CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Company: Carnegie Brick and Pottery Company
Location: Carnegie, San Joaquin County, CA
Years: 1902-1911
Type: Enameled face brick
Description: Brand name impressed on face. Brown enamel covers all surfaces.
Equipment: American Clay Manufacturing Co. brick press, pug mill, Raymond and Berg brick cutting machines, 12 Nonzone kilns.
Capacity: 110,000 per day
Production Rate: 80,000 brick per day
Deposit: Eocene clay deposit, Tesla, Alameda County.
Comments: Salt glaze gives the face brick a typical dark brown color, used for decorative facings on the fascades
of buildings. For further details about this company, see Carnegie Brick and
Pottery Company.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 38, 1906; Alameda and San Joaquin Railroad
Inspection Report 1904; Mosier, Dan L., and Williams, Earle E., History of Tesla, 1998.
View of the Carnegie Brick and Pottery Company operations, 1908.
From Mosier, History of Tesla, 1998.
Comments or questions are welcomed.
Please send email to Dan Mosier at danmosier@earthlink.net.