Show he falls fails to see it editor saw in your last edition an all article headed a successful brick maker 19 now after foll following y the brick trade for eighty three 3 cars most of which time 0 clayes has held the position of foreman in old england and wastel master man here in utah I 1 fail to see sec tile hie success comes in what has he made out of his small brick yard why according acco iding tobis to liis own account to me lie he has worked this yard at a loss speaking of the ground or clay you say we have some very title fine soil for brick making equal to lo it if not superior to any in E england 0 the above statement I 1 flatly deny but I 1 will admit that the soil in tins this yard is good goad for raising cabbage or potatoes but it certainly is a second or third class clay clay we have to contend with it in this brick yard in qu question is a mixture tu re of soil and gravel and the other portion is made up of lucern roots I 1 do not profess profesa to lo know all about the art of brick making but I 1 know quite as much as I 1 care to know i you say that charles owns a small yard iu in east bountiful if he be does docs I 1 do not know where it is for I 1 hold an tn with C clayes for his small yard therefore he has nothing whatever to do with it J the fact that mr iiames clayes was a 11 forman in old england EDgland and a master man here would be an evidence to the writer of his being 0 a successful brick maker the variety of things 0 that he be was able to make of clay is au an other evi evidence delice of liis his success looking 0 at it from a financial stand point it would seem that mr air ilayev has made enough from his yard or cr somewhere so that lie he has been able to retire from hard manual labor in ill his old a adv rn As to the quality of the soil hero here in utah 6 although althou 0 11 utah was only implied and not expressed idour article on tile the brick yard certainly understood tile the old gentleman to say that it brick were made in england and exposed to the sun still when lieu green like they are arc here that they would crack and spoil and lie he furtner furl lier stated staled that if we had machinery like they have all this white clay in fit the bottom of the yard would make brick that when struck vilh nith anything would ring so that the sound could be heard for a lond distance which is an ail evidence of a good quality of bidiuk lit ick As for mr clayes own owning in the yard the writer did lit not lot intend to give acrive 0 anyone credit for owning property that lie he is not in ili possession of but supposed as stated slated that the property wol would ild belong to 0 hayes until paid for by J hayes the writer never considers any anything 0 his own owl until it is vad paid for perhaps for ha 5 this his t may be looked at differently charles hayes is a little liard bard of hearing and the writer may have misunderstood him but if there is an erro in anything that has been reported it is desired that tha t it should ile he corrected also if there is anyone iu in tile county that has worked at brick maldag making in R any n Y of the countries of tile old world we would be very pleased leased to have bave them write an all article for the paper stating liow w the clay here compares with that there EU ED |