The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-06-22
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cuse, N. Y. A reporter visiting him found
all the neighbors talking of his good luck,
as they called it, and estimating his wealth
at millions. He returned from England
only short time ago, and being modest
and unassuming, had not proclaimed his
great success, as some might have DONE
But the story would out, and, as usual, it
took an exaggerated form. Mr.. Jones
himself opened the door, He is of medium
height, portly, and with somewhat gray
hair and whiskers. He was perfectly will
ing to tell what he had done, and how it
had been accomplished, and his story was
narrated modestly and as though he were
detailing the most ordinary of events.
81 am Welshman," he began; ono
Scotch about me as has been said. l jour
neyed from Wales while only three years
old. My father bought two farms near
Bridgewater, Oneida county, where he yet
lives; and in early boyhood l was appren,
ticed as a miller to Thomas Roberts, who
grists in Waterville. I've been trying to in
vent something all my life, and in less at
tempts have sometimes been successful.
l saw the old method of making -four
by grinding it between two almost
smooth stones destroyed the life of the
wheat. The kernel was mashed to pow
der. My notion was that l could improve
it by graduating it. l must therefore,
invent some kind of stone that would
not crush the wheat-that would save the
middliugs-a stone that would not get hot
aud bake the color out of the flour and
take the strength and gluten from 1t; my
milestone must have less surface. While
was thinking it all over | moved to Ohio,
and there tried to work out the problem by
changing the boiling cloths. That i'm
proved it somewhat, but it wasn't the
thing; | hadn't got rid of the friction be-
tween the stones. didn't own mill, and
SO l had to work it along the best l could,
as it was hard work to get anyone to bear
any of the expense. | worked on various
mills in Ohio, and made some improvements
on the old manner of dressing stone. | at
length made an engagement with the
Throop Grain Cleaner company, now of
Auburn, to travel. 1t gave me an oppor-
tunity to see many mills and milling pro-
cesses in the country. l studied, and
studied and thought over that problem
while was travelling; thought over it
night and day, even worrying over it.
"The grand idea hit me in dream. l
put up at the st. Charles hotel in Toledo
to stay over Sunday. l went to bed as
usual, studying and studying, and at length
l went to sleep, and that night it came to
me as clear as bell. l thought it all out
before l woke up, just as naturally as
though l had been picking away at
millstone.''
"What did you do when you woke?"
60 said, | have it at last. I've some
thing now that will beat the friction. I've
something that will make more furrow
than land. l went to Senator Isaac M.
Barrett of Green country, Ohio, a Quaker,
and told him had something that would
give him all the middlings he wanted now,
and would improve his flour from fifty
Spring Valley mills, and he told me to go
to work and renovate his whole mill on my
principle. | did SO, and the first shipment
of flour to Baltimore after that was of one
hundred barrels, eighty of my new process
and twenty of old. They sold the new at
81 barrel more than the old would bring.
81 wanted to get more indentation, more
burrows. No, my process isn't cold blast
on Minnesota flour, or anything of that
sort. l use diamond quartz in the face of
the stone, instead of the mill pick. That's
it in nut shell. The rubbing of the
sharp diamond quartz on the stone makes
the indentations; and the middling escapes
through the indentations. 1t costs nearly
one-third less than the old method of pick
ing, and it makes as good flour out of No.
2 wheat as can be made of No. by the old
way. The only secret about it is how the
diamond quartz is applied. have put my
improvement in few mills in this country.
Pentield & Lyons and Darston & Royce,
and Dooiittle, Ames & Co., of Oswego,
and firm in Buffalo, and and a few others
have it. l took about 100000 in this
country before l met Mr.. Appleby & Sons,
of Blackburn, England. He was visiting
in this country and heard of my process.
He wanted me to go over and put it in for
him. did SO last July, and that started
the ball i'll the cid country. sold Lincoln
shire to Marchall & Sons, of Grmsby for
E14, 900, the neat little sum of SIS, 600
that is, | sold it as agent for my wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth Jones, who owns the whole thing.
l sold the town of Hull for e3, 0OO sold to
Davis & Sons at Newcastle on Tyne four
ST.. 500. Davis & Sons turn out more flour
than any firm in Great Britain, and they
use my method. They paid me for the use
of their Phoenix mill alone 60, 900. l sold
Penzance in Cornwall, on the Sea for el,-
600. Three milling firms in Liverpool
have it, and they have it in Fordingbridge
and Dover, and Kent and Birkenhead, all
to the tune of a million and a quarter"
Here Mrs. Jones announced that the mail
had come in. Heres a letter for you
from Glasgow" she said,
"Glasgowr said Mr.. Jones, "that's
what I've been waiting for. 1t is from my
agent" and Mr.. Jones read:
&c QUEEN BUILDING, DALE STREET.
LIVERPOOL, May Z.
Mr.-of Glasgow offers $50, 900 and |
have accepted.
"That's a fair sum-" he added. g The
last day | was in London | made one sale
of 81, 800 Yes, | went to Ireland and the
Shackletons took it. Thos. Laster & Sons
Quaker millers of Liverpool, say am a
benefactor to the human race, and they
have proposed the very absurd thing of
erecting monument in my honor"