there's a little bit of a shaker sifter, and you have corn meal. if you have wheat, you dump it down. it rides the elevator up, gets cleaned, goes into the bin and gets ground-up. that meal will travel the elevator a second time. there is a big round back. it has a rake that goes around, all powered by the waterwheel, spreads the meal out and dries it and eventually pushes it down to the bolter, a long sifting machine that separates out the fine white flour and the brand. when it is separated, it comes out to where the three chutes are, so you can take the stack or barrel, whatever you brought your grain in, and take your flour or bran. they did not have the sifter to separates different sizes of flour, so they had to use a bolts of cloth. prior to oliver evans inventing his milling system, which you see here, which he did patent in 1795, you would have to carry 50-pound sacks of flour, corn, or wheat up three flights of stairs, dump it in the cleaner. it comes down, gets ground-up, and now does in the basement and you would have to scoop up all th

they did not have the sifter to different sizes of use a so they had to cloth. prior to oliver evans inventing his milling system, which you in here, which he did patent 1795, you would have to carry 50-pound sacks of flour, corn, or wheat up three flights of stairs, dump it in the cleaner. it gets ground-up, and now does in the basement and you would have to scoop up all that meal and carry that up four flights of stairs into the attic, so they would pay young boys to rate that around on the ground, spread it out and dry it, and then you had to scoop it up for a third time and taken to a whole other building to be sifted. with all of her evans' system, you could put raw materials here and get a finished product here, so he is the father of automation. ground wheatostly and corn here, but they would grind whatever the farmer brought in. in, it had to be dry and cleaned like this, and then it gets grounded to whole-wheat flour like this. to get what you're used to seeing for baking, you have to it, and that's where the bolter comes in. back in the day, they separ

this is the shaker sifter, it's going to get the bigger pieces to go in the barrel for the chickens and this is the corn meal down here. smell that corn meal. over here you see the main shaft which is a whole entire white oak tree that is cured for about ten years before it's made into a mill shaft. you can see outside where it goes to the outside water wheel so on the outside water wheel is turning, the inside gears are turning, the large face gear turns that gear that turns that gear that turns that gear that turns the mill stone. >> the mill is really important to washington and to all of us now because it's this unique relic from the early 197 century, it's a piece of what life was like for people in washington county and the rural parts of this area and there's nothing like in the washington, it gives a real sense of the -- of the day to day type of technology that was used in -- at the time. it's a way of life, it's a very direct earthy almost sense that you get from going into the mill and watching the wheels turn and smelling the grain and the wood and everything. it's a sense y

the campaign is to encourage residents and sifters to check out new restaurants and culture and nighth month a new neighbor will be under the spotlight. the campaign kicks off at 10:00 in fruitvale, the first neighborhood to be picked. >> dangerous situation at a popular hot air balloon festival. >> in san jose, we have details on a police chase that ended with a crash on interrogate 680. >> new concern for neighborhoods dealing with the devastation of the loma fire, a warning going out to anyone try to help the fire >> good morning, east bay, let's get going. >> a good morning, everyone, it is monday, october 3rd. i am jessica castro here for natasha zouves. >> i am reggie aqui with meteorologist mike nicco and alexis smith. do we need an umbrella and. >> i would take one. i would have it handy. it will not be a gully washer but the radar is more impressive than yesterday at this time. but today, as we look at shut can you see it is hazy. most of us are waking up under stars with increasing clouds by 7:00, and a few light showers in the north bay and our best chance of showers in the