CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Company: Carnegie Brick and Pottery Company
Location: Carnegie, San Joaquin County, CA
Years: 1902-1911
Type: Face brick
Description: Brand name impressed within a wide, deep, rectangular frog.
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: Cream to buff colored face brick made by this company was very popular. Present day examples
can be seen in the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco and the Oakland Hotel in Oakland. 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.