San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-24
MACKEY'S BRICK AND TILE.
The New Company at CalaVeras--
The Inspection made Yesterday
Preparation for Big Work.


preparation for Big Work.
The Mackey Brick and Tile com
pany, organized the lst of May 1885
to succeed the firm of n. Mackey
Co., has so far progressed with its pre-
parations as to warrant calling public
attention to its work. The company's
capital stock is $4,000, paid up, and
a working capital Of 5000. The di
rectors are n. Mackey, Hermann
Kampmann and Gus. Kampmann.
The company owns, free of all ell.
cumberanGe, 1884 acres of woodland
and 100 acres of clay in the San Anto'
MO river bottom just below Calaveras
station, on the >. A. p. road. This
bed of clay has been penetrated to a
depth of So feet without finding a bot
tom or encountering single pebble.
| Immediately upon the formation OF
| the company correspondence was OPP
ened with the Eureka Manufacturing
company Of st. Louis for one of the
| Eureka brick machines and contract
/ closed. f. G.. GanO, of Ohio, was
selected as machinist and millwright,
| young man every way competent
and possessing decided genius for
| his craft. Work was commenced on
machine room, engine room, housing
shed, and clamps. and few days ago
H. Keller, vice president of the
Eureka company, arrived from ST.
Louis to superintend the erection of
the machine and crusher. Machine
was i'm place and ready for trial yes
terday noon and the Messrs. Mackey
and Kampmann invited an inspection
of the maphjna)S work inc
THE EXCURSION.
"Numbe 22n of the s. A. p. was
chartered. the company providing
an ample lunch and liquid refresh
ments, and at 2:15 p. m. the start was
made The invitations had been jul
diciously made. The building and
contracting forces of the city were
represented by Messrs. Pauly, Ander-
son, Reimann, Lewis, Boelhauwe,
Gallagher, Carrico, Edwards, Bra
den, Niggli and Micklejohn. The
city council was represented by al
dermen Lockwood, Reimann, Common
and Boelhauwe. The press was
vouched for by manager Cotton of
the Express, Editor Hanschke of
Freie Presse, Editor Messmer
of the LIGHT, Lumsford of the
Times and He'll OF the Fort Worth
Stock journal. There were also pres
ent Freeman, supervisor of Federal
building, banker Maverick and his
brother George, and Messrs. Prefer,
NJ. Boelhauwe, Kerble, Terrell, New
comb and Tugwell, and of course,
Messrs. Mackey and Kampmann. No.
% was run in on the Mackey switch
at 3:l5, where the party was met by
Gus. Kampmann,r resident superinten-
dent, and the inspection commenced.
Two full hours were spent in looking
over the premises, watching opera
tons, asking questions and listening
to explanations. A little after o'clock
the junketers were invited to lunch
and liquids, and most appetizing
spread was found awaiting them in the
car. Time was spent most JOLLY until
$50 p. M, when the up train whisked
No. % out of the switch and whirled
it home. A merrier crowd never
hustled each other on car or ship than
woke the echoes in No. 30. Lockwood
proposed a vote of thanks for the
royal hospitality of the Brick and
Tile company and Micklejohn second
ed the motion which was carried with
Uhl 90 LIlICC anu a IlSCl, anu
libations of the amber ad libitum.
No accident or unpleasantness of any
kind marred the perfect good feeling
of the hour and the engine whistled
down brakes for San Antonio before
any had realized their approach to
the city.
WHAT THE LIGHT FOUND.
The LIGHT found already construct
ed a two-stOry machine room 36x40
feet; an engine and boiler room 30x40
feet; a shed for housing clay 40X100
feet with Is foot posts; two drying
sheds with capacity of %, 900 brick
one clamp with iron roof completed,
one partially built, and foundation
laid for a third, each with a capacity
of 264, 900 merchantable brick.
In the boiler and engine room was
an Atlas engine and boiler of IS horse
power, from the Indianapolis works,
the largest engine works in the world.
This engine will furnish ample power
for second brick machine and crush
er of the same capacity as the one now
running, warranted to turn out 10000
pressed brick in run of ten hours.
The machine itself is ponderous
affair, weighing IS, 900 pounds, exert
ing the enormous pressure of 40 tons
on each brick, or $50 tons for the four
bricks forming a table. Though at
work only two hours when first seen
it was working away steadily,
smoothly and satisfactorily, giving
evidence of the very perfection of mo-
ton when the machine has fairly adj
justed itself. The clay is prepared
for the pressing machine hy Sted-