Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-26
NUMBER 2.

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ment, conspicuous feature of their
conduct being their strictly temperate
habits "away from home"
To return to the subject of this arti-
Gle, an account of the mill would be in
complete without sketch of its pro-
posed operation and advantages. BY
THE GRADUAL REDUCTION SYSTEM
of milling the largest possible percent
age of flour is obtained from the grain
in the best possible condition, and thus
the people are supplied with better
flour for their money and the operation
is profitable to the milling company.
| This system of flour manufacture was
first successfully carried on in Austro-
Hungary, especially at Buda- Pesth,
where immense roller mills have made
for years grade of flour which readily
commanded the highest prices in the
great English markets. In fact, their
steady gain in competition with Amer
lean flour soon convinced the Ameri-
can millers that they, too, must inn
prove their methods or retire from the
principal markets. This opened an era
in American milling more prolific in
invention and real improvement than
was the whole previous mechanical
history of eur country; and although
the end is not yet, for each months
record chronicles some new and valua-
BILE Improvement in milling machin-
cry, yet the Americans have already
outstripped all competitors and are
furnishing the world with the best ma
chimes Cor operation under the new sys-
tenn.
Among the first to see the advantage
es of the gradual reduction system Of
Touring in the United States was
George G. Thilenius, of Cape Girar-
deau, Mo-, who realized that the
WHEAT OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
has no superior for Touring qualities.
Promptly carrying his plans into exc
cution, he remodeled his mill on the
gradual reduction plan and engaged q
head miller who had had years of ex-
perience in the best mills of Austro-
Hungary. It was but a few months
after his work of reconstruction was
finished when Americans and Europe
ans were astonished to see the highest
prize for flour at the Vienna Worlds
Exposition carried away by the product
of the Cape Girardeau mill, made from
Scott county; Missouri, wheat. This
decision was like the explosion of q
bomb among the millers. Aroused
from their lethargy, the improvements
in American mills within the past ten
years has been one of the wonders Of
age, and the mills of Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Illinois and California are rapid
ly eclipsing those of Europe and the
Eastern States, both in capacity and
quality of product. It is not to be in
ferred from what is above stated that
THE ARCADIA VALLEY MILL
is one of the largest mills referred to,
for this is not claimed; but the fact re-
mains that the only difference between
it and the largest is in their relative
capacity. The processes are all the
same and carried out with the same
fidelity; and one needs no gift of proph-
ecy to foretell that, with the best of
wheat, the most improved facilities.
and competent management, Arcadia
Valley flour will take rank in the mar
kets with the best; that the company
will have an experience like that of
Col. Thilenius and reap rich harvest
from their enterprise.
THE BENEFITS
OF this new enterprise will not all enure
to the owners. Requiring a daily sup
ply of three hundred bushels of wheat,
it will furnish better market for the
grain product of Iron, Washington,
Wayne, Stoddard, Ripley and
adjoining counties, and supply the
towns of Southeast Missouri, by COM
petition, with the best flour at lowest
cost; and whatever surplus may be
sold without the district, the profits
will be returned to be again added to
he available capital of Southeast Mis-
ouri.
1t is to be hoped that this will not be
he last work of the kind; that ere
many years the milling facilities Of
Southeast Missouri will at least keep
'ace with its steady increase in wheat
for with such improvement
he fertile lands south and east of
he Ozarks will, within the round Of q
ew years, become one of the richest
gricultural districts of the world.
OF Miss Lizzie Frazier, who makes
all hand on her fathers farm, the Ne
ada, CAL, Transcript says: She is
7orth a ten-acre lot of lad-de-dah girls,