Year: 1874

The Touring mill Of Gardner &
Moore, situated little above and across
the river from the old village, has eight
run of stone, two of which are used for
grinding middlings and the other six for
wheat. There are four middling puri-
6ers in the mill made by A. R. Guilder
Of Minneapolis, and they do their work
well. The mill has the capacity of
grinding two hundred and twenty-five
barrels Of -four per day.


Ten hands are employed in the mill.
In connection with the mill are cooper
shops, in which sixteen coopers are en-
ployed. We found Mr.. G. H. Moore in
charge. Mr.. Moore is man in the
prime Of life, an experienced miller,
who evidently has a commendable
pride in his mill, and understands
it's good points. The arrangement of
the mill shows that a practical miller
has had charge of its construction.
He has the bearing of gentleman and
energetic business man. The firm
commenced building last spring and
have put up fifteen buildings during
the summer. The mill building is for
ty-6ve by fifty feet, four stories high,
with half story along the center and
whole length of the roof, instead of a
cupola for the elevator which is certain
ly an improvement in appearance over
the cupola system. The wheat is taken
in on the first floor, dropped into the
basement, elevated into the upper story
and spouted into a warehouse situated
about a hundred and fifty feet from
the mill.


This warehouse is below the mill, is
60x111 feet, has storage capacity of
$4,000 bushels of wheat It is covered
with an iron roof to protect from fire.
Under nearly the whole length of the
warehouse and back, connecting with an
elevating apparatus in the mill, runs a
conveyer, into which spouts open by
slides, by which the wheat is taken
back again into the mill.


One hundred and forty feet above the
mill is bran house 20 by IS feet, two
stories high, into which the bran is
blown by means Of fan, the bran
passing through long spout connecting
the two buildings; in connection with
the bran house is building of the same
size for the storage of barrels and ma
terial. To this building there is stone
basement in which hoop poles are kept
where they may be sufficiently damp in
summer to prevent worms working in
them.


Above this building is building
twenty by sixty feet for cooper shops !;
above this are the mill stables. Across
from the mill is the beginning Of neat
little village, consisting at present of ten
houses, built by the firm to accommodate
their men. Mr.. Moore said it was their
wish to employ men with families. as
they were generally more apt to remain
permanently, which is certainly very i'm
portant in the milling business. We
hope that if there are any single men
in their employ they will take the hint
and remove the objection, and thus
make it necessary for the proprietors to
add another neat little cottage to their
enterprising village. And then may
there be love in the cottage.


The mill has been built at a cost of
$35, 900 and the other buildings at
cost of $4,000.


The mill is fed from dam which is
very firmly built with aAutments con
structed in the shape of a triangle, with
the acute angle up stream so as to break
up cakes Of ice coming down in the
spring freshets, and has twelve feet head
with an inexhaustible supply Of water.
There are five tub wheels used, known
as the eclipse wheels, four running the
light burrs and the fifth runn;np tho