The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-27
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
The Salt Lake Mill and Ele-
yatOr Company's Plant.
THE BIG MILL IN OPERATION
Per Day-The Perfect Machin-
cry at Work.

porsant enterprises that has sprung up
in Salt Lake during the present period
of prosperity came with the organiza-
ton of the Salt Lake Mill &c Elevator
Company. Most of the men and carl
tai that make up this enterprise came
from the east of the Missouri River,
but they now belong to and are part
of Salt Lake City. The officers are
Charles Baldwin, president; H A.
Barnard, vlce-president; w. S. Nc
Cornick, treasurer and B. 3. Towr-
drow, secretary and business manager.
The company was incorporated in
March last with a capitol stock of $780,
900 and is a strong organization.
THE NEW BUILDING,
in the northern part of the city, re-
Gently completed by this company for
use as a fouring mill, is one of the
largest and most substantial Of all the
structures of the kind in the west. Toe
main building is OF brick, 40x60 feet,
three stories high, and with tvs I've
foot rock basement. In the rear OF this
is large brick engine and boiler house.
The building is as substantial as it could
be made and is finished off neatly. 1t
Is supplied with the latest modern ma
chinery, made by the Barnard & Lsas
Manufacturing Company, of Moline,
Illinois. It is intended as a sample
plant for Utah. Each machine is en-
closed in case of highly polished gum
woods of different colors, giving the
interior a very fine appearance and
adding to the prevalent cleanliness. In
snort, 1t is an excellent plant, and COM
pared with the ola mills of years ago, it
is revelation.
THE MILL STARTED
its work yesterday morning and inside
the building all was rapid motion, and
from the ponderous fly Wheel of the
engine down to the smallest cog in the
mill, there was smoothness aud order
about the working of the machinery
that was almost marvellous. The seven
busy rollers, all at work at once,
present themselves to view upon first
entering the door and as the second
and third floors are reached there is
even more to take the eye. Such
maze of wheels, belts and cogs was
never before seen in any one establish
ment in this Territory. The immense
engine which furnishes the power for
this wonderful machinery is of 200
horse power. 1t is so highly polished
that it has the appearances of nickel
plate, and though ponderous and
powerful, it works with an ease that is
simply perfection.
It would probably be of interest to
give some slight idea OF
THE PROCESS
through which the wheat is taken by
this machinery before it becomes pure
four. To begin at the first, right under
the platform, at the side of the three
rail spur, on which the wheat is brought
ID the mills by the different railroads,
there is chute into which the wheat is
dumped from the cars. This carries
it in o the basement, where ii is picked
up by the elevators and carried to
large bin in the 'op story of the building,
with a capacity of one carload. From
this, the wheat is dumped into hopper
scale, weighed and let down into the
basement into sto3k bin. From here
it Is drawn off as wanted for use, into a
cleaning machine and then carried to
another stock bin, with a capacity of
5000 bushels. From here it is elevated
to a seasoning bin in the top story,
where it is allowed to lay for twelve
hours 1t is then carried through
brush machine, where it is secured and
finally having been prepared for con-
version into -four, 1t il dropped into
stock hopper, over the first roller, and
THE GRINDING BEGINS,
The wheat passes through the first
roller, which cracks it, and is then ele
waited to a scalping machine, which
cl ans the outside eff. Then 1t is passed
through the second roller, crushed
little more and carried back to another
scalper; dropped to another roller, and
so on until it has gone through seven
scalpers and seven rollers, and is turned
out in the form of beautiful white
-four. The mill has double the capacity
of any other mill in the Territory,
turning out 200 barrels per day. Great
care was taken to select q tirst-class
.:,iller and an experienced epSineer,
who are now ii charge with selected
and skilled assistants, and everything
is in ehtps to produce results never
bafore equalled in Utah. Three brands
of -four will be turned out. viz: Ivory
Patent, high grade; Royal Gorge,
straight grade, AMI Economy, low
Grade. Then they will produce break
fast germs, graham -four, chopped
feed, etc.
TO SUPPLY THE DEMAND,
the company will make it a point to
always keep on hand stock large
enough to enable them to fill one or
two carload order ready for shipping
the day the order is received, and at the
same time be able to fill all orders for
city trade promptly. Enough wheat is
stored in the mill to run one of the ED
fashioned mills for year, while it will
only last this one about sixty days.
This opens a splendid home market for
Utah wheat, as the company is al
ways ready to pay market.prices for that
article or to exchange -four for all the
wheat our farmers can bring in.
FUTURE PLANS.
Although $4,000 has already been
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