The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1904-07-23
DICKINSON FIRE & PRESSED BRICK co.
Output Being Materially Increased and
Still the Company Is Scarcely Able to
Keep up With It's Orders.

Vutput Being Materially Increased and
Still tho Company Is Scarcely Able to
Keep up With Its Orders.
The present season is one of great
activity with the Dickinson Fire &
Pressed Brick Co. Orders for April,
May and June averaged 70 per cent
greater than for the corresponding
months of last year, and it was supposed
that 1904 would be an off year in the
building line.
The fact is the Dickinson Fire &
Pressed Brick Co. is just getting we'll
introduced in the Northwest and con.
tractors and architects everywhere are
finding. out that anything purchased
t,om the Dickinson company is first
class and just what it is represented to
be. Their fire brick have been placed
in actual competition with the St, Louis
brick and have stood the test. Their
facing brick have been placed in COM
petition with the best products of the
eastern states and have been proven
better in quality and more reasonable in
price, and the same is true of their fire
clays and ornamental and special shape
work. In the first place the Dickinson
manufacturers have clays that cannot be
excelled in the world. In the second
place. by scientific experiments, they
have learned how to properly mix and
burn these clays.
The company originally started out to
manufacture brick only, but Supt. Russell
soon discovered that there was also
splendid field for ornamental work, boil
er settings, pottery, tiling, etc. Several
crews are now kept busy with orna-
mental and special shape work. A few
weeks ago man in the company's
employ who had worked at the business
in the Old Country, was allowed to mould
and burn quantity of pottery. His
efforts were very successful, and in time
it is expected that this branch will be
given more attention by the company.
In the last year the Dickinson Fire &
Pressed Brick Co. has been making some
very handsome varieties of rock-faced
brick. Several of their mantel designs
have been accepted by different parties
in North Dakota. Their copings, artis-
tic III design, stand the elements equally
as we'll as stone, resist fire much better,
and costs less than the best quarry stone
in the Northwest.
new I6o-thousand kiln for brick, Its
walls are nine feet thick and are con-
struCted in such manner as to do away
with iron stays. 1t is known as down
draught kiln and has complete system
OF arches and tunneling which conserves
the heat and reduces the consumption
OF coal more than 50 per cent over the
old style kilns. Ninetv-fve per cent of
the brick put into this style of kilns,
under the management of the Dickinson
Fire 4 Pressed Brick Co., will burn per-
fectly and come out in marketable
| shape.
This season the Dickinson company is
having large run on white facing brick.
| The state capitol commission at Bis
marck is using 100000 and $4,000 have
| been selected for the new school build
ing at Livingstone, Montana, to say
nothing of many smaller orders. The
St. Patrick's church committee in Dick
inson has selected $4,000 brick of A
| yellow shade for their new church. Ninety
thousand brick are being shipped to Man
dan for the new Catholic church there,
and the school board at Cooperstown has
ordered $4,000 terra Gotta brick.
| For several weeks past the company
has been loading an average of two cars
of brick per day--8,ooo to 10000 in a
| car.
The PRESS has previously spoken of
the great success of the boiler settings
manufactured by the Dickinson Fire 4
Pressed Brick Co. They are in use by
the Northern Pacific Ry., state nstitu-
tions and in many other places and are
| giving satisfaction every where.
w. J. Price, president Of the Fargo
Plumbing & Heating Co., recently wrote
| Brannon Bros. as follows:
Dear Sirs:
We write you at this time to inform
you how we'll pleased we are with the
boiler settings at the Valley City normal
| school which we set in accordance with
| the plans as furnished by your Mr.. W..
S. Russell. The writer believes that this
boiler setting has solved the problem in
I this part of the country for the proper
combustion and use Of Ignite coal. The
effect of this peculiar style Of setting
(while we anticipated good results) were
far beyond our expectations. The arch
| over CRATES seems to give the effect of
gas retort. l could liken it to nothing
! else, and the combustion is perfect.
thought at one time that we would have
to use blower on this system to create
the proper draft to enable US to burn
| Ignite coal, but was agaeeably surprised
to find that the heat and combustion
established created draft stronger than
any blower could give us, and noticed
| that there was very little, if any, smoke
coming out of the chimney when the
boilers were fired to their fullest capcity.
We intend to adopt this system Of
boiler setting in every place we expect
to use Ignite coal, as we believe fully
that it is the only and proper way to burn
Ignite coal for tubular boilers.
Yours very truly,
Fargo Plumbing & Heating Co.
By w J. Price.
The Dickinson company are the only
| manufacturers who have successfully
learned to burn clays with Ignite. Many
| brick men from Canada and the eastern
states have been here to get the idea.
1t is great thing in Western North
Dakota to be able to use the native coal,
every where abundant in place OF wood.
The output of the Dickinson Fire &