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Show I HUNDREDS THRONG SPERRY MILLS FOR OPENING H. . a, . , - . i CROWD AMAZED HI SIZE AND FINE FEATURES Citizens Express Pride in Latest Addition to Ogden s List ot Industries repressions of congratulation Inter- . mingled wuh word.- Of .appreciation were heard at the banquet tin JIOOD I slgnslllzlng the formal opening r.f the ftperry Flour mill, which h heen un-i H der construction foi years diaries II Barton, president of the Nation) Rank of Commerce, who1 was president of trie Wet i dab at th time plans tor I he Spcrry null . -niniefi definite proportions Wal toaai master. He was Introduced by : ! r. Hark, special train buyer for thej B ' company, find its principal local rep-i rcsentailve during the earl) months "i H: i lion. I OTHER Kl'l I REUS. Mr. Karton spoke reminiscent ly ami, reviewed efforts pill forth by the club In assurlnc the Bperi people that i k-ilen k-ilen was the loglesl plaei foi their, new inland mill. f her speakers were SOward B MC-Nenr MC-Nenr viOt president and general men-sRr-r of the Sperry Flour company, - who cam- from San Francisco t-. par-, t ; t ipate In the opening of the new unit; j. m Parker, loenl manager for the sperry compRny; Bx-Governor Plmon Bamberger. V. , Wain-. ,,ieni of ihe Weber club; '. 1 1 DeVlne ' 'gden attorney: Mayor Kiauk Pran- i. who represented the eltj nod welcomed wel-comed to Ogden Its Ug.tet industrial) tcqulettlon. ,Mt IT I t N HI Seated ut '.he hill' hcon talile wen more than 5o men and women, Lii-1 Lii-1 eluding men prominent tn business, i; industrial and railroad cir le- of the H' ' Adorning Ihe tabli huge V kets of Dowers, compllmenta otber .! Kiain and milling ompanh s in H . I den! Fastened to the flowers w.i- a H j card, hearing this legend, Beat Wish- Ural! 0,9 'or lnc future." and carrying these H j names: Albrrs Brol 'w.iln ft H Milling company, inland Grain com- H party, tioiley Milling compa Members of Ihe Weber club, Rov- H tary eiub. Progressive Business club, I Kiwanls club wcr Hn Mayor Franlt Prancla hosen H to start the mill in operation and ai H 1:45 p. m.. he threw oxer a lever that H set In motion the tvheela running the. H Intricate machinery of thr flour H ufacturlng M. VISIT IRS MAZK1I. Visitors were amased H the mill. To On uninitiated; mill H with its hundreds of machines, lis no' - H work of diatributors, cnnu'vur? other apparatus i to n - H laiinnship with one an'Othei H Visitors were the HQ)1 point w hf re grail unloaded to H place where Snw flopj Pome (lonrinir through loading ma-H ma-H chine into aa The craln. arriving the H mill Is "spotted" in the H between the head house nnyd thi H Here, with the wheal H scooped into a grating-covered H t'onvevor pick tip the grain H start it Into the III VI 1 I M Wi n H The grain is conducted through H spouts to g machlfaa which H the dust and dlri from the then goes into a wheal wt ih i large machine compof i of rollera, In iu. the wheat is waahCd anl partially I 'Irled before proceedlpg on'Jta jui Lj Pey to the eleVatora The wheat is hed as a preliminary step to "tom-m "tom-m pcrlng" It. the "tempering'' process be- 1 Ing necesnr-. v,, i (,r n.-ll. of the wheat kernel will become separ-'' j .'iefi from the outside covering, which roes to make bran. After being a onr-ed. onr-ed. the wheal is taken to the sixteen huge elevators, where It is stored o sn (D i a k tt. 1 The second floor, or pucker floor 1 Ol the mill la the place where ih xruests of ihe mill are being entertam- H I 0: Kight floui packers are located H on this floor and it Is here thai I hi H flour la sacked and made ready for H I The floors th-oughou( the mill are llHHlHI of hard WOOd and the walls are fln- iahed In white enamel, giving 'the fcn-i fcn-i tire place an atmosphere ol spotlesa- Th i hli .i ooi ol the mill jilace where the feed packers aj-c sil-'i uated ii d it is here that the by-pro-duets of the flour nro loaded into, sacks. Motors which operate the machinery ma-chinery throughom the plant are lo- j cated on this floor. i i i iPl R : li ins. There are two separate and distinct i general operations in milling;, it was: explained. First, thi minting proper. and si I. Ih- ClCiaUlllg Of the wheat' and the elitnlhattop of flour dust. i The largest nn.io.