Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-10-15
TWICE HONORED.
The Pan American Exposition Silver Med
al thc Second Mr.. Fischer Has Been
Awarded Inside of Four Years

The Pan American Exposition Silver Med
al tnc Second Mr.. Fischer Has Been
Awarded Inside of Four Years.
Again Mr.. II. F. Fischer is honored by
a silver medal at a Worlds fair for the
excellence of the -four produced at his
mill. In 1898, at the Omaha Exposition,
he was awarded medal and now word
comes from the Pan American World g
Congress at Buffalo that he has received
the same distinction there. Evidently
this recognition of his -four does not
come by accident. There were many
competitive samples at hand and the ex-
animation as to quality of product was
thorough and critical, vet he wins, and
upon merit. It takes skill now to man
ufacture anything, and especially to
grind wheat into material for our bread
stuffs. Flour is staple Article of the
commerce of the world, let alone the
consumption of it by the people of our
own country. 1t is nothing new. Flour
has bean eaten as long as there has been
psople, and the securing of the prize
medal must be in full field of compet-
itioa. No doubt the foar deserves the
prize secured, and that the peculiar ad :
aptation of Mr.. Fischer to the manufac-
ture of -four from wheat has gained this
honor to him. It is worth living life
time of hard and devoted work to cal
ling to get this prize, and we believe it is
a merited compliment to his inventive
genius and close observance of business
principles.
Mr.. Fischer seems inclined by nature
to the Touring mill business. He was
raised from the time he was four years
cid on farm in Illinois, about 13 miles
from Chicago. His first effort in this
line of work was when he built a mill
for chopping grain on the old farm in
Illinois, which mill was afterwards sup
piled with burrs and -four was ground
therein.
This old mill was run by wind power
at first, though afterwards it was sup
piled with steam, which was used when
the wiud calmed down. This wind mill
was 160 feet from the top of the fan to
the ground, and the wind fans were fou,
in number very imilar in pattern to the
most rudimentary ones now seen, in the
Willamette Valley used to draw water
from stock wells on the prairie farms.
He finally arranged and improved this
mill so as TO hare 4 capacity of 30 barrels
Of flour per day.
Mr.. Fischer came to Oregon in the
year 1877, and purchased the Corvallis
FIGURING Mills plant, having sold the
one III Illinois.
The Corvallis plant at that time had a
daily capacity of 50 barrels. There was
one building 40 by SO feet with no ware
house room. It was then run wholly by
water power; it now has the same water
power as formerly, but it has in addition
strong steam power that is used when
the water is at low stage. 1t now has
large comInodious storage rooms water
tower, Office, vaults, electric light plant
and many other conveniences.
The mills at Corvallis have daily griud-
ing capacity OF 20o barrels, which with
that of the Silverton mills owned by Mr..
Fischer makes daily capacity of 400
barrels Of -four
There is also in cen nection with this
plant large warehouse at Peoria, Liun
county, where is stored about $4,000
bushels of wheat annua lily, which is
shipped down the willamette in the
winter time to the Corvallis Mills, dis
tance of 10 or 12 miles.
Mr.. Fischer, as said before, is lover
of the milling business and is practiea
me chanic. He always has work shoE
in CO nHection with his mills, where he il
continually working to improve hil
equipments.
He studies all the methods spoken oi
in the Milling Journals and is always
anxious to try them if they appear to be
useful and expedient. No doubt this dis
position to keep abreast of the times il
what has brought his products to such
favorable standing ia the markets of the
world, and has secured to him these
prizes at the worlds fair. 1t is no small
compliment to him, to Benton county
to the Willamette Valley, that the Cor
Wallis Flouring Mills should receive the
Silver Medal fer -four. This means thai
his flour was the best product of the
world except one, and then to receive
the silver medal second time inside o
four years is very plimentary. Is il
remarkable that both of these worlds
fairs should thus award to him the Sec
ond prize.
Mr.. Fischer, when he received the
first medal had model of it stamped OF
one side of his -four sacks and We sup
pose now he will put this Pan American
one on the other side OF them !. then wha
would be doae should he get another il
the future?, There would be no room
for it. We are glad to know that tn
judges at the worlds fairs confirm tn,
opinion Of the consumers OF flour tina
the Corvallis Mills product is on tht
shelf next to the top.
Manages Well.
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