The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-13
WAS A LUCKY FIND
Material In Plenty 10 Make YItTlRed
Brick
means NEW SCRANTON INDUSTRY
II Is Something Novel and the Pro-
cess of Manufacture Is Interesting.
Company of Well Known Business
Men are Pushing the Project-The
Raw Material Is Inexhaustible and
Very Accessible.

Announcements are SO frequently
made of industries to be located in
Scranton that business men generally
regard the news in superhuous way
and as q matter Of fact but the pro-
gress in the organization OF the com
pany which is to manufacture shale
(yitritied) brick and other like COM
modities near Nay Aug. has, on &C
count of the uniQueness of the enter
prise and the fact that the company
means business, created considerable
comment in financial circles.
The Nay Aug Shale Brick company
was recently incorporated, with capi-
tai stock of 100000, to manufacture
paving and building brick, sewer and
drain pipe and fiue Innings, on the plot
Of land near the turnpike crossing and
the Winton branch Of the Delaware,
Laekawanua and Western road, Dd l.
more. That the enterprise promises
success is evidenced by the names of
the following well-known gentlemen
interested: William A. Connell. S. w.
Roberts, Anson Carpenter, w. w. Van
Dyke, Robert Robinson and j, H, Gun
ster.
RAW MATERIAL CONFINED.
Until very recently the manufacture
Of the best vitrfeld brick WAS supposed
to be possible only in Localities adjacent,
principally, 70 Syracuse. N Y, Can,
ton and GAINESVILLE, O., and Galesburg,
Ill. Nevertheless the raw material for
the production of the article was
found in the above mentioned Scranton
locality which ia also known as the Il.
W. Drinker tract of the Pennsylvania
Coal company. where the plant will
cover nearly three acres,
Tests of the slate have been made by
prominent chemists and the result
shows the material to contain the same
specific qualities as the famous Gales =
burg brick. Considering that there is
sufficient material in sight to manufaG-
ture 500, 900. 900 brick and that the
capacity OF the kiIns will be 40. 900 per
day. the magnitude of the proj9ct can
he comprehendGd
New aud improved machinery has
been ordered, building operations will
be started next week and by the mid
die of Novembe it is expected to have
the plant running in full blast. One
hundred hands will be employed and
the various Eitriiisd products will be
delivered within radius of several
hundred miles cheaper than from any
other point OF manufacture.
Vitrified brick is manufactured on
nearly the same principles used in
the more common article, except that
they are placed in a drying oven to
eliminate the moisture before baking
in the kilns. The shale is taken from
the ground, pulVsrizsd into fine pow
der and mixed with water to nearly the
consistency of mortar. After being
moulded the process is completed by
drying and baking The bricks are
kept in the kiln thirty hours and the
finished product Is as hard as iron
which metal is one Of its parts and
contributes largely to its strength.
PURE BUSINESS PROPOSITION
The gentlemen interested in the pro.
iect are sanguine of success and ar;
not promoting the enterprise for specu
lation. 1t is business proposition
pure and simple with thOm and they
are of the opinion that large proper
tion of future building and paving
operations in and adjacent to Scranton
will be supplied from the Nay Aug
works.