The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-24
LANCASTER.
From Dallas TO I.ancaster-The Crops,
Weather, Etc.-Thc Star MilIs-Fire
Near Hutchins.

from DhtlaS 10 E.hucastcr-IHe jrOps
Weather. Etc.-The Star MiIIs-Fir,
Near Hutchins.
From Our Special Correspondent.l
LANCASTER, Dallas County, Texas,
July 10, 1875.
Leaving 1.-THE Three Forks City,
| on Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock, il
one of Captain j. a. Works fine turn
outs, your correspondent made a rapiC
and pleasant trip to this growing ant
fiourishing town, preferring the ole
road, and mode of conveyance, to the
going out to the depot, thence by raj
to Hutchins, and then by hack to thi.
place. Two hours and twenty minute,
| found us here just in time for good
substantial supper, for which the ride
of fourteen miles had given us keen
appetite.
The crops in this neighborhood have
not suffered materially as yet, though
rain is needed both for cotton and
corn. The fields still look gree and
comparatively well, and but few crops
along the line of the road from Dallas
seem to have been much parched. The
cry, however, is for rain and II cooler
atmosphere. Oppressive heat and dry
weather prevail here, rs at "rhe City,"
though there is generally q pleasant
breeze stirring, which tends to
make the weather bearable. a good
rain has fallen here since Dallas has
been favored in that way. The ther-
mOmeter stood at SO here yesterday,
the hottest day of the season. / should
not wonder if the mercury reached a
hundred in Dallas.
A tramp around town of an hour in
the morning, among old acquaintan-
ces, then to the house, where endeav-
ored to keep cool, was the sum of my
"day's doings."
Lancaster has grown somewhat since
my last visit, year or more ago, but
presents the usual summer dull appear
ance. In my ramble yesterday step
ped into
THE STAR MILLS,
Owned and run 10y our old friends
Messrs. Nance q Moflett, perhaps the
most complete or among the most
complete establishments of the kind
in the State of its capacity. The build
ing is of stone, plastered inside and
out with cement, and is one of the dis
tinguishing featers of the town. These
mills were built some eight or ten
years ago, but were not completed and
enclosed until two years ago. Theu
Mr.. Nance went North and selected his
machinery, which is of the most ap-
proved and modern patterns, and
thoroughly perfect in every respect.
The arrangement of the machinery
is such as to render the utmost facility
for receiving, elevating and grinding
a large amount of grain, and produc-
ing therefrom the finest grade of -four.
There are but two run of stones in ope-
ration, but the capacity is for five, and
should it become necessary, that num-
bef can be run. The whole machinery
is so arranged as to produce the great
est amount of -four with the least possi-
BILE expenditure of space and trouble
in no case, however, has economy TAX
en- the place of efficiency. With its pres
ent run of stones, the mill will grind
six hundred bushels of wheat in
twelve hours. There is now stored in
the mill house about seven or eight
thousand bushels of wheat, which has
been purchased at an average price of
one dollar per bushel for the best
grade. This mill is producing flour
that can not be exceelled in quality by
any of the Northern mills. And why
should it not? Here is the best of ma
chinery, the most experienced millers,
and this year, as good, If not better
grain than can be found in the North,
and more of it than has ever been pro-
duced in any one year in this section.
There are two large never failing
wells on the premises, which furnish
all the water required for running the
mill, as well as in case of fire, should
it be needed; though there is hardly
any danger of that sort to be appre-
hended. You know ga burnt child
breads the fire." and Messrs. n. & NJ.
having suffered once from the devour-
ing element, have taken every precau-
tion to guard against a recurrence Of
such q disaster. The pride of the es-
is 10 be found in the rooms
by the engine and boiler. The
latter is a tubular one, consuming
about one-and-a-half cords OF wood per
day, and running a sixty horse
power horizontal engine built 10