Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-10-07
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NBW PLANNING Mill.
1t Is Now Completed in Euery Detail..-
Greyt Saving In Time ..-1.
and Labor. 81
DESIGNED BY PETER MUSSER
Capacity $50, 900 Square Feet Day.
The New and Improved Machin-
cry Gives Entire
Satisfaction.
DESIGNED BY PETER MUSSEF

most thoroughly equipped mills in
the Northwest. Themachinery is Of
the latest improved design. and Is
perfect to the smallest detail The
facilities for receiving the lumber
at the mill, handling it, and
loading it afterward on the
cars, are unsurpassed. The work
OF handling, both before it reaches
the machine, and afterwards is re-
duced to a minimum.
The mill was designed, through
out, by; Peter Musser, of Muscatine,
Iowa., president Of the Pine Tree
Lumber company, and reflects a
great deal of credit upon him. EX-
pctiencel mill men who have seen the
mill state that it is the best designed,
| and the arrangements for handling
the material are superior to any they
have ever seen. The planning mill,
as we'll as the saw mill and lumber
yard, in this city are in charge of
Drew Musser, secretary and trrasur-
er, and G.. \. Wcyerhauser, general
manager.
\ reporter OF the TRANSCRIPT visit
ed the mill yesterday and was shown
through it by Mr. Wcycrllausera and the
foreman, J.JohnS. Fhe latter gentle
man, who has made a study Uf plan
ing mill, and has worked in all kinds,
from hand palmer to the perfected
mill OF which he is now foreman,
could not say too much infavor Of it.
He was as much in love with it as
Il mo Otiicr with her first born. The
Intricate parts Of the machinery were
explained in detail and the reporters
head was as full OF wheels and cogs
by the time he got through as is a
watch.
Motive power is furnished the mill by
q Reynoll' Corlcss engine, one of the
most perfect and simple machines
that is turned out from any machine
shop. The engine is of $40 horse
power, but not over $50 horsepower
is used. even when the mill is running
to its utmost capicity. The ehgine
room is i'll charge Of Al Andrews, and
he was as willing to talk about his
charge, as g father to tell the smart
ness OF his son. The engine room
was as neat and clean as the kitchen
of a good house wife, not a particle
OF surpeliIuO;iS dirt was to be seen
The engine was bright and clean,
showing the attentive care which
had been bestowed upon it.
Steam is generated in boilers
manufactured by kcnney Bros. OF
st. Paul. They arc what are known
as tubularboilers and contain twenty
2G-inch tlucs, and are capable OF
genera ting $50 horsepower, an
amount greatly in excess Of that
actually required torun the mill. The
fires under the boiler are fed autom-
atically by shavings from the planers.
H. l.. Day & Co., OF Minneapolis
had the contract of putting in the
blowers. to carry shavings and dust
from the machines to the engine
house. The firm has done it's work
in the most thorough manner.
as if Just swept. The draft to draw
the shavings from the machine is
furnished by Il 70-inch fan manufac-
tured by 3. +. Sturtcvant, oi Boston
Mass. The shavings are carried
Through q number OF spOuts, leading
fl'um Gael! machine to the main
CONVEX or, which carries them to the
cnE;ilc room. The arrangement of
tAc blower shows a great deal of
ingenuity. Dy an arrangement of
valves; the shavings can all be turned
into Tie furnace at the planning mill
or Eel:t to the furnace of the saw
mill, :o0 feet away, and dropped in
the fires there. BY another turn OF
a lever they can be dropped in the
shaving vault.
It is in the mill itself where the
work OF a planning mil! has been
reduced To IL science. The loads OF
lumber are received at one side
and backed up to the
mill, where by an arrangement
OF rollers the load is removed from
the wagon and placed in front of the
: machines, almost without the turning
OF Il hand. After going through the
, machines, the dressed lumberis loaded
directly upon trucks. On the opposite
side OF the mill are the tracks of the
n. P. Co. The cars are run directly
up to the mill and loaded from the
} trucks, which have to be pushed
+ but a few feet across the platform to
, the cars
+ The mill is furnished with urplan
;. ers; one double surfacer; two 14-incl
Watchers; one l0-inch hatcher; ont
re-saw and one rip saw. The planers
l were manufactured by the Glen Cove
: Machine company, Of Brooklyn. N
: Y. They are made entirely OF stee
, and iron, and are Of an entirely new
:, design to this part OF the country
They are considered the best machin
= manufactured. By an Arrangement
: OF the machinery, the feed can b
changed from As feet d minute to u
! high as 80 feet. The old style feed bel
e has been done away with an
, in it's place is used wha
is known as the screw, whicl
' gives much more steady feed to tn
y lumber as it goes through the ma
e chine. .ss. ..
e The capacity OF each machine
Il from 10000 to 10000 feet a day, az
20 cording to the speed at which the
are running. At present the capac
- ty of the mill is about 5000 feet (
8 lumber day, dresse4on both sides
% The planers are all run at the higI
At est rate Of speed SO feet a minute, an
s. give the most complete satisfaction
Mr.. Musser stated that he was pc
fectly satisfied with them, and conl