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the old foundations but they expect to
finish this week. 1'ss' rs
The work Of laying the new founda-
tions will then be rapidly pushed and
will not take over two weeks so that by
the last of this month the work of lay
ing the walls will have been commenced.
The materials which will 60 into the
foundations this time will be carefully
tested and there is no fear of any errors.
The concrete foundations will be 8 feet
ii inches deep and nearly two feet in
width, making a base solid enough to
bear the heaviest weight.
The appearance of the mill will be
most striking. Its longest dimensions
will run parallel with the railra so
that the view from the track will be
first the boiler and engine room about
Is feet in height at the east end, then
the five story Touring mill, then the
warehouse two stories high but cores
ponding in all dimensions with the
boiler room, and east of that the big
elevator. The office will not show from
the track.
The view from the city will be the
boiler room in the foreground and the
big mill, extending 81 feet back and
carried to the uniform height of five
stories at all points. This will make a
very solid, substantial looking plant.
The dimensions of the engine room
will be 46x60 with two sets of windows,
large ones at the bottom and smaller
ones at the top. 1t will be equipped
with the best machinery procurable.
The engine will be a cross compound
%condensine Corliss, the best engine
made. with a development of 200 h. D.
There will be two boilers, either one
large enough to run the whole plant,
but n will be used as an auxiliary to
the other. With the Is h. p. g~asolene
engine to run the elevator when the
steam engine is not working and the
mill shut down, there will be no trouble
in getting sufficient power. All the
electricity for power and lighting will
be generated by the engines.
The Touring mill will be 87x4O feet,
divided throughout the whole five floors
into two parts, with a brick fire wall, as
thick as the outer wall, between. This
will separate the department for storing
and cleaning the wheat from the grind
ing mill proper and is a %precaution re-
quired by the underwriters on account
of the danger of fire in the rooms where
the wheat is cleaned.
The first floor of the mill will be used
for storage and shipping. On the second
floor will be the grinding machinery, on
the third floor the spouting machinery,
the fourth floor is known as the boiling
floor. where the flour is sifted. while the
fifth floor will be used for receiving the
dust, chaf, etc., from the grain.
The warehouse will be 4Ox63 feet, two
and two and a half stories in height,
corresponding in appearance to the
boiler and engine room. 1t opens directly
onto the track which has been laid from
the main line to the mill.
The plant will be equipped with two
scales which have already been put in
place. The dump scale, located between
the Office and elevator, has a capacity
of S tons and the rack scale, for weigh
ing the grain by the carload lots, has
a capacity of 100 tons.
G. T. Hornstain of Minneapolis has
the contract for building the elevator
and the contract for the mill will be let
this week or next. The company will
purchase the materials and. in fact, has
already bought most everything. and
will let the contract to some firm. H.
| A. Raycroft is the foreman and j. S.
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