Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-06
a NEW ERA.
What is to b. Seen at the Mammoth
Mill and Elevator of Cam
eren b Patsm.
Whist Grain Of Wheis Passes Througt
Before Is 4, Ready TO bs Made
lao Bread.

Before Is 1, ReSdy TO bs Made
lao Bread.
Fort Worth took gres. stride y5s.er.
dsy OF TIE way to become the -four cen
ter Of Texas. The magnificent ami coles
sal mill Bu!lt for Cameron & Tstum wa:
received By the Arm sf.er b full test o.
all machinery had been made. An edi,
torial and reportcritl party visited he
mill and elevator the previous er,nips
just sitter dark and found the mill and
al les brilliantly Illuminated BY irc,n.
descent llgats, the mill under full head
Wky and some twenty five men q.
work in the different dep, rsmsnts.
Mr.. William Cameron and Mr.. +. j.
| Fatum, proprietors OF the New Era Mil,
the nsme Of the institution, were in the
mill and very kindly conducted thu parry
through The different departments. G Ding
into the engine-room, the largest engine
In Fort Worth, 25o horse power Cor
liss engine, with driving wheel We Ugh
ipg "a, 900 pounds, was found a. work,
| moving as smoothls IS If it was childs'
play to drive The immense smcu It OF ma
chipery Ia the mill. The engine IS c
2024S, with46 inches stroke Hers Engineer
William vi, explained the working CT the
engine xnd DISC tbs Edison iucaudesceEt
electric light plant, 1000 candle power sid
GOV furnishing sevsnsy i've ilcsndsscant
lights, Elk y-swo OF Whica light the mznl-
| moth four-story mil, While The Others are
in the engine and boiler rooms, c Gee
End elevator. The same eegine thst
runs the riaehileIY IL the mil furnishes
power 90 ina powerful dynsmo. In the
engine Jcm was f2uad Mr.. c. T. Snip
SOD OF Milwaukee, who WAS Sent oy Z.
z. Allis, tue manufacturers Of the epgiEe
and macniaery, to p.a2e ths SANG in poti
tloI, and right well did he &c
ais work. From the engine room
30 the boiler room Is bat feu steps and
here two OF the three sets of boilers,
eighteen feet lorg and five feet In diane.
Ter, were found full Of steam driving the
engine. The third set of boilers are kept
IN reserve ready fer use al . few minutes
0otice. COnrt cted with the boilers Is
Arge hester through which all ws.et
passes before IL goes into the boilers.
Passtng hsck through the engine room
'he part entered the first G0or Of the
mill, stone and brick structure 4OxG0
feet, four stories and basement.
aere were found j. W. RIB,
-xpert miller Of Z. P All's & Co., and J
R. Rsynoids, the head miller OF Cameron
& Tstum, who has full charge Of the
entire mill. Mr.. Reynolds Is from JJck-
son, Mich where for twenty Years he has
been with enc firm in the mi II bust.
nsss He has been trained from the
ground up IL the business until he has
ne science OF nJur making down very
fine Mr.. r yaolds is ga authority GU
Milling sud AS contributed several ar
;iclea OF Vslue to tie great milling papers
II the noEthwss.. Tia second
miller, Mr. F. A. McLel!ao,
Is from Albion, Mich, where he was
st work in the taees mill In the stat of
Michigan until called by Mr. Reynolds,
his uncle, to come TO Texas with him
Messrs. Cameron and TLtum turned The
GazETTE reporter over to Mr. Reynolds,
who took him through all the depart
msnts and careful ly explained the pri
cess OF making the fur and the uses OF
the different machines. In the first place
ne ssld there was no question en-: the
New Era Mill was the fiaest mill lot only
In Texas but Ia the South, and the largest
single mil In Texss having 8 capacity |
OF 7e0 srrels OF -four and $50 barrels |
of meal In twenty four hours. There is |
storage room for 1850 barrels Of q jur, |
ten csrs Of bran and the necessary stock |
Of sacke. Ga the first floor OF TIE mill |
are seventeen double sets Of roller mile
arranged in q lice, through which passes
the wheat on It's way to becoming q ,ur
On one eide OF the room are three -four
packers ard one bran packer, the four
packers unloading tneir store OF preci Jus
dust into the sacks fastened sbout their
mouths By the men attending them. Oa
the sacks thus filed sre the brands:
"rssum's Best" "High Patent" "Fancy
PATENT" "Our Piide," "Hestern B lie"
and "White StgnEi." Men stand ia from.
OF the Pc cksrs Loading the sacks OF -four
on trucks VIII b are wheeled into the
storage loom, where huge piles of sacked
i Dur are already seen. Passing from the
mill to the elevator, and descending into
ice bowels OF the eartb, s second engine
EnirtYrfye her e-poSer is found which is
used In the eievssor Only. Ga the south
81 OF the elevator is the receptacle fer
wheat brought Ia on cars, and taken from
hem by steam shovel, while
IN the north tide Is the
1sgo1 dump and scales ;lom which the
'nest ooughs from fsfmsTs Is conveyed
y machinery together with that coming
~ rail to the top Of The LOG feet elevator
md there Distributed into thirty-fou. |
huge bis according to quality, the
Apacity Of the elevator being 200 600 {
bushels. Ga the first floor Of the elevator 1
s chart Of the bins showing Just Whist
,rsds Of Whe1s ia in each Din SO the
miller csn make this selection O; whea.
Without trouble.
Returning to the mill, DIR. Rsyaolds
roce eded to the second foor, where are '
ound six ls.ge bins, TIRES for four and :
hree for coru meal. On this floor 10 the !
utomstic scale. fou: whest hesters end j
sample room Ia which fur tests are
made.
On the third floor are located seven !
and round reels, four MID
lipgs purifiers, corn aspirator, corn !
zeal dryer, whes. separator, rolling I
Green for corn, S.urtevant tan which !
aries sway the NOT air from The !
oller mills below, four Cyclone r
ms. collectorR, and two Cyclone dust ,
electors for wheat Cleaning machinery n
Ga the fourth floor are eighteen cen n
nn q nd ynr I'D raara 60 |,