The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-24

deposit was about three thousand
pounds, which was removed every
morning. In addition to these small
chambers there were several purifiers
On the upper floors that discharged
their dust right cut into the room.
The atmosphere of the whole mill
thus became surcharged with exceed
ingly minute and fuzzy particles.
which are very infiamab!e, and when
mixed in certain proportions with
TIE air. highly explosive. This mix
ture had apparently Teen brought by
the niIlers to just about the right
point, when late supplied torch.
& piece Of wire fell between be buhr-
stones, or into some rollers and be-
gan lightning express journey
through tue machinery, in the course
OF which ii became red-hot, when it
found an exit, and plunged out into
the air. Il was most startling in-
stance of the conversion Of eat into
motion. A lighted match in q keg
of powder is the only aoalcgy to illus
trate the result. One room down.
stairs burst into flames, and the
Watchman had only time to pull the
electric fire alarm near his hand
when be and the mill together disap~
peared from the face of the earth.
a terrific explosion, generated
throughout that great factory in an
instant, rent all Narts of the immense
structure as suddenly az a child
knocks ever tower Of cards, leaving
nothing but blazing ruins to show
where, tWinkling before, had stood
the largest -four mill in the country.
Nor was this all. The land was dug
from under the foundations and the
massive machinery buried out OF
sight, Two other mills and an eleva-
tor near By we're d molighed so that
not one stone remained above
anothers while of thres ether mills
G acked and tostering walls and
Charred interiors were tho only me-
mentos OF the days Aoarishing busi-
ness.
Toe god that came out of this
seemingly wholly harmful episode,
which scratched On end-mark to one
era OF the city's prosperity, was the
introduction into the new mills OF a
system OF duss-saving that renders
such calamity improbable il not
impossible in future. Now, instead oil
being thrown abroad into q large
room, the dust is disonerged by
suction fans into large fre.proof re
ceiVers, where it sccumulates in
great quantities. and is sold as q low
grade OF -four. This having been re-
moved, what remains is the best
quality OF -four. Il is bsrrelled by
the aid of machine permitting the
precise weight of 1876 pounds to be
determined, packed, and branded
with great speed.
Bakers, however use what is
known as wheat" or straight
-four, which is the proGuct OF the FIVE
reductions, all the subsequent pre-
cess through which the middlings
pass in masking fine -four being
omitted. Fancy" flour differs from
the ordinary supelfne in that the
middlings ere gro md through smooth
rollers.
Minneapolis is reported to ship an.
nuaIly, beyond her local consump-
ton, 1850. $50 barrels Of -four.
"These," says the Tftbuae'S statisti.
clan, ''if piled one above the other.
end ito end, would reach $50 miles.
TIL, -four would make about 495, 1855,
600 loaves OF bread the ordinary size
OF bakers leaves. These piled in a
pyramid would make, roughly cal
Culsted. aqusre pyramid with a
base 800 feet square and with Il
height of nearly 1000 feet. Ernest
IngersolI, in Harper's Magazine.