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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



6000 yards were used. The sand is prepared for use by shoveling 

 it into a sand drier at the outside of the building, from which 

 it is conveyed by a bucket elevator to the top of the building and 

 passed through a screen, falling into a storage bin. From the 

 bin it is conducted to hopper scales, where it is mixed with 

 the stucco and other ingredients, coming out the finished 

 product. 



During the past fiscal year, it is stated, 3000 tons of land 

 plaster, 15,000 tons of stucco and 15,000 tons of wall plaster 

 were sold from these mills. The Lycoming Calcining Co. is 

 expecting to supply 200 tons of stucco a week to the Sackett 

 Wall Board Co., which has just erected an extensive factory at 

 this place. 



At the works of the Consolidated Wheatland Plaster Co., lo- 

 cated at Wheatland Center, about 2y 2 miles northeast of Cale- 

 donia and 16 miles from Rochester, the manufacture of land 

 plaster is conducted on a larger scale. The property is admira- 

 bly located both for mining and grinding the gypsum rock. The 

 concern owns 37 acres of land in fee simple, on which is lo- 

 cated a never failing water supply capable of developing 100 to 

 150 horse power. Beside this, the company owns the bed of 

 Allen's creek, from Wheatland Center for about 1 mile to the 

 east, with all the water rights and privileges to high water mark. 

 It also leases 86 acres of gypsum on the north side of Allen's 

 creek. The water power makes the production very cheap. The 

 company has two large mills, one of which, the lower, is oper- 

 ated entirely by water power supplied by Allen's creek, and the 

 other, known as the " Upper," or " Strobel mill," by water and 

 steam power. The capacity of both mills is about 80 to 100 

 tons of crushed and ground plaster each day of 24 hours. 



At the lower mill the gypsum is crushed with the Good Roads 

 Machinery Co.'s " Champion rock crusher " and ground with a 

 common underrunner, 42 inch Munson mill. At the upper mill 

 the company has water power enough to operate one run of 

 Munson millstones with a large pot crusher. In the busy season 

 steam can be put on if necessary, and two runs of 42 inch under- 

 runner Munson mills operated. This upper mill is equipped with 



