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Hawkeye Oil Mills
| Name | Hawkeye Oil Mills |
| Ortssitz | Marshalltown (Iowa) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Ölmühle |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: südlich vom Linn Creek. Gründer: Abbott, Knisely & Glick. Das Hauptgebäude hat einen 45 x 50 ft. großen Anbau und einen weiteren (Ziegelbauten). |
| Quellenangaben | [History of Marshall County (1878)] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1872 |
Gründung durch Abbott, Knisely & Glick |
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Kommentar |
| Leinöl |
1878 |
[Hist. of Marshall County] |
1878 |
[Hist. of Marshall County] |
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| ZEIT | 1878 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | This industry consists of the manufacture of linseed oil and oil cake. The mills are located in the southern portion of the city, south of Linn Creek. The main building is quite a large building, but the increasing business of the mills compelled an addition 45x40 feet in size, and a second addition 40x80 feet-all of brick. The mills arc supplied with the very best of machinery. The milling stones weigh five tons apiece. The crack rolls each weigh 1,000 pounds, and are eleven inches in diameter, and forty-two inches long. The massive iron presses are four in number, and each has a capacity of 475 tons. The capacity of the mills is 1,000 gallons of oil per day, employing eighteen men, and riming night and day: 1120,00(1 bushels of seed was consumed in 1877/78 in the mill, for which was paid an average of $1 per bushel. A first-class horizontal engine of forty horsepower, is used in operating the machinery. There are twenty-seven bins in the mills, each holding 2.000 bushels of seed. The storing capacity is about 800 barrels of oil in each tank; there are two large tanks outside the building, and several inside; the building where the oil is boiled is situated a distance from the main building. Great care has to be exercised in this branch of the work, as the oil is very inflammable. About forty-five tons of oil cake is manufactured per week. There is manufactured and leaves the mill every day on an average of one car-load of oil and cake. The mill receives by way of freight, barrels, etc. about 800 car-loads per annum. Mr. F. B. Woodruff is Foreman of the works, and has charge of all the work. The sales of the works are in Boston, New York, and other Eastern cities, Chicago, and in fact, all over the Northwest and West. |
| QUELLE | [History of Marshall County (1878)] |
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