Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-07-05
RUN BY ELECTRICITY
Cost $4,000 and Has Storage Capacity
of Twenty Cars-TOtal Output
in Ten Hours Il Cars.

has been in the course Of construction
is located on the main line of the
Cotton Belt railway between SeconC
and Third avenues, just west Of the
Cotton Belt shops.
The entire plant, including machin-
cry equipment and all, was construct
ed by Kaucher-H Hodges & Co, engi-
neers and mill builders of Memphis
who are specialists in their line, at a
cost Of approximately $4,000.
The plant consists of main ware
house building with 10000 square feet
Of floor space. constructed so as to
be fireproof, and built of brick and
concrete, including floors, loading
docks and etc, metal roofs, steel
doors, etc. forming part of the build
ing equipment
In conjunction with and built as
| part of the warehouse is the elevator
shaft. which takes care of the bins
for storing grain, and the working
room floor where all grinding. clean,
ing, sack is done. The total storaSo
capacity of the bins will approximate
twenty cars The elevator is equipped
with the latest and most improved
type of machinery such as is used il.
a modern equipped elevator. and in
RI 1I1n n n
thorough cleaning of grain, with a
capacity of 5000 bushels per day, dou
BILE roller mills, with a capacity Of
1000 sacks per day; automatic sack
ing scales, on which all grain is auto
matically sacked at the rate of five
bags per minute; feed mixing plant
feeds, with a capacity of 500 bags per
day: equipment for loading grain in
bulk and track scales for the inbound
and outbound weighing Of loaded
cars. Provision has also been made
for the installation at some time in
the future, of a corn meal plant of
quite good sized capacity. All ma
chinery in the entire plant is electri-
cally driven, power being furnished
by the Pine Bluff Company.
In addition to the bin capacity, the
warehouse proper has capacity for
the storage of such products as is
handled by this firm, of over 100 cars,
while the storage of hay in their
barns, which also forms part Of the
plant, will amount to approximately
80 cars in all, giving a total storage
capacity under roof Of approximately
175 cars.
The trackage facilities permits the
handling of ten cars at one time, while
additional facilities by the installation
of parallel tracks can be provided on
short notice. In the switch track is
placed a 5O-foot, 100-ton track scale
! for the weighing of cars. The grain
being weighed, is then unloaded by
the use of electrically operated power
shovels, at the rate of 1000 bushels
every fifteen minutes, and is then
elevated and placed in the bins for
storage, sacking, grinding or reload
! ing
The total output of the plant dur
ing the course of days run of ten
hours, will be in the neighborhood OF
Is cars, including all products hand
led by the concern. The territory
served will include the whole south to
the Gulf and the Atlantic seaboard.
Their products will include the en-
tire line of manufactured feedstuffs,
which will be placed on the market
under the brand of "Blue Ribbon
Feeds" and will include prepared and
mixed stock and dairy feeds, poultry
feeds, corn chops, etc, while facilities
for handling grain and hay will per-
nit them to cover the whole line OF
feeds. In addition to the grain lines,
flour and meal as we'll as lime, ce-
ment, plaster brick, ETC., form large
part of the business of this concern
and which will be also handled in
conjunction with the milling end and
from the same plant.
The business at the present time is
under the direction and management
of H. L. Westbrook, son of the late w.
! H. Westbrook, who with his brother,
III. F. Westbrook, founded the business
some twenty years ago. when Pine
Bluff was in it's infancy. BY persist
ent efforts, handling high class goods
} only, courteous treatment and prompt
service the business has been built uI
J to the position it occupies in the bust
j ness world of this territory today.