TACOMA is the chief flour milling city of the Pacific Northwest. The
product of its flour mills in 1903 was valued at $4,075,000. The Puget
Sound Flouring Mills Company operate the largest flour mill in the
State at TACOMA. The Tacoma Grain Company’s mill adjoining Elevator A
was erected in 1902. The Sperry Milling Company, the largest millers in
California, in connection with the Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator Company,
are erecting a large mill on the waterfront adjoining Elevator B. The
Albers Brothers Milling Company are about to erect another large flour
and cereal mill on the City Waterway. The plant of the Pacific Starch
Company, erected at a cost of $108,000 and opened in August, 1903, for
the manufacture of non-chemical wheat starch, is the largest wheat starch
factory in the United States. The Coast Cereal Company have erected this
year and are now operating a large cereal plant at South TACOMA.