| Show Jacobsentaking his crew along the road had been made carriage left home promptly at seven who met him there or were picked up The workday ended when200 adobes that could be as early as two in the afternoon To mud and make process as continuous as possible for the following day was prepared the day before adobes were removed to make room for wet ones The mill work the pug The at mill was molder waist sand and spread operated stood height in He byhorse pit would which snatch it on the table on tread allowed him handful of to takegob of mud--a little more than was needed to makebrick--roll it about and then slam it into the mold The mold held three bricks The molder then drewstrike across the top of the mold cutting washalf-circle between the ends An onto the off-bearer table and of off metal boy the adobes in the yard down in straight rows far end with laid carried the the off excess mud steel wire mold had just mold to the he full The strike stretched emptied deposit to dry The adobes were laid which were always begun from the The day after the adobes had been made Mr Jacobsen an expert at his trade and his helper loaded them onto wheelbarrows and wheeled them to the point where the brick kiln was to be built First firebox was made and then the surrounded by the necessary adobes were air on draft laid down so that each one was all but two sides in order to create All the drafts combined to create as much total draft astall smokestack very hot fire was required to fire bricks Those exposed most the the the for per to fire became white those with less exposure were red numbers of the two were about equal In construction white bricks were used for facing and the red ones backing The white bricks sold for aboutdollar thousand more than the reds 13 |
