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Augusta is a Great Clay Center
The various days produced in this
vicinity cxcell in quality any on the
globe.
There is no problem connected with
the growth and expansion ot the city
more important than building mate
rials. Any city not having a good sup.
lily ot building materials convenient
ail'd at a low cost is to that extent
handicapped in the race for suprem
acy.
Tile rapid destruction of forests
now in progress will soon eliminate
wood from the list of staple lines and
then a serious problem will be pro
i ctod into tin' pathway of the ad
vaneement of cities that are largely
dependent upon wooden structures.
Not so with Augusta. Fortunately
lor tills city it is situated in tile midst
of the Savannah Valley, which gen
erous nature has provided bountifully
lor such a contingency by storing the
mountains with the finest marbles for
interior and exterior decoration; beds
of granite underlying entire sections,
veins < f slate for roofing; deposits
of sand for the manufacture of glass;
ochres of all colors for paint, and c -
ment of the most tenacious and last
ing qualities.
The Finest Clays Abound.
If we avail ourselves of these great
resources, held in the storehouse "
nature, the states of Georgia and South
Carolina will go into the building ma
terial business on a grand scale, not
only on their own account, but for
the purpose of furnishing other leas
favored communities that comprise the
sisterhood.
But of all tile many and various
sources of wealth afforded by llie.se
states, clays are the most prolific ami
affluent. Especially fortunate in tliis
respect is the immediate vicinity of
Augusta. The old washed hills, turned
out as worthless and abandoned to
Ihe ravages of the elements, are rich
ly stored with clays of the finest qual
ity and In great variety.
These are capable, of producing un
told wealth when converted into mer
chantable product by a simple process
of manufacture. And they include ev
ery esesntial ingredient in the entire
range of the clay-working industry,
from brickmaking to the finest articles
known to the ceramic art.
The Kaolin Industry.
The superior burning qualities of
the clays of tills section have long been
recognized, but their manufacture has
barely reached the first stage of com
mercilization. The mud taken from
the valleys of the Savannah and her
estuaries have long enjoyed an estab
lished reputation for making fine
brick.
The extensive beds of kaolin that
crop out of the bills at Bangley, S. C„
and again at Hephzibah, Georgia, have
been profitably worked for many years
but this product has been shipped
away to the flourishing potteries of
Trenton, N. J., and South Liverpool,
Ohio.
It has also gone in trainloads to be
worked up as filler by large paper
mills of Illinois and New England. At
Langley, during the war of secession,
there was established a large pottery
where ail the plates aid dishes used
' y the confederate armies were lnanu
l.ietird, and near Macon, Ga.. the
Concrete^Thing
Leliighs0 e dement
Build With Concrete
Then You Have Building Fireproof,
Vermin-Proof, Everlasting
One characteristic—ACCUMULATlVE STRENGTH—more than any
thing else gives concrete a distinctive advantage over all other building mate
rial. Wood rots, steel rusts, bricks crumble, but concrete gains strength with
the lapse of time.
Modern architecture, building and engineering practice demand a high
grade Portland cement possessing the greatest strength, fineness and grind
ing uniformity in color and of a particularly good analysis, thus assuring that
all concrete work will improve with age, and stand sound and strong.
T rUTr IT PORTLAND
-blhniVjit CEMENT
has successfully met these demands in the severest tests known to modern
building. Whether for a skyscraper, a home or a farm building, LEHIGH
means cement satisfaction.
Come in and talk over your plans with me.. .1 have some valuable building
suggestions and can advise you the proper way to receive greatest value for
each “Building Dollar.”
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MR. RUSSELL K. WHALEY
OF WHALEY BROS
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Mr. Russell K. Whale.v and his
brother, Mr. Lawrence M. Whaley,
comprise the enterprisng firm of
-Whaley Bros- As will he noted else
where in tliis issue, this frm furnish
ed 10,000 barrels of Standard Cement
for Augusta’s first skyscraper.
in more recent years the Georgia
Stevens Pottery has grown to he quite
a flourishing institution. But beyond
these, there have been few attempts
at anufacture.
Plan Sutailled For New High School Building
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434 JACKSON STREET All Kinds ol Building Material. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
“You Can Get It at iWcDanieFs”
Clay and Vitrified Brick Company was
organized to manufacture vitrified
paving brick and sewer pipe and they
have engaged in the business exten
sively. Their output goes to cities and
towns of adjacent states for street
paving and they have been especially
successful in introducing their prod
uct into the state of Florida. All tile
clays (hat form the esesntial ingredi
ents for mixing and burning are con
veniently located to their work as i
also a fin deposit of shale, used at
tlie process of vitrifying.
Prof. Heinrich Rees.
Prof; Heinrich Roes, a noted clay
expert, after visiting this section find
investigating the matter thoroughly,
pronounced the clays the finest on the
1,-obe. He also ventured the predic
tion that our Georgia cities whose
day-working industries are destined
to become the rivals of Trenton, Ak
ron. and South Liverpool Some idea
of the magnitude, importance , And
f'ourishing condition of the clay-mak
ing industry of the United States may
lie gained by the fact that as many
as fill new pottery plants were installed
in one year.
A more thorough investigation into
the ceramic industry in America re
veals the fact that from the first dis
covery of this country the potters of
England have feared the rivalry des
tined to come from the fine clays of
Georgia and South Carolina, the man
ufacture of deif ware in the latter
state having assumed such propor
tions in colonial times as to cause
alai m.
Wedgewood Sounds the Alarm.
