The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
The Blue Ribbon Mill.

T NE of the foremost institutions, as to
size and Importance, in the central
part of the state, is the McGrew
Milling Company, whose splendid prop
erty Is situated near the Missouri Pacific
depot, and with ample track facilities and
switches connecting with that road. The
main building is of brick, 40x60 feet, i've
stories high, with ample elevator capacity,
engine and boiler rooms, coal sheds and
stables. The new Corliss engine, now
being put in, has a capacity of 200 horse
power, and with cylinder 1sx42 inches.
There are two tubular fiue boilers, with
an aggregate capacity of 200 horse power.
When the mill was first started, Novem-
Der %, 1886, it had a capacity of 100 barrels
of iour per day. March IS, 1889, fire
Quilted the building above the second
story, and when the machinery was again
started, May 10th of that year, the capacity
had been doubled. The mill remained
with a 2OO-barrel capacity until May 2sth
last, when it was shut down and the pres
emit improvements started. These will all
nave been made next week, when the en-
CINE will be started, some time between
the 9th and the 10th, with machinery
enough to produce 400 barrels of -four a
day-four times as much as at first, and
twice as much as in the second period of
the institutions history. The milPs year
begins July LIST, and the figures which
follow cover the period ending with Tues
day night. Mr.. McGrew has been the sole
owner from first to last, and may well be
proud of his handsome and highly re-
numerative property.
The mill claims the blue ribbon over any
other mill in the state as TO the number
of days worked in the year. The machi-
merry was kept in motion $50 of the 2S4
working days of the year,, running IA
hours a week, full six days and nights.
Thirty-six hours OF the time lost was the
Christmas vacation when there were orders
enough on the hook to nav kept the mill
running. Some of the time lost is charge
able to failure of the water supply, when
there was trouble in the water company's
service main.
THE oUTPU
A mills prosperity car well be gauged
by its output and consumption in produc,
ton. In the year ending June 3Oth the
McGrew mill produced $1,000 barrels o.
the five or six grades OF -four, consuming
about 275,0O0 bushels Of wheat. Storage
elevators are located at Lexington, Malti
Bend, Levasy and Wellington, and il
these, on Saturday, September 20, 1880
were stored for consumption 80 600 busheli
Of wheat, conceded to be the largest stor
age held for the one purpose on any on
day by any mill in the Mississippi valley
The wheat elevators have a combined ca
pacity of 5000 bushels, and there can b
stored in the -four warehouse 10000 bar
rels at one time.
THE WORKING FORCE.
: To conduct the business OF the McGreN
Milling Company are required the service
of forty men. not including Mr.. McGreN
himself, who is not on the payroll, an
who, to use the expression of one who il
$ "takes what's left when we're paid.
! These are apportioned as follows: At tn
mill, Is; travelling statesmen, II; whei
I buyers, 6; miners, g; coopers, 2. The me
are paid Saturday afternoon, the pay-ro
footing up about $500 a week. The mi
X force lnCiuOeb "A. v. hODlnnOuJ superb
e tendent; X. Sam Hays, bookkeeper; E'
n ]. McGrew. assistant bookkeeper; Il.
Johns, head miller; J. M. Price and J. v
q Robinson, millers; Andrew Sanford, Ell
8 gineer; AL. Rice, assistant; Charles Al
e stadt, f. Weller, John Mcdowell, l.. Cal
Isle, Frank McCurdy, Smith Clarke an
Walter Standish.
Since the mill hut down in May thirt
Is men have been constantly employed
making the repairs, and Mr.. McGre
stated that he had all along been short
help.
K THE RAILROAD BUSINESS
e During the year just ended an eve
thousand carloads of freight have bee
h handled-6O2 sent out and 1893 unloade,
q Those loaded out were as follows:
FlOur. .....'.. ~
Bran il
Wheat.
MI e
o. -......... "
Those unloaded:
~ WneaJ ....- ODD
Empty barrels. .............. d
Lumber ............- -. ..-.. 4
Corn ...... d. ................ 2
" Coal 80. ..........-... -......... IL
Machinery b .