Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
LET HER SMOKE.
The Mexico Fire Brick Works
Making 80, 900 Brick
Per Day.
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND
FIVE MEN NOW BEING
EMPLOYED.
The Company Pays Out $500
Per Month to Citizens of
Mexico to Enable It
to Garry on it's
Business.

The prosperity and progressive
ness of the Mexico Fire Brick Com
pany is wonderful, and the good
people of Mexico are made joyous
to learn that the works are such a
grand success, for they fully ap-
pr~eciate the fact that this company
employees a large number of men
and distributes a vast amount of
cash among our citizens. A LED
GER reporter wendell his way to
the works this morning and was
amazed to learn of the immense
business done there, and he at once
began to be inquisItive, and gladly
found Messrs. Dixon and Good
rich exceedingly courteous and
willing to answe any and all ques-
tions p~ropounded. Everyone con-
nected with the establishment ap-
peared to be polite and sociable,
Notwithstanding they were almost
too busy to look up.
THE COMPANY
has the following gentlemen at
its helm, and they T all thorough
business men, who would make
most any enterprise boom: VIM
Dickinson, president VIII. Good
rich. vice-president c. W. Cobb,
treasurer; Cuthbert Dixon, super
intendent; ]. w. Dickinson, secre-
tary, and j. B. Robinson, assistant
secretary. They are manufactnr-
ers of fire brick, cupola blocks,
stove, range and heater Innings,
bakers oven tile, crate backs and
locomotive blocks, all kinds OF
fire brick tile, blast, smelling,
heating and steel furnaces, lime
kilns, and any special shapes and
sizes ordered. This company has
Offices in both Chicago and st.
Louis.
THE ONLY PATENT GAS KILN
in operation in the United States
commenced operation at the works
in this city yesterday, and is the
finest improvement over the old
kilns ever invented, and it only
takes one-ffth the coal to run it
that is required for others Its ca
pacity is 125,0OO, and the beau
ty about this kiln is the uni
form manner in which it burns the
brick. 1t is doing even bette,
work than was expected of it and
Mr.. Dixon says 1t will probably
necessitate an increase of labor, al
the present force will not be able
to keep up with all OF the nint
kilns now running. Over ont
hundred and five regular men arr
now employed, running a nigh
and day force. This hardly enable.
the company to keep up with it
orders. Eight car loads are going il
and out daily-two car loads ofma
terial coming in and six cars o
goods shipped every twenty-fou
hours to all parts of the country
The works use three tons of Goa
daily.
10000 BRICK PER DAY
are now being turned out and the.
are magnifcentIy made and whel
they come in contact with Easter
goods are always given the prefer
enoe. The following brands ar
manufactured Empire, Empir
Xxx and Empire XXX.
;, The tall smoke stack recent
built to a height of So feet is tn
centre of four kilns. Each one {
these has acapacity of over 124, 0Ot
j. The company pays an avel
age of $500 per month to tn
citizens of Mexico for labor an
fuel. This money is all spent her
among the business men and proI
erty owners.
THE NINE
Z ia operated under the immed
. ate supervision Of Chas. Peterse
and twenty-five miners r kel
2 busy digging the valuable clay GU
] of which Audrain county has sue
a bountiful supply. They bring u
/. out of this mine one hundred tor
a day and will soon pat in a steal
heist and increase to $50 ton
, The clay that Mexico has und'
her 10 superior to almos. any, ar
to it is due in q large measure Il
existence OF the progressive Mexi,
Fire Brick Company here.
Ear Pant