Brickmaking was thriving industry during history of Weir

Editors note: The Acme Brick Plant closed its operation in September 2007 after producing bricks for over 110 years. Written by a well known attorney, politician and businessman.

This is the story of a local industrial plant and a one-hundred eighty-two thousand dollar a year payroll and what it did for its community of Weir.

Years ago, Weir and its suburbs of mining camps, was a thriving little met…