Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-16
ALCOHOL PLANT 0
OPERATE BY FEB. |
NEW $4,000 PROPERTY BEING
MADE READY TO START
plsTILLINo.
CAPACITY TO BE ABOUT
@ 5000 GALLONS A DAY
witt Hive : Corn Capacity Of 5000
eushsls Daily-PIant Comprises Sew
On guiftiinss sovernnnent Will Have
important Part in ,Procsss-Deser
tien 81 the Plant and Process.

- ~ l.iff' '1s II
about Feb. 1.-THE $4,000 plant Of the
National Denatured Alcohol Company
will begin, to distill denatured and
grain alcohol. Manufacturing opera
tions' may be begun in the big plant
near the fair grounds before that date.
but 1t is believed that by not later
than the second month of next year the
plant will be in operation.
Had the recent cold weather not in
terfered with and stopped the unfin-
ished outside work on the buildings
the plant would have begun to distill
its product by Jan. is.
There is about two weeks Of outside
work yet to be done, before the exterior
Of the seven buildings will be COM
pleted. The big frame structures are
being covered with galvanized iron,
which is only partly finished. The 100
foot steel smoke stack is to be set up, a
track scale to be put in, and a few
lesser unfinished jobs are to be COM
pleted.
Only Ono in West.
This work will be done just as soon
rs the weather permits. In the mean
time the finishing of the interior, and
the setting of machinery and the con-
hecting up of pipes is going rapidly
forward.
When the plant is finished this city
will have the distinction of being the
site Of the only one of it's kind west of
the Mississippi river, and it's distillery
sayi11 &hn
outside Of the so-called trust
Altho the distilling or alcohol will not
be begun for approximately six weeks,
the company intends to begin buying
corn within a very short time. The
buying of the grain is to be in the
hands of Mr.. Max Patton, of Laurel,
who has been employed by the COM
pany to have charge of that depart
ment.
Will Employ Twenty Men.
1t is expected that a force of about
twenty men will man the plant when
operations are begun. The company
will try to secure most of these in this
city, but three or four experts, all de-.
partment heads, will be brought here.
to have charge, by Mr.. j. S. Jett, who
is to be superintendent of the manu-
featuring.
.In addition to this number and the
office force the federal government will
have three or four men stationed at
the plant. Uncle Sam is very particu-
lar about the management and prod
ucts of the distilleries of his people,
and thru the eyes Of his civil service
employees he will keep close watch
on what goes in and what comes out
Of the distillery.
Government on the Job.
In fact the government is so keenly
interested in what is going to be turned
out Of the distiliery that the wheels in
the plant will not be turned to pro-
dlce alcohol until the governments
employees are on the Job.
OF these government employees there
/, will be at least three and perhaps four.
There will be a weigher of grain, a
gauger Of the alcohol, and store
keeper of the finished product. Once
the corn is reduced to alcohol it is
under the charge Of the government, in
its bonded warehouse, which is one of
the buildings of the plant.
That Uncle Sam may not be
'.frogged out" Of his just revenue
every pound of grain that goes into the
plant has to pass the scrutiny, and over
the scales. Of the government weigher
And every pound of grain that goes
in the process must produce the re-
quired amount of alcohol. incidentally
Uncle Sam is fairly we'll informed as
to the amount Of alcohol a given
amount of corn ought to give out. His
agents keep this close watch lest some
designing person connect an under
ground pipe line with the plant and
draw off at his pleasure such measures
of alcohol as may suit his fancy, all to
the detriment of the government, which
Is paid a tax for every gallon Of grain
alcohol which goes from the plant.
Is Partly Governmental.
While it is the property of corpora
ton, the operation Of the plant is, al
the same time partly governmental in
ITS control, The government designates
how certain parts of. the distillery shall
be erected. Other parts, for instance
the room used by the government
Weigher Of grain, is continually locked
and no one may enter except by per.
mission Of this person.
Again none but the government EN-.
ploye may lay hands on the finished
product u1lttii; II has been duly sausei
md passed by the government EN-.
ployes. Also Uncle Sans own agent
lnd not an employee of the company
noes the denaturing. The grain alcoho
IS denatured as It is needed to fill thu
orders Of. the company, and once de.
patured the federal government let's 1
30 free, no internal revenue tax bein,
levied on the denatured product.
Eight Thousand Gallons Capacity.
The capacity Of the plsnt will b,
1000 gallons of grain alcohol daily. b.
I which is meant every twenty -fou
{ hours Of operation. The very nature o
The distilling process makes 1t neces
sary to operate both day and night
Since on an average of two and one
half gallons Of alcohol are distilled from
3 zach bushel Of corn, the daily consump
lion Of that grain, based on an 500
gallon output, will be 5000 bushels.
This Is the capacity Of the plant a.
4 completed. but 1t has been made larg
( enough so that the capacity can b
greatly Increased without the building
Z Of additional buildings at any time tn
4 BUSINESS demands 1t,
Stock Food 1y-Produet.
Alcohol Is, however, not to be tn
"a lliiy product d. the plan what Il
left Of the corn after the alcohol l,a
been distilled from 1t Is reduced t
what is said to be q most excellen