Brick in McDonald The era of frame buildings in McDonald is passing away. Brick buildings are taking their place, and the better class of structures are going up, both business houses and residences, are of brick. Two years ago there was not a brick building in McDonald; it is probable that there is now $200,000 invested in such buildings her own. No brick here has ever suffered from fire, and the insurance rates on the brick blocks are less than on frame buildings adjoining them. Brick house cost less than frame; the cost of the brick walls is about $150 more on each $1,000 than wooden walls, and this is more than in the painting, the insurance and the greater solidity of the brick. It is not generally known that we have in McDonald a firm that keeps up to the demand for brick here, besides shipping vast quantities of brick to other places. NICHOLSON & ARTHURS, the proprietors of the West End, have been in the brick-making business for a quarter of a century. Mr. N. was one of the firm that made the brick with which all the Panhandle Railroad tunnels are lined. This West End yard furnished the brick for the McDonald school house, the HOLMES-GLADDEN, PLANCE-WILLIAMS and GIFFIN-MOORHEAD blocks, and other buildings. They furnish the brick for the J. P. SCOTT residence, a picture of which we give this week. At this brickyard, fifteen men make 12,000 brick every day. The shale rock, soapstone and clay, from which the brick are made, are taken out of the hill behind the yard and ground up and moulded into brick which are as hard as iron after being burnt. Three grades of brick are made--red building brick, chimney brick and foundation brick. Messrs. NICHOLSON and ARTHURS hold themselves in readiness to undertake any contract, large or small, for laying or furnishing brick for any kind of building, chimneys or foundations, and to guarantee its completion promptly and in a satisfactory manner. In addition to the force at the brickyard, this firm keeps on hand a large force of bricklayers in order to take care of building contracts. If you think of putting up any kind of a building-business house or residence--before you begin see NICHOLSON & ARTHURS and let them show you for how little money and in what quick time they can put you up a brick.