Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-01-04
ANOTHER INDUSTRY
FOR GRANTS PASS
One Of the Most Up-to-DAte Vim
esar Works on Coast Now
In Opera tion

One of the new industries of Grants
Pass that gives promise of being an
important factor in the city and
county's prosperity is the Sampson
Vinegar & Cider Works. This factory
was established this Summer by Her
bert Sampson. who was given sub
stantial financial backing by his
father, c. H. Sampson. the veteran
Southern Pacific engineer. Mr..
Sampson erected q large building
which he equipped with q complete
plant for the the manufacture Of pure
apple vinegar and cider. And there
is probably not more up-to-date
plant on the Coast and everything
is scrupulously clean. Power for
operating the engine and pump and
steam for keeping the generators up
to the required temperature IL had
from a boiler. No work is done by
hand elevators handling the apples
and pulp and pump forcing the
juice to the receiving tanks. From
these the juice that is for older 10
barrelled or bottled and that for vine-
gar is pumped to the generators from
where it is carried by gravity 60 the
tank from which it il run into barrels
or bottles.
The handling Of the vinegar genera
tors is the most particular part Of the
entire business for inattention or lack
of knowledge here means an impure
article and an imperfect vinegar that
can only be brought up to the re-
quired strength by the addition of
acid that also renders the vingare very
dangerous to peoples health. Mr..
Sampson depends only on Natures
chemistry to produce his vinegar.
This Is done not by the process Of
pioneer days of putting the cider in
barrels and letting il stand for year
or two to become discolored and foul
while it 10 changing to vinegar but BY
scientific cooperation with Nature
that enables q clesr, pure vinegar Of
full 80 grains strength to be made in
"a hours. This accomplished by
having generators that are large. tai
tanks into the top Of which cider II
slowly poured and passing through
various filters and a bank Of corncobi
that have been inoculated with ths
cultures or bacteria that act on the
cider to make it into vinegar. These
bacteria work best In Temperature
of 70 degrees and higher heat will
kill them and q lower will render
them inactive. Mr.. Sampson, aidet
by his brother, Arthur, who is taking
course in electric engineering a
Stanford University, and who has beef
home for the past month on vaca
tion, has fitted up an electric attach
ment to o thermometer that rings
bell whenever the temperature goe
too high or too low in the generators
An electric bell also gives notice a
to the regularity of tn Q supply o
cider for the generator, which IL to-
fast gives a vingar that is Of littl
strength and if too slow loss in tn
producing capacity of the generator
The generator is fed two gallons o
cider every two hours by an auto
matte feeder that works day an
night. There are three of thes
generators and at each trip Of the tan
at the two.hour period the bell rings
one stroke for the first generator
two strokes for the second and thre
for the third generator. There ar
other electric signals bells an
wherever Mr.. Sampson may be in tb
building he can know just how th
various parts of the plant are operai
ing. Mr.. Sampson has no secrt
processes nor unsightly places abou
his factory and he is willing at a
timea to ehow visitors about the 9.