The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17
A NEW BRICK.
The Anaconda Plant Turns Out Supe
rior Article.

The Anaconda Plant Turns Out supe-
rior Article.
Improvement is the order of the age
among the various branches of the
Anaconda company. and nowhere is
this more apparent than at the brick
manufacturing department. The de-
mand of the smelters, and other de-
partments of the Anaconda company,
for suitable brick Is constantly increas-
ing and as 1t increases so does also the
producing facilities of the brick manu-
featuring plant.
The brick mandatory is located in
the western part of the city, where it's
buildings and yards cover an enorm-
GUS section of ground. Each year i'm
provements are made, new buildings
erected and new machinery installed.
This continuous growth has caused the
enterprise to grow from a small yard
with one or two buildings to its present
vast proportions.
This season there has been added to
the plant two new iron sheds. one of
them being 100x75 feet and the other
S2X54 feet. Three new burning kilns for
fire brick have also been added. They
are what Is known as down draught
kilns, the advantage Of which system
experience has taught. The capacity
of the new kilns is 10000 EACH or a to-
tai of 10000 brick at a time.
An experimentation is not an eX-
pertinent any longer. however-has
been inaugurated this year. It is the
making of quartz-silica brick, with
results that more than fulfilled expec-
thoroughly tested at the smelters and
it has been found to be equally as dur
able as the famous Welsh brick, which
has heretofore been imported from
| Wales, at great cost.
Our quartz brick has been tried"
! said the manager of the brick depart
ment, and we find that it has proved
equal to any. 1t stands the test as
well as the Welsh product"
The new brick is moulded by hand
and the man who presdes over the
moulding table has need of strength.
| for each of the Jumps of mud weighs l.
| pounds.
Aside from the new brick, the yard
turns out silica, fine clay and magnesla
brick in all shapes and styles and sizes
Pressed brick and common red brick
also are produced in large quantities.
This season the manufacture OF brlek
was not begun until the first of August
| a. date late In the season, and FOR ina,
reason the total of the product has MOI
| been as large as at the correspondents
| date last year. Even after the star
was made, rain and untoward climatic
| conditions retarded the work. TINS rae
caused no scarcity, however, as larss
stock of brick still remained on hand
The product, however, will reach a TO-
| tai of 100000 brick.
The excellence of the pressed ane
building brick produced at the YARD:
is testified to by the fact that the east
ern pressed brick heretofore imported II
great quantities, has been practically
driven out of the market. Such magni
ficent structures as the Hennessy buila
ing and the Florence hotel building o
| Butte; the Flood building and the new
court house in this city, and hundreds
of other buildings have used the Ana
conda product with the most satisfac
tory results. The local and state trad
of the concern is increasing rapidly
and people have come to recognize
fully that the brick produced here ar
equal to any in the world.
The plant, altogether is one of Ana
conda's most important institutions. l
affords employment to a large force o
men at high wages, and it is the hop
Of all good citizens that the enterprfs
may continue to prosper in the futur
as it has in the past.