ALSIP LIKES WINNIPEG
Forms a Partnership and Contracts to Build a Big Block. Special to The Journal. Grand Forks, N. D., April 26. – W. P. Alsip, the owner of one of the large brickyards of this city, has just returned from a trip to Winnipeg. He spent several days there and formed a partnership with his brother, George Alsip, after he had canvassed the situation and found there would be a great deal of building in Winnipeg this summer. He will not leave Grand Forks permanently, but will spend the greater part of the summer in Winnipeg. Mr. Alsip and his brother and the successful bidders on the new Syndicate block at Winnipeg, which will cost over $30,000, and he will leave at once for the twin cities to get figures on the iron work. He says that brick is being used in nearly all the new buildings, and that the yards are busy and will be the entire summer. (The Minneapolis Journal, Friday Evening, April 26, 1901, Page 15)
William Alsip, brick manufacturer, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is placing on the market his device for a wire rope transmission of bricks from the machine to the drying sheds and from the sheds to the kilns. This apparatus is in successful operation on several plants and has proved to be a time and money saver. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, Volume XXII, Number 5, May 1905, Page 287)
The Red River Valley Brick Co. is the most recent addition to Winnipeg industries and a plant of medium capacity is being installed. It is the intention of the company, however, to add considerably to its equipment in the near future. W. Styles is the manager of the company. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, Volume XXIII, Number 3, September 1905, Page 80)
There is another company forming in Winnipeg at the present time to manufacture sewer pipe, conduits, fireproofing, terra cotta and paving brick. Samples of the clay have been shipped to Bucyrus, O., for testing. In Winnipeg, last year, 44,000,000 brick were made by the local brick manufacturers. Of this large amount, the six yards of the Alsip company turned out 23,000,000 brick. These brick were made on Martin, Monarch and Potts machines. The partition block and hollow brick are made on Kells machinery. All these products are burned in updraft kilns with uniform results and very little waste. Mr. Alsip, Sr., and W. P. Alsip will be at the National Brick Manufacturers’ Association in St. Louis. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, Volume XXVI, Number 1, January 1907, Page 45)
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Makes First Hollow Tile in Winnipeg
It has been an expensive and a discouraging task to endeavor to produce a reliable hollow tile from the clays available for working in Winnipeg, Man., Canada, but the Alsip Brick, Tile & Lumber Co., Ltd., has successfully overcome the many obstacles and difficulties and produced an article in Winnipeg that is said to be second to none on the American continent.
The Winnipeg clay is peculiar in many respects, and requires special treatment before it is feasible to manufacture perfect
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hollow tile, and much money and time has been expended by the Alsip Brick, Tile & Lumber Co. in experiments, which in the last few months, have reached a successful conclusion.
This company has installed an entirely new plant for the manufacture of this material in Elmwood, and hollow tile is being produced at this plant sufficient to cope with the demands for this popular building material in Winnipeg and the surrounding country. A large hot air dryer is in course of construction to enable the company to proceed with the manufacture of this tile thruout the winter, and thereby have a large stock on hand to meet the demands of a bumper building year in 1922.
The officers of the company are as follows: W. P. Alsip, president; A. A. Alsip, secretary-treasurer; E. L. Alsip, superintendent and R. G. Graham, general manager. (Brick and Clay Record, Volume 59, Number 9, November 1, 1921, Industrial Publications, Inc., Chicago, IL, Page 235)