Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-09-14
Product Of This Large Plant
Is Being Shipped Over
Universe
Experts Are Preparing Plans
to Extend Yards to Cover
IS Acres
BY George Weatherhead.

BY george Weatherhead.
Hebron, N. d., Sept. l3:--Beyon'
any, doubt the greatest industry nov
under Roadway in the entire north
west is the brick plant OF the He
bron Pressed Brick company, ilocate'
at the very edge of this little vi,
lage. This marvellous plant was es
tablished nine years ago. Charlie
Weigel is president of this company
while State Senator FerdinandeI-eut
is vice president. T.. l.. Watts i
secretary, and K. r. Colburn is treas
urer. All OF these men are resident
ofN1Hebron. III Ii.
This plant today cover about eigh
| acres OF ground, but experts are lay
ing plans and arranging for an exten
| sion of the plant which will soon b.
under way, and when the new i'm
provements are completed over fiji
teen acres will be used in the manu-
facture of the famous brick that are
being shipped from Hebron by tle
train load. Adjoining this bricl
yard are miles and miles of clay
deposits, the finest obtainable any
where in the world. This clay is {
great natural resource. 1t is trans
ported to the brink plant by the use
Of two locomotive engines owned by
the company, where the clay i;
dumped into the large machines and
the best Quality Of pressed prick are
formed in the high pressure ina
chimes.
When the plant is extended under
the newly proposed plans a 800 horse
power Corliss engiwnie s%hrdlushrdlu
power Corliss engine will be used to
supply the power and the private
electric light plant which is operat.
ed. Such an elegant quality is the
brick made at this plant that the
product is being sought all over the
country. Practically every new
court house that has been erected in
North Dakota in the past ten years
has been constructed of tie pressed
brick of this plant. The new court
house to be erected at Stanley for
Mountrail county is the last county
building to be built Of the brick from
the Hebron plant.
Many of the court houses through
out Montana are also CONSTRUCTED OF
this brick, among them being the
$75D,0O0 court House at Butte. All
over North Dakota and Montana are
today found public buildings and
business blocks that are constructed
Of the. same material. The Dixon
block, a twelve story structure at
Missoula, is another building built Of
Hebron brick, as is the Imperial 10
tel, a nine story building at Port
land Oregon. Another twelve story
building that is using this brick is
the Sterling bank now under course
of construction at Winnipeg. Prob
ably the largest building project that
is receiving its brick material from
this plant is the new administration
building for a mammoth new college
near Winnipeg. This new college
will be comprised of over. ten build
ings and over 100000 Hebron brick
will be used. Tile mammoth building
Of the International Harvester COM
pany at Aberdeen was also built OF
this brick, as was the n. O. Lee
building at Vancouver, B. c., the
Cairns and Drinkel buildings at
Saskatoon, whic! used over 10000
brick, and many other large buildings
throughout western Canada. The
Hebron plant is at thep resent time
shipping an immense number of
brick for new court houses at Dalles,
Oregon, and also at Cody, Wyoming.
Experiments are also being made
at this plant for a glazed brick in
different cOlors and as soon as this
venture is under Roadway large ship
ments of this material will be headed
for San Francisco, and many western
coast cities where a notwithstanding
brick is required. J.
Tributary to this brick plant are
also immense beds of high Ignite
coal that are mined by this brick
company and which is transported
to the plant and used in baking the
brick after they come from the PRESS
ing machine. No mud mixing is nee
essary in manufacturing this quality
Of brick, and the men are engaged
in a great deal cleaner class Of work
than in most brick yards. Help is
a great problem just at present but
when the new plant is installed, less
hand labor will be necessary for the
amount of production, as more mod
ern machinery will be installed, and
the output will be more than doubled.
In close proximity to this great
brick plant is a branch school OF
mines established here by the state
and which is under the jurisdiction
of the state university. This school
of mines is experimenting constantly
with com.nercializing coke and gas
for the manufacture of b%riqueLtes,
and all of the experiments are prov
ing to- be a great success. The wax
is being carried on by students for
the university, and during this sum
mer the plant and buildings haze
been enlarged and remodeled so that
a large amount of the work can be
carried cut from now on