The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-10-29
THE CREsCO MILLS.
Description or One Of Our City's
Reliable Manufacturing
Concerns.

lG'lIdUIt L1dulOCtuIIuS
Concerns.
Complete Ests1Iishmsnt-Nsr tbss.. 80 900
Pounds 81 Feed Groand II Tight Hours.
One OF the finest milling establish
ments in northern Iowa has lately
been thrown open to the public. The
Oresco Mill which has been under
going some repairs and which has
been furnished with additional new
machinery and appliances is now
ready to grind all kinds OF grain,
and 10 manufacture good fiOnr and
feed Of every description. An insti-
tuition OF this kind deserving Of
special mention, and we sub
NIT short description OF its man.
agement and its interior.
The mill is owned by Mr.. John NJ.
Mccoy, the peoples candidate for
representative, genial and whole
souled gentleman, one of the largest
stockraisers in the county, and Mr..
G. w. Combs, a thorough business
man and an old soldier who has q
host OF friends in the county. The
nill is three and half stories high.
It has q capacity Of IS bushels OF
wheat and 400 bushels OF feed in ten
hours, and the operatives have
ground and loaded over Is tons OF
feed in hours. On the top floor
We noticed SPLENDID purifier; man.
featured by A. N. Welt, Allentown,
Pa. This machine takes the last atom
Of bran and impurity from the -four.
A large centrifugal bolt for wheat
-four, a bolt for bnckwheat ard rye
flour. and meal bolt are other ap-
alliances on this floor. This latter
bolt, for meal, is worthy Of special
attention, for by its use the custom
ers can have their cornme;li reduced
to any degree Of ,fneness FOR table
USE
The second floor contains four run
OF stone, and these burrs are all 4
No. stock stone. There is one
wheat stone, 20 inches in diameter;
one for middlings, II inches dame
ter; one feed and meal stone, 20 in
ches diameter, and one feed run, 30
inches diameter. Besides these there
are large bins and a granary for
general use.
On the ground floor there is an
immense go horse power boiler and
/. fine % horse power engine, which
furnishes the motive power for the
mill. Here also il a cleaner, thro'
which the grain is first run, u Enre.
XII shutter and scourer, which re-
moves the last dirt or the foreign
substance from the grain, and Nov
city Separator, one OF the most
thorough machines in use.
The equipment and furnishing of
mill is complete, aud is SO planned as
to make the machinery do all the
lifting and handling after the grain
is once in the building. We call at
tention to the extra fine grade Of
graham -four turned out ut the Ores
co Mill. It is all bolted and the
coarse bran taken out, instead Of the
old system Of simply using the whole
product OF the grain as itcomes from
the burrs. Those who have used
this graham -four will not have any
other.
The flour that this mill is turning
out cannot be excelled, for cooking
qualities and nutrition, by the pro-
duet Of any mill in the State. On this
the superintendent, Mr.. Farwell, will
stake his reputation. As an induce
ment to farmers to bring their grists
to the Cresco Mill the proplietors Of
fer the following guarantee:
They will keep a record Of every
grist that is brought into the mill.
and will guarantee to make first
class -four out Of good grain, or the
customer may return his grist and
they will pay him two cents Il bushal
more than market price for their
wheat.
Feed will be ground at the low
rate Of eight cents sack.
Their days for grinding now are
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
but from present indications they
will have to add one and perhaps
three more. Although the mill has
only been in operation about week,
farmers are already coming in with
their grain, and the grinding is Civ
ing excellent satisfaction.-Gra
The republican party demand
another years trial OF prohibitory
law, the law that is bringing dis
grace upon the state, the law that
is multiplying saloons. Under it
the liquor traffic goes on as it never
did before in Iowa. Here are some
instances all found in the northern
revenue district in the state The
figures are taken from the govern
mcnt books: Dubuque has 242 retail
liquor dealers; Marshalltown g.
Waterloo 4S, Boone 36. McGregor q
Independence IS, Fort Dodge II
Cedar Falls II, Ackiey Z, Sioux City
70, LeMars 35, DEBORAH 30, Mason
City 10, West Union 5, Cresco 6
Webster City ID. Manchester Ia
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