The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-07-27
The Hays City
Flour Mills
(BY R. KENNETH EVANS)

In the development of wheat country or any
grain growing section the marketing features are
most vital Importance. Without closely markets
the farmers such expense in their efforts to
realize from their production that their entire profit
is consumed.
It is then to the Hays City Flour Mills that much
credit goes for the making of this section of Western
Kansas such successful wheat growing one. The
mill has maintained a steady and substantial market
since its establishment in 1908 and has provided eIe
vators along the Union Pacific railroad both east and
west of Hays for the purpose of buying and shipping
of grain which is all shipped to Hays and grounded
into the growing famous Kansas Hard Wheat
Flour
The mill is one of the largest and most modern
in the wheat growing sections of Western Kansas It
originally constructed at an approximate cost
of $3.50, 100000. The very best modern milling ma
chinery to be secured anywhere on the market was
installed at the time of its construction has
added to from time to time scientific improvements
were perfected.
Today there is not a brand of flour in this sec
ton as we'll known Semolino, which is as perfect
a flour be found the market and nilled here
by expert millers who have spent lifetime in the
milling business.
Through such progressive institutions as the
Hays City Flour Mills the Kansas Hard Wheat Flour
has been placed much higher plain For many
years Kansas Hard Wheat or any other hard wheat
not considered good for flour as some of the
soft wheats milled by the larger nationally known
milling institutions of the United States The World
War served to show the people of the United States
the superiority of hard wheat -four and since that
time its popularity has been growing.
The reader may get some idea of the importance
of this institution to the wheat growing industry
this section of Kansas and throughout the wheat belt
when is stated that last year 1925 900 bushels of
wheat ground into flour and its by-products
From this amount of wheat 25O,O barrels of flour
produced we'll as many pounds of the other
products manufactured which include bran, shorts,
meal. The plant has capacity of 900 barrels
every twentyfour hours and is ordinary condi
hOns operating to it's full capacity day and night
Located the right of way of the Union Pacific rail-
road and within half block of the station this NAM
moth industrial institution makes very favorable
line of this railroad
The Hays City Mills maintains buying grain ele-
vatOrs at Walker, Victoria, TouIon, Hays, Hogback
Ellis, Riga, Ogallah, COllyer, WaKeeney, Park Oak
ley, which IN itself shows the Importance of the ins
tuition for the maintenance of market All wheat is
graded at each elevator and choice wheat varieties
are selected for the mill The work of construction
of $40 0000 concrete elevator at CoIyer has Just
recently been completed.
In addition to its many other advantages to the
upbuilding of the city and Western Kansas this nst-
tuition employs at all times from twenty-five thirty
men IN the mill proper and eight in the offices,
which gives the city of its largest payros which
amounts to approximately $4,000 monthly.
The smallest amount of the product manufac-
tured at this mill is distributed in Hays or approx
Imately two and Onehaf per cent while the balance
IS shipped to other Kansas points, eastern states and
some goes to export. Taken all in all this is of
the largest and most successful industrial plants
Denver and credit to the city and county wherein
it is located.