The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-03-12
WORK MAY BEGIN
MONDAY MORNING
ENAMELED BRICK. PLANT AssuR.
ED FOR oskALoosA.
ENGINES TO BE BUILT HERE.
Location Of Industry Awaits Action
Of Commercial Club. American
supply Co. Ready and Anxious
for Operation.

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Oskaloosa is to have the new in
/ dustry, the enameled brick manufact-
uring plant. The work of Messrs. e.
Winter and w. r. Campfield in COM
pleting the work of the canvass for
| the sale of bonds was practically com
! pleted Tuesday evening, A few bonds
| remain to be placed but these will be
arranged for Immediately and this
means that Oskaloosa gets big in
dustrial plant that means much to-
ward accomplishing the Greater os-
kaloosa.
Now that the plant is assured the
| first question the people ask is how
soon win the work be started?" Mr..
Holbrook answers that question with
a direct reply, He states that as soon
as the people who have subscribed
have paid their first installment on
the bonds subscribed, under the con-
ditions of the agreement, he Is ready
with his funds to begin the work of the
construction of the plant. II this is
done by Saturday night he viii be
ready to begin work next Monday He
will be ready as soon as the sub
scribers have fulfilled the first part
Of their agreement.
Location Of Plant.
/ The plant will occupy at first a
space of between six and seven acres
with its buildings and kilns The ex-
| act location may not be determined
for couple of days as it is subject
to the approval of the Commercial
Club. Three separate locations have
been under consideration from the
| time the committee became reason
ably sure that Inc plant was an as
sured thing. II may be stated how
ever at this time that the plant will
| be located near or little outside the
city limits and conyenient to trans
portatiIn "a III
The Buildings.
The building of the new plant will
require vast amount of material.
The buildings under cover will in
clude a space seven hundred feet or
little less than two and half blocks
in length by three hundred feet or
| block wide. In addition to this forty
eight kilns will be built requiring no
less tran three million fire brick in
| the construction.
| Power for Plant.
The power for the operation of the
machinery used in connection with the
plant will be furnished by an engine
capable of developing about four hun
| hnrGn xnTfII h9a en- Cd
by battery of three great boilers.
Three specially constructed brick ma
| chimes will first be operated and
| others will be added as the demand
for the product is increased. The
operation of the plant will require APP
proximately twenty-five tons of coal
daily. The output will be seventy
five thousand brick daily and the burn
ing capacity of each kiln will be TWEEN
ty thousand brick.
| oskaloosa Gets Work.
Mr.. Holbrook, who has been busy
with preliminary preparations at the
same time the local committee have
been in action, states that local
firm, the Sewers Manufacturing Co,
has been given the contract for max
ing and installing the power plant.
| The company is given the contract
on its merits. 1t came in direct COM
| petition with the Alis-Chalmers Co.,
| of Milwaukee, makers of Corliss en-
gines, the Ames Iron Works and the
Atlas Engine Co, besides other state
institutions. The Sewers Company
in material and work came to the
specifications required in a better
way than any of the other companies
. and were given the contract for both
i the engines and the boilers and they
will at once get busy with the work.
Each boiler will be given direct
draft, which is system now much in
favor in steam plants of this charac-
ter. The Sewers Co. has the advant-
age of being on the ground, which
fact will facilitate the work and in
addition to these advantages there
will be no heavy freight charges to
be taken into consideration. Hence
the benefits of the new industry will
become Immediately apparent. More
men will be engaged and at work
from the start than those employed
at the plant alone,
The building of the new plant will
be pushed forward as rapidly as men
and material can be handled. as the
company is anxious to get its product
on the market and to be on an earning
basis. Men will be taken on as rap
idly as possible and by the time the
first product is turned out 16s men
will have employment This number
win be steadily Increased as the plant
grows.
Il office,
\. The American Supply Co, under
which name the business of the new