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Show The Sandwich Islands Mission. In a letter to President Joseph F. Smith, dated in June, Ohn, June 20, 1881, Presi-dent H. H. Cluff says: I take great pleasure in addressing a few lines to you, informing you of our success in starting our new sugar mill and ma-chinery. Today we fired up and set in motion all the machinery driven by steam concocted with your mill, every part per-forming its functions perfecting satisfac-torily, in fact surprisingly so. A short description of the buildings and machinery may not be uninteresting to you: The engine- house is a large building 10 x 20; the crushers or rollers being located under a shed roof by the side of the same, both engine- house and until being 12 feet above the floor of mill or boiling house. The mill is driven by a steam engine of 20- horse power, and is capacity to grind four flats of sugar per day. The boiling house is located on the side of the former hall, and is a house building 40 x 68, built in the form of the lecture, 18 feet to the square. On the south side of the build-ing, commencing at the makat or east end, is sitting the train or open pipes, running a distance of 38 feet, and at the end of this train is located a steam boiler six feet in diameter and 16 feet in length, with 84 four inch tubes, the fire from the furnace at the case end passing under the train also passes through the tubes of the boiler, thus utilizing the heat which would ulhrrulse gass off through the smoke stock and be-come heat in the atmosphere; at the same time a sufficient fire will be kept up in the boiler furnace to make up the defici-ency in steam. Opposite to the train in the east and is located in a cast from clari-fiers of 500 gallons capacity each. The vacuum push is in the center of the build-ing at an elevation of 15 feet, resting upon a framework which is floored, and a banis-ter calling around the same. The centritogais and engine to drive the same are near the vacuum pan; the coolers and sugar bin are in the end of the north L. There we four steam purpose located in various positions contiguous to the work they have to perform, one for the boiler, one for the vacuum pan, one for pumping water into the reservoir, which is located about 70 feet from the mill in the hillside, and one for pumping molasses into the blower, We expected in the commence-ment that the old mill building would an-swer by raising the walls about 12 feet higher, but when we came to thoroughly test them, we found they would not do to build upon, hence we build anew from the ground up, therefore or expenses in that particular will exceed what we had pre-viously contemplated and figured upon. Of course there are other expenses, which former experience did not lend as to con-template, but we feel quite satisfied with our achloremou so far, and no firmly be-love that the mill will soon pay for itself, but yet we cannot say by experienced what the saving will be, compared with the old mule mill. |