Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — A Big Tile Factory. [ARTICLE]

A Big Tile Factory.

The Irwin tile mill has been doing a big business all this season, and fired their twentieth kiln today. They already have on hand 70,000 four inch tiles, or enough to reach from here to Remington. While of the various larger sizes they have enough to reach from Remington back here again Thus of the 5 inch siz) they have 30,000 in stock, 25,000 of the 6 inch, 5,000 or 6,000 of the 7 inch, and about 3.000 of 8 inch. They recently sent three car loads to Rose Lawn in one shipment, and that hardly made a hole in their stuck on hand. When harvesting and threshing is over, the rush for them will begin again.