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Genesis of German Texas - New Braunfels Early History
Genesis of German Texas New Braunfels, Narrated Historical Summary of Adelsverein Settlement Pattern
Mr. Landa wants the
best that genius can devise or
money can buy. Friendly reader,
if you would appreciate this
great bread factory, come and
see it, as this scribe has just done.
By the courteous head miller,
Mr. Thompson, he was piloted
through long aisles of rollers, purifiers, cleaners, dusters, separators and
whirling sifters that made him dizzy. He wandered around among wheatmills, corn-mills, rye-mills, grits-mills, packers, flying pulleys, whizzing belts
and rattling spouts, received an encyclopedia of information from this quiet
miller and came out a much-befuddled individual. I can't tell you how it's
all done. I only know that the raw grain from North Texas, Oklahoma and
far-away Kansas is poured into a big hopper in the mill by the elevator chute
and lands in the warehouse in neat sacks of meal or flour that would shame
the snow-flake or furnish food for angels.
Though it runs day and night, seven days in the week, the supply is
always two weeks or more behind. There is no need to seek foreign markets,
as this immense product can be sold in Texas. After supplying the local
trade and nearby country stores and villages, to which it is delivered by
wagons, the bulk is shipped to more distant towns and cities in carload lots.
Several traveling salesmen are employed, besides brokers in the commercial
centers. The Landa brands of flour are known to be as good as can be
produced from the choicest wheat, by the most skillful millers, with the latest
improved machinery. His own ample water-power renders him independent
of competition.
ELEVATQR
As an indispensable auxiliary to the flour mill, there is a great, towering,
5-story elevator, capacity 100,000 bushels. The
structure is of brick, wood and sheet metal, standing
upon a concrete foundation. It is conveniently divided
into grain bins and equipped with improved machinery
for expeditiously handling the immense stock kept on
hand. Mr. Landa takes no chances on cornered markets. The flour mill turbine furnishes power to the elevator by a long cable running far up over the warehouse.
AN ORIGINAL TEXAS
LONG HORN
ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER HOUSE
Here is the "Queen of Landaville," a perfect little gem, not large, but
exquisitely beautiful, scrupulously clean, and wonderfully efficient of operation. It is a substantial brick building of half basement and upper story.
Below is the gearing, attached to the big steel shaft of the mill turbine, running to it by an underground passage. Above are five powerful dynamos
belted to the shafting below, that can be set whizzing by pushing a lever.
Onto a great marble slab are attached many mysterious meters, exciters,
switches and things, that would puzzle any but the disciple of the wizard of
Menlo Park. Across the painted floor lie strips of sea-grass carpet. Upon
the walls hang sketches from the park, and about the room stand vases of
flowers and pots of plants. Those humming dynamos run many lights, besides
a power circuit for fans, etc.
On two sides of this cute little power house lies a beautifully terraced lawn
of bermuda, gently sloping to the sparkling water's edge. It is relieved in the
center by a lovely baby fountain in constant play. It is traversed by a
gravelled road-way, flanked by borders of violets and pansies, varied here
and there by clumps of bananas, myrtles, and cannas, all shaded by delightful
hackberries. Here the tired tourist loves to sprawl with his “best summer
girl," for there are no keep-off-the-grass signs. The little plant is susceptible of indefinite expansion.
ICE FACTORY
Adjoining the flour mill, and run by the same turbine, is the ice factory
of brick, wood and metal, three stories from base to condensing tower. In
this commodious structure is installed the plate system of ice making. The
freezing is done by ammonia by reason of its well-known property of rapid
evaporation. Through the center and occupying the greater part of the main
room comprised in the second story is a series of great tanks for the water
to be frozen. They are 12 feet long, 8 feet deep and 56 inches wide. In the
middle of those tanks stand two thin steel plates, 8 by 12 feet, securely
riveted together, leaving between them
a space of three inches for the accommodation of a net work of iron pipes
to convey the ammonia into the tank
of water. This ammonia
is forced through these
pipes by the ponderous engine in the same room
cabled to the motive-shaft
below. It is not true that
ammonia ever touches
the water, for it would
escape and be lost, thus
making icevery expensive. THOROUGHBRED SHORT
HORN CALVES FEEDING
VICTOR
NERO
ROAMER
SAN
MARCOS
BRAUN -
FELS FRIAR
PRIZE BULLS ON THE LANDA
STOCK FARM
The water, though naturally free of objectionable minerals, is first clarified by passing through
a large filter, thence it goes into a reservoir
called the fore cooler,