Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-13

two stories high. in which are four boilers.
Is feet by - inches, with a rated capacity
of lbs horse power each. With this i'm
mense power on hand the brewery has con-
tracted for four more boilers of the same
make and capacity, which viii be placed in
a room south OF the present boiier-room, 60
x70 feet, two stories high, giving a total
boiler capacity of 200 horse power. This
is all under the immediate supervision of
their chief engineer, Louis Holman.
Immediately in the rear Of the boiler and
engine house is the freezing tank-room for
the making of ice. This room is equipped
with Two freezing tanks that can produce
sixty-tons of ice in twenty-four hours.
Two more freezing tanks are being put in a
room adjoining this on the east that can
make ninety tons in twenty-four hours
The blocks now made weigh 225 pounds,
but the new tanks will make 300-pound
blocks.
Just to the south of this new freezing
tank room will be a thres-stOry building
the first floor of which will be an ice stor-
age room that viii hold 800 tons of crystal
GOODNESS. On the second and third floors
viii be the steam condensers, where all the
water used in the making 81 ice is con-
densed, thus assuring absolutely pure ice.
To the east Of this pile of buildings is be-
ing put up new keg wash house, 42xl60
feet There are now in use two Newman
keg-washers, sprinklers, ETC., with a capac-
ity for thoroughly washing and cleaning
500 kegs per hour. From this room, after
being made perfectly clean, the kegs pass
to the cooling room, where they are cooled
to 80 deg. temperature, and then they are
taken TO the racking or filling room. where
the beer is brought into the kegs Then
they go to the city shipping room, or they
can be loaded into refrigerator cars stand
ing on the track, there being a switch for
this purpose on both sides Of the building
The bottlIng room is 4Sx70 feet, in which
they are now bottling about sixty casks of
beer day. or about six thousand bottles.
Finding themselves cramped for room in
this department, as in others, the brewery
people are at work on another building
east of this, 45x90 feet, on the completion
of which they will put in bottling machin-
cry of the latest approved pattern, consist
ing of bottle washers, rinsers, wiring ma
chimes, corking and filling machines. On
the completion of this building they will
have as finely equipped bottling house as
any in the country.
South of the other buildings is the sta
bic, a brick and stone structure 4OxlOO
feet, two stories high, with concrete floors.
At present thirty-two horses are stabbed
here. The ever-increasing demand for |
more room is felt here, too and another
stable Will be put up adjoining this, with |
room for fifteen more horses and also wagon ]
sheds.
on both sides of the brewery for seventy |
five cars.
East of the main building are the bottle |
sheds, where are now stored away fifteen |
or twenty carloads of bottles, waiting their |
turn to be filled with Fort Worth beer and |
be sent on their way to rejoice the thirsty |
heart of some sufferer
SOME FIGURES.
This article would be incomplete without |
some statistics relating to the business of |
the brewery. AT present their brewing ca
pacity is 100000 barrels per annum-nearly |
1000 barrels day for each working day in
the year. On completion of the buildings |
now under way, they will be able to store
and handle 10000 barrels year. From
this it will be seen that this brewery was
built for the future, and can make twice as
much beer as they can store and handle
even with their present storage capacily
doubled.
of the brewery is taken in Texas,
though the reputation of Fort Worth has
gone abroad beyond the state and created a
demand for it from New Mexico, Louisiana
and old Mexico.
Three million dollars year have been
going out of Texas for foreign beer This
money if kept at home would mean the
saving OF $1,000, 900 year to the people of
the state-and great deal of it can be kept
here if the people of Texas will insist on
having Texas beer to drink-the choicest of
which is made in Fort Worth.
This brewery company is large patron
If our local manufactures. 1t has forty
Two wagons and thirty-two sets of har-
ness, all made in Fort Worth. 1t gives
steady employment to 160 persons, and at
present, while the new buildings are going
lp, has more than 200 on its payroll It is
essentially a home company, more than
70 per cent of the capital stock being
'wned in this ely. Notwithstanding the
competition of the powerful breweries of
st. Louis and Milwaukee, the men who put
heir money in the Fort Worth brewery
re going to make it succeed, and that is a
hing assured as long as the people of Fort
Worth and Of Texas stand BY them.