to find clay that is free from lime. The fine particles of lime-stone that is so universally scattered throughout our soil is excellent from the point of richness of the land, but it has no virtue in brick-making. The burning of the brick also burns the lime which makes it "alive" and when water from rains or the moisture of the mortar enters the brick the lime "slacks" and bursts the brick or makes "pop holes" in them.

At Edgemont a pile of manufactured brick crumbled under this action of the elements and at other places the same trouble has been encountered. In the extreme northwest part of the state is a red bed of material called "indian paint"- and some brick were made from this at one time. They were wonderfully hard brick, water-proof and enduring. But the weight is almost twice that of other brick. Transportation being a big item in building materials the weight makes these bricks prohibitive for use outside of the immediate neighborhood.

Concrete manufacturing in its many forms is naturally a part of the present age in Scotts Bluff county as well as all over the west. The miles of cement sidewalks, the foundation work, the re-enforced building and irrigation structures, the tile, brick and blocks made of concrete have moun+ed into millions of dollars of structural value.

The Story of Sugar

Sugar beets as an industry came from Europe. When Napoleon ruled the affairs of France the industry was new and he told the people of that country to raise the.ir own sugar or go without. That put France in the forefront of beet sugar producing nations, although prior to the embargo Germany and the adjacent states were more extensive producers of the product.