The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26
The Red Wing Mill.

| NV Nou vs'Ik Will.
There is not in this State, and we do
not believe there is elsewhere, mill
better entitled to be called frst-class
than the Red Wing Mill, located in this
city. 1t Was built during the summer
OF 1873, by stock company, and al
though inferior in size to some of the
Minneapolis mills, the building is equal
~ substantial and well adapted to the
business. The main building is 81 by
~ feet and five stories high. Its foun.
datlons are placed upon solid rock, and
its walls of stone and brick are massive
and durable. On the east side Of it is
the engine house, 81 by SO feet, and east
of this again and separated from it by a
massive brick wall, is the boiler house,
% by 80 feet.
AS the building has already been full
ly described in the GRANGE ADVANCE
on two former occasions, it is hardly
worth while to republish the description
here, beyond what we have already said.
The boilers and engine are from the es-
Establishment of Messrs. Cooper II Co., Of
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and are of the very
best workmanship, having all the latest
| improvements in this class of ma cbinerv.
The engine is of 200 horse power, and
is certainly beautiful piece of ma
chinery. A few weeks ago the Compa-
ny added steam condenser, hand
some little machine, which not only econ
omizes fuel and power, but diepenses
with the noise and vapor Of escaping
steam.
In the lower story Of the mill building
are the smut machines and machinery
for elevating; and the spouting for de-
livering the wheat from the bins to clean
ing machines and elevators. On the
floor Immediately above this there are
eight run Of large burrs, and an extra
pair for grinding middlings. The weigh
ing and packing apparatuses axe like
wise in this department, and besides
what all these occupy, the remainder of
the space is completely taken up with
elevators, spouting, boiling chests, &C.,
which make the interior of mill such
complicated mass of machinery that we
do not pretend to ability to comprehend
let alone describe it.
On the entrance on bluff side of the
mill are wheat bins with capacity for
10000 bushels. From these the wheat
is delivered into the lower story, where
it is run through smut machines, and
thence elevated to wind mills, screens,
and other recently invented devices for
cleansing it; after passing through all Of
which and through patent crushers, it is
finally delivered into the hoppers of the
burrs as free from dirt and foreign SUBJ
stances as it is possible to make it.
And slowly but surely the ponderous
burrs grind it. From the chests into
which it is deposited from the burrs, it
is again hoisted up by elevators to the
boiling machines, middling purifiers,
etc., until, after vast journey and
some score or more of manipulations, it
is deposited in the chest for packing,
the finest, and whitest, and purest of
-four.
Besides the midclings purifiers ordln-
arily in use, this mill is provided with a
new improvement which economies the
product of the wheat, and at the same
time, enhances the quality and value of
flour.
The proprietors Of this mill have ia
ken especial pains to secure for it a de-
servedly good reputation by preparing |
for the Centennial Exposition barrel of |
flour which they believe cannot be ex-
celled. This single barrel is manufac-
tured from 500 bushels of wheat, only |
about thirty.two pounds being left over. |