The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
Has Large Capacity


 Banks twenty story sky scraper in this city.
 Has Large Capacity | The company is now equipped to turn l out 225. GOO common brick and 100000 pressed brick per month. The old process Of using water has been passed by ana the dry pressed shale is used exclusively iii handling the finer product. Huge press ing machines were operated yesterday be- fore members of the party, showing that a pressure of 40 tons per brick was placed into moulds from which six bricks per second rolled out to be hauled away for burning.
 The new kilns wheere chamber after chamber has been provided for are C25 feet long and take precedence over any structure of like character in the whole south The process of burning the brick is called in common parlance continuous" on account of the fact that as one cham Der is relieved of it's burden of say 25,OoO brick burned, another chamber is opened | up or charged as the case may be with a like number of brick. The chamber open | ed is thereupon recharged with say 25,oo0 brick and so on until at no time is there any let up in the production.
 l MT. Sbley carried the party of guests | to the shale pits where a giant steam shovel is continuously at work heaving the shale from the side of hill to be dumped into cars and carried to the mix | ing sheds. The cruisers are operated by electricity while the entire plant is light ed by that commodity.
 The plant Is situated about four miles from Warror on railroad spur from the Louisville and Nashville main line. Excellent freight rates are enjoyed and the indications are that with the pres ent equiment an immense business will be transacted by this new industry. The company mines coal for the burners at the plant reducing thereby the cost of | production to a great extent. Underr the new process 1t is understood two tons or little more will serve the same heat l ing purpose as about nine tons of coal under the old way.
 l Erskine Ramsey, an engineer of wide prominence. was deeply interested in the ! physical condition of the plant yesterday, climbing about to get a detailed idea of the situation. John L. Raul was also deeply interested in what he looked over. l The same interest was manifested by | the delegation of friends who made up | ibe party, despite the gloomy weather. | The train was in charge of Engineer Crunk. Conductor J. A. Taylor and Flag man J. T. Scott.
 Those in Party
 The guests on board the train in- c,uded:
 1 Dr. E. S. Cosey, Paul Cook, M. F. Dor mon, J. B. Richardson. William Brown, Jchn w. Sibley, president H. J. Porter
 J. s. Sibley, Furnace Lee. Frank B. Clarke, S. w. Oliver. William c. Weston, Sr lon Jacobs, Oscar c. Turner, John D. Turner Jr., A. A. Covell, B. G. Vince lock, J. B. Rosenthal, Scott Joy, H. H Zel Hill Ferguson, J. B. Babb, T. P Chaffer, J. T. Collins, George w. Stiles
 [. c. White. M. J. Dillard, T. w. Dixon Prof A. D. Smith, Chappell Corey Ruflin M. Newfield Leo K. Steiner. Jack | Barr, Crawford Johnson. T. c. McDon. aid, Norvell Cullum, J. w. Minor, R. w.
 Ewing, R. M. Goodall, R. F. Lovelady
 Walter Sessions, J. B. Vines, Felix s. Tar. Ia t, J. L. Yarcey, R. E. Posey, o. F. Fon. .aine, J. B. Clary, L. L. Stephenson. T L. Medders. w. T. Warren K M Morrl son, c. J. Perry, s. P. Fowlkes, z. T
 Moseley, pr. B. B. Sibley, O. L. Richards Sibley, o. l.. Richards, Harry C.
 straftford, R. N. Hawkins, C. D Patterson, w. T. Hill L. K. Mackey w. w. Snead, Jesse l.. Burns, R. D Burnett, F. Solomon. A. F. McGhee, Jor Going, B. F. Moore. M. H. Crittenden John s. Leedy J. M. Meighan. D. F Evans, T. C. Thompson, Thomas H. Sims R. D. Johnston. Jr.. J. W. Donnally, A J. Krebs. J. D. Moore. D. M. Drennen Robert Preston Means. J. E. Allen. H A. Lockhart, George E. Lum. D. M Lewis, w. A. Major, c. L. Foust, Judge A. c. Howze H. F. Wilson, Sr., A. I, Dearborn. Lewis Minor. H. F. Wilson Jr., c. E. Thomas. $. D. Straus. J. A
 Woods w. B. Dickerson. s. P. King Erskine Ramsay, John l.. Kaul A. II Ford, Robert Jemison. Sr., W. A. Cobbr Maj. A. de Valcourt. Frank L. Bivengs Robert McLester, G. W. Papot. Williar Leslie Welton Carroll Blake. J. l.
 Baldwin. Edward Hitler, B. A. Mon iaghan, J. I. Blount. A. D. Cecil. l