Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04
MINNEAPOLIS Mills
The largest and Most Complete Flourfng
Establzshments In the World.

The largest and Host Complete FIourine
Establishments In the World
Minneapolis has become the head
quarters Of four-mil.ing because OF her
great water power, her situation with
reference to the spring-wheat lands Of
the Northwest the enterprise of her
capitalists, and the extraordinary skill
and inventiveness of her operative
millers and machinistS An account of
the inventions male here in milling ap-
paratus and methods would form most
interesting chapter in local history.
There are now standing thirty-seven
mills, capable of producing 57, $50 bar
rels of -four daily. The actual output of
the last calendar year was 6. 0SS. Sos bar
rels, as against so, 600 barrels in 1860.
195, 600 in 1870. 9, o51, $40 in 1850 About
one-third of the current product is ex-
ported, being billed direct from the mill
door TO Liverpool and Glasgow. The
first shipment of flour from the falls
was in 1855. when a few barrels were
consigned to New Hampshire, because
bill of exchange could not be OBJ
tanned to meet an Eastern obligation.
An order for a hundred barrels was the
immediate result, although the cost of
freight was 81 25 per barrel
Beginning with the little Government
mill, with its single run of granite
stones. the tendency in mill building
has been constantly toward enlarge
ment Whether the economic limit has
been reached in the great ''Pillsbury
a" mill can only be conjectured This
immense esta blishment, erected in 1851,
covering with its six stories an area
of 10000 square feet mot counting
that of five accessory structures of no
small size), having 900 pairs of rolls,
$50 purifiers. 81 cleaning machines 500
boiling reels, so scalpers. IS bran-dust-
ers. and in all $50 separate machines
has actually produced Z, 19S barrels of
flour in twenty-four consecutive hours.
Twenty-Five thousand bushels of wheat
are needed for the ordinary daily run;
$50 men are employed, and the force
furnished by the two immense turbine
water-wheels is over 2. 00O-horse power.
The ingenious and equitable system OF
proht-sh airing carried on by this con-
Germ, beneficial alike to capital and la
Dor, has been frequently described in
economic journals
Within the last year the great "a
mill and two others belonging to the
Pillsbury firm have been transferred to
syndicate of American and English
capitalists The same combination is
obtaining control, by transfer or lease,
of other mills, in all of eight establish
ments, capable of turning out %, 5Ol
barrels day. The management OF
this immense aggregation is reposed in
the hands of Charles A. Pillsbury. the
successful and experienced miller here
| tofore at the head of the Pillsbury firm.
Opinions differ as to the desirability OF
such agencies of production being large
ly owned by non-residents- Some see
in it a desirable addition of capital tc
be managed by persons locally interest
ed; others remark on the circumstance
| that the profits will be mostly seem
elsewhere In the face of actual expert
ment it is necessary to indulge in con
lecture A decade or two will tell the
story.-New England Magazine.