The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-05-21
our New water Mill.

walnut timbsf II inches square. The
bottom or aud sillsfare q feet long
running # streaYf and bolted to the
bed rock with three iron bolts. each
reachiYg through the sill and down
into tie rock Two feet, wedged at the
bottom With steel wedges and cap
aId nut Of top. On this is placed the
fafter, ad2x12 stick of timber "a feet
Ilong bevelled and closely fitted and
bolted to mud sill at upper end. This
rafter is supported by three posts 12x12
morticed into the sill at the bottom
and rafter at the top securely pinned.
The lower or front post is about Z feet
long, the middle post about S feet and
the upper about 8 feet long. This
forms one of the % bents or sections to
the dam. The bents are 8 feet apart.
Upon them and directly over each tier
Of posts is securely bolted to the rafter
three stringers 12x12 running the en-
tire length of dam PIG feet. Between
the stringers are joists 3x12 also reach
ing the whole length of the dam and
IL inches apart. This entire frame is
double decked with two inch plank
spiked to the stringers and joist making
the dam 10 feet in height. The abut-
ments on either side are built of heavy
limestone run up above the dam about
20 feet and below about IS feet connect
ing with the heavy masonry of the
abutments Of the bridge, and are about
IA feet high. The flume or fore bay is
12x20, built of heavy timbers securely
bolted to bed rock. in which is one of
Liffel's Latest Improved Turbine 81
inch water wheel, which gives 81
horse power under this head.
The whole structure and plan of the
dam has been directed by and had the
personal supervision of w. E. Davis,
senior member of the firm, from the
selection and telling of the timber in
the forest, to driving the last spike
that consummated its completion.
The dam is situated at the head of a
rifle about one-quarter of mile in
length, and the pond flows back about
nine miles, giving an inexhaustible
amount of water, and the rifle below
protects the wheel from back flow in
high water. 1t certainly makes one of
the finest water powers in this State.
From the wheel is perpendicular
4 inch shaft about IA feet in length and
from this shaft and connected by bevel
gearing is the main shaft running hor-
izontal SO feet through the basement
story of the mill, which is occupied
mostly by the feet of elevators, cylinder
corn shelter, and two dump bins, one
hopper bottom for wheat the other for
corn. From the wheat bin is an ele-
vator which carries the wheat into the
fifth story and there empties into
spouts that carries the grain back. into
bins in the third story. The basement
story is also occupied as work shop
and large stone for grinding mill picks;
run by belt from main shaft. The
second story is the grinding floor with
three run of burrs-two AZ inch Old
Stock French and one 36 inch under
runner. On this floor is also located a
Barnard's dustless wheat separator,
flour chest, packer, &c. The third
story is exclusively for bins which are
built of 2x4 scantling securely spiked
together. Thefourth story contains the
boiling apparatus and one of the most
modern middling purifier, new Wet
Dry brush wheat scOurer and buster,
and also a Gimmiss Improved Chal-
lenge smut machine and separator
combined. The fifth or attic story is
crammed with the heads of elevators
with shifting spout and conveyers, that
carry the grain, bran and flour to
any bin or chest in the mill. a
perpendicular II inch rubber belt runs
from the main shaft in basement story
to shaft in fifth story from which the
entire machinery of the mill is driven
except burrs which are driven direct
by belt from main shaft.
We asked Mr.. Geo. Davis, the head
miller, to unrn on the water and give
us sight of the machinery in action.
He gave the Uratchet wheelD one tllrn