Yours, with respect, REDINBO, FRETZ & BRO.
D. B. Fretz, } Millers and W. B. Fretz, } Proprietors.
Three Pair of Burrs in a Combined Husk, with Belts.
MONROVIA, Morgan Co., Ind., Feb. 22, 1870. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co.:--
_Gents_:--It has been eight months since you re-fitted our mill. We can run all of the Burrs, (one 42-inch and one 36-inch for wheat, and 30-inch under-runner for corn,) twelve hours on one cord of seasoned beech or sugar-tree wood. With 50 to 60 pounds of steam we grind on each Burr eight to ten bushels per hour. Our customers are highly pleased with their yields and the quality of their flour. In fact, our custom has more than doubled since the introduction of your mills. On our own account, we can say, in simplicity, durability and lightness of running it exceeds our expectations, and, if necessary, at any time can cheerfully recommend to others wishing mill machinery.
MONROVIA, Morgan Co., Ind., May 8, 1872. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co., Richmond, Ind.:--
It is now three years since we overhauled our mill and put in your improved machinery; since which time it has been run almost daily as a custom mill, and in quality and quantity of flour gives universal satisfaction. In fact, the custom increased one-half since its introduction. We find it very permanent and durable, as well as tasteful in style and finish. We can grind at least 10 bushels per hour with each run of burrs, and use from one to one and a fourth cord of wood in ten hours’ grinding on all three stones. We would recommend all desirous of purchasing mill machinery to procure yours, believing their money will be well invested if they do.
_Gents_:--Yours of the 3d inst came duly to hand, making inquiries how we are pleased with our mills that we purchased of you over three years since, (we expected to write you before this.) If you remember our Burrs are sharp old quarry, not very open, and they make very lively flour, and don’ get dull as soon as most others. Our stones are, two pair of upper-runner 3 feet mills. We make a barrel of flour with 3 pecks of coal; we do not know that we could say anything more, excepting that they work fine, and together with the bolt you made for us, make flour that we can find ready sale for in any market along with the best brands. Your flour bolt deserves special mention; with the knockers or “percussion apparatus,” as you term it, which we can stop or start at any time while the mill is running, we are able to keep the bolt clean and bolt through the fine cloth without specking or injuring the flour. The arrangement of the bolt for clean bolting, we think is your best effort.