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Show At a United Order meeting held at Allen Sept. 6, 1877, ani attended by "the brethren of Smith's Lake's " Ballinger's , and " All en ' s Ca mps, t was voted that the new grist-mill b.e."erected at Bro. Ballinger's Dam", and that "we all share equally in the bene fi ts of the mill". * . I find record of either the acquisition or disposition of portable burr-mill" operated by hor se-pcver-, mentioned by Nielson as beig used earlier than the water-powered mill. I remember s ieh a null, owned and operated by horsepower by John McLaws at St. Joseph---we occasionally had corn ground on it. Whether he brought it from Utah on either of his early trips ' or later acquired it, I do not know. no that small The Molasses Mill (sorghum) Cane at St. Joseph produced at St. Joseph nearly, if not quite from the of the settlement. As far back as my memor.y goes we had suf ficient of the molasses for our own use, and often some for or The cane-grinding mill I think was always run by horsepower. sale. The earliest location for the mill that I remember was in the eastern part of was beginning xchange near theftBaptizin' Hil!". The cane juice was collected at the mill barrel; and w ben 'sufficient cane had been ground for a "batch", this was cooked in a baking-pan shaped vat to the required or desired consist This ency for the molasses, over an open or partially enclosed fire. was oourse cane of until the was exhausted---the repeated process supply vat, of course, being completely emptied and washed clean between the town, in a "batches". later changed to the northwest corner of It was here that the new lIevaporator" Wash. Joseph town, was installed, with a much better arrangement for the continuous and mucj cane-mill---still operated The more rapid production of the molasses. the of two animals, was placed up a hillside by horsepower, perhaps by For the collection of the a convenient distance above the evaporator. at the cane-mill were used---one barrels two cane-juice and its storage, two connected the the of and the other at the nearend evaporating vat; as The be turned needed. could the juice by a pipe-line through which side from to side and fro to evaporator had a continuous channel running the of cane the .;" which in of the evaporator, for the whole The molasses-mill site the . near was the St. length be acce!tlerated or r-t:,:.·d as desired !.,.. t·e cooking. Of course the juice W coked as it passed along the long channel. A small group of careful operators might keep the whole'process going to thefar end of the e\9aporator, where the frc +! cane juice coUld steadily pile might be steadily trickling single "batch" system. .. finished molasses ment over the The product, carefully ma«e, furnished a out---a syrup; appetzing "kl..tchen. seo one the farther cooked to candy consistr.oy used at entertainments, for holidays, for Santa Claus' being and at we public or private "candy-pulling" parties, older children and our forebears. great improve so ve, and was annua deliveries, much enJoyed by |
