The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-01
. THEOKA BENA MILLS. .

Enlarged and pr0ved List Of TIE
editions Seven Run Of Stone and
100 Barrels a day. =zSs=.=.
The enlargement and improvement
Of the Okabena Mill having been com
pleted and the mill fairly started up, on
Monday lastwe were shown through
the establishment by Mr.. Lowe. Some
account of the mill rs improved will
therefore be of interest to our readers.
The cost Of the Improvement is from
$4,000 to SIS. 000.@ The enlargement Of
the building consists Of an addition on
the northwest side in which there is a
feed mill complete, with one run of
four and a half stone and all the appli.
ances for grinding feed, making corn
meal, rye flour. etc. This we shall name
the RYE and Indian" department.. by
consent of Mr.. Lowe, with a view to Sc.
curing the attention Of our Boston
friends. 49,.
A brick addition has been built on
the south side comprising new boiler,
engine and wheel rooms. South of these
is the hay shed, separated from the boil.
er and engine rooms by massive iron
doors.
In the way Of machinery, the addi.
tions are:
l. One new run of stone fitted up
from the rough.
2. A set of rollers for crushing grain.
These are made of chilled iron, twelve
inches in diameter by 80 inches in
length, and small as they are in size,
their weight is 1890 pounds. They are
equal in capacity to one run of stone.
and have also the cloth for making
meal.
8. New boiling cloths throughout.
These cloths are made in France of the
best quality of silk, twisted and SPIN,
and woven into cloth, the finest of
which contains $50 squares or openings
to the square inch. These little open
ings are exact squares, all Of the same
size, and bound at the corners 50 that
each little square maintains it's size and
place with as much certainty as the
squares in window sash.
4. A new steel boiler. 60 inches by 16
feet, with 60 three-;nch flues.
5. A quantity of new gearing, so that
now the mill is run altogether with
b.lts and beyeled gearing.
There are two of the famous mid
dlings separators, two smut machines
and one cookie separator, in the mill.
The full capacity If the mill is six
run of stone, besides the feed run, capa-
bic of turning out easily and regularly
100 barrels of -four day, or 600 week.
If run at the very fullest speed. under
home-stretch pressure, the mill is capa-
Die of producing $50 barrels of flour Il
day.
The feature Of greatest interest to
all visitors from abroad is the fact that
the fuel used to generate stea is our
own prairie hay. These were, we believe,
the first mills in the state to use hay
for fuel, and after several years of ex-
pertinent, it is found to be decided
success, greatly decreasing the cost of
fuel and making a market for a vast
quantity of hay which otherwise would
be useless.
The mill is now owned by the Okla
bena Mill Company, the chief stock
holder being E. F. Drake, of st. Paul.
The Superintendent and chief miller in
charge is Joseph Lowe, one of the best
mil}ers in the west. while E. Y Reid, of
st. Paul, represents Mr.. brakes inter-
est aud is on duty at the mill. The
book-keeper is the popular Frank Lew
is and the two assistant miller3 are
Marcellus Webb and Chas. Rogers.
Geo. Rose, one Of the well-known stand
bys Of the mill, is in charge Of the feel
mill department.. VIM. 1Iouchan has
charge Of the packing department
and A. S. Husselton, the long
reliable, is the engineer, and holds
the lives of the ''passengers'' subject to
the Unbelievable under his hand.
These, with one or two assistants for
general work, complete the force of the
mill.
LETTER FROM A CLERGYMAN.
A clergyman from an adjoining coun-
ty writes and says:
II preached in this town yesterday
and saw here for the first time copy Of
your paper. like it's motto very much
indeed, and I particularly like tile prac-
tical application of the motto which is
made in the Free Opinion" column.
think you are in error in your opin-
ion about B, nnett and feel sure you
are about Comstock.
Here is a minister very much after
our own ,eart, man who believes in
free thought, free speech and free
press" But we are very sure we are
not in error about Bennett and Com
stock. We are just rs sure that Ben
nett is Il martyr for free thought and
free speech AS ever any man was il the
darkest ages Of Europe. And we are
just rs sure that Comstock is as infa.
nous 4 prosecutor of men and as much
an enemy to human freedom, as the
worst devotee of priestcraft aud king
craft ever was. A man whose con-
science is so warped that he can think
he is dong right when he hires men
and women to commit crime and then
has them arrested and punished for it
is either a:poor monomaniac or tricky
william. A man who can boast that he
has driven fifteen fellow mortals to SUI
icide, is fit only to be spit upon by Chris
tian people.
Longfellow has declined three times
foreign missions offereu him by the gov
ernment.-Exchange.
He declined to serve the government