The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-04-17

A Miller'S Pro1t.-An exchange says
"There is Misrepresentation, pretty generally, as
to the profits made by millers. 1t is commonly
believed that they reap unfair gain from the man
ufacture of -four, the complaint being frequently
presented that the product is out of proportion to
the cost of wheat. little calculation will dis
abuse the minds of any so thinking of the mistake
made. To produce barrel of flour from Al to St
bushels of wheat required according to the
excellency of the machinery and the exer-
csed in the process of manufacture. Say wheat
is worth one dollar a bushe and -four sells at
$3.50 per barrel, or 1926 for eight sacks. TAX
ing five bushels of wheat the quantity required
in most mills there is outlay of So before the
-four can be made. But from these five bushels
of wheat there are taken one hundred pounds of
bran which is worth one cent per pound. There
is left then for the cost of the -four to the miller,
exclusive of his labor, the and tear of his
machinery and interest on his investment, S4. He
has Sl.25 to recompense himself for mis- labor,
purchase of paper sacks or barrel and pay
commission to the middIemen. This commission
is ten cents per sack eighty cents for eight
sacks, equivalent to q barrel. barrel costs from
twenty five to thirty five cents and sacks can be
bought in large quantities for something over
cent and a-half apiece. The calculation can be
easily followed out and it will be seen that the
miller receives for his profit small sum. When
it is further taken into consideration that from
twelve to twenty barrels of -four is about an aver
willing to admit that the miller is not the grasp
ing monopolist he has thought him."
A Relic of the Great Flood.-An Ellicott
City correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says:
"Mr. Joseph johnson, an employe at the -four
mill of Messrs. c. A. Gambrill & Co., at Ellicott
City, one day last week, while engaged in remov
ing some old debris which had been piled up near
the mill by the big waters of the Patapsco, found
imbeided under the rocks porcelain mortar,
which proved to be the property of DR.. Thomas
B. Owngs, and which was in the Doctors Office
when the office, with his dwelling in which were
his wife and four interesting children, all of whom
were drowned-was washed away by the food OF
1868. Among DR.. Owings's effects washed away
at the same time was silvermounted ivory stamp,
with the initials of George Washington inscribed
on it, and said to have been the actual property
of TIL General, and used by him during the Rev.
olution in stamping his dispatches and other
written instruments"
Sold the Old Homestead.-Mr. Aquila
Matthews, and aged and well-known farmer of
Western Run Valley, has sold his farm, contain
ing 125 acres, with fair improvements, to his
nephew, Mr.. Granville Matthews, and the old gen.
tleman will hereafter reside with his family in the
CITY, He will sell his personal property at public
sale on the 2Sth of April and this will be the first
sale of the kind that has taken place upon
the property, which has been in the uninterrupted
possession of his family for upwards of ninety
| years.
The Bishop at Reisterstown.-Bishop
| Paret visited Reisterstown parish on Thursday,
| and confirmed class of u at all Saints Church
at 10 a. m, and class of 10 young ladies at st.
| Michaeps Church at p. IN. The rector, Rev. A.
j. Rich, was assisted by eight visiting clergymen.