Arizona citizen., 1875-10-30
L OCAL MA TIERS.
The MfsstOn Flour Mills.


 grist'nill and he has plodded along tn, way steadily and cheerfully, against en 1' ieebled health, considerable obstacles, dis
 advantage of position and poor work well
 paid for, until there stands today, owned
 and built by MT, Warner, just west of tho
 old mission of Tucson, the best grist-mill
 In Arizona, and similar to the best in Cal
 ifornia, running with entire success, and built at an expense of between sI5,OOO and
 sl6'OOO. Selecting for hls site, the old build
 ing which used to stand at the foot of the
 cone shaped hill west of town, Mir. Warn.
 CT has built thereon & suhstantiaI mill
 building about 5Ix3Q feet in size, of two
 stories, the lower story having solid stone [ walls Of great depth, while the upper
 walls are adobe, and the building contains
 eight good sized rooms.
 . We paid visit to the mill this last week and have rarely been more surprised than
 we were at seeing what Mir. Warner has SO
 quietly accomplished. Mir. George Cot Itrell Of San Francisco, the wheelwright,
 who has had entire supervision of putting
 in the machinery, kindly showed us
 around. The first room on the ground
 floor is the grinding room, SOxls feet in di-
 mensions; in this are two run Of 31S feet
 French Burr stones Of the most superior
 mechanical construction, the upper stones
 weighing 1900 pounds each, and styled old , quarry, as being superior to new quarry. There is at hand an apparatus for lifting and moving these stones with the greatest , ease. and the curbs covering the burrs are
 made Of California redwood, inIaId and
 finished to a high degree. The second
 room on this floor is the packing room.
 lSx20 feet, with flour chest, etc. Adjoining this is the smut room, furnished with one Of the Eureka No. ? shutters. capacity
 sixty bushels an hour. These shutters are
 in general use in California and are con-
 sidered the best, simplest and most effec- tive machine for the purpose known. The
 grain is pissed through this machine once and Is then apparently clean enough for any ordinary purpose, but 1t Is then wet and allowed to stand for twelve hours when 1t Is again put through the machine and the last vestige Of dirt is gone. There is another room on this floor for general purposes. ' The nrst room up stairs Is the ,bolting- room, fitted up with superior apparatus and all the work finished in the finest style. There is nothing about these it. | tlngs and the machinery that ssvors of the frontier or backwoods or Mexico, but everything bears the stamp of American Ingenuity and genins. Back Of this room I Is the large storage-Toom 54x3O feet in size H The mill wheel is a twenty-five inch American turbine, producing 9-ho-se power which will make grind Of about eight bushels an hour. The driving force is some six hundred GU bic feet of water with an average fall Of eleven and a half feet. To get thIs force Mir. Warner had 10 construct ditch around the base of the cone hill, seven-eighths Of A mile long to the head gates, and which Is quite ;I piece Of engineering, but aS Mr. Warner says, the only badly constructed thing about the mill. This ditch has cost him al ready some S35OO, and may cost more yet, but he will keep at Il until he remedies the faults in the original construction.
 In the mill are two stand Of elevators, one for wheat and one for flour. We ex- smined some Of the flour ground in the mill, and we have no hesitation In saying that there is no superior flour In San Fran cisco, and we have never seen any better l' flour than the best California four Ger ! tainly not that pure white bodyleSs flour s,,f v Warmers has the rich creamy color which C has come to be so esteemed on this coast ic and 1t Is full Of life, and perfectly pure and clean. In the bread made from this flour we shall miss the customary gravel ] and the matutinal grave stones to which a Fe have become SO used, and We may for n | time suffer somewhat, but the novelty will soon wear of and our unnatural sp- Q petite leave us. Mir. Cadotte, the miller, informed us hat the Mission Mill proposed to grind U wheat at SIPS for the fanega, or to give six n y-four pounds Of flour for one hundred d 'ounds of grain and three-quarters of the ran and one-QuRrter of the middlings. " he bran we looked at was exceedingly Hi lean and a thorough test left scarcely a gf estige or flour shown in the bran; while ics one could always get as good material ,r bread as some mlddlings we saw, be ould be & fortunate man. Ipr Mir. Warner proposes to build an addi- tr on to the mill about 5Ox4O feet in size, for ps grsin-room, fitted up with separat te bins W IT the use Of customers, each one having .t bin exclusively to himself, and when |, = ,,,o r,I,I an,, s.o-a ., tn "a. h,n 70 JU Ifely and securely as he could in his own WI if he had one. In the general to ,sence Of store-houses for grain among m @ farmers In this vicinity, this proposed mi nOvation Of Mir. Warmers seems to us ,ry kindly and good idea. The Mission bo i'll brand Of -four will undoubtedly soon
 a great favorite in this market. As we were about to take our leave Of @ mill and its pleasant surroundings, a "O ought which had previously occurred to CD came up and turning to Mir. Warner, co 10 had accompanied us few steps from da @ mill door, we asked him If he had not to gagged in very busy and active under de- king at a period Of life when most men see 3 inclined to indulge in a season of rest 70, d enjoyment. A shadow fitted across } brow as he turned to us and replied: young man, am driven into thls mill ) siness by an averaging fate" Startled Ex this strange exclamation from usual pec quiet and placid man, we unconscious her permitted him to lead the way 10 q seat inc the shelving bank Of the acequia be- ,, ath the spreading branches Of d friend- tree, and there in the quiet
 lness of the Indian Summer morning, l Lo,-J H,r Inc fl rst tju,a a r, d ,,yi, braath f,r