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Two at Tekamah One at Humboldt
Capacity: 600 Tons of Shale Every 24
Two have been in successful operation for years. These
will be remodeled and enlarged and patterned after a third
plant-a new one-to bo built at Tekamah, When com
pleted, they will be the most efficient clay products factor
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1000 BRICK EVERY 15 MINUTES FROM THIS PLANT
One of the new units of the Nebraska Clay Products
Company will be an exact -duplicate of the one pictured
above. The unit, operated by the Smith Brick & Tile
Company, at Sheffield, Iowa, turns out 1,000 brick
every fifteen minutes. This is done with the new
Smith T. T. N. (true to nature) continuous kiln, shown
at the left of the picture. One of these Smith kilns will
dry and burn 100,000 brick every 24 hours. In the old
fashioned plants it takes from eight to eleven days to
make, dry and burn brick and tile. Six of these new
kilns at least will be operated by the Nebraska Clay
Products Company.
In the new plant, the ware is NOT TOUCHED BY
HANDS in the entire drying and burning process.
Eight men are required to do the same job under; tifo
old system.
Eight hundred dryer cars, costing $50 each, are needed
in one unit in an old-style plant, and only twelve trucks,
costing $120 each, do the same work in the new plant
Oil is used as fuel in the new dryer and burner Fuel
costs are five times less with the new. kiln
Xn-T7 Nebraska Clay Products '
VVliy. Company Was Formed '
1. Nebraska cannot get enough brick now to carry on
her good roads program.
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2. Omaha, right now, is short more than ten million brick
to start proposed buildings.
3. Omaha is short more than ten million building tile.
4. Present Omaha plants cannot turn out more than
150,000 brick a day at the most.
5. Omaha herself needs five times that many brick a day.
6. Nebraska farmers cannot get sufficient drain tile and
silo tile to improve their properties.
7. Contractors, building supply dealers, architects and
real estate men predict a still greater demand from now on.
8. The Omaha Chamber of Commerce for years has agi
tated greater production of clay products in this, state.
9. The Nebraska Clay Products Company controls 120
acres of highest grade shale, from which all of the most needed
articles have and can be made.
Plans For Production
The Nebraska Clay Products Company within six months
from today will be operating three plants.
We have taken over the plant of the Farmers' Clay Prod
ucts Company at Tekamah, which operated successfully for
seven years. This plant, which has a present capacity of 30,000
brick, will be enlarged to turn out 100,000 brick a day.
The Humboldt plant, formerly operated by the Humboldt
Brick Company, now has a capacity of 50,000 brick. This ca
pacity will be brought up to 100,000 a day, by means of the
new Smith kiln.
The third plant, and by far the largest, will be built close
to the present Tekamah factory. This will turn out about
200,000 brick a day. 1 s
The present plants are being remodeled now. Building of
the third factory wilf begin late in April.
120 Acres of Shale
The Nebraska Clay Products Company controls 120 acres
of the highest grade shale. '
There is enough shale in our total acreage to build
1,000,000 brick a day for over 50 years.
Ceramic engineers, who have made repeated tests, find
that our deposits run from 90 to 137 feet in depth.
These same engineers also estimate that there are at least
v 16,000,000 tons of shale in our deposits. Shale in its raw
state today is worth 20 cents a ton. This means that our nat
ural resources assets much more tangible than buildings, ma
chinery, etc. are worth at least $3,200,000 twice our cap
italization. Nothing but paving brick will be
made at our Humboldt plant The
tremendous shortage of paving
brick assures the market for our
entire output for years. "
Operating Costs Cut in Two-Profits Doubled
Nearly twice as much profit can be made with a new plant, such
as the Nebraska Clay Products Company will build.
Operating costs are cut in two. Thirty-five men do the work of
seventy in an old plant. Over $300 a day in wages alone is saved in
the new plant.
