Fire Brick Company
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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The Standard Fire Brick Company, an enterprise that has 
done much to advance the growth and development of 
Anaconda and vicinity, was organized in 1886, Mr. 
Marcus Daley being one of its principal founders. 
The plant cost $80,000.

Before this enterprise was established, many hundred 
thousand dollars went out of Anaconda annually for 
building material, some of the brick used in the 
furnaces here being imported from Europe at a great 
cost. Clay of the best quality for all kinds of 
building and firebrick purposes is found near 
Anaconda and now the Standard Fire Brick Company 
turns out as good brick as is made anywhere in the 
world. Its product includes brick of all shapes and 
dimensions, and also the celebrated silica brick, 
which has the reputation of standing fire better than 
any other brick made. The capacity of the works to 
manufacture red brick is 65,000 per day. One hundred 
and fifty men are kept constantly employed. Thus the 
enterprise has proved a source of wealth to its 
projectors and of great value to the city, both in 
supplying building material and in furnishing employment 
to wage workers.

Mr. George Perry, a man of ability and experience in the 
business is the company's foreman and to his efforts is 
due much of the success of the enterprise.

(See Perry, George for a biography).

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