Arizona republican., 1905-06-25
VALLEY FLOUR MILLS
The New Manufacturing Enterprise e
 Ready for Starting Tomorrow.


 Tomorrow morning will witness the Icompletion and the beginning of the lfegular operation of another new Phoe- nix manufacturing enterprise, that of the Valley Flour Mills. It is not an in- stitution of stupendous magnitude as 1 It represents Cnly an investment of approximately $15,0 ,000, but it does rep resent just that much and is only one of . hundred enterprises of somewhat similar nature that this city stands in | need of. It is not intended to say that this city needs a hundred flour n,ills 1 but it does need a hundred varied in dustries of a manufacturing character, | furnishing regular pay rolls and adding l 10 the commercial interests of the city through a disposal Of their products both in the home and adjacent markets. 1 This enterprise is situated on the Icorner of Eighth street and Van Buren street, better known as the Tempe road and only a stones throw from the Wa ter works. It is a moderately sized brick structure of two stories and a model basement, making practically three stories. The building is L shaped the large portion of the structure being | devoted 10 the purposes of a ware house, wherein is stored the grain re-
 Quired for milling purposes, the ware house being replenished from time to time or rather will be, from the old stone warehouse on west Jefferson
 street which the company has leased. | The milling plant proper occupies the basement and the other part of the building.
 The Valley Mills company was or ganized early last spring by Emile Wiz ault his son Max, and their associates. | hnfh he pfira1 fIor1T, | inillers of many years experience. The first brick was laid in the erection of the building on the 23rd of March so
 1t has taken just three months to build
 and equip the plant ready for opera ton, it's capacity being seventy-five barrels of flour per day trial run
 was given the plant a few days ago and | it worked entirely satisfactorily though a minor change was suggested by the operation and that was finished ycster-
 day. In thus rapidly equipping the plant the management has been ma terially assisted by the skilled work
 manship of Harry Patton who has had charge of the carpenter work required.
 The motive power employed is cleo
 trlcity which is furnished by the Phoe-
 nix Light and Fuel company, a dyna-
 m= having a voltage of 25OO, direct cur ! rent, being installed in the basement
 which is lined with cement well light ed and ventilated an6 really the most com mfortable room in the building. This power is ample and works admirably. | There is no furnace or objectionable
 smoke stack, fuel bills or other dis ! agreeable features found in the mills of
 other days. Outside the building at a distance of a hundred feet or so away
 is a small boiler used only for furnish
 ing steam during the process of rolling
 barley, but it is not an objectionable
 feature either to the plant or to the neighbors. The apparatus for barley rolling and for wheat cleaning, as well
 as the line shaft and other heavy ma
 ehinery is all in this basement. in the upper stories are located ten sets of
 rolls for the manufacturer of flour the
 bins for the wheat cleaners, barley rolls
 etc, a large gyrator or boiling, D1a-
 chine. dust collector and purifier, cen
 trifugaI reel and in fact all the ma
 chinery used in the process of making
 flour. a proper description of which is
 impossible for other than a technical
 writer or machinst, and which would
 he uninteresting to the general reader
 It might properly be mentioned
 though that all the machinery is of the
 latest and most approved design, select
 cd by practical men and will produce
 the best grade of flour possible when
 the best grades of wheat are used. The
 wheat cleaning process embraces four
 distinct cleanings so the raw material
 is as nearly perfect as it can be made
 before it goes to the rolls and all kinds
 0f mill products such as flour, bran.
 meal, etc, will be made.
 + For it's immediate use the company
 has shipped in and now has at the mill
 a half million pounds of Oregon wheat
 of the best grade. This is necessary
 Tor the reason first that it has always been necessary to ship in some wheat
 to use with the local product and fur ther for the reason that the crop this
 year will not be sufficiently matured
 for use for sometime yet.
 II MT. Viault said yesterday that some lhave asked him if he had not made a mistake in putting the mill away from the railroad track. His reply was that | the slight expense of transferring such | freight as the mill will require will be l more than overcome by the convenience
 to local patrons and the farmers of the EValley and for the present at least the | main business of the mills will be that | of catering to the local market both in II the buying of grain and in the selling | of the manufactured products. The | mill is on one of the principal county II roads and equally as central to the | business part of town as though sit | uated along one of the railroad lines II The enterprise has every promise of II being a successful one and the pro motors are more than pleased with the II fine plant and the economy of both time Il and money in it's construction and in- | cidentally they have every confidence Il that they can give to the local market products equal in quality to those of Il any mill wherefore they believe their iproject will merit liberal patronage. C. c. c. Cool, Comfortable, Coronado.