The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-18
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} co. Mervf &co. Improve Their M;yslTb,
2 View ProceSs-The "RoNersp at Wort
' Hbeaf- PeraD6aiati1g Through a Maze D
hachl7ery-pirty Wheat travelling From
. 70 90 Times Through -Four Stories init
J SH0~-Dnf Flour.
Our reporter hearing that G. d. .MER-
RIFT Sc CO., our enterprisino millers
bad added over 81 600 worth of new
machinery to their extensive Touring
mIiis, as soon as he heard the hum Of
SAID machinery, started on a tour of in
specblon. He found the affable proprie-
TORS, Z. ID. Merritt and G.. b. McCrarv.
on duty listening with satisfaction 10
TIE whiz and whir and rumble of The
rollers" etc., as with almost human
inteiHgence they were preparing mate
rlal for dread and cakes" for our peo-
pie at home and in the sunny South.
facts: T
The buildings consist of four-storv
mil Large warehouse, engine house, etc.
Inc engine that drives the machinery
Is an 80 horse power, and works ,beauti-
iuiIy ana almost neiselessly. From the
eHglne-room you enter the 1st story, or
basement. Here you find the main
smart from the engine with all the driv-
ing machinery attached, to drive buhrs
ana rollers on floor above, also one
Eureka smut machine, wheat bins. ele
Vator boots, etc, etc. Ascending TO |
next Hoor, you find four double sets of |
Nordyke " Mormon Co.'s Roller Mills. |
with combined and, simultaneous belt |
tghtener, and all the valuable adjust
ments peculiar to the machine: also
Iour pairs OF 4S-in. buhrs, one Eureka
hour packer, one Eureka bran packer.
oflce, etc. The wheat is all received
on this floor, weighed, graded. dropped
into the bins in the basement. and ele-
waited by machinery from thence into
the large, three story, brick, ire-proof
warehouse adjoining the mill proper.
TONG up another story, you come :
upon perfect wilderness Of machinery.
sPouts, elevators, belts. etc, etc
mere you ma seven reels, two Geo. T.
omlth purifiers, one MILFORD & North
ways Centrifugal reel, - one Kurtb
Cookie machine, flour bins, wheat bins
1ran bins, shorts bins, etc. l.
Again going up, you find, on fourth !,
loor, seven reels, one Geo. T. Smith !
purifier, one Snow Flake. purifier, one :
Richmond bran duster, one Boothe SEN
rator, one Eureka brush finishing ma :
hine, grading selves for grading mid !
Ilings for purifiers, dust rooms. dust I
oHeetors, gearing to drive boiling
nests, elevators, etc. 2
our uninitiated readers, as thew eat .
ne snowy biscuit from flour made bv n
DIS new process, can scarcely have a :
onceplon OF the manipulation to which
le "heat mas been subjected to reach
leh satisfactory result. go - e
For their benefit we will briefly ipdi.
lte something of this mauIn1latinn a
re have said the wheat is received on
ie 2nd hoor, weighed, graded and drop- 81 ~
~ om1he Receiving scales into bins -
the basement. From here let rs fol- ~
w It awhile. 1t is caught up bv Gle ma
Itors and dropped into the Boothe sen. mi
ator on 4tb floor, thence il passes n To-
exile machine on 3rd floor thence
Ick 10 basement to smut. machine. pa
ence 10 4th Hoer to brush finisbing era
achlne, thence over automatic mag- 1oi
VIC machine TO take out particles of ioi
~, WIRE nalls, etc., over stock bins res
ora noor, thence to End floor To first we
eak en- rollers. Here il begins To he me
oarated and 80 to different machines ON
purifying, separating and further did
lding, until all of ii has, from first to ant
y, maze nine trips from basement to less
&c, ana some of it about forty times tiol
ding aGlast on End floor where II ret
rted as hrst. second, third and flourish Tol
.des of -four bran, eeeT{ the
We are assured by the proprietors T
u they dc not intend to be excelIed Fan
any Tor hne flour. and if machinery vert
accomplish their purpose, to our Tos
rained eyes, we think it will be ac Co.
nplished. -It IszH Of =
congratulate the enterprising firm ceiv
lhelr Increasingly bright prospects. PREF
wish more of our citizens would the
e US the hum of machinery in other gine
lortant directions. our
!, neglected to say that the capacity Phi
T per day. bott,