Show THE STAR KOLLER MILLS something the american fork people are justly proud of jump into the carac and go up and see oar mill raid wr rustling merchant james clipman man the other day to your correspondent A drive in the northern edge of town brought us to where the american fork rifle team a few years ago way through brush to a lettla shady nook from where tibey shot at targets pitched at the foot of the bench two hundred yards ahead the simple fact that it was a shooting ground proves that it was out of the way and secluded today to day there stands ono of the finest and most complete grist and floering flouring flou ring mills in the territory a mill choso whoso leffel wheel is 13 inches in diameter furnishing forty horae and whose revolutions per minute are ell aroa a stream of water too small to ba divided for liberal irrigation the mills have all the modem improvements prove ments found in other roller mills and one perhaps possessed by few if any in this section viz four cyclone dust collectors patented oct 2 1888 the mill is provided with a bell alarm or indicator whose duty it is to show the exact condition of the machinery as it works and to ring a bell if the supply of wheat runs out etc the mill is under the able man gement cf an experienced miller from indiana by the name of paulus it would take a miller to explain the dozens of machines that to some appear merely ornamental but anyone can see that the mill is general and its neat separation of the flour bran and shorts aro products of determined inventive genius leaving the mammoth brick structure and climbing from sage to sage up the steep side of a bench for a distance of eighty or ninety feet from which a fifty feet head is obtained one is standing on the edge of a reservoir in which floating ice or rubbish may by separated before entering the pipe the time almost yearly comes that our mills are frozen up for a spell during the coldest weather and to be prepared to accommodate their patrons regardless of any visible difficulty the company has provided the mill with ono of those beautiful fifty horse power engines from the atlas engine works As it is much cheaper to run by water than steam pow er of course the mill will be ann by water when itis possible to do so there are now twelve men at work laying up the engine house and there are four at work in the mill to complete the village a neat little brick house has been built near the mill in which one of the overseers will live and perhaps spend hs time by utilizing the waste and discharges of the mill by raising fine horses hogs chickens chic kans etc the capacity of the mill is sixty barrels and mr chipman says that not only in that but every other respect the companies from whom the machinery was purchased gave perfect satisfaction the star boiler mills company is composed of james chipman josiah smith and william grant who have paid in all for their beautiful property about dec |