One of the principal businesses in McConnell was a farm implement and lumber store. This is too new to have been bought there, but I like that it’s still on the edge of town. It’s more comfortable than the emptiness beyond, that used to be a little prairie town.
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An old stoker in a power plant that was abandoned long before the mill next to it, by all indications. Sugar mills burned dry beet pulp pellets for fuel.
Part of the grain dust venting system, dislodged from its place above the dumping hatches under the grain cribs.
A shot of Longmont from the highway. Fuji 35mm.
The first step of the filtering process is being spun through this tube.
A row of houses north of Pommenige.
The workshop sat below the main working floor and had serious power going to it.
Note the large belt pulley in the center of the frame. Follow the axel it’s on and you’ll see several belts still attached to the drive, which was originally steam-driven.
The white mark allowed for a manual RPM check on this big steel flywheel on the ground floor. Note how dark the bottom level of the mills is—that’s because all of the equipment is blocking out the light.
The end of the heating line allowed glass to cool slowly, and thus be stronger.