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Show NO DEARTH OF BRICK. Why Contractors Complain of a Soarcltjr of tha Building Material. Editor Times. Dear Sir; In your issue of the 15th you stated that there is a dearth of brick in the market. Permit Per-mit me to say, that there is within a radius ra-dius of ten miles of Salt Lake City over fourteen'millions of brick, enough to keep every mason in the'eity busy and on full time until the first of May next in laying them in the walls. The supposed dearth arises principally principal-ly as follows: The' mason contractor gets the promise of the manufacturer to furnish him the brick for a large building before building; thoy are then hold as might be said in escrow. The manufacturers may make similar promises pro-mises to a halt dozen contractors on as many different buildings, thereby consuming con-suming his entire stock, (or nearly so), then the next customer is refused and from this ootjies the cry of a scarcity of brick. Now out of this half dozen holdings hold-ings for the contractors, two of them about the ratio may be successful In in their bidding, the others then release the promise of tha manufacturer and he is in the market again with two-thirds two-thirds of his stock. In this I think I can speak for all the brick-makers in this vicinity. Respeotfully, VV. S. Simkins. . |