Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-09-29
rnE NEW MILL.
The Elko Roller Mills Completed
and the First Flour Made.

II NL4ASA III NAASA OS H
months is completed at last and the
first -four was made this afternoon.
The contractor, Mr.. NJ. O'Brien, Of
| San Francisco, has been personally
supervising the finishing touches for
the past few days and at $50 o'clock
this afternoon he gave the word and
the first patent roller process flour
ever made in Elko county was soon
turned out.
Hearing the whistle blow and know
ing that flour was going to be made
an INDEPENDENT reporter went to the
mill and, guided by Mr.. Frank Terry
the head mill-wright, and Mr.. O'Brien
the mill expert, superintendent and
| builder who has built over $50 sue
cessful mills on the Pacific Coast i'll
.h2 as: t"e@'. .cars, and who is
considered the best eAPr.t ON u..iling,
flour and wheat ON the coast, was
kindly shown through the mill and
everything was explained to him.
Going to the engine room a6o-horse
power compound engine, made by
Ohmen Of San Francisco, one OF the
best that celebrated engine builder
can turn out, was found working very
smoothly and without Il jar. This Ell.
CINE, which was set up and is now
being I'll by Mr.. ID. W. Leach, is diff
ferept from Il common slide-vaive
engine, having two cylinders instead
of one-one small and the other
large. The small cylinder takes the
steam at 90 pounds pressure and ex.
hausts into the large cylinder at 40
pounds pressure. The larger one is
large enough to give as much power
as the smaller one, thus giving twice
the power on the same steam, or.
using half as much fuel rs a common
slide-valve engine would.
Leaving the engine ROOM, which is
absolutely fire proof. Mr.. O'Brien
directed the reporters attention else
where. The engine runs at II speed
of lSo revolutions a minute and a
14-inch belt from it IL IL to the
main line of shafting, which runs the
entire length of the basement. The
shaft reyolves at the rate OF 30
revolutions a minute and drives
everything in the mill. The base
ment has Il fine concrete floor and is
very easily kept clean and will last
for u lifetime. In the basement are
the bottom of seventeen elevators,
used in c%leyating all the stock and
grain to the top Of the mill. Here,
also, was found the rougher or shaker
for taking out all the straw from the
grain before it is elevated, md the
%convcyors for conveying the grain
from the outside and the granary
into the mill. The granary is Il sepa-
rate building on the outside and will
hold 300 tons OF grain. Tho grain is
drawn from the granary by means OF
slides that can be set to draw as
much grain rs is wanted into the con-
rcyor That runs the whole length of
the graGary and dumps into another
conveyor, Which uns at right angles
to 1t and into the mill, which III turn
dumps into Ali elevator, which Gle. |
Yates into Il small separator and
which takes out all the barley left in
1t by the large separator which
will be mentioned later on. From
this small separator the wheat runs
into a Cranson shutter or securing
machine which scours all the dirt off
OF 1t. From the shutter it goes into
another elevator which c~ievatcs il
into a conveyor where it is wet or
tempered and thence To the wettinp
bins where it lays for II hours. 1t
is then drawn oil into the same small
separator and shutter and is elevated
into the milling bins. ready for
grinding. From here it is drawn into
the first OF the rolls, which are manu-.
factured by the contractor who has
named them "O'Bricn's Perfection
Roller Mills on account of their
beauty Of flush, durability and
utility. THIS. the first roll. is CORFU.
gated or creased to take off the bran
or outer covering OF tho wheat
From here it goes to an elevator and
goes through the first reel, which is
covered with fine wire cloth. and the
coarse stock that does not go through
the wire passes to the second roll.
which is also corrugated and
Is ground over again. From here il
goes to another elevator. and into
another reel, which is covered with
silk, and the coarse stock goes again
to the roll. this time TO smoother
one. From here il goes to another
reel, this time Ia O'Bricn.s Perfection
Flour Dresser, which is covered with
line silk and, returning again to the
rolls, 1t goes .on through six sets
OF rolls and flour drcssers until il il
finally elevated into the bin-cach
constructed to hold Il days run OF GO
barrels of flour. ii IL then hoppcred
into II Daisy Hour packer which
weighs and packs il into the sucks
ready for usc.
Tlcre is II pair of large platform
scales outside the mill. Tho farmer
drives on the scales, gets his wheat
weighed aud then dumps it into Il
hopper along side tho wagon and il
is conveyed into the mill where il
passes over the rougher and the straw
is inkcn ont. II Ia lhnn nlnyninh