Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-03
JONES' DREAM.
IN INVENTION THAT rs BRINGING
MILLIONS TO II SYRACUSAN.
The Inventors Story Of his Success and tho
Million and Quarter that 1t has Already
Brought him--The New Method of Max
ing Better Flour at a Less Cost than Be-
fore.
New York SUM-

suooen leap from comparative poverty to the
possession of million is tho talk of the
town. He saw defects in the common pro-
cess of grinding flour, and, by simple in
vention that has remedied them, has made
seemingly, this is just the beginning of what
he is to make. The secret is in the dressing
of the milestone that grinds the
wheat. He saw that by the ordinary pick
ing process too much surface was made on
the stones. The kernel was crushed. He
wished it to be granulated. The stones be-
came hot, destroying the strength and color
of the grain, and taking out the gluten. He
saw that, by lessening the surface, these de-
feots must be overcome, and he set himself
to work to overcome them. He has sue
ceeded.
Jones lives in plain but elegantly fur
nished house at 80 Shonnard street. The
Sun reporter visiting him found all the
neighbors talking of his good luck, as they
called it, and estimating his wealth at mil
lions. He returned from Europe only
short time ago, and being modest and unas.
Stunning had not proclaimed his great success,
as some might have done. But the story
would out, and as usual it took an exagger-
ated form. Mr.. Jones himself opened the
door. he is of medium height, portly, and
with somewhat gray hair and whiskers. He
was perfectly willing 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.
~ am Welshman,'' he began; mo Scotch
about me, as has been said. I iourneyed
from Wales while only three years old. My
father bought two farms near Bridgewater,
in Oneida county, where he yet lives; and in
early boyhood was apprenticed as miller
to Thomas Roberts, who ground grists in
Waterville. I've been trying to invent
something all my life, md in lesser attempts
have sometimes been successful. l saw that
the old method of making flour by grinding
it between two almost smooth stones de-
stroyed the life of the wheat. The kernel
was mashed to powder. My notion was
that I could improve 1t by granulating it. I
must, therefore, invent some kind of stone
that would not crush The wheat-that would
save the middlings-a stone that
would not get hot and bake
the color out of the flour and take
its strength and gluten from it; my milestone
must have less surface. While was think
ing it all over moved to Ohio, and there I
tried to work out the problem by changing
the boiling cloths. That improved it some
what, but it wasn't the thing. I hadn't got
rid of the friction between tho stones. I
didn't own mill, and so I had to work it
along as best could, as it was hard work to
get any one to bear any of the expense. I
worked on various mills in Ohio, and making
some improvements on the old manner of
ment with the Throop Grain Cleaner com
pany, now of Auburn, to travel. It gave me
an opportunity to see many mills and milling
processes in the country. studied and
studied, and thought over that problem
while was travelling; thought it over night
and day, even to worrying over it,
':The grand idea hit me in q dream. put
up at the st. Charles hotel in Toledo to stay
over Sunday. went to bed as usual, study
ing and studying, and at length I went to
sleep, and that night it came to me as clear
as bell. I thought it all out before I woke
up, just as naturally as though I had been
picking away at millstone.''
"What did you do when you woke?''
II said I1have it at last. I've something
now that'l beat the friction. I've some
thing that will make more furrow than Ianta.'
Millers will understand that expression. I
went to Senator Isaac M. Barrett of Greene
county, Ohio, Quaker, and told HIM had
something that would give him all the mid
dhngs he wanted now, and would improve
his flour from fifty cents to dollar barrel
He owned the Spring Valley mills, and he
told me to 60 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 processand twenty of the old. They
sold the new at 81 barrel more than tho old
would bring.
wanted to get more indentation, more
burrows. No, my process isn't cold blast on
Minnesota flour, or anything of that sort.
uso 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 in
dentations, instead of having it's life crushed
out. It costs nearly third less than the
old method of picking, and it makes as good
-four out of No. wheat as can be made out
of No. by the old way. The only secret
about it is how the diamond quartz is ap-
piled. have put my improvements in a
few mills in this country. Penield & Lyons
and Darston d Royce, and Doolittle, Ames
d Co., of Oswego, and firm in Buffalo, and
q few others have it. | took about 100000
in this country before met Mr.. Appleby, of
Appleby & Sons, of Blackburn, England.
He was visiting in this country and heard of
my process. He wanted me to 20
over and put it in for him. I did so last
July, and that started the ball in the old
country. sold Lincolnshire to Marshall &
Sons of Grimsby for 1000, the neat little
sum of $75, O00-that is, sold it as agent
for my wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, who
owns the whole thing. sold the town of
Hull for $4,000; sold to Davis & Sons at
Newcastle -on-Tyne four counties for $77,
500. Davis & Sons turn out moro flour
than any firm in Great Britain, and they
use my method. They paid me for the use
of their Phoenix mill alone $4,000. sold
Penzance in Cornwall -on-the- Sea for FL 800.
Three milling firms in Liverpool have it
and they have it in Fordingbridge and Dove,
and Kent and Birkenhead, all to the tune Of
a million and a quarter
Here Mrs. Jones announced that the mai
had come in. "Here's letter for you from
Glasgow she said.
"Glasgowp' said Mr.. Jones, s'that's what
I've been waiting for! 1t is from my AGENT
and Mr.. Jones read:
POOL, May Mr.. - of Glasgow offer,
$4,000, and have accepted
"That's fair sum,''he added. eth,
last day was in London made one sale O.
1850. Yes, went to Ireland, and tn,
Shackletons took it. Thos. Lester & Sons
Quaker millers of Liverpool, say I am
benefactor to the human race, and they hav'
proposed the very absurd thing of erecting
monument in my HONOR
Chow about the future, Mr.. Jones?''
~ don't propose to sell much in tn
United States now. can't bother with thi
country am here to improve my patents
and the work is being mainly done in Utic
and Rochester. The Munson Brothers il
the former city are preparing my machinery