The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-13

Capacity Of the Various Brick
yards About the City.

xsw whsIesais BaiIdins Pavilion
Tor Lake neutrality-suspicious.
xsw Brseks-T~rrse~ Hsssss-
A gentleman who Is deeply inter
exted in the upbuilding Of Seattle hzs
visited the various brick yards IN the
vicinity al the city daring the past
week with q siez % a*certaining the
amount OF brick uow zvaiiahle fos
buiiding ard the aggregate capacity 81
the yards.
Asa result Of this inquiry he esti-
r.stes that there ara 2.40o 90 brick
ia the yards now and the machinery
I'd the yassis, together with the nsz
machinery nov b<ingp pat n, viii make
the aggregate capacity Of ali the vards
n this vicinity aHsoant 70 at least
20 Go per day. This estimate. which
he says IS only a roagh one. Is based
mon the estimated capacities CT the
following yards
Hc<sraffl Il csrnes-Oid sHashinsrg
z501s. new machinery. 1900; aggre-
rate capacity per day, IS oV5.
QUO Ranke- Old machinery, q, 900;
new. 1900. total. % coo.
Avery 4 Kirk Old machinery
4o.o0I, rev, 1000: total. 5000.
IsoIsse's new Yaysi back Of The South
school 40 90.
We Hili's new yard a06.
Niesz's Farsi at Eagle Harbor Com.
mon brisk zNos pressed brick,
700: fatal, ff.sHO.
Pontiac f;rick Al Tile Company
New yard Oh Lake Washington, 81. 90.
Seattle Brick & Tie Company. Gar
keek's old yasd a. Smiths Cove 30
60.
bibles old yard 10000
Ashworth's yard at Ak Point
mno.
Yard at Port Orchard 90 900.
These figures we're submitted 20 :
number of contractors. briek-makera
aad architects yesterday, and they
were ali OF the opirion that the estiua-
ate was about right.
With such large facilities for fur.
nsshing brick, = said one, people can
no longer lntrench themselves behind
that old cry of no brick when urged
TO build.
Then there il great hue and
cry about $40 per thousand being an
outrageous price for brick, and some
urge that as o reason Tor not building
According 10 the Clay Worker. the
journal OF the brick trade, the sveYags
price OF brick throughout the United
States last year was SO; In Chicago
$il per thousand. Now, suppose the
price was reduced to s.
the lowest figure al which
brick can be manufactured AZ 4
profit. This reduction Of 81 q thou
sand would only make q difference ol
S3o in an ordinary building. in which
10000 bricks are used People dc
not generally know that cost Of brick
amounts 20 only about per cent 81
the cost of the building into which Il
enters. The brick for the San Fran.
cisco block only cost 5000, and the en-
tire cost Of the building amounted tf
$1,000. The Safe Deposit Company i
buiiding, which cost ss7 go, uaed only
fU0.ooo arssk. Neither high prices mol
scarcity OF brick will longer serve q:
IA excuse Tor not building, End tbs
men who have urged il in the rasi
will either have 10 invent some othea
excuse, or confess that they do no
want 20 build.
Rents are 80 per cent. higher IN re
attic than in any other city In til.
United States. whore brick can b.
bought for $40, and other building ma
feriais sc the present low ruling price
of our market.
An Eastern grocery establishment
has made definite contract with 10
cal capitalists for the construction o
a brick building. ON an avaIlahss cor
ner ora South second street. that IL =
he devoted entirely e. the business d
wholesale house. The building wi
be auxi9l feet. with d Itfoot base
ment and snperssrarture Of foui
stories. the first 20 feet, second Is feet
third II feet and fourth IS feet In
height The building will be con
stFueiesl substantially ct brick. sion.
and wrought-iron. The first floor vii
have plate glass windows and VIII b
aefoted 70 enc large sioreroom
Alphabetically. the exterior viii b.
yeay ornate, being OF Gothic design
and being 50 constructed as 10 he per
fcctly fire-nroof. Electric lights ans
gas viii he placed in the building ana
patent SkyIiRhts Viii be CONSTRUCTED
10 the roof. Three sidewalk lifts vii
be feature of the establishment. ans
in the alley in the rear there will be a.
cight-ton elevator that viii he capahi.
of lowering truck aud horses ~ fi'
basement below TO unload freight
Two freight elevators viii be places
inside the building. Woodail e pou
gias, the architects. decline 20 stat
who the parties Interested in the en-
terpfise are, as there are huSines
reasons that for the present keep thai
lips sealed. However. work viii b
commenced before April -. and h
finished BY three months from tina
time. The cost of the building will b
over xT5,0oo
Architect Steinman in engaged upoi
plans for pavilion 10 he erected b,
the Seattle Construction Company %
knoll about go feet south OF Ia,
power house OF the Lake Washington
cable ears. The dimensions OF ia.
building viii be t0xia0 feet, aud III,
interior will be fitted up with Stag,
Ssx2s feet, and gallery. Tia,
structure will be 80 feet in hight. ans
the elevation facing Lake Washingtcr
will be surmounfed by two Tnfoe
towers. joined by segment bridge
A i2-foeT verandah viii surround tias
entire building. with 4 GOVERNS
formed from an extension of tne TsSs
The building, which viii be used fol
theatricals, concerts dances. etc.
will cost ssD0o Construction will he
gin shortly. aud the building viii b
finished inside oftwo months
Bids viii he called for IN a few days
for the construction of the new hfies
of Hon. w. c. Squire in North Seattle
northeast corner OF Bell and Basfers
streets. The building will have thres
stories. with three stores and bank
room ON the lower floor. and Is Office
rooms in the upper floor. The exter
Tor will be richly ernamedtea in &c
ment and iron. with plate glass front:
ca the lower story. The rooms os the
nrSt story have been leased already
and part oi those in the upper storses
has been engaged. The structure
which Is - cost about So, GO, must hs
finished by October iss
The latest addition 20 the industries
Of Seattle Is a vinegar and pickle fac.
Il a