The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-06-02
OUR MANUFACTURERS!
a Partial List of What we Have,
the Most Complete Flour
ing Mill in the United
States.
The Finest Oil Mill in Minnesota,
Our Wagon, Boot and
Shoe Factories.
OTHER INDUSTRIES To FOLLOW
FIGURING Mills.

The Mankato Roller FIGURING mill
Il view of which we present, owned
and operated 10y Il. ID. Hubbard II Co.,
WAS built in 1878 and 20. and is one
of the most substantial and thoroughly
equipped mills in the United States.
Situated on Front. our main bust
ness street. its imposing appearance
makes it one of our most prominent
buildings. and the busy scenes daily
enacted here will well repay any one
for the time spent in looking through
this large manufactory.
The main structure or mill building
proper is I2XI4 feet, four stories and
basement.
Basement is of Mankato stone. walls
being seven feet thick at the base and
the SuperStructurc Of red brick made
at the yard of Willard X Polchow.
The warehouse on the right. and the
engine and boiler house on the left are
built in the same manner and of the
same material as the main building.
The warehouse is IiX90 feet. two
stories and surmountcd by an iron
clad cupola not fully shown III our
view of the mill.
Eighteen feet 10 the right of the
warehouse is Il frame iron clad cleNa-
tor 4OX136 feet with Il capacity of
lI5 900 bushels. erected by the firm
last season To Accommodate their
rapidly increasing business.
This elevator is fitted up with track
scales and arranged expressly for re-
cciving wheat from cars, and Il car
load of wheat can he mlu,ded, clc-
waited and cleaned in twenty minutes.
Wheat is delivered TO the mill by
means of Il convcyor, and I'LL the ma
chinery is run 10y shaft extending
from the mill.
The firm also lease and operate the
large elevator of the c. Il y. W. Ry.,
which gives them Il total storage ca
pacity of 100000 bushels.
The engine and boiler house is 4lXG4
feet and contains among other ma
chincry Il go horse power Brown
engine and the powerful KnowelS
pumps which supply the city water
| works.
The mill which has capacity of
800 barrels per day is furnished with
all improvements known to modern
science, and is under the personal
supervision of Mr.. +. l.. Walters, who
is also a member of the firm.
The flour made at this mill ranks
with the very best brands made III
Minnesota, and the firm have just
cause for being proud of the reputa'
ton they have attained.
Though the mill is Il new one and
the flour not yet introduced into
many parts of. the East, the demand
for it i'm those markets where it is
known is already far beyond the
ability of the firm to supply. So wei
known has il become in some sections
that unprincipled dealers have seized
the opportunity to sell inferior iloul
under brands hearing the firms name
but these efforts have been promptly
exposed.
The wheat used in the manufacture
ing of this famous flour is the hare
Minnesota Scotch Fife, large quantities
of which is grown by the farmers o.
Blue Earth county. Mlnkato is stu
ated in the midst of the timbercd por
ton of the county and the whea
grown on these timber farms is nOtcC
for its superior quality. Nearly all o
this wheat is marketed ut this mil
and materially aids in producing TIN
superior quality of its flour.
The wheat required i'll excess o
home purchases is bought of grail
dealers on the railroads extending
west into Dakota. The cooper shop
of WhittrOck Bros, VIM. Pearson IN,
Richards Bros. furnish the mill wit
> barrels.
From eighty to one hundred me-
I are employed in and about the mi
and cooper shops.
!. Besides the large roller llourin
mill, we have two others of Jesse
: dimensions, yet which make Il goo
Il product. One, the "Farmer's Mill,
Y under the control of W. ii. Rookie.
II does an exclusive custom business
y and the demand for its -four and fee
:: keeps pace with its supply.
Il The other is an exclusive feed mi
X run by l.. l.. Sage. who not Onl
e manufactures large quantities of fee
K but buys grain of all kinds. for whic
he pays the highest market prices.