The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19
NEW SODA WORKS
One Of the Most Complete Plants in
Eastern Washington

Almost every town of any preten-
sions has as an adjunct a soda water
plant, and it is surprising how much
passes through the marts of trade la
beled soda water, more familiarly
known as pop" ginger ale and kin
dred light interior washes. However.
consumption of aerated sweet drinks
is not the point at present it is the
method of manufacture of the stuff
consumed that is to be mentioned at
length.
Oroville has a new bottling works
just ready to turn the wheels and pro-
duce soda water, etc, an up-to-the-
minute bottling works, that has few
equals and no suporiors in the high
standard of apparatus used for accom-
plishing the work. The new bottling
works is owned and has been install
ed by r. Greiger, in his building at
the corner of Spokane street and First
avenue. With the usual delays that
mark the delivery of material and ma
chinery at this place the outfit has
been coming along in installments for
several weeks, but it is at last all here.
set up and ready for use. The plant is
well worth inspection, and there is
much in the way Of compact, yet per-
feet machinery to interest the visitor.
OF course there Is a carbonator, and
bother, and syrup tanks, and copper
storage tanks and siphon filters, and
washing tubs, and q medley of inter-
cate seam, watc.' filter and other
pipes, through which ne raw material
passes backward and forward from
the place of beginning to the place Of
ending with the finished product, all
as plain as book to the initiated, but
the important feature of the shop is a
Stokes automatic water still. This
comparatively small piece of appara-
tus is still that produces absolutely
pure water, and is something tina, is
rarely to be found even in the best
regulated bottling works. AS the
prospectus of the manufacturer says:
Practically all water contains or
ganic impurities to greater or less
extent. Filtering removes only the
coarser impurities held in suspension.
Boiling removes nothing and kill only
in in, ho +ap
and if allowed to stand, soon induce
new forms. The only dependable
method to secure pure water is by dis
tillation." And Stokes automatic wa
ter still accomplishes that object. Mr..
Greiger has gone to the large expense
OF installing one of these stills. This
insures to the public water as pure as
water can be made, which is a special
blessing during hot weather, when
disease too often turks in. the water
that is drank. In the demand for dis
stilled water Mr.. Greiger is certain to
find a market for all that his plant
can turn out. The proprietor has laid
in a supply of 100 siphon bottles, i'm
ported direct from Austria, which will
be supplied to the trade. Distilled wa
ter is sure to become table beverage
in a great many families in the town
an country.
The various apparatus for turning
out distilled water and high-grade of
soda water works automatically, in
suring a maximum of results with a
minimum of effort. There is a boiler
in an adjoining annax to supply steam
for the still and cleaning purposes,
and the carbonator is operated by an
electric motor. From 20 to 40 pounds
Of steam is used in still treatment of
the water to be purified, with a water
pressure of from 40 to rs pounds, the
latter figures being the maximum
pressure that can be used. AS the
reservoir pressure is some S5 pounds
reducer is used to lessen the pres
sure. The bottlers have screen pro-
tectors, to safe guard operators in
case bottles should burst while being
filled. Throughout everything is ar
ranged with the aim OF convenience
and cleanliness. An experienced and
competent soda water operator AMI
maker has been engaged, and in a few
days the establishment will be turn
ing out first-class brew of wet goods
Mr.. Greiger has large field to cover,
and in short time his product will
be handled in every town in the coun-
ty, and beyond the confines of the
county. The venture should prove to
be a profitable one, and adds another
important industry to Oroville that
will eventually grow beyond the pres
ent capacity of that plant