Paris Flour Mill
Paris Post, Friday, 25 September 1908, page 1
A representative of the Post visited the Paris Flouring Mills on Tuesday last and found Manager Abel G Rich installing the last of a large number of improvements. The mill has been undergoing general repairs for several weeks past and will be ready to begin work on the fall flouring campaign early next week.
Among the many improvements made at the mill are flue, solid new water flume and penstock. They are constructed of heavy timber throughout and will last an indefinite period. The new flume is fourteen rods long. Another improvement is a solid tail race five rods long, built of cemented rock by Tueller Bros. New belting is being placed throughout the mill, requiring over 300 feet of leather of various widths.
New blus have been built and the gearing has been covered in. It is the intention to install a new turbine wheel and a new graham flour mill in the not too distant future. The mill was built about sixteen years ago and is the only mill on this side of the valley. Its capacity is 50 barrels of flour per 24 hours and it grinds fully 35,000 bushels of wheat each year.
Supt. Rich states far better flour can be made from dry faarm wheat and wheat planted in the fall. He recommends thta the farmers plant grain in the autumn as far as possible, as it will then produce a higher grade of flour nd therefore command a better price.