CALIFORNIA BRICKS

CANNON & CO.

Brand name: CANNON & CO.

Company: Cannon and Company

Location: near N. 13th St. and E. El Camino Ave., Sacramento; office at 400 Forum Bldg, plant at Ben Ali siding, 4 mi. from Sacramento, 200 acres, Sacramento County, CA

Years: 1910-1963+

Type: Face brick

Description: Brand name impressed on one edge.

Equipment: soft-mud machine, 2 dry pans, auger feed, pug mill, steam shovel, 5 oil-fired field kilns.

Deposit: 200 acres of yellow-brown sandy clay, red-burning clay, 15-20 ft. thick. Mixed with white clay from Lincoln and Ione and Michigan Bar

Comments: Also made Roman brick and tile. Silica Brick Co. (1910), Sacramento Clay Products Co. (<1916), Cannon and Co. (1920). 35-40 employees. Bricks burn in 5 days, tile in 2-3 days.

Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 183-185; California State Mining Bureau Report 15, p. 404; California Division of Mines Report, v. 51, no. 2, 1955, p. 125-129; Gurcke, Bricks and Brickmaking, The University of Idaho Press, 1987.

For more information see under Brickmakers the Cannon & Company.

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