New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-05

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the material goes to the various machines
as follows:
Tile and Block Machines
One Schenk Tile Machine with capacity
of 1000 feet per day, making tile from
five inches to ten inches in diameter.
/ One Monarch Tile Machine with capa-
city Of 1000 feet per day, and making
tile from twelve inches to eighteen inches
in diameter.
OneQuinn Tile Machine making tile from
twenty inches to thirty-six inches in
diameter and lamps the concrete into
the molds with automatic hampers,
running 800 blows per minute with
$50 lbs. to each blow One 36-inch tile
weighs 1160 lbs. and takes rs of these
tile for carload.
Two Anchor Concrete Block Machines,
which makes the famous continuous air
space block. This block laid up in a
wall gives "double WALL tied together
with steel rods and an air space of
two and one-half inches running through
out the building keeping it dry and even
in temperature. On account Of the big
demand for this block a night crew is
| kept working in order to supply the
demand.
Two Keystone Silo Machines. The not
able feature of Keystone silo is the
immense amount of reinforcing which it
contains and which is cast in the block,
protecting it against rust. Every silo
has over one-half mile of reinforcing.
The silo is glazed making it absolutely
water, frost and air proof. The "Key-
stone is fitted with a continuous auto
matte lock door.
The cement plant has an entire floor
space of over $4,000 square feet and is
steamed and heated by two 100-HP.
boilers.
The total capacity of the plant may
be seen from the fact that in 1918 about
$4,000 tons Of the various concrete
products were manufactured there which
made up more than 1900 carloads.
The Brick Department
/, IS The older deIs r;;ment of the works
is the brick department. It contains
/ two special machines. The one is the
Wellington" soft mud and the other
the Raymond wire cut machine with
a total capacity of 10000 bricks per day.
Here the clay is worked up, mixed with
water, pressed in molds and put into
the drying sheds which can hold
500, 900 bricks at one time. The drying
/ process in these sheds lasts from ten
I. days to two weeks. After that the
! bricks are taken into the kilns, on cable
and gravity conveyors and then burned
n from seven to eight days when they are
ready for the market.
Sand and Gravel Department
Another speciality of the plant is the
dealing in several grades Of sand and
! gravel. There is constant demand for
/ the following grades: Fine plastering
sand, coarse sand, fine gravel, medium
| gravel, coarse gravel and white sand.
a number of men is loading this material
all year around and during the last season
the total amount shipped was about / 100
cars. X # 4.i:
| Business Growing Steadily
The business in all three departments
lof the plant is constantly growing and
has more than doubled during the last
three years. At present there are %
different contracts on hand the total
amount Of which is $432,788.62. Some
! Of these contracts are for laying tile for
county and judicial bitches. These
special tiles are made by three different
machines.
Not less than 1853 men are employed by
the firm, and 80 teams and 2 trucks are
used in the plant and for the delivery Of
the tile from the various stations to the
bitches.
Started Al Years Ago
Fred Aufderheide started the brick.
yard A years ago in the old-fashioned
way, slushing the brick into the molds by
hand and dumping them on the ground
! to. dry. He kept on improving and en-
larging the plant, added new machinery
and applied new systems as the years
went by. IN 1910 headed the concrete