CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: AMRECO
Company: American Refractories Company
Location: Office and plant at 3232 Alosta St., Los Angeles, Los Angeles Countyd, California
Years: 1927-1938
Type: Fire brick
Description: Yellow fire brick. Brand name impressed in a shallow round rectangular frog on the face.
Equipment: Dry pans, pug mill, American auger machine, Raymond repress, 4 round downdraft kilns.
Deposit: Hunter Ranch clay deposit, Orange County, and purchases from Alberhill district, Riverside County, CA.
Comments: Brick found by James Freedner in Los Angeles.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 96-97; Los Angeles City Directories, 1927-1938.
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