New Ulm review., 1904-11-16
CRuSHER IS GRINDING ROCK
New Ulm Stone Company Starts
Operations.
200 Tons Daily Passing Through
Mammoth Machine.
Improvements Represent An Out
lay of Over $4,000.

The crusher at the New Ulm Stone
company's plant at Redstone was
started up Saturday and is now
running full capacity. It has been the
work Of two months to get it in place
and construct the building, but now
things are running smoothly and
crushing will continue steadily all
winter.
Over $1,000 is represented in this
machinery and building southeast of
the city and the industry promises to
be one of the largest in New Ulm in the
course of few years. At present it
is in its infancy.
The quarry at Redstone has been
operated in small way for number
of years and its stone has been used
in the construction Of many buildings
in this city, but it has not been until
the last six Or eight months that there
has been a reaching out for larger
business and a promise of big in
dustry.
Last spring General Gus Widell, the
Mankato quarry operator, became i'm
pressed with the possibilities of the
local quarries and the old company
was reorganized with a capital of
s25, 1000, $1,000 to be paid in, the Man
kato man becoming a large stock
holder. Several other people with
capital were admitted to the corpora
tion and an aggressive policy planned.
Otto Schell was elected president, Gus
Widell vice president, Joseph A. Eek
stein secretary, and Herman Nagel
treasurer.
UTILIZING FORMER WASTE.
One reason the old company had to
operate in small way was because it
could sell only the building blocks and
the small pieces of rock had to be
thrown on the waste heap. From the
added capital money was appropriated
for crusher and building and plans
laid to utilize this by-product.
The additions have been under
! courses of construction for two or more
months and a week or SO ago a few
pieces of rock were run through as a
test. Not until Saturday, however,
was everything in shape for an official
! trial. A number of stockholders and
| others interested were invited out to
watch the work, and a special rig was
provided for the representative of the
New Ulm and Mankato press.
The building is three stories high
| and stands two or three rods from the
main Northwestern track about two
miles southeast of the city. The stone
near the building is being utilized first,
although the spot where most of the
quarrying has been done previously
is some distance off, and narrow
gage track reaches from the pile Of
broken rock up into the second floor
of the building. Steel cars drawn by
a cable convey the rock into the build
| ing and dump it near the crusher.
Men with poles then feed the material
into the powerful jaws as fast as the
machinery will take care of it.
| CRUSHER DESCRIBED.
This crusher is best described as like
a mammoth coffee grinder. The hop
per is large and round, ,sloping toward
the center and revolving slowly inside
/, of this is a futed crusher. The rock
| is caught between the crusher and the
f, sides of the hopper and broken into
small pieces before it works it's way
through.
In passing through the crusher, the
rock is broken into pieces of various
sizes and these are all conveyed to the
third story by means of an elevator
| like that used in flour mill and
| dumped into a sieve. This sieve is
more like the boilers used in flour
mills of the last generation than any
thing else. 1t is cylinder about
| twenty feet long and slopes slightly
| down from the end where the crushed
rock enters.
The sieve is full of holes varying in
size from very fine ones at the near
end, to coarse ones at the far end. It
slowly revolves and the rock is sifted
into separate bins. Pieces too large
to go through the holes fall out the
end and are conveyed by chute back
to the crusher. At present there is
but one crusher but the plan is to
eventually have second smaller
crusher to take care of this rejected
rock.
From these bins chutes lead into
vast receiving bins below and directly
over the side-track which has been
run from the Northwestern mainline,
so that the cars can be loaded by the
simple pulling of levers, opening
! doors in the bottom of the bins.