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| 1907 |
"The industry is one of the most important in the community because it purchases the grain of the farmers in this section, always paying the best market price for it. Industries of this nature are indispensable help in the commercial upbuilding of our community."
From The Potter Enterprise, 1907:
"At the corner of Main and Chestnut streets stands one of the most completely equipped and successfully operated flour and feed mills in this section of the state. Their location is very advantageous owing to the fact that the railway switch used by them is in direct connections with the C & PA Railroad, so direct in fact that is is but the work of a minute to swing the cars either loaded or unloaded upon the main track, thus avoiding the confusion and loss of time attendant upon a long period of switching."
"At the right of the switch projects the elevator opening from the mill.... Two men shoveling the grain from the car into the elevator can empty a car in exactly two and one half hours. A few steps to the right and a trap opening disclosed the belt elevator that was conveying the wheat to the machine that was to give it the first process in becoming flour."
"Seven hundred bushels per hour are carried by this smoothly running and comparatively noiseless elevator to a very ingenious machine called a separator which takes out the roughest dirt. ... Just the width of an elevator shaft separated the "cleaner" from the polishing machine containing six double rollers made of the finest quality of chilled steel and revolving in different directions with varying degrees of speed..."
"Another turn, a walk of about 20 feet and perhaps the most marvelous machine stands. Underneath are numerous canvas tubes that extend to every elevator in the building except the outside one. Mr. Guilden opened the top and then the flour as it came from the various machines through the elevators sifted by this wonderful machine into the various brands of flour."
"The plant has a capacity of one hundred and fifty barrels of flour per day. Owing to the fact that the company has plenty of fine storage room, they are not under the necessity of sacking their flour as fast as they mill it. They produce fifty tons of feed in 24 hours, The complete storage capacity of the plant is forty thousand bushels."
"A fine grade of buckwheat flour put out by this concern is creating a demand for itself throughout the country. Corn meal is also an important output, Some of the brand of flour manufactured are Gold Eagle, Special Patent, Choice Patent and Fancy Blended."
"The Eulalia Milling Company was established in 1905 by D.W. Van Wegen of this place and Miles Johnson of Cross Fork. Both are these men are far sighted and progressive business men who are always ready to do all within the scope of their influence for the advancement of Coudersport."
