Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

Is feet by az inches, Win a rated cap aclty
of Us 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 will be placed in
a room south of the present boiler-room. 90
x70 feet two stories high, giving e. total
boiler capacity of 200 horse power. This
is all under the Immediate supervision of
their chief engineer. Louis Hoffman.
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 .wo freezing tanks that can produce
sixty-tons of ice il 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 q three-story building.
the first floor of which viii be an ice stor-
age room that will hold 800 tons of crystal
coldness. On the second and third floors
will be the steam coudenserS, where ali the
water used in the making of 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, 42x160
feet. There are now in use two Newman
keg-washers, sprinklers, etc, with a capac-
ity for thoroughly washing and cleaning
being made perfectly clean, the kegs pass
to the cooling room, where they are cooled
to 30 deg. temperature, and then they are
taken TO the racking or filing room where
the beer is brought into the kegs. Then
they 90 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 4SxT0 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, 43x90 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 40xlOO
feet, two stories high, with concrete foors
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.
There is trackage room on the switches
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 filed 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 a 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 caDacity
doubled.
The greater part of the product
of the brewery is taken in Texas,
though the reputation of Fort Worth has
gone abroad beyond the state and created
demand f1r 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 5000, 900 year to the people of
the state-and a 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
of 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 100 persons, and at
present, while the new buildings are going
up, has more than 200 on its payroll. 1t is
essentially a home company, more than
so per cent of the capital stock being
owned in this city, Notwithstanding the
competition of the powerful breweries of
St. Louis and Milwaukee, the men who put
their money in the Fort Worth brewery
are going to make it succeed, and that is
thing assured as long as the people of Fort
Worth and Of Texas stand by them