Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-10-29

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modern distilling apparatus, with a
capacity for the consuming of
SIX HUNDRED BUSHELS PER DAY,
producing daily over fifty barrels of
whiskey, and from which the United
States government realizes revenue
amounting to the enormous sum of
over $4,000 a day. The distillery is
under the m snagement of Mr.. Rich
ard Lamar, acknowledged to lie
among the very best distillers in the
United States, il indeed he has his
equal. Mr. Lamar has been with
Mr.. Nadenbousch since before the
war, and his knowledge of the BUSH
ness is duly appreciated by the Colo
mel and the company whose business
he so efficiently manages. The rye
best adapted to the manufacture of
whiskey, Mr.. Nadenbousch informs
us, comes from Canada, but sufli-
Gent supply Of Canadian rye cannot
always be had, so that ta3 rye from
the markets of Chicago and Milwau-
kee is next chosen as of superior
quality, yet the rye of the Cumber-
land Valley, in Pennsylvania, is also
very excellently adapted to the max
ing of whiskey.
THE BONDED WAREHOUSE
of this company is mammoth struc.
ture. The entire building, since The
recent new addition, is 2Sl feet in
length; main building 81 feet in
width and 26 feet high from the
ground to the square level. The old
building contains regular stories and
is lighted by side windows, but the
new one has solid brick walls, and is
lighted and ventilated by skylights
and transoms. The walls are %
inches in thickness, and very sub
stantially built. This building con-
tains no floors, but is built upon the
skid principle, upon which there is
a patent, and, astonishing as it may
seem, it will hold $4,000 barrels of
liquor, 1t is designed to heat this
building by means of steam pipes,
and thus keep the temperature of the
interior at about 80 degrees, which,
aided by the absence of much light,
is said to greatly aid the process of
evaporation which is necessary to
the Improvement of rye whiskey.
In storing the barrels, they are rails.
ed to the floors and skid levels by
means of powerful screw elevator
the only kind of elevator yet invent
ed which is altogether safe from pos
sible accident. Joining the old
building on the south, and running
parallel with it., has recently been
added wing 10 feet in width, and
built upon the same plan as the new
large building, without floors or side
windows, and lighted from the top
and trausoms. The immense capa-
city of this warehouse may be iLnag-
ined when itgis stated that the entire
building now containsover aE&
THIRTY THOUSAND BARRELS OF
WHISKEY, .---..-.
The government has five officials
constantly on the premises-three
storekeepers. and two gaugers. =
Messrs. III. B. Daniels, L. M. Wade
and M J.. DrabelleA are the storeL
keepers, aud Messrs. q. n. Shiun
and z. A. Rohrbaugh are the gau-
gers q, e. r ~FE s0-asN
The company of course manufac-
lures its own barrels, some twenty
seven c0Opers being constantly ell
gagged, in IL commodious building, at
this work, and very superior barrel
they are, too. The entire number of
employees about the premises aver
ages 100 regularly.
THE SwILL Stops
coming from 80 extensive distillery
are no small consideration and they
are used for feed for some 900 hogs
which are being fattened on the
premises. This feed is conducted
| by means of elevated fumes to the
hogpens, and is fed while hot, but
| much OF it is wasted and finds its
way into the murky waters of the
Tuscarora, and its peculiar malty
odor is waited to the delicate and
sensitive nostrils of the denizens of
Strineville, who in their turn pro-
nounce anathemas dire and yengeful
on the devoted head of the Colonel.
| A process invented by Mr.. Henry
Chapman, of Philadelphia, is about
to be adopted by the company, for
recovering swill from distilled grain,
by which it is dried AID compressed
into sort of coarse bran-like condi-
ton. and which, it is said, is very
nutritious food for hogs, cattle and
horses. 1t is dried by passing thro
a perforated cylinder making 750
revolutions To the Minimize the VERY