-. one Of ISO horse-power, horse-power, operates the mitltiiK machinery, while the le"si r notr. of 7. horsepower, horse-power, operates the apparatus for, jrleanlnp the gi Itin. The fourth floor of the mill Is de- ivblcd to milling. Si xteen roller mills! arc 1 .i t , I ii ilii; h,.i, ,i ml thej Iwnfeai that ennus Into the i"i" ' Igronnd through these miliK Th Igronnd vsh' Ll la i " i , I through silken cloths of various textures and the various var-ious parts of wheal are separated! I through these mills, 'th flour, bran, gcrmade, and oth- ler by-piod acta if flout1 are separated! at these machines jr.d tire sent off lrt scores of spouts epher to the f eed loading floor or the flour loading: floor. FOOD IN . K - A portion of the fifth floor is doc-! doc-! orated with :he finished pro due's of 'the mill various package of foodstuffs food-stuffs put out b) the company are on display on this floor. The red pa'-k-, ages containing Uie Speery produclsj I havg iiecn tastefully grouped The I'U'il (ininatini: niotiT in i h- le, oim t ion : wTre sacks 01 'Drifted Bnow" flour.; vhlch, Isitor.j were informed, reprc-Rented reprc-Rented the best ijuality of flour thai U wag possible to turn out. The second grade flour is for sal to other cus-j loin era than housewives it wai staled. I but the best flour of the null. Which 'was pure white, in color, will be fea-Itured fea-Itured by the company as the flour which housewives will want j A bridge extends from the head-house head-house to the -min on the fifth floor and In the headiiouse, visitors were (shown manholes and Informed that ihev were the opening" of the wheat .i 1 1 ir - eighteen in number. In(?e-, In(?e-, nlous machinery for the unloading ot jlhe wheat Into the elevators Is In this i section of th plant On the sixlh floor wa one of the most novel sets of machinery In the mill. This machinery is a set of shimmying sifters and when n motion, mo-tion, perform gyrations and evolutions evolu-tions that make Ihe onlooker dizzy The machines s dozen in number are for the purpose of shaking the fbiui I through meshes of silken cloth. On the seventh floor visitors were shown the bins to ihe loading machines ma-chines which extend through several floors of the building. The bins seven sev-en or eight In number, will hold jll the flour turned out In 3 hours at the mill, approximately 3,000 barrels. It was said. . OOI I I 1 i Ks , , 1 1 1 XT Fourteen dust collectors, which are guaranteed to eliminate danger of a flour dut explosion, are located on the top floor of the mill. Kmli of these dust collectors la made up of a number of units re-sembling re-sembling vacuum cleaners. The dual from Ihe entire mill is sucked to these collectors and unloaded into a bin. It i was explained, and In this manner the flour particles, capable of causing an' I explosion, are kept from floating about (ln the air. In telling of the loading machinery at the mill, mention of the gigantic' scales in the head house of the mill' i has been overlooked. U ILKfi IXTMIICKTING ( This weighing apparatus capable of weighing w heat In I arload lots n the laboratory of the mill, located 'near the office, we saw S set of calM so accurals that they were capable lof weighing a person's initials, written writ-ten on a bit of paper. tin the roof of the mill, and at the bottom portion of the houaini; whili has been Installed an a support for the VH'or tank which supplies the sprink-J jler system of the mill, la a conservatory. conserva-tory. With four glasw walls, ample sunlight, and heat from the mill. hun- jdreds of potted plants are now thriving thriv-ing In the conservatory . The coUeo-l tion will be added to and within a! .short time will be one of the largest I collections of plants in Ogden GOl '! ii w OF OGDl n A genuine "hirdseye" vie ,.f tig. Jen can be obtained from Die roof of the mill Lawne are in the course of preparation and the Ironwork fence land gate has been constructed across Wall avenue. A circular cement dtlv-. j fiower bed-, .itid other niiprov ,im ni ' . " ! arc being added at the mill. Ahov the office building of the plant la situated sit-uated the laboratory. "What s perfectly wonderful kitchen." kit-chen." women visitors exclaimed upon up-on entering the laboratory Finished in white tile, uoii presenting a formidable for-midable display of electric ovens, retorts, re-torts, shelves nnd cupboards, the laboratory lab-oratory was Indeed pleasant to the eve. While in the laboratory visitors saw apparatus for measuring fractl ' a. drop of wiili r. tiny platinum bowli worth 3 jo each; a ma' bin'- which though i i oa tins an almost perfect vaiuum, w-.-.s , pi id of drawing iik.i.-lure iik.i.-lure from a solid, an electric oven in which experimental bread is dally baked, bak-ed, and scale's whle-i, if we hi ard correctly, cor-rectly, would accurately weigh a gnat's eyebrow. I mi R is i IDE. In one section of the laboratory i5 a miniature flour mill. Complete In every detail, and ll Is in this mill thai tests of w heal li . en. -i arc made Hatches of hgcftd are dally made ai tin laboratory, under exactly the same conditions and with the same Ingredients. Ingred-ients. If a leaf happens tn differ from the standard the chemist determine what is wrong and perhaps hi U ' will result in the repairing Of Bom Ol the large-t anil most delicate machinery machin-ery in tin bbj mill. |