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The Heppner
Milling Co's big
mill, which is lo
cated in this city,
is one of the larg
est institutions of
its kind in East
ern Oregon and
turns out a fin
ished product as
good as the best
in the world.
This mill distri
butes $10,000 an
nually in wages
to its various em
ployees and the
manage m e n t is
always found in
the lead, ready to
help any worthy
enterprise that
will benefit Hepp
ner or Mor row
County.
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Would be undertaken just as readily as a 100
foot well by W. D. Newlon, the man who has
never drilled a dry hole, and who has been the
most successful well driller in Morrow County.
If you want a well, just write to
W. D. NEWLON
Address, Heppner, Oregon
INDUSTRIES and
INDIVIDUALS
Men and Businesses With Whom Pros
perity and Success are Associa
ted in This County.
By E. G. II.
Rightly has whei.t been called the
staff of life. Wheat is the world's
staple food-product. It is the one
thing which has intrinsic value some
thing which gold has not. Value lies
in the things which sustain life. When
you think of the life-sustaining pro
ducts, just put wheat down first on
the list.
Wheat was once a weed, growing
wild on the mountains of India. It
was carried down into the valleys,
where the sunshine was warm and
friendly. The soil was pulverized,
water applied and the happy weed
bloomed and blossomed and produced
six or ten. kernels where there was
only one before. Adam Smith said
that all wealth comes from labor ap
plied to land. Evidently he never
knew about wheat or he. would have
added the word intelligent just before
labor.
Wheat was successfully grown as
a business in the Valley of the Nile,
where the water overflowed and not
only irrigated but fertilized the land.
The story of Joseph and his breth
ren going down into Egypt in order
to get food to fight off starvation is
no fairy-tale. It is history and tokens
the struggle of the nations to live.
Then wheat was raised on the plains
of Assyria, and the example of the
Nile was repeated along the banks
of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Civilization moved on to Greece and
wealth was computed in measures of
wheat. Rome ruled the world as long
as she maintained a close and constant
sympathy with the interests of the
farmers. When farming lands were
devasted and the agrarians grew sick
and despondent, the rule of Rome
languished and the borders of the
Empire contracted and starvation,
pestilence and death followed. Civili
zation moved on and Constantinople
the city of Constantine, arose. Little
by little Europe increased in popula-
tion and always and forever cities
grew and prospered only in that terri
tory where wheat was brought to
market.
Fifty years ago the Genesee Valley
of New York was the great wheat
producing district in America and
Rochester was called the "Flour City."
The wheat growing district moved
gradually westward and Ohio, India
na, Illinois and finally St. Paul and
Minneapolis became the centers of the
flour industry. With the depletion
of the Dakota and Minnesota fields
and the opening of the western Cana
dian and Pacific Northwest states, the
renter of the flour industry might
reach Oregon.
As far as the people of Eastern
k Oregon are concerned, Heppner oc-
cupirs the same position as Minne
' upolis and when the matter is closely
investigated, it occupies a far more
important position. A few days ago
1 timk a little louniry to the Heppner
Milling Company'" mi" which is in
east Heppner. Milling is an industry
as old as the hills. As a boy I watch
ed the Tama Indians hack in Iowa
grind flour much the name way as
their ancestors had done for hundreds
of years lfore them. Milling has
felt the gentle touch of progress and
today it "ne of the most interesting
manufacturing operations one can
witness.
At the Heppner Mills the wheat
rm- in on the mum flr in l ag'- It
l pU'rd in a chute whuh contains an
automatic weighing machine and i
ronvrved to a wparstor and cleaned.
In this process the heads, dut. dust
'and all f"n.n matter i taken out.
It then passes into two scouring ma
chines which take all dirt which might
be left and also the outer crust of the
kernel. The machine I saw was a
Eureka, which I was told is the best
machine of its kind that money can
buy. This process is repeated three
times. The grain is now thrown into
a washing machine. After a thorough
washing in water it goes into a dry
ing machine or "whizzer," which re
volves and thrown off the water. It
is then conveyed to bins where it is
allowed to stand over night. It is
then sent to the scouring machines
again and scoured three times. It is
steamed now and then ready for the
rollers.
