Sirs:—I thank you a thousand times for making me acquainted with the self-tramming driving irons; they are the best improvement on mill burrs I ever saw. The spindle is always in perfect tram with the face of the runner, and it is no trouble at all to test and keep it in running balance. The stone keeps in better face and I do not have to dress my burrs half as much. It is just what we have been needing. I can make a bigger yield and clearer flour and grind more per horse power. It is astonishing how smooth the stone runs and evenly it grinds. In the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, by actual count, I have run and managed twenty-seven run of stones, and I have not stated to you anything but what I can show here to any one. I sent you Mr. Ringer, or he probably would not have found you out, I believe he ordered a pair of 42-inch stones with the self-tram irons. It gives me pleasure to recommend a good job.
Yours, as ever,
Jacob Myers.
Three 30 Inch Pulley Mills.
Whitestown, Ind., Jan. 11, 1869.
Nordyke, Marmon & Co.—Gentlemen:—The mills we purchased of you are two run, of 30-inch upper-runner pulley mills, iron back and balance, for wheat—and one under-runner 30-inch mill for grinding corn, rye, buckwheat, &c. Our power is a 20 foot boiler, 42 inches diameter, and engine 8 inch cylinder and 20 inch stroke, speed 150 revolutions per minute; speed of mills 300 revolutions. The average grinding is 7 bushels of wheat per hour to each wheat run—and of good wheat we make our customers 40 pounds of flour to the bushel after tolling—the quality, our customers say, is the best in the market. We run the three mills, two smut machines, of your make, screen and three reels with 65 pounds of steam, and use from 1½ to 2 cords of wood per day.
Respectfully, yours,
Osborn & Dye.
Under date of September 6, 1869, in a letter from the same mill, they say, “Our mills are doing well, making 40 pounds of good merchantable flour to the bushel, after tolling one-eighth.”
N., M. & Co.
We forbear to extend the publication of the large amount of similar testimony in our possession, as these statements from many points of the country widely distant from each other, indicate the various conditions under which our mills are placed and operated. We hope they will be found useful and instructive.