The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-11-16
THE MODERN
FLOUR MILL
MANY COMPLICATED MACHINES
Rumbling Stones Heard no More
$1,000 Worth of SILK In Plant
Capacity, 90 Sacks an Hour.

Have you ever been through -four
millG If you haven't and are contem-
plating doing so put on your overalls.
The Glacier man went through one
recently and when he emerged he had
enough -four on his clothes to last his
family week.
However that has nothing to do with
the fact that milling has decidedly
changed since the days when we we're
wont to couple the mill with its big
rumbling mill stones aud ponderous
water wheel. In its rlace we have the
roller process for maxi -four, bran,
middlings, breakfast foods, etc.
The Cascade Mill in this city is rep
resentative of the modern mill of to-
day. 1t is capable of turning out %
sacks Of Il ur an hour weighing 80
pounds. The whole wheat is stored in
large bin on the top floor of the
mill and runs first through machine
that cleans it Of smut and dirt. 1t
then run through an apparatus that
is called guaging machine which
can be set to allow just so many
pounds of wheat to pass through it in
a minute. From here 1t goes to the
first set of rolls, of which there are
seven, each one taking off the differ
ent products such as bran, middlings,
etc., and leaving the finer grades OF
flour to go on its way to the bolting
machine where it passes through 96
silk sieyes and is finally sacked in the
receiving room on the first floor of
the mill. There is over 81, 900 worth
of silk in this mill with me hes exact.
ly the same size and it was all made
by hand.
In addition to all this the wheat and
-four pass through countless spouts
and machines for making it as perfect
as the ingenuity of man can dervise.
One of these is the dust machine
which collects the dust thrown off
from the grinding wheat and separ-
ates it from the flour; another Is an
apparatus with magnets in it to at
tract any bits of metal that may have
been loosened and is passing around
a d round through the spouts and
machinery and otherwise get into the
-four.
The pet machine of the mill is the
main bolter. 1t is an immense affair
and makes lS0 revolutions a minute.
There is only one other machine of
this kind on the Pacific coast. 1t was
manufactured by Nordy & Macmon
and is the most modern machine of
its kind in eXistance.
The power for the mill is supplied
by Pelton water wheel three feet in
diameter and making $50 revolutions
a minute. The fall of water at this
point is $50 feet and an eight inch
pipe is all that is needed to supply
the wheel on account of this tremen-
dous fall, with an inch and quarter
outlet This water is supplied from
JOS. A. Wilson'S power plant.
Last month this mill filled con
tract for 5000 sacks of tlor for export
and this month has begun to fill an
other one or the same amount. 1t is
interesting to note that this flour goes
to Japan and Is known in the mill as
the Red Horse brand on accent of the
fact that 1t cannot be distinguished
in any other way, as the bag contain
ing it Is covered with Japanese char
acters printe in red ink which the
mill hands are unable to decipher.
Two horses rampant, appear on the
center of the bag, hence the name,
Red Horse.
This firm also manufactures graham
flour, farina, whole wheat, corn meal
and other breakfast foods put up in
ten pound sacks.
10 install this plant cost $25, 900 and
the quality of the flour is said to be
equal to that made anywhere in the
world.
The firm of Stranahan Il Sheets is
also doing large -four and feed bust
ness in Hood River and although they
have no mill here they did more bust
ness during the past month than they
have at any time since the firm has
been in existence. Their business is
wholesale exclusively and is confined
more or less to the local trade. The
mills represented by this firm are 10.
Gated at The Dalles, which is the out
let of the wheat growing country in
this region. Their Golden Crown flour
is made especially for the Hood River
trade, from hard wheat, and is having