The wheat used by the Heppner
Milling Company is select grain
which they buy, paying a premium to
get the best on the market. This
wheat is mixed to get the best flour.
One kind furnished strength to the
flour, another gives it starch and oth
ers give it the power to hold moisture.
When combined in the right pro
portions, flour of the most compre
hensive and satisfactory use results.
The mixing of the wheat I am told is
no haphazard matter and one can see
the machine by which this is proform
ed. When the wheat is ready for the
rollers, the first roller takes it and
crushes it three times. It then goes
to the second machine and this re
peats the process. The first by-product
now appears in the shape of bran.
Bran comes from the Anglo-Saxon
meaning waste. In early days the
bran was thrown away but now it is
used for feed and the bran sold by
the Heppner Milling Company is far
above the average bran sold though
out the state and cheaper in price than
any which could be shipped in. The
fact that no bran is shipped in demon
strates that no competitors can meet
their prices. Bran sells around $24
a ton.
The rolling process is repeated
again with the product going through
finer rollers and in this process the
the bale and these fit a round chute
which the flour fills. Filling a sack
requires a few seconds.
Besides the ordinary flour, graham,
whole-wheat, pancake and other kinds
of flour are made and these enjoy a
wide sale. In the Company's office
on Main street these flours are kept
in stock, as well as all kinds of feed
for local sale. Large amounts of
chop feed are made and much shipped
to other places.
To the ordinary man, the value of
the mill might seem very small. The
facts of the matter are that he is
vitally interested in the local mill.
There is no question that the price of
flour would be from $1.50 to $2 a
barrel higher in this county, if it were
not for the Heppner Milling Company.
Where there is no competition, the
flour firms agree on a certain price
and the Lord himself couldn't buy it
He and the Heppner Milling Company
are the kind to anchor to. Storms and
stress move them not and in time of
need they stand behind you.
The Heppner Milling Company is a
deserving institution. It does not beg
for business. It meets all competi
tors on an even basis. People who de
mand the best, and have no money to
throw at the English sparrows, who
are close buyers and have the money
to pay, do their business with the
Heppner Milling Company. Were it
not for the Heppner Milling Company
thousands of dollars would go out of
the county in higher flour and feed
prices, hundreds of dollars in taxes
would be lost, several families would
be missed and the able men at the
(Continued on last page)
The New Fall Book of Styles
of the STAR TAILORING CO,, has just been received and we Invite
your inspection of same.
Every man woman and child should read the "The European War
at a Glance," a brand new book, and what has plunged Europe into
this terrible catastrophe. Money cannot buy this book, it is not for
sale, but in order to give our customers this valuable information,
we will gladly supply a copy of same free of charge with every Suit
of Overcoat Order.
Sam Hughes Co.
COME TO
Gilliam & Bisbee
For anything in the HARDWARE LINE
We have it, will get it, or it is not made
We try to keep a complete, up-to-date stock of everything car
ried in a first-class store, and we ask everybody for a
liberal share ol their patronage. We do our best
to merit the same.
Come and see us
heaper, Sherman or no Sherman Act.
The Heppner mill acts as a regulator
for the price of flour and mill pro
ducts. Better feed is sold by the
Heppner mill than was ever shipped
into this county. In the Heppner Mil
ling office at the time I happened in
were several farmers, all heavy feed
ers and men who know the quality and
prices of feed. One of them, Henry
F. Blahm, said that the average pro
ducts sold for shorts was merely
chewed-up bran, and mill-feed was
worse than poor shorts. Cleaner and
better feed than is sold by the Hepp
ner Mill is not found on the market,
in this state or any other.
It is possible for the f aimer to
bring in a load of wheat and exchange
it for flour and call for his flour as he
needs it. This is more a matter of
accomodation and not done for pro
fit. Many do this and you don't need
to wait several days for it to be
ground as our fathers did.
