The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-25
ENORMOUS DEMAND
FOR BUILDING BRICK
Salt Lake Plants Can Make
100000 Daily.
OPACITY IS INCREASED
NEW PRESSED BRICK PLANTS
READY TO OPERATE.


Gle lake brick factories have a
-5 raDacity for turning out no.
&C., III, Zach day, and yet they cannot
-.+rb I'D with the demands Of the city
80 ls.rsfn classes Of brick. When IL IS
-.-se-stood that one days output would
Ia efficient to erect eight Ordiuary six
room cottages, some idea of the build
frr activfu, in salt Lake can be OBJ
FAMED. And when il is figured that at
the rate of SIS per j goo. Which IS a lOsF
estimate. the value Of this daily output
would be $3.50, some idea OF the
growing Importance of the industry can
be- obtained. In a year of 300 days this
would mean $590,00g, which would De
considered a good output for gold
mine. The men employed In the brick
yards get from SI.l5 10 So per day, OF
an average of $50 and 10 IS very Glltl-
cult 70 get them at these wages. II it
we're possible 20 set men some OF the
factories would be running double
shit
Speaking of the local situation as to
l. ick r. Il. Hatch. the manager Of the
Enterprise company. said yesterday:
'.Tle chief cause Tor the shortage is
that the Salt Lake Pressed Brick com
paaT and my company have been put
tiuZ i'm q new and improved kind Of
than was expected and has thrown us
behind. Now these new kiIns are COM
pletad and are turning out brick ana
from this time on We viii be ready to
supply all demands made upon Us The
first brick viii be taken from these
klns on Monday. This refers to the
pressed brick; there has been no fam
ine OF ordinary brick at any time Our
new kiln has capacity OF l,0UO,UOO ana
the SILT Lake Pressed Brick company
has a capacity Of 100000 and these
can be burned and cooled in twenty
days Another cause for the shortage
this year is the heavy loss the factories
sustained IN the first week in May as
the result of the very heavy rain. This
loss was not so much in the brick that
were destroyed. but liz the loss Of time
iu getting the lzilns emptied and put in
order again. We estimate our loss at
1900 600 brick. and the other cOmpany's
was almost four times as great. Still
another cause for the difficulty in get
ting brick for ordinary purposes this
year is the building of the smelters.
These are consuming many brick and
taking them from ordinary buildings
Nr. Hatch stated that there were
plenty of brick on the market at this
time Of certain grades. There is an
unusual demand this year for red
pressed brick. last year the heavy de-
mand was for light cOlOred ones, and
anticipating the same conditions this
year, the brickmakers made most Of
their brick of The light color Now
there is a shortage Of the red brick and
an abundance of the light Col0red cnes.
The prices. he said, We're not a cent
higher than they had been
AS 60 the capacity of the different
plants. it is stated that the Salt Lake
Pressed Brick company can now turn
out each day 10000 pressed brick and
4t,tyo common brick, the Enterprise
company can turn out 10000 pressed
brick and 80 600 common brick. rho
Kirk altpeFser company, 1900
pressed brick and So 600 common brick.
and an the other small factories COM
pned -tott common brick, making the
grand total given above.