Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-16

STOCK looQs AT present THIS Dy-prOuuCt
has q market value Of about SIS a ton,
with more demands for 1t that can be
supplied. About or 8. pounds Of this
dry feed is secured from the residue of
each bushel of corn. One entire build
ing is given over to preparing this
commodity for the market.
Six Of the Buildings Now.
OF the seven buildings Of the plant,
six are entirely new. The seventh Is
the remodeled Danskin elevator, the
capacity of which has been increased to
about $1,000 bushels. 1t is erected so
as to take in corn from both car and
wagon.
The big four-story building, directly
across from the entrance to the fair
grounds, is what might be termed the
distillery proper. Not the entire pro-
cess Of distilling, tho. takes place there
in, but most of 1t does.
The building just east Of 1t, and con-
nected to it by an enclosed overhead
passageway, is the fermenting vat house
1t has but one entrance, the one en-
closed by the passage up above. This
detail OF construction is another within
Of Uncle Sam. He holds the view that
| when the corn solution has reached the
fermenting watts 1t has already begun
to contain those properties, which
warm the cookies of the heart and
bring on a bibulous condition. Lest
some one might get into the vat house,
and If not restrained literally leap into
one OF the $4,000 gallon tanks. Incl
dentally soaking his hide full and get
ting his nose wet, the government in
sfsts that there be but one door that
can be guarded closely. There are six
Of these immense tanks, and there is
room for three more In the building.
Battery Of Six Boilers.
Just north Of the main building Is
the boiler house, where battery Of six
which cooks the corn and furnishes the
power, with which the engines in the
main building turn the wheels Of the
grinders and agitators in the watts
} operates the pumps and various othe,
machinery. Most Of the machinery is
in the main building.
Still north Of the boiler house is the
feed house. Here the residue, which is
left after the distilling process has
done it's work, is reduced into form
suitable to be fed to cattle. Ut contains
immense cylindrical drying machines
in which the wet pulp Of the residue
of the corn is dried over steam pipe:
and turned and shifted and tumble,
, until it comes out as dry as meal, read,
to be either sacked or shipped away
, in bulk.
; Three Other Buildings.
/ On tho OfIoar side 0f tha track th,
Z building farthest north, is the bonded
story building. In the south end Of tn
t building are watts for storing the alec
!, hol and also for denaturing it.
The elevator is just south of thi
3 building, and fronting on the street il
the office of the company.
J, MIR. w. NJ. Leise,. secretary of tn
: company, and Mr.. j. NJ. Alexander, vic
: president, will have direct charge o
the business end Of the corporation
Mr.. Alexander's brother, Mr.. Quinc
t Alexander, will be employed in TIL
n offices.
Making Of the "White Line"
The turning of corn into alcohol, o
: white line" as it is frequently called
:, Is not SO complicated a process a
0 might be imagined, yet there are som
things regarding it about which on
may ask and receive no answer. Tha
e is the one secret of the process. 1t 1
u how the yeast, which causes the cor
t to fernent, is made. They will tell yo
: that it is made from malt, and that NAL
is made from barley and rye and othe
,, things, but that is as far as they wi
e go. In fact the officers of the compan
n profess not to know. They say tina
i Mr.. Jett alone knows, and that he j
as a sealed book on the subject SO O
that point the public will have to re
y main unenlightened.
d The, corn having once reached til
n elevator it is lifted to near it's top an
: carried in overhead carriers, across tn
8 track, into the third floor Of the mai
building.
e From Grain to Alcohol.
+. There it starts as the innocent littl
a yellow kernel, hard of coat and dry c
: germ, only to be returned thru pipe
70 to the store house a colorless liqui
IS which is used for a thousand and on
n purposes.
IT The corn is first put thru series {
cleaners and screens, where all foreig