Hundred Springs Mill – Up to Date in Everything

Hundred Springs Park has become a very popular resort for picnicking and camping parties. With the water shooting out from under almost every creek and its otherwise romantic features, these who seek a day's rest from the labors of life turn to this pretty and exhilarating spot to be refreshed and made anew for further work. The accumulated water from these gushing springs drive the wheels that grind out the popular Leader Flour at the Hundred Springs Flour mill located on the shore of the Blue Juniata. The Mill known for perhaps seventy-live years as the McGahan mill; always popular, but never more so than now, because of its ability to turn out flour capable of making the best bread.

Though the great stone walls of this institution stand as they did many years ago, the inside of the building has undergone many changes. The present arrangement comprises a complete outfit of the very latest machinery for the manufacture of flour by the roller process. Everything from start to finish is modern. One of the secrets in the manufacture of good flour is to see that the wheat is perfectly clean before it enters the crusher. At the Hundred Springs Mill the wheat goes through three processes of cleansing while the grain is yet whole and plump as when it passed through the thresher in the waving field. And the mill itself is exceptionally clean.

At Hundred Springs Mill fall and spring wheat are used in such proportions as to make the best flour that can be manufactured. Add to this the modern appliances of this up-to-date institution, with the most intelligent manipulation, and everything is complete for turning out just such flour as the Leader brand, manufactured by J. H. Miller & Co., the firm that operates the Hundred Springs mill, with business office in Tyrone, Our popular citizen, J. H. Miller, being the manager, while his brother, J. O. Miller, a thoroughly practical miller, superintends the mill itself.

The capacity of this mill is 80 to 85 barrels of flour per day. Most of its output is consumed in this immediate community, which alone is conclusive evidence of the popularity and superiority of the Hundred Springs Mill Leader Flour. When you visit Hundred Springs for pleasure, drop by the mill and see the operations of the modern machinery for the manufacture of flour. There you will find Mr. Miller. the miller in his milling clothes, a genial and courteous gentleman.