64 THE CLAYS OF AKKANSAS. 
When thoroughly burned the bricks are of a cherry-red color and 
are considered substantial. 
The wet-mud machine has a capacity of 30,000 a day, but it requires 
just twice the number of men to operate it. 
The clay used for making the wet-mud bricks is the same as that 
used in the dry-press machine, except it is not stored in sheds and 
tempered before it is used. It is hauled from the pit in carts and 
dumped into small cars, which are drawn up an incline by means of 
a wire rope attached to a large drum. The cars are unloaded into a 
bin and fed into the machine by means of a belt with cups upon it. 
The bricks are removed from the machine and dried on pallets in cov- 
ered racks. It requires from four to six days for drying, and seven 
to nine days for burning. Stationary up-draft kilns are used. Wood 
is used exclusively for burning. 
Barton Lumber and Brick Company. — On the lot adjoining the 
Jonesboro Brick Company's plant, near the depot of the Jonesboro 
and Lake City Railroad, is the plant of the Barton Lumber and Brick 
Company, where both wet-mud and dry-pressed bricks are made. 
The bricks are molded by steam and the wet mud is dried by air in 
covered racks. They are burned in up-draft clamp kilns, and require 
about eight days for burning. A kiln that is built 34 bricks high is 
burned until it settles about 8 inches. 
Saxe Brick and Tile Company. — At the time it was visited in June, 
1905, the plant of the Saxe Brick and Tile Company was under con- 
struction. When completed the plant will have a capacity of 10,000 
4-inch tile a day, or its equivalent. Tile will be the principal product 
if it can be made from the clay. Both soft- and stiff -mud machinery 
have been installed. The American Clay Worker end-cut automatic 
machine has been erected for making stiff -mud bricks and tile. Both 
open-air and steam-heating sheds will be used for drying the product. 
Down-draft clamp kilns are to be used, wood and coal serving as fuel. 
Patrick Brothers Brick Company. — The plant of the Patrick Broth- 
ers Brick Company was established in 1905 for the manufacture of 
soft-mud building bricks. The bricks are made from the common, 
surface reworked loess clay. They are dried in the open air by means 
of the pallet and rack system. It requires from six to nine days for 
drying and from six to seven days for burning. Wood is used for 
burning. The capacity of the machine is 12,000 to 15,000 bricks a 
day. The size of the green bricks is 9 by 4f by 2 J inches. The total 
shrinkage in drying and burning is f by J by \ inch. 
Logan & Collans plant. — No particulars of the Logan & Collans 
brick plant were obtained. 
