The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-27
WILL BE READY IN TWO WEEKS.
Many improvements Being Made in
the New Planters Rice Mill.

Many improvements Being Made In
the New Planters Rice Mill.
Work on the new Planters rice mill is
progressing rapidly and Manager Joseph
A. Huger expects certainly to have the
plant in full working condition in two
weeks time.
The new building is of wood, but 1t
is built for strength and durability. All
the beams, joists and stills are of excep-
tionally heavy timber, and the structure
is weather-boarded with 3-inch tongue
and-groove stuff. The flooring is formed
of the same material, with another floor
running transversely of lighter material
above it.
The building is located Immediately
across River street from the site of the
old one. 1t has three stories. On the first
floor is the engine, the same that was in
use in the old mill when it was burned.
This is powerful Corless engine, and the
company, finding that it could be readily
repaired at the works, sent it to New
York. where it was thoroughly treated,
and, in parts, remodeled the new appli-
ances and inventions used on the new Cor
less engines being placed, when practical,
on the old one.
Another ll-engine is also in provision
on the first floor, and this will be put to
running in a day or two for the purpose
of trying the machinery as it is placed in
running order The use of this engine
viii be discontinued as soon as the plant
is in perfect adjustment, the larger one
being sufficiently powerful to make the
use of the smaller unnecessary.
The three larger boilers that were used
rI1 leo 8, \.
for the new one, the tunnel through
which the screw conveyed the grain from
the granary, the site of the new building
to the old mill being utilized for the steam
pipes connecting the boilers with the en-
CINE on the first floor of the new build
ing.
Mr. Huger said that placing the boil
ers nearer the new building, while it
would not materially aid the new plant
would render the use of the big chimney
impracticable. The boilers were but
slightly injured by the fire. What was
supposed to be the bursting of the boil
ers was probably the escape of the steam
caused by fracture from the fall of a
heavy object. If the steam had generated
sufficient energy to burst the boilers
they would probably have been so badly
damaged as to render repairs useless.
Most Of the machinery has been placed
in position in the new building. This is
perfect
pattern than that used in the old mill,
and it is expected that it will prove a
great aid in running the new plant.
The new granary Is nearly completed.
This will not be SO large as the one that
was destroyed, but still it will furnish
ample storage for the rice the mill re-
ceives. Some of the grain is already be-
ing received and stored, but the work of
unloading and transferring from the boats
to the granary is done by laborers as
the elevator, though about finished, has
not its steam power furnished
An arrangement in rice mills is
being put in the granary.
This is an automatic weighed and re-
corder of the grain as it is lifted up by
the elevator. Mr. e. d. Garfield, a young
man Of excellent mechanical ability, rep
resenting the makers of the weigher, the
Pratt & Whitney Company, is Superin-
tending its adjustment The acquisition
of this valuable piece of apparatus is in
| itself esteemed of great Importance to the
new mill. Mr.. Huger saw it in operation
at the Worlds Fair, and was greatly i'm
pressed with Its utility. He has now Sc
cured the contrivance with the improve
ments that have been added during the
| last three years. Ito r~~ u
Among some of the changes in the ma
chinery and methods. the process for rid
| ding the grain of -four and trashy stuff
! is noticeable. In the old mill this was
blown away by fan, as the rice fell
before it; in the new it will be sucked
away by a strong draft and blown
| through a communicating pipe from the
| building across River street to a room in
the old mill, that has been prepared to
| receive it.
The Brainard rice hullers have also
been introduced. These, by a securing
| process in the place of the old pounding
the grain received in the mortars, will rid
hn rio Of &c g,,v, a1,,ep
Other improvements are in evidence to
a visitor familiar with the machinery of
the old MILL and the plant, in two weeks,
wil-be ready to turn out better and more
expeditions work than was possible at
| the old mill.