The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-08-21
coBB COUNTY ENTERPRISE
OCCASIONAL

With feelings of pride we note the pro
rress made in our grand old county, and
more especially that made in onr own part
of the county. When men do something
that is a blessing to the community in which
they live and that adds not only to Their
own advancement in the world, but to the
advancement Of the wealth and prosperity
of their State, the praise bestowed upon
them is ''comely," and not to that fulsome
sort too often given to men in Sllace and
power In this connection we wish to
speak more fully Of the milling operations
in this part of the county of those enterpris-
ine gentlemen, Mess w. r. Akers 81 Bros.
Shortly after the war these young men
commenced on a small scale in the city OF
Atlanta, the grinding and shipping of meal,
and in this branch of the milling industry,
which has now assumed vast proportions,
they stand forth as the pioneers in our EN-
pire State BY diligent and prompt atten
ton to business their orders soon exceeded
their facilities for manufacturing, then it
was that their sound judgment and nerve
prompted them to utilize part Of the ample
power afforded by Rottenwood Creek in the
lower part of Cobb county.
Having selected a suitable site nearest to
the w. q A. r. r., they erected thereon a
corn mill with grinding capacity OF from
six to eight hundred bushels of corn per day,
and from this mill comes that superior
meal with the famous brand Banner
Water Mills, so called i'll honor OF our 0oIt-
ReP county.
A few hundred yards below the corn mill,
these energetic young men, early last spring,
commenced the erection Of a new process
Touring MILL which is now finished and in
....l, fTba hnI1ca from fhp NVntpr
wheel to the top, is five stories high. The
machinery is the latest improved, consisting
in part of one Eureka smut machine, zig
zag drop, forty feet high and containing ten
perforated sheet iron plates, one Eureka
brush machine, two Purifiers Garden City
pattern, six reels eighteen feet long, three
run of buhrs, the whole being driven by a
thirty six inch Leffel Turbine, and having
"A manufacturing capacity of sixty barrels of
flour per day The cleaning machinery is
unsurpassed by that of any mill in the coun-
try, nor yet equalled by that Of any mill in
the State Mr.. r. A. WEIGH, Il first class
miller on the new process plan, and lately
in the employ of Butler Il Carroll Of Allan
ia, says that the mill in all appurtenances
SURPRISES anything that he has seen in Geor-
gia. Mr.. Wclch is manufacturing four
grades of flour Family" made ofordina-
ry wheat Extra Family, made OF medl-
um wheat and "Choice" and ''Aliers' Pat
ent, made OF the best Tennessee amber and
white wheat. Bymixing the last two grades
lac furnishes what he callsa Straight grade,
"a flour fair enough to please the most fastid-
ious, and especially rich in phosphate OF
lime, that element of all grains SO essential
in the formation ofboncs and animal tissues.
The Mess. Akers, inspired by that lauda-
bic ambition to excel in the industry in
which they have embarked, have spared no
pains and expense to give the public an ar
tce of flour that is sure to give satisfaction.
Those who have tried it, pronounce 1t the
best flour they have ever used TO behold
what was but few years ago, waste
bowling wilderness" now converted into a
busy scene of life, whirring with the music
of machinery, we can but accord to them
good judgment as well as perseverance IN
the struggles and tolls which beset the path
of every honest working man, whether 1t be
in the physical or mental field Of effort.