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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1879)
October, 187$. THE WEST SHORE. later the necessary changes were made to convert it into a flouring mill. It is, perhaps, one of the most substantial manufacturing buildings in the State; an eight foot wide stone wall rests on the bdd-rOCk, but finally tape is for nine feet, to a thickness of three and one half feet, where the brick wall (em inences. The entire mill has just un dergone a thorough overhauling, and is now fitted with the latest and best labor-saving machinery that it was pos. sihle to obtain in the eastern markets. Adjoining the mill is an immense gran ary capable of holding 40,000 bushels of grain. From here an eighty-live foot iron conveyor brings (he grain to the hopper, without handling. It is then elevated to a separator, running through 300 bushels per hour; and from thence to a handsome Hulhilo scale, weighing sixty bushels al a time. A Grain Scourer and Polisher -the only one in the State anil an Iron Huskcr the only one on the Pacific Coast occupy prominent positions. The motive power is a forty-inch water wheel, and so pertbst is the ma chinery that a child can instantly start or stop it at will. The mill has four six-foot buhrs, two three-fool luihrs and one two-foot buhr, giving it a capacity of 300 barrels in every twenty-four hours. Oneol the most ingenious ar rangements in the mill is an elevator for bringing sacks from the wharf to the lipfMT story. It is made on the endless chain system, and is the only elevator of the kind we have ever seen. The mere pressure of a linger starts it going, and at a recent timing it elevated 1360 sacks of wheal in I wo hours and twenty-five minutes. We could speak of many other labor saving machines, but the above will suffice. It is safe to say that it is one of the most complete Flouring Mill on the Pacific coast. The lloui is m.idr by what is known as the New process, and for which the mill received a di ploma and medal at the Centennial In hibition at Philadelphia. The brand adopted, is a (nalilcs of Liberty in blue, with the centennial medal in red, and so well known is the brand, that over on the Puyallup even the Indian refuse flour unless it come in a bag having " blue cloolchman and red pill pill " stamped on it. The head miller of the establishment is J. A. Humphrey, who has held his posi tion now for over five years. The office is ably presided over by Mi. K. H. Miller, who came to Oregon about one year ago from the State of Ohio. The success that Cap! J, I). Miller has met with in the management of the null, can safely le ascribed to tin- lad that even the smallest detail about the mill is under his personal suervisioii. Stick a Pi I Ii.uk.--Rumdrinkeis who say that whisky never butts them, and who are at the same time specu lating on the probable cause of some nervous allliction amongst iheir chil dren or their grandchildren, will have Iheir speculations answered bv .1 recenl statement of the celebrated Dr. Martin of the Paris SalMrtrtt : III S families in wbiib one 01 man mem ben showed nervous eucltabUitti with a history of alcoholic origin, there were .110 children. I )l these, nN more than a ipiartct - had convulsions, and in the real 1N71, ifo were dead; were sup aliv e, Intt "t t, 1. e., molt than one-tliinl ol the suivivots, were epileptic. Among the many useful articles mi exhibition at the Into Slate Fair wr were particularly attracted to a mag nilicent family carriage maniila, luted by Wheeler ,V Moloney of liidciHiid cm c, Polk Co. In style, il is I n abe.nl of anything we have ever seen made in Oregon, and iu workmanship it com pares very favorably with the Usl eastern made. We were pleased to see it adoined with a blue t iHiti at the close of the fail. At one of the theaters iu a Nevada town recently, the play of the " Forty Thieves" was enlivened bv the oriel nal paHbrmancet of a mule, which was miriNiucrii to 1 any op ii iial.a .,,! his newly aupiitcd wealth alii 1 he had despoiled the lobU-l's . avc. As soon As Ali put the bags of gold Umii hi bai k then he brcan to let llv with in heels; kicked the shavings (the sup. tiose.l lifhrs) out of tbr bat's'. Li. k . . I down the cavern; kicked down the whole forest; kicked down the wings ; kicked the end of the base viol.le in' against the stage, to pieces; smashed the fnotlithts: and linalh iloubl.il All by planting both feet in the pit of his . . L TL I Ml C I .L sioiiibcii. 10c mine i.iuiv ticatco me slacc Slid -el ihr ainlirncr into a uiral roar, the miners laying wagers that br coulil nutkick any mule in the, state 1 he iiialiiiH .1 continued ki king ... it wa bung on a pivot, until a ioie w Listen.-. 1 aioiiu.1 him ami he was dragged oil' by the united strength the company. The Ncvedan want give the mule a benefit. Handel Pond, Ksq a representative f the Mason .V Hamlin Organ Com- pany, is traveling at present over the I in ili. Northwest, in the interest of th eil siipelb Insti imienl. Mr P.t.t.l i. voinpanied by a son f Mi, M.is.ni. who is doing Oregon I'm reeieation. Moth gentlemen cypress themselves highly pleased with the country. TIIK I'VI NIS OK nil M.AIII The month of October has been a protracted holiday. The Slate Fair sl.iiud on the first day of I he month, ami continued tor ten days. I nform- rtately, the weethei was very unpleas ant, however under the management 01 the othe rs o the Stale Agriculiuial SH ictv, all visitm w. le made as com tillable as was possible uudei the .11 cumstances, and to this the new pavil ion conttibnted in no sm ill degire. I'he .mi. U s on eshibiliou, cspcciallv the lock and agin iiltuial h.hIii. I., were ver line, indeed, and the in. 1. bin cry dep.niinenl was well reprcsritled. n.. 1 w.iii 1. in. img the it-verso canted by bad weal bet lot three sueerulvn veins, the Kmifly has uiade a splendid fight, and, linancially, is 1., day in mm b lieltei 1 liiK.it than al this lime last vear. Should the Sotielv he favored with giMsl wealhei al one fait mil v. tin in, without tun. h dilli. nil, , , I. ,, themselves Clltltel) of the indebtedness, the interest of which is rather a severe lis 011 theii funds at pitM-nt. Too 1 b pmtet camtiM ha baabmail on Piesitlent Wilkin and Se.lt U ,,1. Im ill. n untiring tflbrtl tp please all, esmniiiirs ami visitors; ami the cstiuia lion I hey ale In Id m. bv the sl... kin. I.I ets, 1. evinced III the' fa, I thai I...1I1 gentleuieiiwin n- . I. , ii .1 lo serve for another (arm. A Slate Agricultural Fair i ol the utmost imHirtauce lo this Stale, and il Is a enou, mistake lo siipiH.se that the Mechanics' Fair of thai iiy will 01 can in any mariner in icriiic Willi the ."stale ran. Hardly had we recovered limn the fatigtM of the Stale Fan whin the booming of cannons ami tinging of bell aiiiiouii. id that our dislinguithed I H. tiennal Orant, hail mno.l Out ni), ..1, ih, .h caslon, did nobly, and m til in its history has it apix-ated in mi. h an array of Ininiiug ami do o rations on thi occasion. Il i said by partie who were present al the re Caption givrn lo the licneral 111 the wealthy city of San Francisco, thai when the number of inhabitant, U taken into consideration, ihe display here was much finer. The Mechanics' Fair opened on the jnh ami close un the evening of No
