CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: 1/ACORN 1
Company: Pacific Clay Products, Inc.
Location: Lincoln Heights Plant, 423-527 North Avenue 26, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Years: 1923-Present
Type: No 1 key fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed on the face. Number one impressed above the brand name.
Equipment: 3 dry pans, Hummer screens, 2 pug mills, 2 auger machines, 2 14-brick American cutters, 2 represses, 2 humidity dryers (40,000 bricks each), overhead traveling crane with clam shell, 2 electric lift trucks, 11 kilns, 30 ft. diameter.
Capacity: 40,000 bricks per day (1928)
Deposit: Clays from Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange, San Diego, and Placer counties, CA.
Comments: This plant was formerly owned and built by the Los Angeles Stoneware and Sewer Pipe Co. (1880s),
and operated by the Pacific Sewer Pipe Co. from 1910 until it was merged with the Pacific Clay Products, Inc. in 1923.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Preliminary Report 7, 1920, p. 57; California State Mining Bureau Report 15,
1917, p. 497; California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 111.
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