The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-11-02

completed, and all that remains to be
done is to finish installing the ma
chinery, most Of which is on the
ground or in place, but some of which
is not yet completely assembled.
The plant consists of the flour mill,
the workhouse, in which is installed
the wheat cleaning and mixing ma
chinery the power plant and the i'm
mense storage bins.
| There are 80 storage bins. They
are concrete tanks circular in shape
80 feet in diameter and 100 feet high,
arranged in four rows Of eight each
The tanks have combination Of con-
crete and steel hopper bottoms. Each
tank has a capacity of $4,000 bushels
Of wheat.
| The workhouse, or elevator, is 81
by 120 feet, and 1876 feet above the
ground. 1t contains three receiving
and four shipping bins or 'legs," each
having capacity Of $4,000 bushels
and two screenings bins with capa-
city of 10000 bushels each. There
are two ''transfer belts" in the cupola
The first floor is merely distribut-
ing floor. Each Of the bins mention
ed, is 60 feet deep. The workhouse
eupola is six stories above the ground.
These stories are designated: spout
ing or bin floor, transfer floor, clean
er floor, turnhead floor, garner floor:
head floor.
This house is especially designed
for cleaning and mixing grain, and
when the grain leaves the workhouse
for the mill it has been thoroughly
washed and cleaned. The seven main
bins, or "legs" are arranged in q
single row along the center of the
house and discharge into a double
row of $500 bushel garner" Each
one of the legs commands four garn-
ers, so that any one of the IA "garn-
ers" can be reached from two of the
legs. The garners have steel hopper
bottoms equipped with turnheads to
discharge at will to cleaning machin-
cry, shipping scales, transfer belts:
storage belts and "Mayo" spouts tC
the storage bins.
! The Workhouse contains one 900
bushel Morse grain dryer, six No. 7
= Monitor receiving separators, one No.
9 Monitor screenings separator, eight
! Carter disc oats separator, for
"needle' machines, flax separators
and oat clipper.
( An important feature of the work
house is the control by which all turn
; heads and grain spouts are worked
from a central switchboard located
on the "turnhead" floor. The opera
tor can control all the apparatus by
pushing buttons at this central con-
troll.
The house and mill are equipped
with dust collecting systems and mo-
dern signaling and communicating
- systems.
i The Mill Building
The mill building is re-enforced
concrete, metal sash and brick struc-
ture, AZ by lS0 feet, and eight stories
high. At either end Of the mill is
one story and basement flour stor-
age wing, AZ by 200 feet. The first
or storage floor is therefore az feet
wide by $50 feet long, having load
ing platform along one entire side.
The mill is served by two tracks on
one side and one on the other.
! The cleaned wheat is delivered
from the workhouse to the ground
floor and is there carried to the top
floor. 1t works back and forth from
the top floor through several other
floors about so times in the process
of manufacture, before it is finally
delivered as flour and feed to the
packers on the second floor. Here it
is sacked or put into packages ready
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