Arizona republican., 1910-10-23
NEW INDUSTRY
IS IMPORTANT
Arizona Alfalfa Mill Ned2s
Completion
NEW BALANCED RAT|ONs"
Five Varieties of Prepared
Stock Fed to Be Manu-
featured - Power for a
Modern Plant Direct from
the Roosevelt Dam.
NEW BALANCED RATIONs"

Rapid progress is being made In
the construction of the mill of the
Arizona Alfalfa Milling company.
This mill is located in the south
western part of Phoenix, almost at
the city limits, and between the
tracks of the Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe, on strip of land that the
company acquired last spring.
Switches are being laid to the ware
house and to the mill.
1t is not until one has looked over
the work already being completed
and sees the vast amount of mach
inery now being installed by mill
men and other competent workmen,
that he realizes this will be one of
the largest industries in the Salt
River Valley. While alfalfa mills
have been erected in some of the
cities of the east and all through
Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma,
this in the first in Arizona.
Three hard headed business men
are putting their time, industry and
money into this concern. knowing
that they have a proposition bound
to be a money maker from the start.
Mr.. F. a. McCaleb, one of the men
who is back of the Arizona Alfalfa
Milling company, formerly lived at
Parkersville, Oklahoma, but for over
a year has been a resident of this
city and lives in a beautiful home at
2100 west Jackson street. Mr.. Nc
Caleb was one of the early settlers
Of oklahoma, making his home there
when that state was still a territory.
For a number of years he was iden-
titled with the growth and develop
ment of Oklahoma and was regarded
as one of the solid, substantial bus
mess men of that section.
Mr.. E. r. Brown, formerly of FL
Paso. Texas, has been a builder of
factories and for a number of years
has been engaged in installing mach
inery in mills and mines throughout
the southwest, some in Old Mexico
1t is due to his knowledge of mach
inery that the Arizona Alfalfa Mill
ing company is being equipped with
machines of the latest design. Much
of the machinery being installed in
the mill is of special design and con-
struction.
Mr.. c. d. Young, the other member
of the company, is a former student
of the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege, where the government and state
of Kansas are carrying out some of
the most extensive experiments ever
conducted in raising all kinds of
feed and in getting the best possible
e.
Mr.. Young made a special study of
grasses and balanced ration" for
stok for a number of years. He was
one of the largest shippers of hay in
the Chicago market but since the in
eeption of the alfalfa milling bust
ness he has given his time and at
tention TO this new industry.
The milling building is large and
well proportioned and the cOnstruc-
ton throughout is excellent. Careful
judgment has been used in securing
economical production and handling !
from the time the alfalfa comes from |
the farmer until the product is de-
posted in the car as a concentrate |
Of mixed feed. When the entire |
plant is running at full capacity it |
VIII nave d udlly output vi one HuH- |
bred tons. The alfalfa to be used |
will be bought loose and thus the |
farmer will be saved the expense of |
baling. An electric hoist has been |
Installed so that farmers can unload |
about a ton of loose hay at one lift
Electric power will be used ex-
clusively. Electric motors, aggre-
eating 125 horse power have been
installed, and power will be pur-
chased direct from the reclamation
service. The item of fuel was one of |
he drawbacks of the enterprise but
when Messrs. McCaleb. Young and
Brown convinced Engineer Louis c.
Hill that a factory of this nature
would be of two-fold advantage, es-
abhshing a new industry in the
and adding thousands of
dollars to the market value of the
alfalfa in this immediate vicinity, a
power rate was agreed upon that
vas satisfactory to all.
Five kinds of feed will be manu-
actured. These five kinds are
straight alfalfa, cut meal, a horse
eed dairy and pOultry food The |