The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-10-07

diate >pur-u heels.7 81" diameter, IA"
face. s! cogs. 4" pitch, 10" shaft:
driving pinion, 2455" diameter, l." face
II cogs. y" pitch, Is" shaft: rinion
driving front mill, 264" diameter. II"
face, II cogs, 8" pitch. 10" shaft;
pinion driving back mill 2Ss" diame-
ter, IS cogs, II" face, Z" pitch, 10"
shaft carecity Of this mill is 500 tons
of cane per q honrs.
2o One Niles mill and eaGine. in use
previous to this year engine is" bore
with is" stroke. driving iive.roiie:'
mill; front rollers 80" in diameter
by s. in length . back rollers ~ in
diameter by 6 in length capacity 400
tons day, making the capacity fav
both mills 1000 tons Of cane per II
hours.
81 Two sets of claritiers, one set
containing CHARTERS 5'x6<X9. and
the other CHARTERS. 8 'x61x& and 3
evaporators used tos brushing.
4 The sulphur machine g square
by l0' high; the cane juice is pumped
into the top ot this sulphur machine,
falls on sloping shelves, and is divided
in sprays as if falls from shelving to
| shelving, and mixes with the ascend
! ing varols of The slilphar.
| 80 \ large circuinr case. covered
with Il glass plate containing al the
/ steam guaees from boi'e $ and steam
] pipes, arranged in such a way that
any deficiency in boilers or pipes cau
! be detected at once.
g Four McDoaaiA hydraulic press
! es, one for each set of rollers, ana one
| lathe on each set OF rollers TO break
the constant smoothing OF the rollers.
! The pan floor is four stories high.
so wide by l00' long, and contains.
1st or ground floor: Ten Hepworth
/ ntlitu1als. with pumps and engines
| tn run same: two immense pumps TO
! furnish water to tie l45' towel tauk
I for double effects and vacuum pans.
| 2nd, floor contains IA large mixer so,
long by 61< wide and 9 deep, and
large blow-ups; the balance of space
reserved for empty wagons. 3rd. floor
contains double effects, TO- in diameter
with capacity of 160, 900 gallons !;
one z vacuum pan, and one 1O' vac
uum pan put up this year, capacity
1
lively I large SYRUP tanks for TetiE
ing z vacuum pumps, one to run don-
ble effects and the other 10 run larger
pan. 4tl floor contains water tanks
to ieed double effects and vacuum
pans.
The filter press wing is 40 higi, %
wide and 65' long. divided into two
floors The first floor contains the
lime mixer, skim, lixiviating and Juice
pumps. aud an an a0tonIatic Troy
Laundry for Washing The filter press
cloths-this lime mixer IS an ingenious
yet easy contriyance which mixes the
lime to ans degree and furnishes it to
the claritiefs without landing Col.
j. w. O'Nell claims the originality of
this unique contr!Vance, and has ap
piled for patent; and the second
floor contains Z large German filter
presses, with ciutes 10 throw cakes
oat III building into carts. All cloths
are carried t,en uppef story to lower
one Of this ving al.G down 10 laundry
and carried back hy means of Az ele
yatOr.
The burner building is so from
ground to girdeis, so vide by 100
long, and coutains four Dunn and Sut-
clifle burners, with u nest of tive boil
ers each 80" diameter by 24' long. 20
&c" flnes each.
The mill. engine and burner rooms
are under the same rUof. Two car
riers canEect the mills with the burn
ers and empty the hagasso in distIi-
buting carrier which divides the ha
gasse, and feeds the burners equally;
all OF which, by mechanIcai c0ntrl-
vance is driven by one chain
The ground floor OF mill and engine
apartment contains one juice pump,
Juice strainer, juice tank, three boiler
feeders, 3 water pumps to force water
INTO the 143'236 tower, (Whose ca
paclty is 5000 gallons, and pressure al
bottom, GO lbs to square lnch), and the
foundation of the two mills; the space
on this floor, not otherwise occupied
is covered with Schillinger pavement
Besides the 3 bagasse boilers, there
are coal boilers, set i'll three nests
double flues eacli-tlese boilers ari
AZ" ip diameter, IS long.
!. There are two hot rooms IN this Inn
mense building, one 60 wide ny 10
long. and the other 10 by 140', sepa
: rated by wall and connected by seV
eral doors. both containing 700 suga
cars.
) They are now constructing anothe
| building adjoining hot rooms, to plac
therein third sngar tanks. with capac
| ity sufficient to held all third prod
G ucts Of the entire crop.
:, The ground floor below hot room
, Is utilized as packing and stofag
room, except the southwest coEnei
col u lAAI.,