River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-28
100000 BRICKS PER WEEK!
This the Capacity of the New Industry
Established in Our City.
Mr.. c. A. Hawks of St. Paul the Enter
prising Proprietor.

The c. A. Hawks brick yard will
start to-day in the regular manufacture
of 100000 brick per week, and we
think it an appropriate occasion to
present the business to our readers.
Mr.. Hawks acquired the plant about
the first of this year and has required
time to adjust the parts of the work
to each other, keeping in view the
possibilities of molding $4,000 brick
per day, which the machine will un.
doubtedly do. 1t may also be re-
marked that fittings for steam and
water, and the transmission of power,
in iron work of all kinds, has been
done away from River Falls owing to
Inadequate local means for this unex-
pected task--and delays have sue
ceeded one another quite to Mr.. HIS
trial of patience and at very great
expense, but with the extraordinary
promise found in the trial kilns of
200 900 brick already burned and mar
keted, and the added impulse of nearly
four million brick contracted for de-
livery by July LIST, Mr.. Hawks has
overcome all obstacles and is ready to
execute orders.
A forty acre lot constitutes the site,
half mile from the post-office, stu
ated on the South Fork adjacent to the
farm of g. p. Burnett--the majority of
which having been explored shows a
bed of % feet of clay known familiarly
as yellow and blue, and the clay is suf-
liciently homogeneous to seem to re-
quire no crushing other than that
afforded by the machine for molding.
The house and power for molding
occupy large area just west of the
clay pit, connected with the pit by
tram operated by cable. The green
nodded brick are delivered by 176 iron
ears each carrying 700 brick to the
drying house just north of the power
house, where they are desiccated by
great volumes of air moved by $4,000
square feet of steam coils, requiring
two days; then moved to the kilns
extended west and south of the dry
house where four days firing convert
the product to the finest color and
character we have seen this side of
Philadelphia. Area is staked out and
will be improved Immediately for
burning 100000 brick in these kilns;
and soon as possible permanent kiln
whose walls will be fire-proOf lined,
wherein permanent burning will be
prosecuted by the most economic and
perfect methods.
The steam generators for power and
drying are found in two boilers aggre-
eating l25 horse power; a 40-horse
power engine runs the molder; and
smaller engines run the clay cars and
dynamos for electric lighting--for it
is proposed to run when practicable,
night and day summer and winter.
The railroad managers seeing the
traffic to be derived from this product
have put in one side-track, and other
spurs will be laid to the new kilns in
time to economize the shipment.
When we realize the Importance of
this enterprise, the number of indus
trious workmen it employs, and the
direct commercial advantage of so
large force, we are likely to appreciate
the enthusiasm and persistence which
have moved Mr.. Hawks to this bust
ness in which locally we share pride
and profit.
Croupy suffocations, night coughs
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