Show Horns bys brick brickyard yard A clipper reporter visited the hornsby brickyard located on the samuel howard place in the southwestern part of bountiful the first of last week to learn where the proprietors hailed from and to ascertain what line of goods they contemplate manufacturing fac turing or mr james H hornsby the manager stated that lie he had ad been in the brick business ever since he was a boy and lie he is is now about thirty five years old said their factory was located in perth amboy new jersey that in au august 1895 he and his father came to utah to look around to see what there was in the way of clays but about two weeks after their arrival his father suddenly died while in O ogden oden 0 den mr hornsby returned to his home in october and tho the following 0 january lie he and his family and his oldest sister and her family came out here mr hornsby has spent a g great r eat deal of time prospecting for clays in various parts of the state and experimenting with them he explained that a potter u needed clay to make in ake C ertain certain articles of pottery that is easy to mold then he needs clay to mix with it that will stand the heat and keep the vessel in shape while burning Z and then still another kind is required to give it a gloss to find these varieties and mix them in the right 0 proportion is the difficult task of tile the potter the gentleman ell thinks utah has as much wealth locked up in her rich clay beds as slie she has in lier her mines the company is making anakin irrigating tin 0 pipe and fire brick a spec balty although they make different kinds of tila and bonmon brick he said that their pipe when thoroughly glazed would last a hundred years and sta stand nd a pressure of fifty pounds to the inch they make make all sizes up to twelve inch and ho be said that they could f furnish a six inch pipe at fifteen cents cenis a foot their machinery which consists principally of a forty five H P boiler 1 H 1 P engine f beiver pipe pipa machine and mill for pulverizing soil is covered with a shed feet |