The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-24
GRIST-MILLS OF MINNEA-
POLLS.

so GOO people: khe Is growing rapidly,
AID [ think In healthy way. Her
natural advantages of location are
very great, both for business purposes
and as a place of residence. and she
has a rich farming region, develop
ing with surprising strides to give a
market to her wares IN exchange for
it's crops and animal products.
Minneapolis is known not only in
the United States, but widely out OF
it, Tor its grlst-miliing industries.
which il owes TO the magnificent
1ater.power afforded by the falls, Il
seems Incredible that away IF in this
far Northwest, where even yet the
native Indian. comes strolling about
the street in hsl:-eavage toggery, and
the echo of the pioneers axe IS
scarcely lost, structures 60 towering
should be devoted to manufacture,
and so much elaborate machinery be
at work Cay and night. There are
twenty one mills. neatly all enor.
NOUS some buildings, closely crowded
Logather, forming a locality which
recalls the denser portions OF Fall
River or Lawrence, with their huge
cotton factories. The heaviest owners
are Mr.. G. a. Pillsbury, with
four mills, and Governor G. @. Wash
burn, the owner oil three. To the
kindness of the latter gentleman l
owe the opportunity to see the work
ing OF the improved process OF MOD
ern g ur-making in bis new "a"
mill, which is said to be the largest
in the world, except one at BQda-
Pesth.
The wheat to feed this mill, as well
as all it's neighbors, comes chiefly
from the Red River REGION, where
are those township-tarms that have
been 60 often deScribed of late. The
receipts at Minneapolis rom June.
1879. to June, 1880, we're S,103, 10
bushels. As only $4,000 bushels
were shipped away during that time,
it appears that over s 000. COO bushels
were turned into -four here.
When the wheat comes in it is un-
loaded from toe oars by tho aid OF
sleam-shovels lins0 q hopper bin,
whence it is elevated to the fifth floor
and fed into q receiving bin, the
bottom of which extends down to the
fourth floor. Out OF this it empties
itself into conveyers, consisting Of
small buckets travelling upon an
endless belt, and is taken to storage
bins on the first and second floors.
Here it reats uutil wanted for milling.
When this time comes the wheat
travels by conveyers to tie top,
ieighthl floor, whence it is fed down
into the grain separators in the story
beneath, which siis out the chat,
straw, and other foreign matter.
This done, it descends another story
upon patented grading screens,
which sort out the larger-sized grains
from the smaller. the Latter falling
through the neshes Of the screen.
after which the selected portion drops
into the cookies on the floor beneath,
and, these esns ped, ialls still further
Into the brush machines. All this
time the wheat remains Wheat--!he
kernel ia entire. It's next move, how
ever, begins its destruction, for now
the ending-stones are encountered,
which breaks the gerrninal poins eff
each grain. This ruatter accom-
plished, the wheet is shot away up to
the attic again, and trSversing the
length of the mill, falls into an aspi-
rstor on the seventh floor. having
passed which, it slides down to the
| second hoor, and is sent through the
corrugated rollers. These rollers
have shallow grooves cut spirslly
upon them, with rounded ridges be-
tween. The opposing rollers are
grooVed In an opposite direction, and
il is impossible for q grain OF wheat
to get through without being cracked
| IN two, though the rollers are sufh
oientIy pear together to do much
more than that. It comes out oil
this ordeal looking as though mice
had chewed it, and pouring into
special conveyers, speedily finds itseli
up on the seventh floor again, where
the hour-duet which has been pro-
duced by this rough handling il
bolted out in reels. end all that is lel
30 longer sohsGt--is divided into
"middlings" and 'taiIings". The
taiIings consist OF the hard seed case
and the refuse part, and 60 into mar
ket as feed" and ''brAn," while tie
middlings are reserved foF further
perfection into -four; they ere the
starchy, good centres OF the grains.
The first operation towards thil
end is the grading Of the .middlings
for which purpose they pass upor
silksn selves arranged in marrow
horizontal troughs, and given a gen
tie shaking motion by machinery
There is q succession OF these boiling
cloths, so that the middliugs pas
through ten gradirgs. Next the!
go to a series of purifiers. which
resemble fanning-mAchinea, anC
thence to corrugated rollers, eacI
successive set OF which are NOR
closely opposed, where the meal
ground finer snd finer. There ar
five of these corEugasions in all, an,
between each occurs q process G
boiling to get rid OF the gsete, and
journey from bottom to top OF th
mill and back again. Nevertheless
in spite of all this boiling, there re
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