Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-09-19
Movement for Big Clay Working In
dustry Here Terminates in
Success Plans are
Realized.
STOCK HAS ALL BEEN SOLD
Building Material to be Assembled
on Ground This winter-will
Build in Spring.
STOCK HAS ALL BEEN SOLD

The efforts of the big sewer pipe
factory promoters have been crown
ed with success. The full amount of
stock necessary to incorporation has
been sold and the announcement was
made Saturday that tle big
industry will become reality. The
actual work of erecting the big plant
will begin early next spring. The
material will be shipped and placed
on the grounds this fall and winter.
The factory that the National
Sewer Pipe Company propose build
ing will be the largest sewer pipe
factory west of the Mississippi river.
The buildings and kilns alone will
cover over five acres of ground,
while the yards and switches and
7sidetracks will occupy about fifteen
acres. The proposed site is one OF
the most ideal locations for such a
factory in the country giving ample
room to construct the plant in the
most economical manner. The low
ground in the eastern part of the
land will be used as a dumping
ground for the cinders and other
waste material. Not more than tee
acres of this site will remain unus-
ed. This will be held as a reserve
for extensions that are liable to
come in the future.
Over 500 different sizes and
shapes of sewer pipe and drain tile
will be made. While the great bulk
of the pipe will be made upon the
powerful steam presses, a large
amount will have to be made by
hand and nodded with plaster Of
paris molds. Such pipe requiring
these special molds are the traps,
HIS, and other odd shapes Nothing
smaller than an eight inch drain tile
will be made, but all sizes of sewer
pipe from four inches up will be run
through.
The factory will be a modern sew
er pipe plant, built especially for
that product. The regular Slated
Swer pipe floors will be used
throughout the immense dry room.
This room will be 400 feet long by
80 wide and four stories high. 1t
will be heated by several miles of
steam pipe hung beneath the floors.
All the exhaust steam from the large
corliss engine and big steam presses
will pass through this long system Of
piping during the day and at night
q small amount of live steam direct
from the boilers will be used, and in
this manner the pipe will be dried
after coming from the presses ready
for the lNlns.
The entire building will be made
as near fireproof ss 1t will be pTac-
tical to make it, and equipped with
the very latest machinery. Special
arrangements will be made for
handling the large pipe by install
ling the latest pneumatic and cleo
trical devices. and thus economfze
as much as possible on the cost OF
of all suGh sizes.
Two mammoth sewer pipe presses
will be installed having capacity
Of over two hundred tons of clay per
day. These hungry clay-eating
monsters will be fed by six large
tempering machines, commonly
known as wet pans. 1t is in these
large pans that the ground clay isl
thoroughly mixed with the proper
amount OF water to make a mud of
the required Elasticity for the
presses The clay will be ground
with three large grinding machines,
called dry pans. Each of these pans
will have a capacity of over one
hundred tons of clay and will insure
a constant supply of ground clay.
A large storage bin will be installed
on the third floor of the machine
room above the tempering pans.
with sufficient capacity to hold a
thousand tons or more Of ground
clay. thus insiring the plant from a
shut down should any OF the grind