Show jerra Y hirju TS A thi P IP I 1 A PLANT BOTTLING WORKS TO BE MOST MODERN IN THE WEST government pipe line requiring in revinue inspection will be something new work will begin at once upon a new three story brick building to be used exclusively by the beaker brewing and malting company of this city as a bottling department the structure will be erected at and lincoln avenue where the other buildings of the concern are now located athla in addition to the other structures composing the plant will make it one of the most extensive and best equipped between chicago and the pacific coast upon his return recently from chicago G L beckar president of the company came prepared with plans especially made for his company by louis kehlet son this firm making a specialty of brewery plans it Is estimated that the cost of the new building will be including ma chinery the greater part of this sum will be expended in this city and vicinity the machinery will be obtained in the enist and will be of the moat modern pattern thero will be three floors and the new building will face tho east on tho first floor will be what Is known as alio government room containing immense glass enameled tanks of a pattern now used only in the great breweries of the world on the next floor will be the machinery necessary to the bottling department and on the top acor will be the repair shops and storage rooms for reserve stocks of bottles and empty packages prom end to end the building will be feet long by 50 feet in depth solidly constructed of brick ana steel it la designed to withstand the weight of heavy machinery arid the attendant vibration white pressed brick will be used and the foundation will be constructed of stone an innovation in the bottling of beer introduced in but few eastern breweries and none in this western country will be installed by the decker company instead of placing the amber fluid in casks and then conveying the kegs to the bottling department where their contents are drawn oi into bottles a government pipe line will bo utilized saving both time and labor running from the immense vats in lie brew house the pipeline two inches in ll ameter and more than deot in length will bo underground into the bottling building di to the glass tanks process of draving the beer froia the gigantic vats into bottles Is a most interesting one during the en tire process hardly a hand is brought into play almost all the work Is done mechanically and by this means in an absolutely clean manner cleanliness Is the watchword and the safeguard with this company as it is with every other first class brewing concern every bottle ia first vashond by complicated machinery in a strong solution of caustic bioda thus killing au foreign matter and rendering absolutely clean every bottle to be used from this contrivance which Is known as tho bottle soaking machine the glass receptacles are then carried by machinery to a bottle wash ing apparatus where they are again treated to a cleaning then to the bottle rynsor they are conveyed where the cleaning process is further carried on until the bottles glisten like crystal to a wonderful machine known as the filler the shining bottles arc next carried where with a gurgle and u cheerful cluck the health giving liquor is forced into them without the slightest exposure to the air tha beer that fills these bottles is forced by pressure from the enormous tank located in tho brewery cellars through the government pipe line to the fillers where it soon looms through the glass bottles then the corking machine is brought into play and with remarkable accuracy and speed the bottles are hermetically bringing into the manufacture of beer the science and knowledge of dr louis pasteur the famous specialist of paris the bottles are then subjected to what 1 termed pasteurization a method of purification by heat automatically conveyed to the labeling machine the bottles are abea place dinto what looks like a peculiar printing press where they are labeled with the paper of the becker brewing malting company all this Is automatically done with power furnished by manufactured in the companas comp anys own plant which Is also lighted by the same system the new bottling plant will have a capacity of barrels a day or double the present capacity this means quart bottles of beer will leave the plant every day together with other complicated and modern mechanical wonders employed in the bottling department a system known as the gravity conveyor will be used to carry both empty and filled cases of bottled beer to the proper repositories depositories deposit ories made necessary by the installation of the new government pipe line a special united states deputy internal revenue collector will be appointed tor ogden papers are now on file with the slates revenue department for the appointment of a deputy collector for athla city despite the eager efforts of eastern concerns to gain a foothold in this territory the becker brewery IB doing a greater business than ever before and is extending its trade in all directions the beer is making its own name the brewery Is the only one in the state whose output requires a special track tor shipping purposes |