The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1912-10-31
Land Bought for
Brick and Tile Factory
THE BRICK AND TILE FACTORY
WILL BE LOCATED INSIDE
CORPORATION. LIMITS ON
EAST SIDE

The brick and tile plant for Valley
City is now an assured fact. At the
time of going to press last week a
deal was practically closed for what
is known as the Algeo land, lying east
Of the Times-Record office on Main
street, about ten minutes walk from
the central part of town.
The tract of land which was bought
by the company that will be incor-
porated under the name of the Valley
City Brick and Tile Company contains
about IS acres and takes in a large
hill on the south side of the road.
The plant will be of an entirely new
and modern pattern of a special de-
sign which has only recently been
patented and which is known as con-
tinuous kilns.
There will be several kilns, each
125 feet in length and 16 feet wide.
These are constructed in such a men,
ner that the fire is never allowed to
90 out and all smoke and gas con-
sumed in heating the product. An
amount is placed in the kiln each
day equal to what is taken out and
the total output will be at least IS
per cent larger for the money in
vested than in the old fashioned oven
of kiln. The company will manu-
facture bricks, hollow building ware
and also drained tile should there be
\ demand for it.
The clay makes a very light col
ored brick that can be colored or
modelled as desired for making press
ed brick or fancy brick of any kind.
In the process, the shoal will be
taken into the house, ground by spec
ial machinery recently patented for
that purpose, and will be put through
the various processes until it finally
comes out finished article,
The work will start at once on the
plant as soon as the architect has
completed the plans and it is expect
ed to have it completed and in oper-
alton some time in March. 1t will
take about $50 men to operate the
plant in normal capacity and it will
be in operation the year round as the
material can be dug at any time, and
stored in the building to be used
in the severe weather when it will
be impossible to work out of doors.
The company that are promoting
this enterprise consists of S. L. David
son, A. r. Robertson, who installed
the electric light plant here several
years ago and C. E. Hickman, clay
and brick expert all of St. Paul, Mimi.
These men will all be actually engag-
ed in completing the work here and
at least one of them will probably
make this his permanent home. These
gentlemen have all been engaged in
the brick and tile business and come
to Valley City highly recommended
business men.
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valuable acquisition as it will bring
to Valley City at least thirty or forty
additional families and since there is
no brick factories in the country near
here, it does not seem unreasonable
to suppose that the factory will be
unable to supply the demands from
the start.
The old Kindred hotel was built
from the brick made from the same
material that will be used, but at a
time when the nature of the material
was not we'll understood and with
machinery that was not adapted to
handling this kind of material.
There appears disposition on the
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