, 1879-10-04
THE sTaNDlRD Wills

During the week We visited the celebrated
Standard Mills, owned by McCalley & Son
They have recently been reftted with all the
recent and most modern appliances for making
the finest -four and will only add TO the reputa.
ton of the celebrated STANDARD" brand for
which these mills have always been celebrated.
As We arrived the large space in front of the
mill was filled with teams and wagons loaded
with wheat, waiting to be discharged. As the
grain is brought up it is poured froal the sacks
into shute, and by a series of ingenious pro-
cesses which We could not understand, is
weighed and cleaned as fast as it is unloaded
As We watched there were 1893 bushels deliv-
cred out of this amount there came bushels
of straw and bushels of general assortment
of stalks, seeds, husks and other utterly worth
less trash besides this there was from one to
two pounds per bushel of wheat which, while
unfit for milling, is Yet useful for chop feed.
Another little lot OF 170 bushels yielded three
bushels by weight of the trash, and II of straw.
Mr.. Robert McCalley then guided us over the
mill and explained everything with the new
improvements, including the shutter, cleaners,
grinders and lots of other things that would
require an experienced mill man to correctly
describe. At any rate the old machinery, with
its large space occupying wheels have been
taken out and now the machinery is run by a
Letfelrs do;Ible turbine 30l inch in place Last
week there were IL barrels turned out every
"A hours 1t is i'll contemplation to ship 100 bar
rels per day for the Liverpool market direct.
They have altogether four rans, Of buhrs, in,
cluding a new one for chopped feed and corI
meal. We noticed the fine Eureka shutter,
which is kept at work II hours out Of the "A
its full capacity is from 40 to 90 bushels pei
! hDnr. The cleaners can supply enough cleaned
wheat ready for grinding III half a day to run
the remainder The wheat in this country is
too dry to be ground without dampeninS, 50 a
little water Is always used In order to toushen
the bran, otherwise the bran would be 81 brit
tie that it would grind as fine the -four itself.
This quality aids considerably t" Its market
value In the European markets Mr.. McCalley
informed us that there they use one half Of our
| wheat and half their own, ani so strike the av-
erage. Oregon wheat Is altogether too damp,
and WaIla Walla wheat is in greater demand
| than any other from the whole United States.
| Mr. McCalley is 4 miller of more experience
| than any other man on the Pacific coast, and
! he Scorns the idea that is spread by Portland
SHIPPERS that wheat Il inferior to the rusty
| stuff they raise in their Wehfu"t land. He
! SAYS there is only one kind Of wheat III greater
demand. and that is white, tender kind
| brought from Dantzic, in Prussia, and almost
universally used solely for pastry. There Is,
however, some foundation for the cry of dirty
wheat, and that can he remedied hy the erec'
ton q. an elevator, which is now Indispensable
| They have 10 use in the markets of the old
world for trash, ana if our farmers were to- at
tend more to shipping clean wheat 1t would en-
hance the price ut least 10 cents per GENITAL
Mr. William Crye, the millwriSht here, Is :
man of great experience in the business, and L
fast attaining 4 reputation second to none IL
| the country