The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

has never been properly developed or worked. At the present time, the brick yards located in this city supply the lo- cal demand for brick and also ship . considerable number. Usually, how ever, the brick are not shipped more than fifty or sixty miles from the city. Orders have been filled here for points in Florida. but these are rare.
 There are in Montgomery four brick concerns making about twenty-four millions of brick year and employ ing about forty men at each yard. The labor employed is mostly, common la- bor. The brick concerns are the Mcln- tyre brick Company. The Holt Brfck Company, The Excelsior Brick Co.,; and The Riverside Brick Company. Mont gomery, of course, has excellent rail road facilities. There are very few towns in the South that have railroad facilities equal to our own. The prick yards. get advantage of this. Most or them are located near the main lines of some of the big roads entering Montgomery, and have side tracks run ming into the yards.
 There are many indications that Montgomery has had within the past few years | steady and wholesome growth. It is very likely that Mont gomery has grown more since lsVO than she grew in the six or eight years preceding 1900. The local de- mand for brick has increased steadily and this years sale of brick exceeds last year by about twenty per cent.
 The labor and coal are the most expensive clements In the manufacture of brick. Labor conditions in Mont- gomery are very satisfactory and leave nothing to be desired. The freight rate on coal from most of the mines is $1.O0 per ton. If a reduction on the freight rate of coal of, say, about for ty cents could be secured, Montgomery would in a short time become one or the chief centers of the manufacture Of brick in the South, and in fact, would become one of the leading manufao- turing cities in the entire State."
 The plant of the Mcintyre Brick Company is located near Riverside Park, 1t is on the line of the Western Railway. It represents an invest ment of s3o,00o and employs fifty men. The establishment turns out 5O,0O0 brick daily and sells them throughout Alabama and sometimes in Mississip- pi.
 To the northwest of this plant near the line of the Louisville and Nash vile Railroad is located the brick yard of the Riverside Brick Company. This Is the oldest Dr1Ck mdnuIaCtuTlng COH- cern in the city. having been continu- ously under the same management since it's establishment. The company is even now engaged in the erection of the large Cloverdale school building.
 Aionzo Davis is president of the com pany which has an investment of s15,0o0. It employs thirty-five men and has daily capacity of 10000 brick. The products of the plant are market ed in Montgomery and its vicinity.
 The plant of the Excelsior Brick Company is located on a spur track of the western Railway. The plant is owned by Mrs. Lucy O'Connell. It represents an investment of $15,000 and employs seventy men. The plant turns out 50,000 brick daily and finds a market for its output in Montgomery and it's vicinity.
 The plant of the Holt Brick Compa ny is located on a spur track of the Western Railway It represents an investment of $15.000 and employs thirty-hve men. The daily output of the factory is 0.000 bricks. The brick are sold in Montgomery and it's adja- cent territory. .