The great English potter Wedge
wood, thus wrote to his patron. Sir
W Meridith, in 1769:
“Permit me, sir, to mention a cir
cumstace of a more public nature
which greatly alarms us in this neigh
m AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
borhood. The bulk of our particular
manufactures are, you know, exported
to foreign markets, for our home
consumption is very small in compari
son to what is sent abroad, and thd
principal of these markets are the
continent and islands of North Amer
ica. To the continent we send an
ama/ing. quantity or white stone ware
and some of the finer kinds but for
the islands we cannot make anything
too rich and costly. This trade to our
colonies, we are apprehensive of los
ing in a few years, as they have set
on foot some pot works there already
and are at this time amongst us hiring
our hands for establishing new pot
works in South Carolina, having got
one of our insolvent potters there to
conduct them.
They Have Every Material.
“They have every material there,
equal to, if not superior to our own,
for carrying on the manufacture, and
as for the necessaries of life, and con
sequently the price of labor amongst
us is daily advancing and it is highly
pr liable that more will follow them
and join their fellow artisans and
manufacturers of all classes who are
from all quarters are taking rapid
flight the same way.”
Th pottery alluded to was estab
lished near Camden by a man named
Bartiamand and was destroyed by the
English during the Revolutionary war.
In England there is one continual
stretch of potteries ten miles in length,
in a single district, where the finest
wares in the world are made.
, No greater wealth creating agency
than the ceramic industry can he
found, while the ‘demand for the prod
uct is stable, the localities favored
with the raw materials are limited
and the transportation tolls on this
class of manufactured goods are high,
thus eliminating competition from dis-
I am now supplying materials
on the Empire Building, The
Chronicle Building, the new
Ada Hotel Building, the new
City Fire Station, the big Lyon
Warehouse on Ellis Street, and
City Sewer Work, all of which
are the largest and most im
portant buildings now being
constructed in Augusta.
There has been no building of
importance erected in Augusta
in the past sixteen years on
which my materials have not
been used.
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Store and Apartment Building, Augusta, Ga.
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G. LLOYD PREACHER, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER.
tant points to a great extent.
In the manufacture, the cost of con
version is practically the whole thing,
the cost of the crude clay being so
infinitessimal as to cut no figure. And
it should be borne in mind that here
clays can be manipulated twelve
months in the year, whereas elsewhere
you can count on only eight or ten
months.
Hence the yield from an investment
of this character should be from 40 to
50 per cent greater. It is more logi
cal for the pottery plant to come to
the clay bed than for the cotton mills
to seek the cotton fields, the cost of
transportation to and from on clay and
pottery being far greater than the cost
of cotton and cotton goods.
Now is the Time to Paint
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Painters are anxious for work. Materials are cheap.
Labor is plentiful.
The F. O. Pierce Company's Fine
House Paints
When you get Pierce's Paints you are buying
fifty-six years of Paint Experience. You are getting
the result of all these years of practical experience and
their expert chemical research.
PIERCE’S PAINT IS THE BEST
It is no new thing. It has been sold and used for over half a century.
The materials used in the manufacture of PIERCE’S Paint are such as to offer
the greatest resistance to weather conditions, insuring permanency apd protec
tion. It takes less gallons and lasts longer.
Pierce’s Paints may be had in the delicate soft titits or in the hi ah and
briliant colors. There are over forty-eight different shades to select from.
Come in and let me show you my color schemes, showing artistic combina
tions of colors and suggestions for painting your house.
COULDN’T BE TOO PARTICULAR.
“Here is a woman who wants a di
vorce because her husband compels
her to sleep in a folding bed," said
Mr. Gabb as she laid down the news
paper.
“Well, what about it?" growled Mr.
Gabb. “Maybe that was the only way
he could shut her up.”—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
LOCATED.
“What do you consider the chief
end and aim of man, Billups?” asked
Barrowdale.
“Well, in these days of the tango,”
said Billups, “I should say that man’s
chief end was his feet.”—Judge.
“AUGUSTA IN 1914”
Post Office Receipts
Indicate Augusta’s
Growth
The postoffice receipts for Au
gusta for the past four years are
1911— $135,556.81.
1912 $143,494.13
1913 $152,128.90.
1914 $156,157.91.
From the foregoing it will be care
fully noted that there has been a
steady rise in the postoffiec receipts
of Augusta in the past four years. An
increase in postoffice receipts for an •
city speaks well for that city.
While the increase in the past year
($4,029.01) is not as great as the in
crease shown by the preceding year, or
the year before, still the gairi has been
constant and considerable. The in
crease in the past four years amounts
to over twenty thousand dollars, an 1
the prediction is that for the next
four years the increase will be double
this or more.
Augusta is not saying she is grow
ing, but is showing it, and this will
be told in the next few years by her
postal receipts. More people here and
more business will certainly make an
advance in the receipts at her post
office.
The fiscal year at the postoffice
ended June 30th, with the receipts for
the last quarter at $36,184.92. The
receipts for the last quarter last yea.-
were $35,468.18, and for the corre
sponding quarter in 1912, $32,776.30,
and for the corresponding quarter in
1911, $30,426.88.
Beinq a Boy Again
In the August Woman’s Home Com
panion on a page devoted to sugges
tions for happy vacations a Kansas
man contributes the following;
“Last summer I spent my vacation
with my mother at the old home place
where I was born. It was forty years
ago that I had left home.
“The dinner was served in the same
old dining-room, and when I tasted
the ham, hickory-smoked, and the
eggs that I got out of the nests while
the hens were still cackling, and—-
when Mother got out the jams, jellies
and preserves, I attacked everything
just as I did when a boy.
“Evenings, after supper. Mother
and I sat on the front porch and talk
ed over the happenings of the past
forty years and when time came to
retire I was put in my old bed, in the
same room that I had when a boy.”
A HARD T4IT BACK.
Mr. Softy—Here’s somebody pro
poses to kill all idiots in their child
hood.
Miss Pert—Dreadful idea. There are
not ehough men to go around as it is.
—Baltimore Americap.