Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-07-02
WORK BEGINS
ON BREWERY
Breaking Ground fer Our
Latest Industry.
When Completed 1t Will
Be One of the Most Up
to-Date Brewing Plants
in the State.

to-paIe Brewing Plants
in the State.
The locations of the several buildings
which will comprise the plant of the
Freeland Brewing Company have been
staked out, and work upon the excava-
tions will begin this week.
The plot of land which has been pur-
chased as a site for this new industry is
one-half a block-13O feet fronting on
South street and 400 feet on Fern street.
When completed the land, buildings,
machinery, stock and equipment will
represent an investment which the pro-
moters believe will fully reach $10O, 900.
OF this sum the ground and buildings
will show over $4,000 value, the ma
chinery $4,000 and the cooperage out
lay and rolling stock from SIS, 900 to
| $50 900.
The contractors, Bresln & Young, of
Lansford, are under bonds to have the
buildings ready for the installation of
the machinery by October Is next. The
first brewing will take place the latter
part of the following December, and on
January 1 operations will begin on
large scale.
The foamy liquid will be stocked for
three months after its manufacture, and
the first Freeland beer will be placed on
the market on or about April 1 of next
year.
The plant will have capacity of
$4,000 barrels per annum. While the
company does not expect its sales to
reach that figure at once, the machinery
has been ordered with view to being
able to increase the output according
as the demand grows.
| The machinery will be of the very
latest kind in every particular. There
will be nothing temporary nor insecure
about the premises-everythi enter
ing into the plant being purchased for
its durability.
The brewery will employ from thirty
to thirty-five men at the start, and, as
the fluctuations of some other lines of
trade, employment will be steady for
those who work there.
The main building will have a 'front.'
age on Fern street OF 131 feet and on
South street of Al feet. 1t will include
a stock house, a racking room, a brew
house and an attic.
Including the fourteenfoot basement
it will be five stories high. The second
floor will be Is feet, the third II feet,
the fourth IA feet and the attic 12 feet,
a total height of ~ feet from tho base
ment floor.
The power house will be building
30x41 feet in size. 1t will be erected
over the deep well which Contractor
George Blanchard is now sinking
Boilers of 200 horsepower will supply
energy to fine engine to operate the
plant and to an ico-making machine Of
thirty-fve tons capacity.
An Office for business purposes will be
located in the rear of the power house,
A stable for the horses which the
delivery teams will require will also be
erected. 1t will be 2Ox4O feet and will
accommodate eight horses and the hay
and feed carried for their use. The stable
promises to be a model one in every
manner and will contain all modern
appliances and equipment.
A Oh t. l.
OF the large buildings. There, also, the
architect promises to show the latest
conyeniences.
All the buildings above described will
be built of brick and steel, Ninety
seven tons of steel and 7s0, 900 bricks
will be consumed in the construction of
the plant. No lumber will appear or be
placed in any part of any building,
except In part Of the roof of the larger
structures,
Outside of the main building, all
doors will be concrete. In the main
building, the basement will contain a
! concrete floor and the remaining four
will oe composed of steel and cement.
The eight-inch well has reached a
depth of 1876 feet. Contractor Blanch-
II ard has obtained fair stream of water,
n but not enough to supply the plant.
n An average of ninety gallons per
\ minute for ten hours will be consumed
dally by the boilers and washers and in
m9nuiacture Of the beer. The well will
BE- driven until this quantity flows freely
through the pipes.
SO lar as human ingenuity can de-
lylse tRe brewery will be fre-proof.
4 Special appliances to keep it clean and
healthy have been ordered, and when
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