It costs $377,295.51 to construct one of the old-style plants with a
'capacity of 100,000 brick a day. "
It costs only $227,016.64 to build one' of the new plants with the
same capacity. ; - .-
- One new kiln and dryer, which will turn out 100,000 brick evert
24 hours, costs $47,746.43, as against $188,906.28 for 16 old-fashioned
round kilns.
ONE NEW DOES THE WORK OF 16 OLD KILNS AND FROM
EIGHT TO ELEVEN TIMES AS FASTI
Nebraska Needs Three Plants and More
Even these three immense plants won't begin to fill the demand,
for brick and tile in this part of the country. The shortage of clay prod
ucts is apparent on every side. '
The Omaha Chamber of Commerce recently issued a folder, show
ing the growth of Omaha as a manufacturing center.
The folder stated that the entire factory output of brick in Omaha,
during 1919, totaled only $226,000, while brick and tile valued at
$5,436,543 were distributed by Omaha jobbers during the same period
THE DEMAND WAS TWENTY TIMES GREATER THAN THE
OMAHA FACTORIES' OUTPUT.
Market Assured For Company 9 s Entire Output
Bids are received daily for Nebraska Clay Products Company's
output. The market is assured for years to come. Architects, con
tractors, road builders, real estate men, building supply dealers all
foresee a still greater building boom, with brick and tile as the founda
tion of nine-tenths of all improvements. ,
One Omaha firm writes. "There is a crying need in this territory for a tile plant.
We feel that we could ourselves use practically the entire output of your plant in
Omaha. Another writes: "You will not experience any difficulty in marketing your
wares. We think it possible, to handle a great portion of your output." On write :
"We certainly will welcome you in this field, and being a Nebraska institution, is
another reason why we would like to give you our business." Still another write:
"The demand this season for clay products has greatly exceeded that of previous
years, making it necessary for a great increase of these products in order to meet
the increased demands and hope we may have the pleasure of furnishing yon with
a liberal proportion of our business, as we consider your material above the average."
Another aytt "There seems to be a strong demand for all clay products and just as
soon as you are in a position to place your wares on the market kindly take the
matter up with us." A contractor write: "The brick kilns of Omaha cannot nearly
supply the demands for local brick, and all tile has to be shipped from plants in
Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. The writer's opinion is that a plant of this kind would
be a money maker from the start, and not only a money maker but a great help to
the building industry in this community."
We Offer a Limited Amount of Stock At Pair
We will not attempt to discuss possible earnings in this advertise
ment. Earnings out of brick and tile manufacture are tremendous.
Any brick man will tell you of the profit possibilities. Plants as big
as ours have paid for themselves in a few' years. Annual dividends
ranging from 8 to 102 per cent have been paid by plants in Iowa and
Illinois. We have the shale, and the management, and the market.
All we need is the capacity.
The Nebraska Clay Products Company is incorporated under the
laws of the state of Nebraska, with a total capitalization of $1,500,000.
Ten thousand shares 6f common stock, and five thousand shares
of preferred stock are to be issued.
Nebraska
Clay
Both have full voting powers and are non-assessable.
The Articles of Incorporation say:
"The preferred stock shall bear an annual dividend of 8 per cent on par, payable
out of the earnings of the corporation, and the dividends thereon shall be cumulative.
Furthermore, the preferred stock shall participate with the common stock up to and
including 12 per cent The preferred stock shall be preferred as to assets and
dividends over the common stock. The preferred stock of the corporation at the
election of the board of directors may be retired on or after five years from date of
its issuance by paying the holder thereof the amount paid to the corporation there
fore at time of original issuance, together with all unpaid and accumulated dividends
thereon."
There is not one cent of promotion stock in this company. Stock
is being sold now at par value, on the basis of two shares of common
and one share of preferred.
THE PAR VALUE OF EACH SHARE IS $100.
420 Peters Trust Bldg., Omaha, Neb.
NEBRASKA CLAY PRODUCTS CO.,
420 Peter Trust Bldg., Omaha, Neb. .
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