Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-03-23
RIoomery MAN RemodeIed.

On Wednesday last, in company
with the venerable Hon. Andrew
Hunter, j. G. Wyatt, Esq. the pop
ufar landlord of the Carter House,
and Mr.. j. d. Sloan, the gentIemanly
and efficient manager of the Shenan-
deah Milling Company, Cat the lat
ter's invitation,) we-yisited the old
and well-known Bloomery Mill, about
three miles from Charlestown, now
owned by that Company. This mill
has recently been entirely remodeled,
and though not as large as some mills,
is a complete and woodworking
roller mill, first-cIass in every par
ticular. AT the door we were met by
Mr.. w. II. Waterford, of Baltimore,
who, in behalf of the John L. Hoye
Manufacturing Co., of Buffalo, N. Y,
made the contract, designed the I'M
provements, and put the mill in OPP
Grafton. Mr.. Wakeford kindly showed
us through the building, and from
him we gathered the following partic-
uIars:
On the first or basement floor the
power wheels connect with the line
shafting and wheat cleaning machinery
wheat scourer and brush polisLer.
Bran garncrs and the foot of line of
elevators, eighteen in number, are
also upon this floor. The second is
the grinding and packing floor. Here
are located five double sets of Ste
vens Rollers, made by the John t.
Noye Manufacturing Co., Silver
Creek flour packers-which will pack
either full barrels or sacks down as
low as one thirty second of barrel
-conveyors for mixing various grades
of flour together, and a Bowsher mo-
ton Indicator, with alarm to indicate
if any portion of the machinery should
be out of fix. The third or first bolt
ing or purifying floor contains four
reel Noye boiling chest, two Geo. L.
Smith purifiers, one Latimer coarse
middlings purifier, six-reel scalping
chest, and receptacle for cleaned
wheat. On the fourth or attic floor
are the first wheat receptacle, Rich
mond warehouse separator for clean
ing wheat, elevator heads, first bolt
ing reel, two Geo. 7. Smith centrifu-
gal flour dressers, Empire bran dus-
ter, Prinz dust collector, with fan at
tachments, and magnetic machine for
taking iron and other metals out of
the wheat as it passes through one of
1.-THE spouts. On the fifth floor or
cock-loft additional elevator heads are
placed.
The old machinery was torn out of
the mill about the middle of January
last, and since then the work of re-
modelling has been going on under the
charge of miIlwright John t. Beard,
of Carroll county, Md, until on
Tuesday last the job was pronounced
complete and the machinery set in
motion. On Wednesday,, when we
were at BIoomery, there had not been
jar or hitch anywhere, and every
thing was working as smooth as clock
work, turning ont an elegant grade Of
roller -four at the rate OF sixty bbls.
per day--a considerable increase over
former capacity. Our wcll-known
countyman Geo. II. Turner, Esq,
the genial president of the company.
has entire control of the milling de-
partment, and Mr.. Duncan McGilvray,
formerly of Cumberland. Md, is the
head miller, with Mr.. j. Ed. CoOkus,
formerly employed as Il roller miller
in large roller mill in Ohio, as his
assistant. The products of the mill
are sold ut the company's store in
Charlestown aud at the company's
store in the Georges Creek mining
district