The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-09-09

On Tuesday afternoon ana evening
Of last week the splendid new building
Of the Minot Bakery company was
formally opened for public inspection.
During this time it is estimated that
fully 1000 Minot citizens called and
viewed the building and the intricate
and complicated machinery involved in
the preparation of their products for
public consumption. Upon entering
the building, the visitor is at once i'm
pressed with the pleasing architectural
features of the building proper. Ar
chitect George H. Bugenhagen is re-
sponsible for the design, having sub
mitted his plans after a careful and
exhaustive study of bakery buildings
thruout the country. Judging from
the convenience manifest in the ar
rangement of this bakery his efforts
were eminentiy successful. The main
floor and basement is given over ex-
clusively to the bakery and office. An
immense room off the lobby, tiled floor
and shiny in its heavy coating of white
enamel is the pastry department. Here
is located the large electric baking
ovens, thes only ones in the state Of
such large capacity. This is of suf-
fcient size to keep three bakers busily
employed preparing delicacies ready
for the ovens. Perhaps no single
item connected with the machinery
used attracts so much attention from
the general public as this single me-
chanism.
To assist the workers in this de-
partment is a large electric mixing
machine which, whips, stirs or beats
the ingredients entering into the pro-
ducts of this section. An immense
wrapping machine is also installed in
this room. This machine is so con-
trived that the loaves Of braed are fed
into it direct from the receiving racks
and come out securely wrapped and
sealed, water tight, making package
at once sanitary and attractive.
In the large room back the main
baking department is located. Here
are the great ovens, capable of baking
10000 loaves of bread every "a hours.
It took five days to heat these inn
mense ovens to the proper tempera-
ture, 500 degrees F.. the CRATES in
which the fires are kept being fed
from the basement, the fire-room be-
ing so enclosed as to permit no gas,
smoke, SCOT or dust to escape as the
fires are stocked by the attendant. The
ovens alone are valued at approxi-
mately $15,OOO.OO. Here also is To-
Gated the heating plant, which not only
heats the building proper but furnishes
the steam by which the bread is
steamed preparatory to it's induction
into the ovens. In the basement too
are the immense storerooms where all
the supplies are kept including the
flour. In the flour room are bins
which mix the various grades Of flour
used, this being done on as scientific
a plan as any mill can do the work.
From this room the flour is elevated
to the second floor Of the building
where the main mixing rooms are
located. A specially contrived weigh
ing machine is here suspended from a
track near the ceiling. The baker
having determined the number OF
loaves to bake sets the SCALE at the
proper weight and when that exact
weight has run into the hopper it
shuts off automatically. At the 9th
er end of the same track is a similar
apparatus for water, which has the
same automatic features. AS the in
gradients for batch Of bread are
emptied into the great hoppers Of the
bread mixer. an attendant switches on