There Are Brick Yards and Brick Yards Muscatine Has One
In Muscatine a modern brick yard run by John Koetting & Sons sits on the Iide stream near Town Avenue. The plant uses automatic processing from soil ploughing to pulverizing, pressing, and kiln firing, producing about 20,000 bricks per day with a 6 million yearly capacity. Progress continues with experiments on fire clay and dirt mixtures for cream and spotted bricks.
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Concrete Country Road and Bridge Work in Muscatine County
The Muscatine County annual report details a $4925.20 concrete road improvement along the Cedar River bottom, added to a 50 foot pony truss bridge project on the Muscatine County Road. It cites 22 miles surveyed, 125 miles of highway, and $801,093.28 total spending on bridges, culverts, and roads for the year ending Nov 1, 1914, with funds split between bridge and road accounts.
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