The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-10-12
CAPACITY Is
DOUBLED AT
LOCAL MILL
Nov warehouse, Machinery
and Equipment Adds Great
" to Output; Is Men now
Employed on 24-Hour Run

The newly painted walls of the
,ecently enlarged warehouse and
Elevator at the Kennewick Flour
Nil, are bullying with wheat, the
grinders are working a 24-hour
shift and the office is happy with
Gales booked for all the flour the
mill can grind in the next two
,nontbs and the world looks bright
er to Manager C. B. Shoemaker.
And with the prospect of infla-
t;on in the near future as a pos
sibility still more brilliant sheen
is beginning to glow.
Final touches are being given at
the mill to it's enlargement. AS a
result the capacity of its output
has been doubled as well as the
storage space. New and additional
machinery has been added, labor
saving devices installed, and a
complete testing laboratory is be-
ing operated. .
The mill is working on a 24-hour
shift and is employing 18 men reg
ularly, with extras as required,
working six days week. Ten
thousand barrels Of flour can be
produced a month with the new
equipment. ".s
A trip thru the mill proved a
very interesting experience. From
the automatic car unloader, where
the wheat is dumped as it comes
IN bulk shipments, to the elevators
which carry the grain to the wash
ers and cleaners, back to the top
Of the tall elevator, the numerous
conveyors and spouts and do-dads
we're explained by Mr.. Shoemaker.
After the wheat has been clean
ed and sorted in various grades,
blended to suit the kind of flour
being made, it drops thru chutes
to the seven grinders which grad
ually reduce the wheat kernels to
the desired fineness. A huge sift-
er shakes the flour thru twelve
layers of finely woven silk, a sort
of glorified vacuum cleaner takes
out certain particles and the fin
isher product falls down to the
packing room, where it is weigh
ed and sewed up in the various
sized sacks.
Along side the mill proper an
addition has been built to house
the feed department.. Here spec
ial grinders and bins have been
installed and the various mixtures
are eoncocted according to formu-
lac from experts turnout the coun-
ny. Storage room for the various
ingredients is provided handy to
the big mixer. -
The new addition to the mill
proper provides for storage space
ior $4,000 bushels of wheat. Some
.nlng over 10000 bushels is stored
IN the old warehouse and 10000
bushels is in sacks piled on the
ground about the mill. However.
nearly two thousand bushels a day
nov goes thru the grinders and the
surplus will soon be on sale in var
ious points on the west coast.
many other interesting features
ABOUT the mill were explained by
nut. Shoemaker. The sight of an
anguish sparrow, the first he'd
seen this fall, caused him to ex-
pam m1 MS method of pest control.
ne mill is equipped thruout with
orass pipes. About four times p
~ year chlorine gas is pumped thru
~ sdese e. pipes while the mill is clos
-. Inc gas kills off all wevil.
a IoIns and such insects as NAV be-
SuOut as well as all rats and mice.
III sasrong is the gas that pigeons.
dug sntlng on the roof, fall over
s.sa. The cost of each such treat
ment is 500. ~ ''ea'
o, speaking of money, in the lab
vdssory they have an instrument
s winch ! costs s27OO. With it flonr
m an oe aged sixty days in sixty
eoa nu,es. No longer do housewives
a. mpialn that the flour ia TOO
orv@.,. inns machine adds as much
so,b sea TO the flour as will be alb
Sea m a sixty-day period.
tbs os is also a part of
Ed CHEMISTS job at the mill
ar. , ovens, testers and heaters
me e used and every day five or
the ne loaves are baked to check an
NC quality of the flour.
New Dr,~.l