New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-02-18
Fast Increasing Demand For
Products of Tile and
Cement Works.
Aufderheide's Find They
Must Enlarge Their Plant
Materially.

=. !" wi AeSO1u output Oh tnfee MIL
lion bricks, the New Ulm Brick and
Tile Yards has just closed one of it's
most prosperous years and the out
look for 1914 is even brighter. The
capacity of the concern is to be
greatly augmented by the installa-
ton OF many sweeping improvements
at an aggregate cost of $4,000 and by
the general extension of the work.
That this increase in capacity is
called for is clearly shown by the
fact that they have been forced to
cancel orders and refuse to estimate
on new contracts since the middle of
January.
The local brickyard has made a
steady growth since it was started
in 1875 until now it has a capacity
Of 10000 bricks a day and gives
steady employment to from fifty to
sixty men, calling for a payroll of
$13 500 annually. The output during
the last year aggregated some three
million bricks including some 250,OOO
fancy pressed brick for veneer work.
Placed end to end the bricks would
reach over $50 miles. The total value
of the brick output was in the neigh
borhood Of $4,000. About two-thirds
of the brick are shipped away from
New Ulm.
The clay comes largely from the
Minnesota river bottom and is work
ed thoroly or plugged" and then
pressed into the commercial sized
bricks. The bricks are then placed
III the drying sheds for about two
weeks till they are thoroly dry and
then are baked in the big kiln, which
has a capacity of 100000 bricks, till
they are ready for the market. Both
pose. Some 1000 cords of wood was
consumed in the big updraft furnaces
last year.
The tile and cement block factory,
while originally a side line, is fast
assuming big proportions. By the
aid OF the new machinery recently
installed, cement drain tiles are turn
ed out at the rate of $4,000 to 10000
a day. Some $500 barrels of cement
were used last year and 100000 feet
OF drain tile ranging from four inches
to three feet in diameter were turn
ed out. The making of concrete
blocks for building purposes and silos
is the latest side line. The combin-
ed output of the cement works last
year was about $4,000. Some two
hundred carloads of sand and gravel
worth $4,000 were shipped out in
1918.
Mr.. Aufderheide, the proprietor of
the plant, is so well pleased with
last seasons results that he is con-
templating sweeping improvements
during the current year. Two new
brick making machines will be added.
The one for sand mould brick will
cost $1,000 while the new wire-cut
brick machinery complete with the
dies will cost about $500 more. A new
kiln with a capacity of $4,000 bricks
is to be erected. New drying sheds
will also be built and new seventy
flve horse power engine will replace
the old one of twenty-five horsepower
capacity. Altogether, some $4,000
in improvements will be added.
The tile industry will also be push
ed this season. eve have been too
busy to devote proper time to this
branch" says Mr.. Aufdcrheide. ''But
we are convinced that the time has
come to push the tile industry and
we are going after the cement bust
ness this year. The demand for tile
is constantly increasing and we must
expand to meet it."
Owing to the large demand for
brick, work will be commenced even
before the frost is out of the ground.
The clay will be removed from under
the frost line and the steamheated
drying sheds will be called into use.