Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14
YALE'S INDUSTRIES.
TIE STORY CONTINUED WITH A SKETCH
OF S. o. WEIGH & SONS BUSY MILL.

Undoubtedly one of the most prosper
Gus industries in our village is the
Touring mill owned by s. o. Welch &
Son. This mill was established here in
1887, and the first grain was ground on
June End of the same year. The engine
used is the same which had already Civ
EN- good satisfaction during it's use in
Peck. The mill-building is doubtless
one of the most complete to be found
anywhere. 1t is model in the miller's
art. Throughout, it is fitted up with
all the latest improvements. For -four
ing purposes they have several sets of
Cases rolls; and have just added new
Silver Creek cleaner. with capacity of
300 bushels per hour, which is giving
grand satisfaction. With this effective
machinery 1t can be readily seen how
their excellent"SilverS Spray"fOur is pro-
duced. Without doubt. it seems to us,
Yale can boast of as fine Touring mills
as any in the state. And not only that,
but the grade of flour produced is doubt
less as good as is made anywhere. But
in addition to the Touring process which
is so complete in every detail, they also
grind great deal of buckwheat and
chopped wheat for their customers
For this purpose they have two runs of
milling stones, which are seldom idle.
THE PRODUCT.
The amount of work done in this
mill will doubtless be big surprise to
those even who have long been within
the sound of its steady moaning. The
mill has capacity of 100 barrels day
of flour alone, in addition to the great
amount of ground feed put out. Al
ready this year they have shipped about
1900 barrels of flour to outside custom
ers. This. of course, does not include
the hundreds of bushels of flour which
are distributed throughout the sur
rounding country in the custom trade.
This is by no means the smallest part
of the trade. a long string of farmers
wagons near the door of the mill is not
very uncommon sight. TO produce
this immense amount of flour yearly
they of course distribute large sums of
money among the farmers in the neigh
bOrhood. Within short time subse-
quent to this writing they purchased
1000 bushels of wheat in Melvin and
stations to the west. They are also pur-
chasing continually of surrounding far
merS.
THE SHINGLE MILL.
At the same time that the Touring
mill was established, Il shingle and
planning mill was put in order. This, in
addition to their lumber yard, form by
no means an insignificant industry.
Although the work in this mill is chiefly
custom, nevertheless they have just
made shipment to Ohio of 100000
shingles. They have also just shipped
in about half million feet of very fine
pine lumber. This gives fair idea of
their trade. 1t will be readily seen that
this energetic firm do an immense busi-
ness for the size of our village. But
we boast that there are but few villages
in the state which transact the amount
of business done here every year. En-
ergetic and enterprisng men such as :.
o. Welch ~ Son, are the men that can
always find plenty of it to do here. Mr..
5. o. Welch the head of the firm. is one
of the old pioneers of this section. His
genial manners have long ago won him
the respect of the whole community.
With his obliging ways he has worked
up an immense patronage among the
surrounding farmers, and it seems likely
he will hold it, Yale can heartily con-
gratulate itself on possessing two such
substantial Touring mills. Let us hold
firmly to these industries we have, and
reach after more.