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R. Cooper, Riverside Mills
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland Issued August 22,1902 by the Welland Telegraph Sears & Sawle, Publishing]
One of the most enterprising and progressive of Welland’s wide awake citizens is Mr Robert Cooper, who has not only built up a most successful flour, grain and farm seed trade in Welland and its contiguity, but in connection with Welland’s progressive constituency, has been instrumental in the advancement of the town’s interests in many ways. Mr Cooper’s business career covers a period of something over fifteen years, his place of business being located on East Main Street, near the east bank of the canal, and which is practically the headquarters of a large retail trade in flour, meal, buckwheat, mill feed of all kinds and farm and garden seed of every description. In connection therewith Mr Cooper has a three story warehouse, 45×50 located parallel with the G.T.R. tracks, which has a storage capacity of some 20,000 bushels of grain and within which is a feed chopper of a capacity of 30 bushels per hour, and which is operated by an 8 h.p. gas engine. Within the past year Mr Cooper has erected a three story brick building with monitor top, 84×38, which is located upon the east side of the canal near the lower end of East Main Street, for milling purposes. Without exception this structure is one of the largest, most substantial and modernly equipped flour and feed mills in Welland county, it being classified as a one hundred barrel mill, this being exclusive of other products. This mill has been installed with the best and most modern machinery and fixtures comprising five double sets of 9×14 rolls, three gyrator bolting machines two double sets of buckwheat rolls, an emery feed chopper of twenty bags per hour capacity, a patent improved corn cob grinder of 75 bushels per hour capacity, an improved corn sheller by which the corn for meal is quickly separated from the cob, and a clover seed cleanser. Mr Cooper handles large quantities of the latter. The basement of this building is occupied by operating machinery, the mill being run by water of a 100 h.p. capacity. Upon the first floor are the rolls and flour packers, the second floor being utilized for the purifiers and bran and shorts dusters, and the upper floor by gyrators, cleansing machines and dust collectors. The storage capacity of the building is about 30,000 bushels of grain besides several hundred bags of flour. In addition to milling. Mr Cooper deals in horses, and has purchased many which have been shipped to South Africa. He has been a member of the town council at one time and another for several years, was a Deputy reeve and member of the County Council for a year, and has been County Clerk since June 1891.
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