Messrs. Nordyke, Marmon & Co.:—
Gentlemen:—It has now been ten months since we started our mill, purchased of you, and you will, no doubt, be glad to hear that it more than fills your representations of its good qualities. We make flour that brings the highest price, and have competition of other mills at almost our doors. The mills, bolt, and all in our opinion excels in style and finish all other mills we have seen, and one of our firm has owned and used for many years several of the leading kinds now advertised and for sale. The temper and sharpness of the burrs are very good. With our power it takes near one cord of wood to make 20 barrels of flour. The quality and yield of the flour cannot be surpassed by any mill, as we take it all out, leaving the offal clean. If we need any thing more in your line, will let you know at once, because you have so far fully met our wants.
Yours, truly,
Bolton & Wood.
Would not Exchange their Mill for anything Known.
Nineveh, Johnson Co., Ind., Nov. 28, 1867.
Messrs. Nordyke, Marmon & Co.:—
Gentlemen:—You will please find enclosed four hundred and eleven dollars, the amount of note and interest of the note we gave you, due on the 30th inst., which note you will please send us marked paid. Our mill is still doing a splendid business. We make the best flour in this section of the country, and as much to the bushel. We weighed one man’ wheat—19 bushels, then weighed the flour, after taking one-eighth toll, and made him 41 pounds to the bushel. The burrs and their gearing work very nicely. To use a common expression, they cannot be beat; would not exchange them for anything known. We can grind as much in a given time as any of the large merchant mills; make better flour and as much to the bushel. We can grind fifteen bushels per hour on either of the wheat run, and forty bushels of corn on the corn run, with a 20-horse engine, 10 by 16 inch cylinder, and uses about one cord of good wood in ten hours, for driving one wheat and the corn run. The meal is of even quality, and well ground. The only fault found with our flour is, one man says, his “wife set rising in the morning and had to bake bread before dinner, when flour that she had used heretofore would wait till after dinner.” This, however, is easily remedied.
Yours, with much respect,
Barnett, Jones & Pudney.
Nineveh, Johnson Co., Ind., Oct. 18, 1869.
Messrs. Nordyke, Marmon & Co.:—