CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: CALIFORNIA
Company: California Brick Company (1912), Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company (1917)
Location: Decoto, Alameda County, CA
Years: 1912-1927
Type: Paving brick
Description: Brand name impressed on face with four raised lugs on each corner.
Equipment: 3 dry pans, 2 stiff mud machines, 1 dry press, 4 repress machines, waste heat driers,
2 oil-fired Haigh continuous kilns, each 600 ft. long with 42 chambers.
Capacity: 40,000 per day.
Deposit: 20 ft. thick surficial clay deposit on property.
Comments: This brick was used in the Alden Branch Library (1918), Oakland, Ca.
Company also made common brick and sewer brick. For further details about this company,
see California Brick Company.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Rept. 17, 1920; San Francisco City Directory 1914.
Plant of the California Brick Co., Decoto, CA. From Oakland Tribune Annual Year Book, 1922.
Continuous kiln 1,500 feet long, California Brick Co., Decoto, CA.
From Oakland Tribune Annual Year Book, 1922.
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