, but fuel is saved.
| From these pumps two inch iron pipe
runs up through the whole height of the main
building, and to this hose are attached in
the third and fifth stories, 50 that in case of
fire water can be thrown into any part of
the building.
The engine made by c. & G. Cooper, of
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, who, by the way, sup
piled all the machinery, and have given
perfect satisfaction, is $50 horse power with
with a shaft nine inches in diameter. The
fly wheel is lathed, turned and finished. is
fifteen feet in diameter, weighs tons, and
makes 20 revolutions in minute The
foundation to the engine is made of solid
stone set on a solid rock foundation, and
the engine is bolted down with six bolts
! inches in diameter and eight feet long.
The foundation to the engine alone cost
eleven hundred dollars. From this room
we went into the
Of the mill building proper, and found
heavy iron shaft with nine cog wheels,
which carries the power to nine upright
shafts, eight Of which run the eight mill
stones and the ninth furnishes the power
by means Of belts for running the rest of
the machinery. Here is also a flour con-
veyer, into which the flour drops from the
burrs above and is carried to the -four
elevator and above it is suction conveyer
which connects with an exhausting fan
above, that takes off all the steam and dust. |
Here are also two Eureka Separators and
Smut machines. From these the smut
and dust is carried into a dust room built
of stone and brick in the rear of the en-
glne room, twelve feet square and twenty
feet high. Here are the conveyers at the
foot of the bins to convey the wheat to the
elevators The bins, ten in number, COM
mence in the basement, and six of them
run through all the stories and nearly to
the top of the fifth story the other four
running to near the top of the fourth story
These bins are built up of scantlings two
by six, laid fat and spiked together. The
bins occupy the back part of the MILL and
will hold fifty thousand bushels of grain.
On the
SECOND FLOOR
are the eight mill stones, each four feet
across, and driven by the patent Champion
drivers. Here also is Sardeyant' S Exhaust
? ing fan, mentioned above.
The -four packing is done on this floor by
means Of two Of Mattsop's Eureka Flour
Packers, that will each pack forty barrels of
flour in an hour, and also one of Barnard's
Dustless Separators, that feeds the smut ma
chimes below, its fan having speed OF 500
revolutions per minute, and with a capacity
Of cleaning 200 bushels of wheat per hour
On the
THIRD FLOOR
are the two stock hoppers for feeding tn mill
stones, each holding five hundred bushels
Of wheat. Then there is boiling chest
with eight reels for straight grades Of -four.
and one with four reels for fancy grades
these run two stories: there is also one
stock hopper for shorts.
On the
FOURTH FLOOR
are the shorts and bran rooms. and the ton
Of the stock hoppers, &c.
! THE FIFTH FLOOR
are found one Of Barnard's patent wheat
grades and cookie extractors Four Of
LaCroix's middlings separators built by
John Parsons of Faribault, and working
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