Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-05-09
A GRAND ENTERPRISE.
The Elk Point Creamery Com.
pleted and in Running
Order.
An Institution that our City
should be proud of.
A Description of the Building,
Machinery, &c.

AAo'Aioo "dSHci, Hio uVipci, Wiz
machinery and all necessary fix.
lures have been placed in position
in the creamery building and the
company is now ready to begin OPP
era,ions. The main building is a
twelve foot II story building % by
40 feet, painted on the outside a
light stone color on the inside a pea
green and stone color, making a
clean and cheerful appearance.
The interior is ceiled and the space
between that and the weather board
is packed with sawdust. The main
building is divided into six com
partnents. A neat little office eight
by nine feet is petitioned off in the
southwest corner which can be made
very neat, coy and comfortable
when properly furnished, and which
will give the establishment an air Of
business worthy ofsuch al enterprise
Just across the hall way, in which
is a water tank to supply soft water
for the boiler, and a force pump for
forcing the water from the cistern
into the tank, is the engine room in
which is now in complete working
order is a magnificent little six horse
power engine of the Monarch pat
tern, manufactured by Chas. Will
lard and Co. of Chicago, who have
furnished all the machinery con-
nected with the establishment. The
movements of the engine are as
glib and noiseless as the most conf
plete sewing machine. So much so
that its almost perfect quiet steals
away the idea Of its great power.
There is also located in the engine
room another force pump the func-
tons of which are To force hot water
to all parts OF the building running
to and through every department,
where it can be turned on or shut
off at tle pleasure of the party US
ing 1t.
North Of the engine room and oc-
cupying a space Of fourteen by
twenty-eight feet is the work room
in which The churn and butter work
er are erected. This is probably the
most interesting department of the
institution. The churn is the Chi
cage square box patent with a ca
pacity of four hundred pounds at
each churning. 1t is simply a
large square box in which the cream
is placed and the churn caused to
.revolve by its attachment with the
engine. 1t is the same churn that
WAS exhibited by Chas. Willard Il
Co. at the Milwaukee dairy fair last
winter. Under favorable circum-
stances it requires about twenty
minutes to perform the much dread
ell operation by hand, of cliurning;
which is quite an Improvement over
the old dash churn where the house.
vile is compelled to labor incessant.
~ from an hour to half a day in
the Manufacture Of "A few pounds
of butter. The Mason's Power But
ter Worker is a most INGENIOUS and
attractive affair. 1t consists of a
circular table upon which the but
ter is placed wien taken out of the
churn. Just over the table and at
tachel to it at the center are two
large huted wooden rollers which
are made to revolve in an opposite
direction from the table which also
revolves, and rolls over and works
all the milk out Of the butter in a
very short time. 1t also, at the
same time works the salt and color
into the butter. This is also con-
nectnd with the engine and has
has steam for its motive power.
W. now go to the north end oil
the building and find it divided into
two compartments; a vat room and
a refrigerator. The val room is sup.
piled with three two hundred gal.
Ion watts Of the latest patterns, made
OF tin and supplied with fixtures
for furnishing hot and cold water.
This apparatus is for souring tht
cream and preparing it for thu
churn and is so arranged that clean
illness will be an almost u,.Ayoida
hFe virtue. This room is raiser
about four feet above the main foo,
80 as to give it proper drainage, ana
to supply other conveniences tina
could not be successfully attained
II placed en a level with the othe
departments OF the building. Adj
Joining and to the east is the refrig
orator which i constructed OH tn
latest and most perfect principle
and made TO store une carload Q
butter and preserve it in the nices
possible manner and prepare it il
splendid style for shipment. BE
meath the vat room and Of the sam
size is another storage room for pack
ing butter tubs and ether supple
necessary to have On hand. The n
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