The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-12-15
LADIES VISITED THE MILLS
WoMAN's CLUB SURPRISED AT
MAGNITUDE OF THE PLANT.
LEARNED ABOUT MAKING FLOUR


Remodeled Four Times In the Past
twenty-five Years and are Now
Thoroughly Up to Date.
70 most of the ladies' Of the Wo-
mans club and other students OF the
cooking school, who visited the Sugar
| Nlty Cereal Mills Saturday afternoon,
! The trip proved revelation. Many
# them had never before been Inside
/ flour mill and those who had some
| knowledge Of the process of making
! food products from wheat were sur.
prisod at the completeness OF the
mill, which Is filled from cellar to
yarret with the most up-to-date ma
chinery that is now in use Tor milling.
During the past twenty-five years
there has been an entire revolution In
milling everywhere, and the Norfolk
mills have been kept up to the times.
While the exterior of the mill has not
shown much in the way Of change dur
ing the past quarter Of n century, the
life of the plant-its machinery-has
been remodeled four times, and there
Is no more complete and perfect mill
ing machinery in the state today than
that contained within the four walls
of the Sugar City Cereal Mills. The
last time the plant was remodeled the
work was done by Allis Chambers Co.
OF Milwaukee, the largest mill build
ing establishment In the world, which
employs 5000 men. A representative
of this company, the head of the mill
building department, himself an eX-
pert miller, while visiting Norfolk af-
ter the mills were remodeled the last
time, made the statement that these
mills are the most complete of any in
the state of Nebraska.
Thus, while the Norfolk mills are
among the oldest in north Nebraska,
owing to the fact that they have been
kept up to date by the enterprsing
proprietors, they are in truth more
modern than most of the mills that
have been constructed in recent years.
The power is wholly water, of which
there is an endless supply, and gives
an average of $50 horse power. Two
Turbine wheels drive the machinery,
which produces each day 175 barrels
of wheat flour, 25 barrels of rye -four
and four cars of chopped corn.
While the ladies were visiting the
mill car of meal was being loaded
for Omaha and u car of flour for Lin
coin. Besides, a farmer drove up to
the office door from a distance of
eighteen miles in Wayne county, and
started off with a big load of wheat
and rye flour. A number of farmers
living at quite distance from these
mills make yearly trip here and take
home big load of flour, etc, enough
to last them until they come again
next year.
The flour produced by the NorfolR
! mills is a great favorite with bakers
throughout the state because of its
strength, producing 1G2 loaves OF
bread scaling seventeen ounces from
| sack of 9S pounds of flour, while the
flour made by mills in the southern
} part of the state will produce only
) about 1870 loaves of bread to the sack
} that is used here and in knowing how
: to blend the northern and southern
l wheats. Norfolk is so situated tina
| it is within easy access of both The
l northern and southern wheat fields
? and both are shipped in in large guam
titles and blended with an intelligen
: hand. The bakers of York, Hastings
: David City, Seward, Nebraska City
| University Place and Omaha all us,
! Norfolk flour very largely in thei
work because they find it the mos
economical and satisfactory -four OF
the market.
After the destruction of the RalstoI
mills in st. Louis a short time ago
. and while those mills were being re
. built, the Norfolk mills furnished then
y with all the cereals that they used il
: their famous advertised products
, Whole wheat flour is shipped to thu
Franklin mills in New York in larg
: quantities.
= In the Wheatling department, wher
= is handled one of the foremost pre-
ducts of the mills, the ladies foun
= a number of girls busy filling boxe
y with this favorite breakfast food
Each girl packs 100 cases of sc pack
= ages to the case each day, and shiI
= ments are made all over the country
y Absolute cleanliness prevails through
= out this department, as well as tn
. whole mill, for that matter. Wheat
: ling is handled by the jobbing gre
:, Gerry trade, who furnish it to retai
y merchants throughout six adjoinin
> states.
!. Originally there were five Bridg
!. brothers in the milling business. MI
r. w. II. Bridge. who is one of the pro
= prietors of the mill, with his brothe
4 c. S. Bridge, has had a practical e>
81 perience Of thirty years and has thol
. oughly learned the art of blending tn
q different varieties of wheat to pro
h duce the best results. The souther
mills claim that they produce the bes
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