The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-06
MEANS BUSINESS
FOR VERMONT TOWN
Completion of New Plant of Quaker
Oats Company at Richford
Big Boom.

Richford, March g. With the compile
tion and placing in operation of the
new plant OF the Quaker Oats Co., this
village possesses one Of the finest and
best, if not the best, equipped feed
mills In New England.
The plant consists Of an elevator with
capacity Of 10000 bushels; feed
mill with a capacity for grinding and
mixing 1000 bushels OF grain daily, and
equipment for sacking 300 tons or 5000
sacks daily; and new double deck
warehouse with capacity Of $4,000
sacks. There is also a one-story ware
house that the company has leased from
the Canadian Pacific Railway Co for
several years past that has a capacity
Of $4,000 sacks, a total storage of 5000
tons. This adioins the new elevator
and feed mill on the north, while the
new warehouse adjoins and commune
Gates with the feed mill on the south.
The feed mill is seven stories in
height, or nearly as high as the eleya-
tor. There Is a hoist run BY an electric
motor that carries sacks of feed from
the first to the SECOND floor of the new
warehouse. I'm fact, all of the ma,
chinery Of the elevator and feed mill
is run by electric motors, the power
being furnished at present by the Sweat.
Comings Co. of this village. BY sum-
mer the power will be furnished from
the new power plant Of the Missisquoi
Lumber Go. at Stevens Mills, three miles
above this village.
Leading from the second story OF the
new warehouse to the interior Of the
car to be loaded chute admits of con-
yeying the sacks of grain from the
warehouse to the ear by gravitation
and thus obyiates the expense Of truck
ing the sacks while loading. This APP
plies only TO the new warehouse and
not to the old one.
AT the present time the payroll Of
the Quaker Oats Go. III Richford num-
bers 40 men.
1t il reported that the total cost of
the new plant, including machinery, was
Sl25,000. The plant was built by the
Leonard Construction 20. of Chicago.
The New England trade Is supplied
from this plant, and the nearness TO
the market makes the quick delivery
Of the orders pretty certain. Richford
being located on both the Canadian Pa
cific and Central Vermont railways
makes ii an exceptionally good dis
tributing point, being ia touch with the
Canadian Pacific dispatch freight line
and the Grand Trunk system
When the elevator disaster of Octo-
Der I, 1908, destroyed the large grain
elevator and half Of the sheds used a.
warehouse, 1t appeared very doubtful
whether the Quaker Oats Co.. the lessees
of the elevator and grain sheds, would
long continue in business In this town.
IT was not until last June that the
rebuilding Of the plant here was as-
sured Through the efforts OF Sheldon
r. Boright, backed by several other bus
mess men of the place, the industry
was located here, and work on the plant
was begun July 8. There were many
delays in the arrival of certain mate
rial, and this made the completion of
the plant about two months later than
was expected when the work was be-
gun.
After the elevator disaster the grind
ing and sacking Of the feed was done
in Peterboro. Ont, under an arrange
mont with the treasury department Of
the United States. a large quantity Of
feed was at all times stored in the
warehouse here, and some mixing and
sacking were done and a portion Of the
orders we're filed from Ricbford About
eight men We're employed here during
that period.
1t Il Of passing interest to note that
in building the double deck warehouse
the foundations and framework were
made Of sufficient strength so that this
building, which il s0xl40 feet in dimen.
sion, can be carried up to seven stories
1.-THE height Of the milll If it is desired
to do 80 in the future, and thus OPP
is afforded Of locating cereal
plant here for the New England trade
should the Quaker Oats 90. desire to do
50 in the coming years.