There big filters helped the mill sort through the flour, for additional milling, for example.
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The last trace of Mitchell, Minnesota is a pile of cans on the side of the main street, Mitchell Avenue. These will be recognizable for another century or so, for future history-minded explorers.
The zebras had the right idea when they saw the pink beds–run.
The incinerator’s hardened steel door… useless, but still sexy in a heavy-industrial kind of way.
A side view of the floatation level. I found it interesting that there were little ladders and staircases in the mill to help workers get around–this place was not as shoddy as other mills I’ve seen.
One of the three ovens where the powder would be heater to over 2000 degrees… hot enough to fuse iron, but not hot enough to liquify it.
Far above the areas that were heavily scrapped, I found some old bottles to collect samples of the sour mash whiskey as it made its was from the distillation room to barrel filling.
2011. Flavored beers are still popular. The flavor concentrates were stored in this bank of fridges.
The flour mill’s interior is really just a system of steel and rubber tubes that crush flour over and over in the gap. This mill was never run off of water power directly, but it used to generate power using the river.
This is the crane that would be used to lower extra-heavy bits of copper ore into the fire of the furnace.