Wynn & Co Firebrick Works and Clearfield County Firebricks

From Brick, as usual, I find the following notices:

Miss Ethel Wynn lighted the first fires in the new firebrick works of Wynn, Sons & Co., Blue Ball, Pa., Jan. 8th. [1900] The plant commences operations with most fortunate prospects.

Wynn & Co. Firebrick Works at Blue Ball, Pa., will be increased by the addition of several new kilns, for the erection of which Mr. J. W. Stein of Phillipsburg was awarded the contract.

From Brick, May 1905:

The fire brick plant of W. H. Wynn & Co. at Blue Ball, Clearfield county, Pa., is in full operation, and I am told a continuous run has been experienced ever since it was installed some five years ago. The product of this factory consists of high-grade fire brick and a variety of large and small shapes, the standard brick being repressed by means of handpower machines. The capacity is about sixteen thousand per day. The plant is equipped with commodious and well constructed buildings, such as are adapted for the character of work performed. The drying is accomplished on a heated floor and the bricks are burned in square down-draft kilns, of which there are five. As a matter of course, in a plant of this kind no very extensive machinery equipment is required. This rule holds good with reference to the Wynn factory, which is furnished with a very good steam power plant and two wet pans, together with quite a number of hand-power represses. The clay mines are located possibly two miles from the factory, and the material is transported on a tramway by means of a small locomotive owned by the company. W. H. Wynn, the senior member of this concern, has been ill a good portion of the last year, and the operating of the factory has been, and is still, in charge of his son, D. R., who, by reason of many years’ experience, is a very capable and successful manager.

From the above [1904]:

The coal industry, the reader will recollect, was founded upon a wrecked ark and it would seem that the fire brick business, too, is founded upon a wreck. The real start, as in the coal trade, was made about 1867, and through the courtesy of Mr. H. F. Bigler, of Clearfield, it is made possible to give here a list of the fire brick works in the county, when erected and by whom established :
No. 1 Works at Woodland, Erected. 1867 By Isaac and Benj. Reese, Thomas Hammond and John McMath.

No. 2 Works at Woodland, Erected, 1870 By Wyle and Richards.

No. 1 Clearfield Fire Brick Works, Erected, 1873 By Clearfield Fire Brick Co.

Wallaceton Fire Brick Works, Erected, 1880 By Wallaceton Fire Brick Co.

Philipsburg Fire Brick Works, Erected, 1882 By R. B. Wiglin & Sons.

Widemire Works, Erected, 1895 By Harbison-Walker Co.

Within the past five years the following works have been erected :

Clearfield Works, Clearfield, By Harbison-Walker Co.

No. 2 Clearfield Fire Brick Works, Clearfield, By Clearfield Fire Brick Co.

Blue Ball Works, Blue Ball, By W. H. Wynn & Co.

Curwensville Fire Brick Works, Curwensville, By Curwensville Fire Brick Co.

Osceola Fire Brick Works, Osceola, By Osceola Fire Brick Co.

The above plants vary in capacity from 5 to 18 millions.

To-day the coal and fire brick industries may be mentioned as the principal business enterprises in the county, increasing in magnitude each year.

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