Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-08-08
Reporter Makes Visit of Inspection
~ New Webster City FIGURING
Mill-Place Looks
Good.
NOW MANUFACTURING FLOUR
"Hanilton County's Best" Name Of
New Brand of Flour-Inter-
esting Place to Visit.

The future of the Webster City
fourt1g mill promises to be sue
cessful under the management of A.
G. Hoot, the gentleman from Ma
quoeta. who purchased the property
last spring.
After several months of prepare
ton il repairing, reconstructing
and installing new machinery in
the old mill, he has this week be-
gun the manufacture of -four.
He has been manufacturing corn
mes. ground feed, and other pro-
Quote br some two or three weeks,
but Is now turning out all of the
products of first-class mill-in-
Guiding graham, rye, pancake, and
other fours. The mill presented a
thsaving appearance this morning
whea the reporter inspected it. The
many different kinds of machines in
operation and the network of eleva-
tors. betting, etc., all in motion,
were cumming at rate that made
one think of busy swarm of bees.
Customers were coming and going
at DOse intervals and, withal, the
sigNs OF success and coming pros
perity were all there. Mr.. Hoot has
already built up quite an extensive
retaM trade in shorts, bran and
ground feed, corn meal, etc., and in
dications are that it will continue
20 grow. His flour has just been
placed on the market, all of the To-
cal dealers handling the brands
manufactured by him.
He will both wholesale and retail
his products, but his retail price
win conform with the prices of the
other retail dealers.
6sme of the flour inspected by the
newspaper man appeared to be of
superior quality. In fact, he was
tOo4 that to several families had
bea4 submitted sacks of it for trial.
anu they we're all we'll pleased with
the sesuHs obtained in bread made
Son It,
i, ur. Hoot has revived the once ia
mxiar brand of "Plansifter," and al
SO added another brand called
Hamilton County's Best" which
win be his leader. Both brands
are manufactured from spring and
winter wheat grown within the linn
it's OF our own county, so that all
who use these home brands of flour
are helping more than one home
industry. There is no reason why
-four manufactured by the Webster
City mill is not as good or better
than imported brands and the quail
ity of the goods is guaranteed by
the manufacturer
The thing that strikes one most
upon entering the mill, is the abso-
lutte cleanliness of the place. De-
vices for catching and disposing of
dust, dirt, and so forth. abound on
every side, so that it is next to i'm
possible for even fine grain of
dust to find it's way into any of the
fiours made there. Everything that
goes into the mill is purified and
cleaned to the limit Marked i'm
provements have also been made in
hn hui incr fnr fho |
fence Of patrons, as we'll as the pro-
prietor. The farmer may drive in
to one part of the building, put his
wheat or corn into a dump leading
into an elevator, drive a little farth-
er on and receive his ground feed or
-four into his wagon and not leave
his seat.
The two brands of flour mention
ed are put up in cloth sacks, label.
ed with most attractive designs,
and rival the packed product of the
big Touring mills of the Northwest
II Is quite interesting to go
through the mill and note the pro-
gress OF the wheat from the time it
is dumped from the farmers wagon
till 1t comes from the huge boiling
machine-pure, white and velvety.
1t has long and tortuous route TO
travea--up and down through diff
ferent elevators machines, etc.--till
1t has journied approximately half
mile before reaching its destination
in the bolter Another interesting
thing Is the row of electric magnets
in the feed grinding ma
chimes TO arrest nails, pieces of iron
Or steel that might be in the grain.
No material of this nature gets by ,
The big magnets.
The new owner and proprietor of