Show I I The Salt Lake Lal e Pressed Brick 4 rl I J 4 EG t IF IFt t v vJ vl J Y n t m If 11 f i 1 I f v 1 If t i FL df l f 1 zilL 2 Y 4 h T y l l i DAY SHIFT AT THE SALT LAKE PRESSED BRICK COS PLANT One Ono of oC tho the foremost establishments of or orIts h i Its kind In tho ho west Is II I s the Salt Lake Pressed Brick Co located ed within three miles southeast t of this 1 city It Is a u lender leader amongst the brick companies I manles of oC Utah and therefore a u short description of oC its Ill magnitude mu is isI s 3 I opportune Some Idea hIe as 06 to tho 1120 I of tho the mammoth works owned by b tho the i Salt Luke Lake Pressed brick company can cnn canI I be bo derived from tho fact that It Is h I able abic I a to furnish sufficient brick to build 10 I f I collages every day dllY l I tHo We year car around an aggregate of oC i about bricks bLicks per peL day Ia i This company compan which Is IK under tho the ef efficient f fI I ilc cat management of or a board of or directors tors has been much honored since Its organization by tho the granting to it at of or orI ofa I a numerous medals given as t t of ot the th excellence of or tho tine bricks It pro produces produces 1 duces ducolI I It was on Jan 18 IS 1891 that a very vary vr unpretentious business was wall begun on j 1 the present nt site of tho the enormous estate establishment 1 Tho Tim shrewdness and far tar farsightedness tarI farsightedness I t sightedness of ot the management wore w s ro roI I shown In the tho choice of a location for plant Stretching for miles to tho the l cast and for a considerable distance In ha J every other direction tho the whole slob coun try lly tt has had an Inexhaustible supply of so SJ sal l i perlor clay cla Experiments have pro ed cd that thai a depth of ot 14 19 feet feel of or clay about I tho the factory can be converted Into a IL agrade agrade grade of brick for which tho company has already alread achieved great CLeat pras and I fame CanH Alongside this fact tact It Is 15 worthy of ot mention to say Sl that the branch line I of tho the Park Parle City road brings the brck brek a n I of ot this company compan within easy access I of oC metropolis Connect with tho the founding of 0 the Iho thol Salt Cant Brick company was WOi wasI I l I l I j ono one of or the pioneer brick makers of or the state Mr William S Simpkins who wino I brought with him tho the experience of oC years ono of the tho main causes of or the tho excellence of or this con com P product IH At Al first tho the dally capacity was only brick the buildings and machinery y then In Installed installed stalled being wholly Inadequate to sup tup supply ply pi tho HLO domain demand therefore very coon coo 11 kilns larger r buildings Improved mar ina and anI a n generally greater grouter capac calI capacity cal J ity Ily Il were added The working force fOLCO waa was Increased moro more clay wits was purchased and und In iii all a n thorough transformation was teas effected Tho magnitude of oC tho lino operations of ot company Is evidenced by uy the tact that 40 90 teams aro are kopf cop In constant operation supplying tho the kilns with clay and tons tOils of or coal are ure used by bytho bytho bythe tho the company compan each week Ono One tunnel tun nul kiln having 20 W chambers inns has a capac capacity capacity ity of or brick and another having havin 22 chambers n a capacity of brick rho Tho new plant with Us its double row rosy of C kilts GOO feet reet In length having a total capacity of brick tho the press pressroom pressroom room containing four COUl of oC tho the latest Im Inn Improved m proved Boyd Bod presses pressel and the two wire cutting machines machine give ample evidence of or tho the magnitude and und quality of this excellent establishment In fact when whon all the vast machinery there thore seen is it In operation one ono IB is apt to lo Inquire on corning tho the growth of oC the Institution and also to wonder somewhat what mo tor power pourer Is la employed Ho Hc Is told that the Iho plant is run by b electricity ed from Lom the tho Mill Creek Power comPlY company situated about six miles to lo the tho south southeast southeast southeast east In the Mill Creek canyon can on Coming Coning to the tho burning process we ve find It to be he bea hea a most Interesting one The feeders fec ers with small shovels In hand administer the tho large portions of ot coal to tho the hungry flames lIames which keep 1 L Cep p tho the brick In a I Iwhite white heat This Thlu process Is continued for i r 1 days but not before the tho end and of or 1 of the day arc aro tho the bricks sufficiently cool for handling Par Pal Particular I economy Is shown In III tho tine utilizing uti ing log of or tho the surplus heat from flom tho kilns kiln this Is h convoyed to large largo rooms Into which tho the green bricks are aro placed to undergo Iho lino process of or drying preparatory pr preparatory pa atory atoL to being placed In III tho the kiln It Is Interesting to know why sore some bricks produced by b this company compan are red and some somo are ruo ru o white The dark colored clay Invariably produces a u white brick the red clay as n a mutter matter of course courso conies comes out a u red brick However a great variety of shades both hoth red and white results from a dif dlf difference ference of heating In la the kilns Tills This necessitates tho the shading process known to brick men by which a thorough segregation follows after aCtor tho the bricks arc aro removed from rom tho the kilns Hand Hund labor has boon been reduced to 10 a l minimum In the now factory and about I Iho ho yard may bo be seen een mammoth cranes which lift bricks or more moro at a time conveying them to different wag wagons wagons ons In La fact tho the wagon woon Itself Is cl by these cranes from tine the roadside e loaded and ami replaced again ready roady to proceed on Its way wa This ono one Item Itom the Iho hauling of ot the tho brIck from tram the tho fac tac factory tory Is one of enormous expense In lam which many men find constant and employment Many lIan of the buildings In Salt SnIt Lake City CIl are constructed with brick furnished by 1 the tho Salt Lake Pressed s J Brick company notably the following State university Groves L D S hos hOb hospital pital Holy IToh Cross hospital annex Brig Brigham ham Young Memorial All Hallow Hallowd Barrett Durrett Mall fall University club Ellis Elks club Bransford flats Hals the Iho Grace Emory and Louise flats rials the tho Kensington apartments apartment St Regis noSh tho the Zimmerman the tho Judd apartments as well as us a score of or others of oC the Iho lar oal et I school buildings In Salt Lake county have hao been boon built by this I 0 brick The huge hUG smelters smellers at Garfield and Murray also have been con constructed constructed constructed with material furnished from the same sarno place Shipments are arc made by b the tho Salt Lake Pressed Brick company com company company pany to southern Utah various pointy points In Nevada various points In Idaho and In fact to the entire region Labor babor Is furnished to lo hundreds hUll reds of Salt alt Lake people the tine bricks are a credit to the city et as Ij well as to the state and In ht every eOL souse sense of oC the word the Salt Sail Lake Lal o Pressed Brick company occupies occupieR a most vo jO among our praiseworthy onto |