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colored Hour, with just a tint of gold, j suggestive of the ripe grain of the harvest field The rooim are all light and atrv, the office, on the tirst door infront, being especially favored in this ran poet, the many window* affording opportunity for inspecting the ground loor portions of the mill and the stir* roundings at a glance. A new device for improving tho quality of the flour is » centrifugal reel; in fact the arrange meats tending towards perfection are such that the “straight” tlmir of the AI ton Holler Milling ebmpnny compares favorably with the West production* ofthe St. Louis mills. The mills have patent automatic feeders; au iron track , leads from the tirst floor to State streetand with a large oar affords ereryfacility for unloading wheat from wagons to the scales, tlumce to the rollers. Tkrae “packers” are also located on this floor, while but a few steps from the office covered bins, supplied with flour and bran, are psed in the retail trade.Adolph Deboer 4 t'o., millwrights of Si. Louis, had the contract for all the machinery, the milling engineer, orarchitect was Mr. Chas. Holier. Everything la done in first class style, a nroditto contracteis and the company lotwhich the work was done, as well a* theFcity in whiob tho establishment is Ilocated. Mr. James W. Kerr, n stock* holder it) tlm concern, a miller of large and varied experience, has charge uf the manufacturing department; Mr. John Huddleston is engineer, Mr. Louis Walters, of Godfrey, street buyer
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Alton Daily Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Wed, May 16, 1883
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