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Show HANSEN LIVESTOCK " ! AND FEEDING COMPA'NYi Another rung was reached this month in Ogden's ladder of industrial enterprise "when the immense stock food mill of the Kansas Livestock & Feeding company started manufacturing manufactur-ing its product. Unlike any other mill in a vast area of country and serving a unique and important purpose the stock food mill Is turning out approximately approxi-mately 120 tons of meal a day. It is supplying feed for several thousand head of cattle and many thousand head of sheep In the feeding yard near tho plant and it is supplying a large amount of the intermountain country as the demand for this meal manufactured manufac-tured by the Hansen Livestock & Feeding company has spread greatly. great-ly. The new mill represents an outlay of approximately S45.000. This is the smallest item to consider, however. It will mean the demand yearly of hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of bushels of grain, thousands of tons of hay and thousands thou-sands of gallons of molasses, not to mention many other minor products which go into the manufacture of the meal. It will make Ogden the center of feeding and stock food production of a great area of intermountain country. coun-try. Work was commenced on this mill last fall. The lumber and cement contracts con-tracts were nmong the largest released in the city for many years. A huge force of workmen, including teamsters, team-sters, concrete men and carpenters was put to work and kept steadily employed em-ployed during the winter. The construction con-struction of the mill, installation of the immense molasses tanks, building of tho feed yards and care of the stock in the feed yards have ever since demanded de-manded the employment of a large force of men. As an adjunct to the stock food mill, which furnishes a balanced ration slock food for many thousands of stock, the Hansen Livestock & Feed ing company maintains a feeding yafc which is a marvel of moderness. The feed yards and the ground on which the mill stands occupy an area of sixty acres. Facilities for the feeding and handling of 3000 head of cattle and 25,000 head of sheep are provided by these yards. At present there are 2000 head of choice cattle and 10,(100 head of prime sheep corralled. Due to the later winter there Has been no need of moving many of the herds into the yards for the winter so the number num-ber does not represent the total owned by the company. It is expected that the number of sheep will be increased to 15,000 in a few weeks and that more cattle will be brought to the yards for feeding during .the remainder of the winter. An excellent feature of the equipment equip-ment of the feed yards is the supply of artesian well water which has been opned. There are three wells on the property, each flowing a large stream of water of moderate temperature. This water is the same temperature the year around and the stock thus are able to drluk a plentiful supply qn the coldest days without discomfort. A water system has been installed radiating rad-iating from the main well to all of the feed pens, mills, corrals and yards so that there is a constant supply offresh water in the troughs. One of these wells was struck at a depth of 440 I feet and another required ISO feet of drilling to reach. The mill has been constructed so that gravity will furnish much of the power deeded for many of the operations, opera-tions, that is transfer of the grain and meal product to the store rooms, care andd epartments where it is wanted. i' ' A spur track built from the Oregon t Short Line sugar factory spur to the j' I north side of the mill carries the raw ! materials to a convenient level for .loading. The molasses tanks are lo- I 1 t cated so that tank cars may be un- ? ) loaded with a syphon. The tanks have J j a capacity of approximately 12 and 9 'ihII cars of molasses. i j Big Payroll. M On the lop floor of the mill is the , : mixing floor where the various in- jH gredients are combined in the required JM proportions for use as a meal. The ) , ' different feeds are carried to the top i j floor from the chopping machine on the ground flQor through a pipe carry- ! j ing a forced draft of air. From the mix- ' jj ing floor the meal, in bulk or sacked, , '(ti is carried to whatever part of the b, ; building it is desired. Wagons may ; j i jfl drive up to one shute for filling or ' j cars on the other side of the building !, j may be filled by another shute. Ve- y ' fl hides or stock coming into the yards ' from - the outside pass on the main . IH road over scales wher'e the correct j weight is recorded. !, There are sixty men employed in the ij mill and yards. Operations in the yards : require wrangling of the .stock and jH feeding and in the mill operation of '. . the plant. j ' 1 It costs approximately $1,000 a day ! , ij to feed the. stock, at present corralled J : in the feed yards with hay and the j meal ration. This amounts to a colos- i ''jH sal figure for the year's business, ap-proximately ap-proximately S360.000 per year, and gives some idea oC-the extensive work being performed at this place. . oo I' SAME EFFECT. ! First Neighbor My daughter is very IH patriotic. She isn't going to play any ' VM more German music. ' ' Second Neighbor I'm afraid that ;; IH won't help her any. She wilUprobably U play something else jn place of it. Judge. ) 00 ' The British Federation of Engineer- ' . ing and Shipbuilding Trades strongly ., criticises the actiqn of tho Amalga- ' l mated Society of Engineers in with- 1 drawing from the federation. I fl ii 1 |