THE WAUPACA POST

August 28, 1884

 

THE MODEL ROLLER MILL.

How It Looks, Its Contents and Capacity

 

            In answer to an inquiry about the time when the new flouring mill of Oborn & Roberts would be in operation, Sam Oborn yesterday said it would be ready to take in grain as soon as it began to come to market, and that the mill would be completed in about three weeks.  He added the further information that the new mill would give farmers in exchange for their grain as much cash or flour as they could get anywhere else in this part of the state, and then asked the writer to jump into his cart and go down and see what they had been building this summer.

            The new mill is on the most substantial of foundations, is 40 x 50 feet on the ground, three stories high and a basement, covered with a flat tin roof.  The basement is ten feet between joists, 1^st two floors 14, and 3d floor 16 feet.  The unusual space between the floors makes the mill a tall one, but it gives plenty of pitch for the spouts, - an advantage not to be sneezed at, as all millers know.  On the first floor there will be twelve sets of 6 x 15 inch Stevens Rolls, two Enreka Flower packers and one Barnard Separator.  The rolls will be connected with Prinz Dust Collector, which is also on the first floor.  On the second floor stands a row of four No. 0 Geo. T. Smith Purifiers, each one of which is connected with a dust collector, also a four wheeled scalping chest. On this floor are hopper bottom bins with a capacity of 5,000 bushels of wheat, also larger chests for the flour packers below, and storage room for a large amount of bran, middlings, ect.  On the third floor there stands a sixteen foot and one twelve foot four reel Lima bolting chests, two centrifugal reels and a six foot scalper.  The basement contains a lot of cleaning and scouring machinery of latest and best patterns, and twenty feet below this floor is a 45 inch Moniter water wheel which, with the aid of a fourteen foot head of water, will run the machinery.

            The capacity of the mill will be about 125 bushes of flour per day.  All grades will be manufactured, and as Sam Oborn is the floury artist who manages the business, they will of course be a gilt edged brands.

            The mill has been built under the direction of Mr. Oborn, assisted by John Johnson, of Neenah, one of the best mill wrights in the country.  Oborn knew what he wanted and has got it.  Everything about the construction of the mill is just about as substantial as can be, and the workmanship is excellent.  The machinery is the best that money, aided by a large amount of experience, and a thorough knowledge of what was needed, would purchase.  The mill as it stands is the best model roller mill of this section, and Waupaca can boast of it as much as it likes, and not say too much in its favor.