The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-05-16
FLOUR MILL is
NOW ASSURED
Start Construction Soon
and Will be Ready
By Fall.

/
| this fall
The Gazette has heretofore told Of
| the plans to this end and the progress
made toward securing this beneficial
Improvement for the community 1t is
now possible to announce that the
plans are no longer merely a project
| but an assured fact
The Community Milling Company of
Spokane, which was induced to be-
come interested in FIGURING mill for
this place by the Oroville Milling Com
pany, the organization formed to pro-
mote the project, has announced thai
| it has let contract for construction
of the mill to Charles Jasper the Spo-
kane contractor who built the Hotel
de Grubb at this place
Construction is to commence as soon
as a deed is secured to the site for
. the mill. The site has been decided up
on and negotiations are now proceed
ing with the officials of the Great
Northern railway company for its pur-
chase.
1t is expected that these negotia-
tions will be completed within few
days, as an agreement has already
been reached and it is merely mat
ter of closing up the details of trans
fer.
The site decided upon is near the
tracks, east of the Standard Oil tanks
and spur will be run for the mill
from the Standard Oil spur to the
main line.
The Community Milling Company
have submitted the specifications
covering the construction of the mill
to those locally interested and these
specifications give assurance that the
mill is to be a handsome, substantial
and thoroughly modern plant with an
initial capacity of so barrels day, yet
so arranged that an additional so bar
rel unit may later be added at a nom
inal cost.
The Oroville Milling company is
particularly fortunate in having secur-
ed the services of Francis j. Camatta
az manager Of the mill. Mr.. Camatta
is an expert miller who has devoted
his life to practical milling and the
study of milling processes. Last sum-
mer he was engaged in installing new
machinery in the big Sperry Mills at
Spokane. He was formerly miller at
Tonasket. He knows the country here
abouts, he knows the people and the
people know him and have confidence
in his capabiity. This alone insures
+ bo IF "a
And success of the venture does not
mean merely the profitable operation
of the enterprise with satisfactory re-
turns upon the investment. In fact it
means much more than that 1t means
direct and continuous benefit to the
entire community. Besides providing a
better local market for the grain pro-
duced on the uplands about Oroville,
the by-prolucts of the mill should and
undoubtedly will encourage and pro-
mote the dairying industry in this val
ley, which in itself will many times
over justify the Inauguration of the
enterprise
In dealing with the farmers the Oro-
Vile Milling Company will institute a
policy that will be an improvement
over the old methods and a decided
advantage to the grain producer. In
stead of the farmer being paid for his
wheat less the dockage for screenings
and the screenings retained by the
mill his wheat will be weighed and
cleaned when he will be paid for the
cleaned wheat and the screenings will
be returned to him a by-product that
can be taken home and used to profit
able advantage. Thus he will receive
full value for his product.
The mill at Oroville is to be equip
ped with the American Marvel Short
System machinery, which will save in
both time and labor This system is
not an untried experiment but a prov
en- success in practical operation. The
farmer can haul his wheat to a mill
thus equipped and take home his
flour, thus saving the freight on both
the wheat and flour and be assured
of satisfactory flour and clean feed at
the same time.
The short system mill has the in
dorsement of George Shiel. one of the
best known mill men in the country
; who has been engaged in the business
in the Pacific Northwest for thirty-five
years. Mr.. Shiel has backed his con-
fidence in this short system by becom-
/ ing member of the Community Mill
! ing Company of Spokane, which has
| taken the majority of the shares of
the Oroville Milling Company and is
backing similar enterprises in many
! other small communities in Washing