Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-09-25
THE NEW MILL.
rhe E1ko Roller Mills Completed
and the First Flour Made.

- oSoAOA lOI Tic past TOUR
months Is completed at last and the
hrsttour was made this afternoon.
Ihe contractor, Mr.. NJ. O'Brien, of
San Francisco, has been personally
supervising the finishing touches for
the past few days and at 1;3O o'clock
this afternoon he gave the word and
the first patent roller process -four
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 in
the past twenty five years, and who is
considered the best expert on milling,
flour and wheat on the coast, wal
kindly shown through the mill and
everything was explained to him.
Going to the engine room AGO 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 a jar. This en-
CINE, which was set up and is now
being run by Mr.. d. w. Leach, is diff
fereDt from a common slide-valve
engine, having two cylinders instead
of one-one small and the other
large. The small cylinder takes the
steam at 80 pounds pressure and ex.
hausts into the large cylinder at As
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 Is much fuel as 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 u speed
of 185 revolutions a minute and a
l4-inch belt from it runs to the
main line of shafting, which runs the
entire length of the basement. The
shaft revolves at the rate of 275
revolutions a minute and drives
everything in the mill. The base
ment has a fine concrete floor and is
very easily kept clean and will last
for d lifetime. In the basement are
the bottom Of seventeen elevators,
used in elevating 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
conveyors for conveying the grain
from the outside and from the granary
into the mill. The granary is sepa.
rate building on the outside and will
hold 300 tons Of grain. The grain is
drawn from the granary by means OF
slides that can be set to draw as
much grain as is wanted into the con.
veyor that runs the whole length OF
the granary and dumps into another
conveyor, which runs at right angles
to it and into the mill, which IN turn
dumps into ali elevator, which ele,
Yates into a small separator and
which takes out all the barley left in
it 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 of
of it. From the shutter it goes into
another elevator which ~eIevates il
into a conveyor where it is wet OF
tempered and thence to the wettine
bins where it lays for ~ hours. II
is then drawn Oh into the same small
separator and shutter and is elevated
into the milling bins, ready fol
grinding. From here it is drawn into
the first Of the rolls, which are manu-
featured by the contractor who has
named them "O'Brien's Perfection