Brick Plant at Moline

[Teresa]

sniff sniff... that's ok...
I'm over it now.

[Wilma]

Friends, again?

[Teresa]

OK.. yes!

Friends Friends  Friends........

[Janet Harrington]

Mother,

Ms. T is not BIGGER than me.  She is just TALLER AND THINNER.  I doubt if she would wnat this short fat woman to land on her hard. 

And Ms. T, when you stick your tongue out at my mother (who has eyes in the back of her head), you get a SPANKING with the flyswatter.  Don't ever do it.  Believe me when I say...MY MOTHER HAS EYES IN THE BACK OF HER HEAD.

[flintauqua]

I think I'll revive this topic.

Dan's original posts about the brick plant begin in May 1906.  And the purchase of the R. D. Miller tract is mentioned.

Here is a snip from the 1903 George A. Ogle & Co. Standard Atlas of Elk County.  

The entire page this is from is available to view at:  http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209401/page/14

Notice the acerage owned by R. D. Miller in Section 16, amounting to 120 acres.  But also note the eighty acres across the road east in section 15 which is owned by the "Moline Brick, Gas & Oil Co."  This is three years before the newspaper articles about the first brick plant start, so apparently the idea had been around for a while.  Notice several gas wells just east of the aforementioned parcel, which would have been key to the notion of operating a brick plant.

[W. Gray]

As an aside:

This is a 1903 map. Frank Webb is shown as owning several parcels around Moline, one of them adjacent to the brick plant property.

Twenty-nine years earlier, Frank Webb had a sort of major but minor role during the Boston War.

He was one of two school boys who were assigned the task of ringing the Boston school bell for thirty minutes as an alarm.

The alarm was a call to arms for the Boston paramilitary force whenever riders from Elk Falls were approaching.

[flintauqua]

If I knew that, I had forgotten it.  Uncle Frank (as the Durbin's refer to him) had a long, eventful and prosperous life.