Gazette Of The United States

WILMINGTON, March 2.

We are happy to inform our readers, that the improvements in grist-mills, lately invented by a citizen of this state, Mr. Oliver Evans, are increasing very rapidly in public estimation. Every part of the machinery in which those improvements consist, is now in use at the Brandywine Mills, and is highly approved of. The wheat elevator has been lately applied, for the first time, to unload a shallop; it elevates 300 bushels per hour, and enables the miller to convey his wheat to any granary in the mill without the assistance of manual labor. To such perfection are our grist and merchant mills brought, by the assistance of those improvements, that we may say, perhaps without boasting, that they are not equalled in the world. The machinery is so well applied, that from the time the wheat leaves the waggoner's bag, the measurer's half-bushel or the vessel's hold, as the case may be, no manual labor is required, but the wheat is converted into superfine or other flour, fit for packing, entirely by the effect of the machinery. Mr. Evans has obtained a patent for his discovery, which we are happy is like to turn out much to his advantage.