The grist mill has a pair of French burs, and complete machinery for making and bolting superfine flour.
A man named Thomas owned the Eagle grist mall in the Rogue River valley, Oregon.
This young fellow, finding that we were getting out of flour, remained at Waiilatpu as there was no man to run the grist mill.
I also visited two grist mills operated by horses on a treadmill, which was a large wooden wheel turned on its side, so the horses could stand on it.
The water from the spring now runs a little grist mill a short distance below it.
The fourth article of the treaty of 1828 contained a provision requiring the United States to sell the property and improvements connected with the agency for the erection of a grist and saw mill for the use of the Indians in their new home.
In lieu of this grist and saw mill the United States furnished them with patent corn-mills to the amount of the appraised value of the improvements.
It appears to consist of gatherings from the grist of a respectable and old-established mill, whose brand is familiarly known wherever mild magazines and sensation periodicals have penetrated.
The grist they grind is all the bread he has whereon to feed his soul.
Well, father, I don't suppose thee'd ever forget, and toll a grist twice!
I've got a grist back here; wish ye could manage to let me have it when I come back from store.
The grist was ground and delivered before Friend Barton went in to his supper that night.
In front of him lay the precious sack, containing the grist which was to be ground into meal or flour, to feed the hungry mouths of the seven little boys and girls who, with the widowed mother, made up the Clay family.
All is grist that comes to the mill,' and the larger the mill the more grist only is required.
Thus has the work of this tribunal gone on, with its daily grist of opinions on almost every conceivable phase of the transportation business.
To these may be added a large grist of statutes dealing with almost every detail of operation or service.
The sails of the mill had been going round and round for many a day, and hundreds of sacks of grist had been ground, when one night Mark was roused from his sleep by the sound of the wind howling round the house.
People knew that if they brought grist to his mill, they would be sure to have it ready ground at the day and hour they had named, if the wind blew to turn the sails.
They had much grist to grind, and they were in a hurry; so the miller climbed along one of the arms with the tools he wanted, and Sam went along another.
But he was wont to growl out, "The wind is sure to drop when I have most grist to grind--just to spite me.
In a short time the mill, rebuilt with sound timbers and strong machinery, was going round as merrily as ever, and grinding as much if not more grist than it did in former days.
I'll not give in," he said to Sam Green, as they sat on the steps of the mill, while the grist they had just put in was grinding.
And those mills stand upon the site of the first grist mill in New England to be run by water power.
They have lately had built, out of their own means, a good saw and grist mill, with two run of stones, one for corn and the other for wheat.
You shall hear from me, the very first grist I get from my rhyming-mill.
Ne'er sae murky blew the night That drifted o'er the hill, But a bonnie Peg-a-Ramsey Gat grist to her mill.
The good you would put in a mill to watch the stones grind, and the bad you would put on a prairie alone to make the grist for the grinding.
A good saw mill on the bank of the river five miles above, a grist mill worked by hand, but intended to work by water.
The justice courts in olden times were held under the oaks in summer and in blacksmith shops and grist mills in colder weather, and here when law was not made, the politics and gossip of the day were often discussed.
Nearly all worked on shares, land was rented on shares, grist mills operated on shares, as well as saw mills.
Saw mills and grist mills were erected so as to supply the local trade with enough materials for building, and enough food to live on, but that was all.
THE FIRST GRIST MILL There has been more or less controversy as to the name of the man who erected the first grist mill in Linn county.
These were followed by grist mills to make flour for the settlers, and for many years the mills at both places were run at their full capacity.
The John McQueen grist mill which began operation about 1854 on Buffalo creek, a mile southwest of Prairieburg, was a noted mill in its day and was largely patronized by the early settlers.
The boiler of the "Rose" was shipped to Solon to be placed in the grist mill, and the engine was sent to Spirit Lake, while Captain Elias Doty bought the hull for a mere song in 1884.
Glass had already a small grist mill on McCloud's Run and a saw mill had been started on Indian creek which furnished lumber till the saw mill on the Cedar river was completed.
Bennett was an enterprising, public-spirited man and had a quantity of workmen and retainers helping build the first grist mill at Quasqueton, on the Wapsipinicon river.
The mill did a flourishing business grinding all kinds of grain, but of late years has only been used as a grist mill.
He afterward built a grist mill on Big creek or purchased one built by John Oxley which was swept away in the spring of 1851, when Mann lost his life, refusing to leave his mill which, he said, "was dearer to him than his own life.
This afternoon while very busy unpacking a box in the store room to carry up stairs to hide grist in, the alarm was given that the cavalry had come to burn the cotton.
They took gristand poultry, shooting down the latter about the yard.
He made preparations for building a stone grist mill, and in spite of all former warnings began to build it on the concession line adjoining his saw mill.
A grist mill was erected on the small island where now the present bridge rests one of its piers, and the saw mill stood exactly on the site of one of McLachlin's lumber mills, on the east side of the river.
The walls of the grist mill having never reached further than one storey, still remain in ruins on the concession line, near the spot where the saw-mill once stood, a monument of the Chief's folly and futile revenge.
