238 THE GEOLOGY OF MINNESOTA. 



[Water-power. 



On the Rollingstone creek at Minnesota City, the Ellsworth mills ; owned by A. D. Ellsworth ; 

 nine feethead; fifty-six-inch Leffel wheel ; five sets of Stephen's rollers; formerly six buhrs (run 

 one set of buhrs now); hundred and fifty barrels per day. 



On the Rollingstone creek, at Minnesota City, the Winona county mills ; owned by Otto 

 Troost ; sixteen feet head (also have steam); Houston wheel (turbine) of one hundred horse- power ; 

 twenty-eight sets of Allis rollers (some of Noyes) of which twenty-three sets are double ; capacity 

 three hundred and fifty barrels per day. 



On the west branch of the Rollingstone creek, sec. 7, Rolliugstone, the Kollingstone valley 

 mills; owned by Julius Seemann ; nine feet head (can be made more); thirty-five-inch Case turbine 

 wheel; twenty-five horse-power; custom; three run of stone (one for feed). 



On the west branch of the Rollingstone creek, sec. 23, Norton ; custom mill, owned by Wil- 

 helm Rubrecht ; eighteen feet head ; fifteen horse-power ; three single rollers and one buhr. 



On Pleasant Valley creek, sec. 1, Wilson; custom mill, owned by M. J. Laird; seventeen 

 feet head; Flenekin's twenty-inch turbine wheel; five hundred and sixty cubic feet of water 

 per minute ; fourteen horse-power ; three run of stone, all for wheat. 



On Big Trout creek, at Pickwick, the Pickwick mills, owned by W. Davis and Co.; twenty- 

 inch Flenekin turbine wheel ; twenty-eight feet head ; thirty-seven horse-power ; four run of stone ; 

 two sets single rollers : seventy barrels per day, shipped at Lamoille. 



On Big Trout creek, N. W.} sec. 18, Richmond, feed mill, owned by John Hatch; fourteen 

 feet fall. This is a good power, but not all improved. 



On Pine creek at New Hartford, custom mill, owned by Jos. Blumentritt and Bro.; seven- 

 teen feet head ; twelve horse-power ; three run of stone (one for feed); turbine and overshot wheels; 

 also steam for winter. 



On Money creek, sec. 20, Wiscoy ; mill owned by Overbeck and Pirseh ; fifteen feet head; 

 two large buhrs (one for feed); thirty- six-inch American turbine wheel ; forty-five barrels per day, 

 shipped at Rushford.* 



On Money creek, sec. 16, Wiscoy ; small custom mill owned by L. J. Clark ; nine feet head 

 two buhrs (one for feed); thirty-inch turbine wheel (La Crosse and Craig). 



On Trout run, one mile north of Troy, in Saratoga, custom mill, owned by C. Forket ; seven 

 and a half feet water head ; seventeen feet dam ; one breast- wheel, one buhr, about fifteen horse- 

 power ; capacity in barrels unknown. 



On Rush creek, sec. 7, Hart. This mill has been abandoned for six years. It is owned now 

 by a gentleman in Winona named Garlick ; the dam was carried away by high water, and gradu- 

 ally the mill itself has been torn down ; nothing could be learned of the water-power, nor of the 

 capacity of the mill. 



On Rush creek, section 29, Hart ; custom mill owned by F. Lehnertz ; eleven feet head ; 

 twenty-four horse-power; two run of stone (one for feed); Mulligan wheel, of Lansing, Iowa; 

 twenty-five barrels per day ; market in Winona. 



On Pine creek, section 26, Fremont ; custom mill, owned by C. M. Miles ; eight and a half 

 feet fall ; twelve horse-power ; "counter-pressure" turbine wheel, patented by Mr. Miles, and made 

 in Lake City; two smooth buhrs (one for feed); ten barrels per day. 



On Trout run at Troy ; the Troy mills ; owned by II. Ahrens ; custom and merchant mill ; 

 eighteen feet fall ; one Whitmore wheel and one Houston ; twenty horse-power on one wheel and 

 twelve oa the other; three buhrs (one for feed); one wheel runs the feed and the other the wheat 

 buhrs ; sometimes both wheels are run constantly, depending partly on the water, and partly on 

 the supply of feed ; but much of the time only the wheat wheel runs ; capacity fifty barrels per 



day. 



On Trout creek, sec. 32, Saratoga, Hampton mills, owned by J. O. Rafter and O. S. Morrill ; 

 fourteen feet head; eighty horse-power; two turbine wheels (Leffel's and John's); four buhrs 

 (one for feed); fifty barrels per day. 



Topography. The surface of this county is undulating, rolling or hilly. 

 It is more uneven in the eastern and northern portions than in the west- 



*At the time this mill wag visited the dam had been destroyed ,by freshet, and the mill had been stopped for about 

 a year. 



