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FILLMOEE COUNTY. 269 



Water-power.] 



The mill of Dickson, Easton and Johnson has a capacity of one hundred barrels per day of 24 

 hours ; 13 feet head, foi r Mulligan wheels (30 36-inch), two run of stone (none for feed), four sets 

 of double, corrugated rollers, and three or four sets of smooth rollers There is also a woolen- 

 mill at Chatfield run by water-power. It is owned by Marsden and son, and has a 48-iiich turbine 

 wheel, giving 20-25 horse-power- The dam is 6 feet 9 inches. The factory has one 40-inch set of 

 woolen machinery. 



On section 34, Sumner, the Tunnel mill on Bear creek has a head of 26 feet, with an average 

 of 39 horse power in summer. During one-tldrd of the year this power is doubled, and in freshet 

 stage of the river it sometimes amounts to a hundred times that. There is about one-third more 

 water in Bear creek at the Tunnel mill than at Odell's. 



On Bear creek, above the Tunnel mVl are the following powers: At Hamilton, one mill, 14 

 feet fall, with nearly as much water as at Lime City ; at Lime City, the old Frazer mill-site, with 

 twelve feet head. By the use of the possible tunnel here this power might be improved. This 

 tunnel, when constructed, would produce a fall of 16 feet, and would be 400 feet in the rock, and 

 500 feet from water to water. With a six-foot dam this fall may be increased to 21 feet. The 

 Tunnel mitt dam "flows back" to the old Frazer site. 



Below the Tunnel mill on Bear creek are the following powers: Stone mill, has one-fourth 

 more water than the I'unnel mill, with ten feet head, with a possibility of twelve ; an unimproved 

 power (12 feet head); Washington mill, 8 feet head, and double the water at the Tunnel mill; Qrei- 

 iier's mill, water about the same as at the Washington mill, head 14 feet: Yeariny's mitt, head 13J 

 feet, same water as at Greiner's ; Thompson's mill, 12 feet head, and ten per cent, more water than 

 at the Washington mill. 



On Deer creek are the following: Weisbach's mill, S. E. J sec. 11, Spiing Valley, fall 5 feet ; 

 Olds' mill and Fritz' mill. 



On Hush creek, see. 3, Kushford, Gore and Company have a flouring mill, with saw-mill 

 machinery connected. It has forty horse-power, 12 to 15 feet head of water, two Leffel wheels, 

 and three run of stone (one for feed). 



At Clear Grit, on the Root river, sec. 22, Carrollton, one flouring-mill. 



At Preston, on the Root river, are one flouring-mill and one woolen-mill. 



At Carimona, on the Root river, is one flouring-mill. 



There is one also at Forestville, on the same stream. 



At Etna is a flouring-mill run by a tributary of the south branch of Root river. 



At Fillmore, on the middle branch of Root river, are two mills. 



At Baldwin's bridge, sec. 21, Forestville, is one mill on the south branch of Root river. 



De For's flouring-mill is on sec. 24, Bloomfleld, on the south branch of Root river. 



There are three flouring-mills at Rushford, one at Peterson, two at Whalen, two at Granger, 

 and three on the south fork of Root river. 



'1 he Hammer mills are owned by Dr. Hammer. They are on Trout run, in Pilot Mound, 

 have eight horse-power, two tribune wheels, three buhrs (one for feed) and 18 feet head, making 

 forty barrels per day. 



At Lanesboro the horse-power of the mills is estimated as follows: Seven cubic feet of water 

 per second, under 26 feet head, is reckoned as one power. Ten of these constitute the capacity of 

 the Lanesboro Company's dam, at lowest water; ordinarily there are four more of these powers 

 available here. James Thompson's mill has the same water; under 17 feet head. The others a} 

 Lanesboro are: White, Nash and Co., six powers ; White and Beynon, four powers. 



At two miles south from Lanesboro is Durschee's mill. This is run by the water that gushes 

 out from the bluff in a single spring It has a 15}-inch Leffel wheel and 28 feet head, and is 

 capable of about v6 horse-power, but as a considerable quantity of the water is wasted, only about 

 fifteen horse-power is actually used. It carries three run of stone. 



At the Tunnel mills, sec. 24 Sumner, advantage has been taken of the winding course of 

 Bear creek. The creek is enclosed on both sides by high rocky walls. A tunnel has been cut 

 through a narrow neck, excavated in the rock, admitting the water, which falls again into the 

 river on sec. 34, producing a fall of 26 feet in 600 feet. The cut in the rock is 600 feet long, for 

 the tunnel, and 100 feet for tail race. At G. Weisbach's mill a similar opportunity is offered. 

 This is on sec. 11, Spiing Valley. By a tunnel of 70 feet through the " hogsback", a fall of 17 

 feet 10 inches may be secured, and at the limekiln of Mr. J. H. Hall, near Weisbach's, a tunnel of 



