Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — CURIOUS OLD GRIST MILL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CURIOUS OLD GRIST MILL

* One of the most curious Industrial j>lan.s in the West isjitae old HolWnd type of grist .mill. .at. Benson, near Bloomington, ill. It wajp. erectpd’ 7;«p*rard of thirty years ago, and is still

doing business. It is operated by wind power, re-enforced by a small engine, which can be called into use whenever nature s agent falls in its adequacy. I he tall circular building is surmounted by four huge wings, each of which is forty feet in length, or eighty in the length of each pair. The mill is sixty feet high and is quite attractive for artists who .desire a picturesque bit of rural- Scenery.