. Sprague's history of Grand Traverse and Leelanaw counties, Michigan : embracing a concise review of their early settlement, industrial development and present conditions, together with interesting reminiscences. e west arm of Grand Traverse , on a quarter of an acre of ground, Al-bert Norris had established a brick factorya number of years ago, conducting opera-tions on a small scale, and in 1875 Mr-Alarkham succeeded him in the ow-nership ofthe business, and each year since that timehe has burned an increasing amount of brick,having greatly increased the kiln capacityand provided th
. Sprague's history of Grand Traverse and Leelanaw counties, Michigan : embracing a concise review of their early settlement, industrial development and present conditions, together with interesting reminiscences. e west arm of Grand Traverse , on a quarter of an acre of ground, Al-bert Norris had established a brick factorya number of years ago, conducting opera-tions on a small scale, and in 1875 Mr-Alarkham succeeded him in the ow-nership ofthe business, and each year since that timehe has burned an increasing amount of brick,having greatly increased the kiln capacityand provided the most modern and approvedfacilities. At the time when he assumedcontrol of the enterprise the capacity of theplant was for the outputting of about twohundred thousand brick annually, while theaverage annual output at the present timereaches the notable aggregate of nearly fourmillion brick. Within the season a corps offrom twenty-six to forty men is employed111 connection with the work of manufactur-ing, and in the connection about two thou-sand cords of wood are consumed each sea-son, thus rendering it necessary to employmen and teams throughout the entire year,while another incidental value to be placed. JAMES W. MARKHAM.
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