The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-19
No, Of del
vote.
CAIRO STILL BOOMING.
TWO IMPORTANT NEW INSTITUTIONS TO BE

| For some months past il has been known
bya few that there would soon be estab.
lished in this city novel new brick manu-
factory, but for reasons satisfactory to the
projectors Messrs. A, G. Coleman, and James
h. Mcclure, it was suppressed. Now how
ever, the buildings have been already cree
ted and the machinery nearly all put up
ready for work, and the matter has become
too conspicuous to be longer suppressed for
prudential reasons.
The buildings consist Of series Of extern
sve sheds, substantially built, standing
near the Mississippi lcyee between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets. The ma
chinery employed in the manufacture of the
brick is OF an improved character, which
will compress the clay brick in the moulds
to one-half their original size and render
them much harder than the ordinary brick.
| Furthermore, the machine is so easily OPP
Grated that boy of fifteen years can, after a
little practice, run it at its full capacity
and turn out as many brick in day as can
be turned out in week by the ordinary pro-
cess. One of the advantages OF this new
process, and in which lies in great meas
ure its speed, is that the newly formed
brick are not sun dried, but are transferred
directly from themoulds into an oven where
they are baked and from which they are
taken ready for use.
Judge Coleman is practical bricknaker
of many years experience, and has enter
tanned the idea OF establishing brick
factory in this city for several years, but
doubt as to the character OF the clay to be
obtained here deferred him from going into
enterprise sooner. But this doubt has been
entirely dispellcd by an examination of
the earth deposits outside the Mississippi
Ievee, which the Judge found to be equal
to the best offs kind and in incXhaustibe
quantities. Messrs. Coleman and Nc
Clure's brick maoutactory will soon be one
of the busy, important institutions of our
city, and from present indications il is rea-
sonable TO believe that it will be taxed TO
its utmost capacity to supply the demand
for brick that will manifest itself during
the coming fall season.
| ICE FACTORY.
Another important institution which is
to be soon established here, and the neces.
sity of which in Cairo THE BULLETIN has
taken occasion to point out is an institu-
ton for the artificial production Of ice on
a large scale. This city consumes an i'm.
mense quantity Of ice every summer and
pays very fancy prices, for it is
seldom that winters are severe
enough to permit the storage
of ice from the rivers here, and we always
depend upon the great ice dealers of the
north for our CONCEALED water. In the
south ice factories are numerous and they
produce purcr ice than is obtained by the
natural process and sell it even now for
one cent per pound while we are paying
from two to three and half cents.
Messrs. Charles Gallagher & Son are at
the head Of This new enterprise, and they
have already taken all preliminary steps
toward speedy beginning of the several
large buildings necessary to conducting the
business on large scale Three brick
buildings will be built. One for the steam
boilers, thirty by forty feet in dimonsions
another for the machinery, such as engine,
gas pumps, gas condenser aud several great
reservoirs, which will be forty by sixty feet
and two stories the third will be spa
cious store house, capable Of containing up
| wards of three thousand tons Of ice. The
first two buildings will be OF brick and will
| have iron roofs.
1t is expected that work on these build
ings will begin in few days, and that they
will be erected in the upper portion Of the
city, near the Ohio lcvec. The machinery,
which will all be of the latest improved,
will have capacity of producing about
twenty tons OF ice per day, and will be in
creased as the demand may be felt
These two new institutions will supply q
great demand in the city, and will add to
the wealth and industry which is rapidly
giving Cairo bright name among her
sister cities. II now the spc water com
mittee will naugurato some effective plain
for preventing the citys greatest evil in the
future, aud if the owners Of the valuable
lots recently vacated 10y fire, will replace
the destroyed buildings with fine business
structures as tho business Of the city plain.
ly demands, and If the great Singer works
and tho oil mills shall be In full operation
and build the contemplated great additions,
then will Cairo once more present lively
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