The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-10-16

kept sweet potatoes, yams and other
similar food supplies that can not
be kept in cold storage. In connec-
ton with the cold storage building
there are operated eighteen cold
storage cars used in transporting
supplies from the ships to the plant,
which makes it possible to keep all
supplies in cold storage from the
point of shipment in the States to
the point of delivery on the 18TH
mus.
! The ice plant has daily capacity
of II tons, all made from filtered
and sterilized water. The average
consumption. inluding ice use in
refrigerating cars, is about 20 tons.
The bakery has daily output ct
of about 10000 loaves of bread, 500
pounds of cake and 500 pies. The
machinery consists of two dough
mixers, two dividers, one pony
mixer, two cake and two pie
machines, and pie trimmer. The
douh is cut and weighed by the
dividers, formed into loa,es by the
molding mashine, and then placed
by hands in the baking pans, the
only time it is touched by hand un-
til it leaves the ovens. The flour is
elevated above the mixing machine
and it and the filtered water are
automatically measured so that the
chance of error is small and the
proportion of Of materials is kept
uniform.
The ice cream factory, occupying
a small space on the third floor of
the cold storage building, is suppl
ed with modern machinery, which
has recently been installed, and has
a capacity of about 400 gallons per
day with an average output of about
100 gallons. All the milk and cream
used is pasteurized and is brought
from the States. The favoring ex-
tracts and crushed fruits used are
the .purest obtainable. The ice
cream is frozen with brine circulat-
ed from the brine tanks of the ice
plant, instead of with ice, which re-
duces the cost of manufacture.
The coffee roasting outfit, con-
sisting OF rooster, stoner, grinder,
and sample roasting outfit for
making experiments in blen ding
coffee, is new and mas capacity of
about 5000 pounds per day.
The laundry is equipped with
nine washers, six extractors wiring
ers), two tumblers, two mangles for
flat work, a sterilizer, three hydrau-
lie damp presses, three collar and
cuff machines, three tody ironers,
two starching machines, three shirt
machines aud seventy hand ironers.
There are four drying rooms, in one
of which is a conveyor working
automatically. Garments are hung
on continuous chain and run slow
ly through steam heated room
where they become thoroughly dry.
All the machines are heated 10y
electricity except the mangles which
are steam heated. During the
month of June the laundry handled
6,907 packages, amounting to 1884,
S55 pieces.
All the printing and binding for
the Panama Railroad is done by the
printing plant located near the Cris-
tobal railroad station. It averages
about $3.50, 900 pieces of printed
matter per month. The machinery
includes six job presses, one cylinder
press, stereotype outfit, ruling
machine and book binding machine
and has a full assortment OF type.
The power plant, includinfi the
engine and boiler room, occupies
about 9,O16 square feet. There are
six boilers of 80 horse power each,
two circulating pumps used in con-
nectioa with the condensers, three
compressors with a refrigerating
capacity of 5 tons each, two Ideal
engines which are direct connected
to two Bullock electric dynamos de-
veloping each S33 amperes of 115
volts. These machines are used for |