Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-08-22
Manufactured Product From Carload
of Lehigh Clay Arrives in
Webster City From
St. Louis.
NOW ON DISPLAY IN THIS CITY
Very Superior Clay Ware Samples
Satisfy all Critical
Observers.
NOW ON DISPLAY IN THIS CITY

Substantial and conclusive evi.
dence Of the value of the Libby clay
beds at Lehigh has been produced
by the members of the committe OF
the temporary organization, which
was recently formed, preliminary tc
the launching here of a $250,0OO
sewer pipe and tile company
The carload of clay from the
Libby land, which some weeks age
was shipped to the Evans & Howard
Fire Brick Company of St. Louis, to
be manufactured into vitrified sewer
pipe, has been returned to Webster
City as finished product. The car
arrived here Friday evening and
the sewer pipe made from the clay
shipped is now on display at the
corner of Second street and Wilson
avenue. They are about as fine
specimens of vitrified sewer pipe as
can be found in the world, and
should undoubtedly, satisfy the most
skeptical as to the value of the clay
supply which will be used by the
new factory when it is started here
Previous to this carload test of the
clay, smaller portion of the clay
was burned into brick and small
tile, and the resulting product was
first class. The specimens made
from this carload of clay are 80 inch
and 1S inch sewer pipe and, by the
way, the 80 inch sewer pipe now on
display is the first 80 inch sewer
pipe ever made out of Iowa clay
There has been 80 inch tile made
out Of Iowa clay, but never before
any sewer pipe of such large di-
mensions.
There are eight of these large
pipe. and six of the smaller sizes
mentioned, in the bunch on display.
The weight of the larger pipe is ap-
proximately $50 pounds each.
Alongside the sewer pipe burned
from the Lehigh clay are a number
of specimens from the st. Louis
factory, where the pipe was manu-
factured. The comparison Of the
two makes of pipe Is very much to
the benefit of the sewer pipe made
from the carload Of Lehigh clay.
During the process of manufact-
uring the clay into sewer pipe, p.
W. Hearn and w. A. Johnson Of
this city and George Lowry of LIE.
high were present at the st. Louis
factory. The two first named gen.
tlemen were members of the COM
mittee appointed to accompany the
carload Of clay and watch the burn
ing of the samples. Mr.. Lowry ac-
companied them in the capacity of
a clay expert and heavy investor
in the big factory which Is to be
built here. He was formerly super
intendent Of the Corey Buff Brick
Company of Lehigh, and knows the
clay products business from A to u.
The sewer pipe made from the
carload of clay from the Libby land
We're not given any special atten-
tion at the st. Louis factory, but
were burned along with the COM
pany's own tile, which are made
from another grade Of clay requir-
ing a higher temperature to glaze
and vitrify, yet the result obtained
was very satisfactory. In fact.
Supt. voltz and head burner Neese
of the st. Louis factory, which is a
million dollar concern, shipping
sewer pipe to all parts OF the United
States. concurred in making til"
emphatic statement that the, clay
burned for the Webster City people
was much superior to their own
clay. made up into better product
and could be manufactured at a
lesser cost because OF the fact tina.
1t could be glazed and vitrified at
much lower temperature than their
own clay. Theirs contains much
fire clay, hence a hot fire is required
to burn 1t properly. The heat un-
der which the sewer pipe on dis
play here was burned was 2,200 de-
grees Fahrenheit. The opinion OF