Every year the Heppner Milling
Company pays in labor bills more than
$10,000 and five men are constantly
employed, with extra men in rush sea
sons. Taxes and contributions raise
this amount and let it be known that
I The Best is None
Too
Good For Our Folks
And there is nothing
better made or sold
than
by-product is called shorts. Bran is ; it is all owned by people right here,
a coarse product. Shorts is a finer who believe in Heppner and Morrow
and more nutritive article. It sells County and have invested their good
for about $28 a ton. Woodrow Wilson cash to prove it.
The grain is broken three times A short time ago I was in Hard-
again and reduced and in this process man and a man drove up and said to
middlings is the by-product. Mid- George, Bleakman, "Give me a sack of
dlings is a higher grade product than flour, George." Out it came Hepp-
shorta. Mill-feed, a common feed for ner Flour. When I asked him if it
stock, is made by mixing shorts and , was good flour, George replied, "I
middlings and it sells for $27 a ton,! don't notice any difference in it and
varying, of course, with the price of j the best flour I can buy. It is just as
wheat. I good and better than many kinds. I
Wheat is broken three times and : buy of them because they have al-
reduced nine times before the last
product, the patent flour appears.
Each time it goes through finer rol
lers and passes through closer screens.
After the first grade of middlings is
procured, there are two finer grades
of middlings, then low-grade fiour,
ways treated me fair and square and
because they sell good stuff." Not
long ago I was in Lexington and every
dealer in town sells Heppner flour.
"It's good flour," Wm. Iach said.
The same is true of the Egg City.
Heppner flour is a name significant of
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then the Mter grades and lastly the, quality wherever good flour is up for
patent. The last process constitutes ' discussion. There may be cheaper
the sifting through silk cloth. tlO'', of; flours, but there are no better flours
the best flour goes into the putcnt Heppner flour mirrors the men who
brand. make it. Mr. It. F. Ilynd and Mr. K.'
The lower grades of flour are known I). Brown are the moving forces of the
as export flour and are sent to China, company. Mr. Ilynd is well known to
It wouldn't surprise me if some of it every man in the county. He has been
was going to Europe at the present actively associated with the mill for
time. "They rim fight on it, all right," years and no small amount of the
Mr. Brown said. credit for its splendid oigiinization and
In the engine room I found a fifty- equipment goes to him for his untir
horse power Russell engine and a I it.tr energy and application to work.
sixty-horse power boiler. Everything
was in first-class condition and over in
Mr. E. I'. Brown is one of the pro
minent citizens of the town and coun-
the corner I noticed a sign, "Safety ty. Mr. Brown is no villager. He is
First." In the large warehouse I saw
flour ready to be shipped, feed and
wheat ready for the null. I also saw
an elevating machine which enables
them tn fill the house to the ceiling if
necessary and I am told this often
occurs. With the small warehouse on
the property, 1'i.OtKi s.kV.s of grain
ran he stoied.
a-six-iatcd with the f 'otiimemal Club
and has always worked for a better
Heppner and Morrow Count)'. He is
so far behind the times that he has
never used any but straight forward
businc" ideas. When you deal with
Mr. Brown, you ran deal in safety.
Everyone who has ever dealt with him
j-peaVs well of him, soini thiitig not to
HEPPNER'S BEST
Made by the latest improved process from SELECTED
MORROW COUNTY BLUESTEM
The Best Milling Wheat Known
The null is trrmid a Ion barrel null, be o i r!. Ked He Micvn in llepp
mrsnirg the number of barrels which ner and ba. invi t.il hi money ami
ran It made in one day. About time here. I know of few men with
(mi'I barrels are made annually. Sacks broader, more prne tuiil and far see
(t flour come in large l ul. 2hm to it g businc ,s ability than Mr. Brown.
Heppner Milling Co.
Manufacturers and Dealers in
FLOUR, FEED, GRAIN, STOCK and
POULTRY SUPPLIES
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