Arizona republican., 1911-09-10
MACHINERY IS EH ROUTE
A $3O,OO0 Plant Will be Here Next Week. Home Money For Home Peo- pie and Larger Pay Rolls.

Now that the bond of the American Light & Water Go. has been approved as announced in these columns yes terday.- the next timely question in
 connection with sewer construction in Phoenix is when will the work begin. A. S. Huyck who came here to perfect the bond announces that preliminaries
 will be under way in the next ten days or two weeks, though it will be some time thereafter before actual construc- ton can be undertaken. Among oth- CT things there will need to be the as sembling of a great deal of material.
 IL is pleasing to know. however. that the major part of the material will be of home manufacture and it will have to be assembled" from no great CT distance than Alhambra- The Al hambra Brick and Tile Go in competi- tive bidding against the makers of sew CT pipe both east and west, secured the contract from the American Light & Water Co, a fact that will be grati- flying to the people of Phoenix as well as to the company. for it means the spending of the greater part of the money raised for sewer construction, right here in the community that will have to pay for the bonds eventually. About all the contractors can carry away will be the profit on the job.
 The contract of the Alhambra Brick & Tile company calls for approximate ly 25O,OOO feet Of vitrified pipe rang ing in size from s to 16 inches and about 15O,OOO feet of smaller pipe will be needed by citizens for making con nections and this of course the com pany hopes to be able to furnish also. Then there are the Y's and T's and other auxiliaries that make the con tract an undertaking of some moment
 At the present time there is no plant between Colorado and the coast pre- pared to make vitrified pipe but there will be just as soon as the Alhambra is equipped and tlaI will be very shortly. for the machinery was ordered some time ago is on the way and it is expected will be in Alham- bra next week. No time will be lost in its erection. Some time ago the company was put on T fine working basis and new machinery ordered for an up to date brick making plant. which was fully described in these columns at the time It was the in tention then to add equipment some time for the making of vitrified pipe. tile. and all things required for irriga- uon and drainage. but the determina- ton to do so at once was not arrived at until the company secured the con- tract for the pipe for the Phoenix sew CT system
 It was then apparent that it would be necessary to expand the companv's operations, so the capital stock was raised from $25.000 to S100.OOO F. J. Bennitt and A. w Ballard were added l to the directorate which then con- 1 sisted of H. L Latham. president: A. | R. Bailey, vice president and general | and H. M. Martyr. secretary and treasurer. The officers remain 1 the same
 plant for the making of vitrified | pipe was immediately ordered at a | cost of S3O.0O0. A building will be 1 erected at once Sfx15O feet in size i and two stories high, in which the 1 pipe will be dried This building | will be of heavy wooden timbers. | It will be necessary also to build | four 3O-foot kilns for the burning of ! the pipe and the company is now | engaged in making the fire brick with | which these kilns are to he construc- | ted. The construction of the kilns l will require a half million brick. | though of course it will not all be | fire brick. The entire plant is sup | piled with electric power which will | be utilized in operating all the machin- cry
 The success of the Alhambra pro- | ect. aside from the fact that it will i result in the spending of most of the 1 sewer money here, means a great |
 
 more big pay roll added to the list l of home industries There are about | twenty men employed at the brick i yard now and when the pipe plant | is added the force will be increased | to about fifty men. That will mean | n pay roll of five or six thousand i dollars month.
 And there is no reason why this | should not go on forever. There are | more cities in the southwest that need | sewer pipe and there is no reason | why the local concern may not hope | for it's share of the business. But | aside from that the future of irriga- i ton and drainage in this valley will ! doubtless demand enough pipe and ! tile to keep one factory pretty busy l to supply.